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This 33 page paper is a continuation of and the last two chapters of another document, PGldr67.rtf. The paper presents data analysis, which begins with an explanation of how historical research papers are analyzed (mostly by summarizing the major points included in the literature review). The limitations of the study are again identified, followed by a summary, conclusions and forecasts. The writer elaborates on the importance of complexity and chaos theory and the relationship between chaos theory and the learning organization. The paper ends with a number of forecasts for management and leadership practice in the future, forecasts that are based on the historical study. Bibliography lists 34 sources.
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Historiography is not a positivist scientific research methodology that depends on numbers (Parker, 1999; OBrien, Remenyi and Keaney, 2004). This lack of pure data is one reason historiography as a
research approach is often ignored. However, in recent years, there has been an increase in historiographic studies in management and other business topics (OBrien, Remenyi and Keaney, 2004). This approach
to research allows the researcher and practitioner to reflect upon what worked and what did not work in the past and presents information to evaluate events and circumstances to determine
relationships (Parker, 1999). As Stanley (2004) said, "A profession cannot really appreciate its advances without studying its past. All serious professions learn from their past trials, tribulations and accomplishments. Management
is no exception" (p. 12). Historical research is inductive, i.e., ideographic, as opposed to deductive, or nomothetic (Parker, 1999). Rather than studying events in isolation, historiographic studies look more
at the gestalt of relationships (Parker, 1999). This makes the interpretation of research heuristic, i.e., in narrative form (Parker, 1999). The major argument against historiographic research currently is that the
world has changed so much and so rapidly that anything that occurred in the past is irrelevant (Parker, 1999). This position can be successfully argued against by drawing on the
enormous differences in the world when things like the telegraph and telephone were invented or even the move to factories of employees instead of artisans and craftsmen. History is
presented in narrative form (Parker, 1999). As Parker (1999) said, "narrative is the ever present form of everyday life. It pervades our existence and thereby historical narrative reflects life itself."
The narrative is not only inescapable when presenting the results of a historiographic study, it is invaluable. In accordance with these facts and tenets about historiographical studies, the data analysis
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