Ever since Booth and Rowlinson (2006) proposed a "historic turn" in management and organization studies (MOS), scholars have increasingly recognized the importance of history to understanding organizational life (e.g., Durepos and Mills, 2012; Rowlinson, Hassard and Decker, 2014; Bucheli and Wadhwani, 2014; Suddaby, 2016). Indeed, the historical discipline provides an alternative to the dominant science paradigms in organization studies (Zald, 1993; Kieser, 1994), so studies using a historical approach have the potential to inform various aspects of organization theory (Álvaro-Moya and Donzé, 2016; Söderlund and Lenfle, 2013; Suddaby, 2016; Maclean, Harvey and Clegg, 2016).