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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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5 Business history, international business and strategy scholarship

DOI: 10.4324/9780429449536-5

It is clear from what has been covered in previous chapters that the use of historical accounts and historical methods has become a significant concern in several social science disciplines, signifying how to some extent business history and mainstream business and management scholarship are being woven together. Of course, the rich possibilities in this intertwining had been recognized much earlier as a direct result of Chandler’s seminal work in Strategy and Structure (1962). Indeed, Chandler has been labelled the ‘Founder of Strategy’ (Whittington, 2008; p. 267), and he was clearly influential in the development of areas associated with dynamic ...

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