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    Front-Mediated Melting of Isotropic Ultrastable Glasses.
    (Physical review letters, 2019-10) Flenner, Elijah; Berthier, Ludovic; Charbonneau, Patrick; Fullerton, Christopher J
    Ultrastable vapor-deposited glasses display uncommon material properties. Most remarkably, upon heating they are believed to melt via a liquid front that originates at the free surface and propagates over a mesoscopic crossover length, before crossing over to bulk melting. We combine swap Monte Carlo with molecular dynamics simulations to prepare and melt isotropic amorphous films of unprecedendtly high kinetic stability. We are able to directly observe both bulk and front melting, and the crossover between them. We measure the front velocity over a broad range of conditions, and a crossover length scale that grows to nearly 400 particle diameters in the regime accessible to simulations. Our results disentangle the relative roles of kinetic stability and vapor deposition in the physical properties of stable glasses.
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    What is Organizational History? Towards a Creative Synthesis of History and Organization Studies
    (Academy of Management Review, 2016) Godfrey, P; Hassard, J; O'Connor, E; Rowlinson, M; Ruef, M
    As a synthesis of organization theory and historiography, the field of organizational history is mature enough to contribute to wider theoretical and historiographical debates and is sufficiently developed for a theoretical consideration of its subject matter. In this introduction to the Special Topic Forum on History and Organization Studies, we take up the question, "What is organizational history?" and consider three distinct arguments that we believe frame the next phase of development for historical work within organization studies. First, we argue that following the "historic turn," organizational history has developed as a subfield of organization studies that takes seriously the matter of history, promoting historical research as a way to enrich the broad endeavor of organization. Second, if "historymatters," then organization theory needs a theoretical account of the past that goes beyond the mere use of history as a context to test or as an example to illustrate theory. Third, the focus on "history that matters" in the present leads to two important considerations: How organizations can use "rhetorical history" as a strategic resource and the need to engage with historiographically significant subjects that connect organization theory to larger humanistic concerns, such as slavery and racism.