Reimagining Business History

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Business history needs a shake-up, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson argue, as many businesses go global and cultural contexts become critical. "Reimagining Business History" prods practitioners to take new approaches to entrepreneurial intentions, company scale, corporate strategies, local infrastructure, employee well-being, use of resources, and long-term environmental consequences. During the past half century, the history of American business became an unusually active and rewarding field of scholarship, partly because of the primacy of postwar American capital, at home and abroad, and the rise of a consumer culture but also because of the theoretical originality of Alfred D. Chandler. In a field long given over to banal company histories and biographies of tycoons, Chandler took the subject seriously enough to ask about the large patterns and causes of corporate success. Chandler and his students found the richest material for theorizing about the course of business history in large companies and their institutional structures and cultures.Meantime, Scranton and others found smaller firms, those specializing in batch work as opposed to mass-produced goods, far closer to the norm and more telling. Scranton and Fridenson believe that the time has come for a sweeping rethinking of the field, its materials, and the kinds of questions its practitioners should be asking. How can this field develop in an age of global markets, growing information technology, and diminishing resources? A transnational collaboration between two senior scholars, "Reimagining Business History" offers direction in forty-four short, pithy essays.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-06-10
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor254
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421408620

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Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University and editor-in-chief of the journal Enterprise and Society. Patrick Fridenson is emeritus professor of international business history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and founding editor of Entreprises et Histoire. Both are former presidents of the Business History Conference.

PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Traps: Practices Business Historians Would Do Well to Avoid1. Misplaced Concreteness2. Not Recognizing That the State Is Always "In"3. Periodization as a (Necessary) Constraint4. Privileging the Firm5. Retrospective Rationalization6. Searching for a New Dominant Paradigm7. Scientism8. Taking Discourse at Face Value and Numbers for Granted9. Taking the United States (or the West) as Normal and Normative10. The Rush to the RecentPart II: Opportunities: Thematic Domains1. Artifacts2. Creation and Creativity3. Complexity4. Improvisation5. Microbusiness6. The Military and War7. Nonprofits and Quasi Enterprises8. Public-Private Boundaries9. Reflexivity10. Ritual and Symbolic Practices11. The Centrality of Failure12. Varieties of UncertaintyPart III: Prospects: Promising Themes in Developing Literatures1. Deconstructing Property2. Fraud and Fakery3. From Empires to Emergent Nations4. Gender5. Professional Services6. Projects7. Reassessing Classic Themes8. Standards9. The Subaltern10. Transnational Exchanges11. Trust, Cooperation, and NetworksPart IV: Resources: Generative Concepts and Frameworks1. Assumptions2. Communities of Practice3. Flows4. Follow the Actors5. Futures Past6. Memory7. Modernity8. Risks9. Spatiality10. TimeAfterwordAuthor IndexSubject Index

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