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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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2 A history of business history

DOI: 10.4324/9780429449536-2

In charting the evolution of this discipline, it is important to remember that we do so from a vantage point that can look back on a century of considerable growth in business history research; previously, economic history had been the prime focal point for those interested in studying firms, entrepreneurs and related matters. This chapter will be concerned with charting what can only be described as a transformational process, capturing how a specific discipline emerged out of a variety of influences. Of undoubted importance to this analysis will be the historical school of economics, given both its methodological approach and the impact these scholars had on the American pioneers ...

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