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Business History
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Business History

by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Steven Toms, Anna Tilba, Emily Buchnea, Nicholas Wong
January 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
148 pages
4h 41m
English
Routledge
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1 Introduction

DOI: 10.4324/9780429449536-1

This new book builds on the core collection of ideas provided in the Routledge Companion to Business History (Wilson et al., 2016). Specifically, in further elaborating on the Companion’s multi-perspective approach, we aim both to explain the progress that business history as a discipline has made and assess how this can be sustained, focusing on what we regard as the three pillars of research, teaching and practical impact. A key issue in this respect will be assessing why business history has made considerable progress in terms of the research pillar yet failed to make much of an impact in the other two areas. Indeed, in spite of the increased tendency of business historians to find employment ...

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