Skip to Main Content
Business History
book

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
Content preview from Business History

8 Conclusions Whither business history?

DOI: 10.4324/9780429449536-8

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 ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

History in Management and Organization Studies

History in Management and Organization Studies

Behlül Üsdiken, Matthias Kipping
Economic and Business Management

Economic and Business Management

Xiaoxia Huang, Feng Zhang
The Next Economy MBA

The Next Economy MBA

LIFT Economy, Erin Axelrod, Kevin Bayuk, Shawn Berry, Ryan Honeyman, Phoenix Soleil

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780429830969