Management research and history have begun a fruitful dialogue. Management research may now follow history in a methodological and epistemological path in order to reconcile theory and action through a pragmatic approach. Two actual and recent researches will help to understand it.

This paper appraises the literature on the macroeconomic effects of job reallocations. We overview different methodological approaches to the problem of observational equivalence of aggregate and sectoral shocks and draw two main conclusions. First, the non-directional nature of reallocation...