<i>âAs the strategy discipline increasingly recognizes the importance of organizational history for strategy - in the form of routines, culture or lock-in - this is a very timely volume. It will remind strategy researchers too of the depth and breadth of business historical writing, going far beyond the usual suspects.â</i>
This important book assembles formative articles that demonstrate how business history emerged as a discipline from the interwar years until the present day. The essays, drawn from authors in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, document the remarkable intellectual achievements of the field, as well as exploring the challenges it faced securing a wider impact on other disciplines. The editors provide a wide-ranging and original introduction. The book will appeal to both social scientists and historians interested to learn how the field of business history was shaped.
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This important book assembles formative articles that demonstrate how business history emerged as a discipline from the interwar years until the present day.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones
PART I CREATING A DISCIPLINE
1. N.S.B. Gras (1934), âBusiness Historyâ
2. Henrietta M. Larson (1947), âBusiness History: Retrospect and Prospectâ
3. Fritz Redlich (1952), âThe Role of Theory in the Study of Business Historyâ
4. Alexander Gerschenkron (1953), âSocial Attitudes, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Developmentâ
5. James H. Soltow (1955), âThe Business Use of Business Historyâ
6. Herman E. Krooss (1958), âEconomic History and the New Business Historyâ
7. Arthur M. Johnson (1962), âWhere Does Business History Go From Here?â
8. Fritz Redlich (1962), âApproaches to Business Historyâ
9. Arthur H. Cole (1962), âWhat Is Business History?â
10. Peter L. Payne (1962), âThe Uses of Business History: A Contribution to the Discussionâ
PART II DEBATE AND ALTERNATIVES
11. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1978), âPresidential Address, 1978: Business History â A Personal Experienceâ
12. Alfred Chandler (1976), âInstitutional Integration: An Approach to Comparative Studies of the History of Large-Scale Business Enterpriseâ
13. Louis Galambos (1966), âBusiness History and the Theory of the Growth of the Firmâ
14. Thomas Cochran (1977), âThe Sloan Report: American Culture and Business Managementâ
15. Harold C. Livesay (1989), âEntrepreneurial Dominance in Businesses Large and Small, Past and Presentâ
16. Ralph W. Hidy (1970), âBusiness History: Present Status and Future Needsâ
17. Robert D. Cuff (2002), âNotes for a Panel on Entrepreneurship in Business Historyâ
18. Donald Coleman (1987), âThe Uses and Abuses of Business Historyâ
19. Takeshi Yuzawa (2009), âRecent Trends of Business History in Japanâ
20. MarĂa InĂŠs Barbero (2008), âBusiness History in Latin America: A Historiographical Perspectiveâ
21. Mira Wilkins (1988), âPresidential Address: Business History as a Disciplineâ
PART III BUSINESS HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
22. T.A.B. Corley (1993), âFirms and Markets: Towards a Theory of Business Historyâ
23. William N. Parker (1993), âA âNewâ Business History? A Commentary on the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economicsâ
24. Louis Galambos (1994), âU.S. Business History and Recent Developments in Historical social Science in the United Statesâ
25. Terry Gourvish (1994), âThe Empirical Emphasis in Business History: Out of Chaos?â
26. Geoffrey Jones (1994), âBusiness History: Theory and Conceptsâ
27. JoAnne Yates (1997), âUsing Giddensâ Structuration Theory to Inform Business Historyâ
28. Naomi R. Lamoreaux (2001), âReframing the Past: Thoughts about Business Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertaintyâ
29. Richard N. Langlois (2004), âChandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in Historyâ
30. Thomas K. McCraw (2006), âSchumpeterâs Business Cycles as Business Historyâ
31. Neil Fligstein (2008), âChandler and the Sociology of Organizationsâ
32. Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones (2011), âBusiness History: Time for Debateâ
PART IV BROADENING THE FIELD: BUSINESS HISTORY AS HISTORY
33. Louis Galambos (1992), âPresidential Address: What Makes Us Think We Can Put Business Back Into American History?â
34. David B. Sicilia (1995), âCochranâs Legacy: A Cultural Path Not Takenâ
35. Kenneth Lipartitio (1995), âCulture and the Practice of Business Historyâ
36. Philip Scranton and Roger Horowitz (1997), ââThe Future of Business Historyâ: An Introductionâ
37. Angel Kwolek-Folland (1994), âThe African American Financial Industries: Issues of Class, Race and Gender in the early 20th Centuryâ
38. Robert E. Weems, Jr. (1997), âOut of the Shadows: Business Enterprise and African American Historiographyâ
39. Kathy Peiss (1998), ââVital Industryâ and Womenâs Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business Historyâ
40. Louis Galambos (2003), âIdentity and the Boundaries of Business History: An Essay on Consensus and Creativityâ
41. Patrick Fridenson (2004), âBusiness Failure and the Agenda of Business Historyâ
42. Pamela Walker Laird (2008), âLooking Toward the Future: Expanding Connections for Business Historiansâ
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781781955260
Publisert
2013-11-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
169 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
712