Launched at Nantes in 1995, the Journées d’Histoire du management et des organisations returns to its roots in 2023 with a conference that captures its “heritage” on several dimensions, especially as we shall celebrate the tenth anniversary of the AHMO founded in 2013.

On this occasion, we have chosen to twin the JHMO and the Accounting History Review Annual Conference to celebrate the longstanding links forged with Accounting History Review (previously Accounting, Business and Financial History¹). In this vein, the AHMO will inaugurate a formula destined to be adopted with other organisations and/or academic journals which represent the rich diversity of interests in management and history.

In this spirit of interdisciplinarity, we share with AHR a common vision of the history of management disciplines: “the mission of AHR is to examine accounting in history and not narrowly ‘accounting history’” as declared by Cheryl McWatters, editor of the journal². It is a phrase that the AHMO gladly adopts as its own with respect to management disciplines as a whole.

Thus the 2023 conference will provide a welcome opportunity to build on our strengths, share our networks, and renew the JHMO’s international reach.

¹ Cf. Boyns, T. (2020). The Cardiff (ABFH/AHR) Conference and Accounting, Business & Financial History, 1989–2011 – some (personal) reflections. Accounting History Review 30 (3): 341-361 ; Lemarchand, Y. (2008). Les JHCM 1995-2008. Rétrospective et perspectives. Revue française de gestion 188-189 (8): 31-52. 

² McWatters, C. S. (2017). Historians but not necessarily so. Accounting History Review 27 (3): 219-221.