Jarmo Taskinen, Juha-Antti Lamberg and Antti Sihvonen were awarded for their research on business history at EBHA in August 2023
Drastic organizational changes such as mergers and business failures can cause long-term negative emotional effects on the actors involved. By analyzing the aftereffects of the merger between Sanoma and WSOY in the late 1990s, our study looks at how anger affects the retelling of the past.
Our findings show how emotional relationship with past events shapes actors' memorizing and how self-preservation, moral protest, and intentional distancing from the past events creates a temporal landscape of hate in how informants produce history.
The strong presence of JYU at the Congress highlights the strength of business history research in our university. Our researchers presented trailblazing work relating to the strategies and technological development in forest industries, the historical role of Freemasons in the business elites, the impact of failure in state-owned business context, and in depth theoretical and practical perspectives regarding the relevance of business history for the business research.
