Using Born-Digital Archives for Business History: EMCODIST and the Case of E-Mail

David Kirsch; Stephanie Decker; Adam Nix; Santhilata  Kuppili Venkata

doi:10.1080/17449359.2023.2183220

Using Born-Digital Archives for Business History: EMCODIST and the Case of E-Mail

David Kirsch^*, Stephanie Decker, Adam Nix, Santhilata Kuppili Venkata

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Historians of business and management increasingly conduct research in digital archives. This article reviews some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of born-digital archives. As an example, we focus on scholarly use of large-scale organizational e-mail collections. In addition to allowing researchers to answer traditional questions about innovation, strategy and organizational development, e-mail also permits more granular investigation of new questions, such as those relating to the timing and flow of information inside organizational networks. Knowledge discovery in e-mail requires new search tools. We describe EMCODIST, a prototype tool that we have developed to support search and discovery in e-mail. Scholars interested in learning more are directed to a grant-funded website where versions of the EMCODIST tool support different types of searches.

Original language	English
Number of pages	8
Journal	Management & Organizational History
Early online date	26 Feb 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2023.2183220
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 26 Feb 2023

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