8 Conclusions Whither business history?
Over the last six decades, business history has progressed from being a subject widely regarded as a sub-discipline of economic history into a fully-fledged discipline with its dedicated professional associations and highly regarded journals. Moreover, if the impressive list of special issues reviewed in Chapters 3–5 is to be regarded as evidence, many areas of the social sciences have recently shown a big interest in harvesting the rich crop of business history research that has emerged since the 1970s. The nature of this progress, however, also highlights one of the principal themes of the book, namely, that in terms of our ‘three pillars’ of research, teaching and practical ...
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