Changing Narrative Through Theatre. The Case of Bergamo ER Theatre Covid Play

Abstract

In recent years, historical approaches to management and organization research have gained significant momentum, after being considered peripheral to the field for many decades. According to Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani (Bucheli and Wadhwani, Organizations in time: History, theory, methods, Oxford University Press, 2014), the growing focus on history within business and organizational research mirrors a broader trend across the social sciences and mainstream intellectual discussions toward developing approaches that emphasize the historical context in the study of economic and social behavior.Bucheli & Wadhwani identify the specificity of historical reasoning in its capacity to emphasise: “temporally contextualized explanations of organizations and markets and the methodological challenges of assigning significance and meaning to incomplete and temporally distant evidence from the past” (Bucheli and Wadhwani, Organizations in time: History, theory,methods, Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 4). However, as several scholars have pointed out—also in this collection—this process is not neutral, objective and easily reconstructed