Business history appears to be in an introspective mood.
Business
History Review has a special issue on debating methodology in business
history.
The latest issue of Business History
examines the role of narrative in business history.
In First View at Enterprise
and Society you can find Water Friedman’s talk “Recent Trends in Business History:
Capitalism, Democracy, and Innovation” from the meeting of the Business
History Conference.
In general, business history seems to be an unusually
introspective field.
The introduction to the special issue of Business History Review,
for instance, provides this list of recent work on methodology in business
history:
“Recent examples
include Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Reframing the Past: Thoughts about Business
Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty,” Enterprise & Society 2,
no. 4 (2001): 632–59; Mary O’Sullivan and Margaret B. W. Graham, “Moving
Forward by Looking Backward: Business History and Management Studies,” Journal
of Management Studies 47, no. 5 (2010): 775–90; Geoffrey Jones and Walter A.
Friedman, “Business History: Time for Debate,” Business History Review 85, no. 1
(2011): 1–8; Daniel M. G. Raff, “How to Do Things with Time,” Enterprise &
Society 14, no. 3 (2013): 435–66; Matthias Kipping and Behlül Üsdiken, “History
and Organization Studies: A Long-Term View,” in Organizations in Time: History,
Theory, Methods, ed. Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani (New York, 2014),
33–55; Abe de Jong, David Michael Higgins, and Hugo van Driel, “Towards a New
Business History?” Business History 57, no. 1 (2015): 5–29; Stephanie Decker,
Matthias Kipping, and Daniel Wadhwani, “New Business Histories! Plurality in
Business History Research Methods,” Business History 57, no. 1 (2015): 30–40;
and Christina Lubinski and Daniel Wadhwani, “Reinventing Entrepreneurial
History,” Business History Review (forthcoming).”
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