Charles Booth

Before starting my academic career in 1991, I worked in local government housing for 10 years, initially in service delivery before assuming a strategic and policy development role. I moved into academia with an ESRC Management Teaching Fellowship at Bristol Business School, followed by a permanent appointment to a full-time position. I am an active teacher and researcher and am committed to public engagement, based on my research. Over the course of my academic career I have been involved in a number of externally funded research projects, both public and private; the most recent working with the BBC in an AHRC-funded project concerning the 2014 First World War Centenary. I was one of the founding editors of the academic journal Management & Organizational History, was the first Chair of the Academy of Management’s Management History Division affiliated with an institution outside North America, and have organized a number of workshops and conferences on management and organizational history. Area of expertise My main teaching interests are currently the history, philosophy and sociology of the social sciences, with particular reference to organization science. My current research interests concern (a) issues of public memory and commemoration; (b) counterfactual and other modal narratives in organizational history and futures studies; and (c) critical management and organizational history more generally. My present public engagement projects relate to the first of these interests, and focus on commemorative processes and artefacts relating to the First World War. Publications

Booth, C. (2014) Boundary work in theory and practice: Past, present and future. DPhil, University of the West of England. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/24476 ' Booth, C. (2013) Термен не мрет: A fractional biography of failure. Management & Organizational History, 8 (1). pp. 23-42. ISSN 1744-9359 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/19219 ' Booth, C. and Casbeard, R. (2012) Post-modernity and the exceptionalism of the present in dark tourism. Journal of Unconventional Parks, Tourism & Recreation Research, 4 (1). pp. 2-8. ISSN 1942-6879 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/19934 ' Rowlinson, M., Booth, C., Clark, P., Delahaye, A. and Procter, S. (2010) Social remembering and organizational memory. Organisation Studies, 31 (1). pp. 69-87. ISSN 0170-8406 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/11954 ' Booth, C., Rowlinson, M., Clark, P., Delahaye, A. and Procter, S. (2009) Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives. Futures, 41 (1). pp. 87-95. ISSN 0016-3287 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12829 ' Delahaye, A., Booth, C., Clark, P., Procter, S. and Rowlinson, M. (2009) The genre of corporate history. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 (1). pp. 27-48. ISSN 0953-4814 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12830 ' Rowlinson, M., Stager Jacques, R. and Booth, C. (2009) Critical management and organizational history. In: Alvesson, M., Bridgeman, T. and Willmott, H., eds. (2009) The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management studies. Oxford University Press, pp. 286-303. ISBN 9780199237715 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12967 ' Booth, C., Clark, P., Delahaye, A., Procter, S. and Rowlinson, M. (2009) Modal narratives, possible worlds and strategic foresight. In: Costanzo, L. A. and MacKay, R. B., eds. (2009) Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight. Cheltenham: Elgar, pp. 113-127. ISBN 9781845429638 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12962 ' Delahaye, A., Booth, C., Clark, P., Procter, S. and Rowlinson, M. (2009) The genre of corporate history. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 (1). pp. 27-48. ISSN 0953-4814 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12996 ' Maielli, G. and Booth, C. (2008) Counterfactual history, management and organizations: reflections and new directions. Management and Organizational History, 3 (1). pp. 49-61. ISSN 1744-9359 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12958 ' Booth, C., Clark, P., Delahaye, A., Procter, S. and Rowlinson, M. (2007) Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann Case. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 18 (6). pp. 625-644. ISSN 1095-9955 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6376 ' Clark, P., Booth, C., Rowlinson, M., Procter, S. and Delahaye, A. (2007) Project hindsight: exploring necessity and possibility in cycles of structuration and co-evolution. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 19 (1). pp. 83-97. ISSN 1465-3990 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6377 ' Booth, C. and Rowlinson, M. (2006) Management and organizational history: Prospects. Management and Organizational History, 1 (1). pp. 5-30. ISSN 1744-9359 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6368 ' Booth, C. (2003) Does history matter in strategy? The possibilities and problems of counterfactual analysis. Management Decision, 41 (1). pp. 96-104. ISSN 0025-1747 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6378 '