ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Business History is a definitive work of reference, and authoritative, international source on business history. Compiled by leading scholars in the field, it offers both researchers and students an introduction and overview of current scholarship in this expanding discipline.
Drawing on a wealth of international contributions, this volume expands the field and explores how business history interacts theoretically and methodologically with other fields. It charts the origins and development of business history and its global reach from Latin America and Africa, to North America and Europe. With this multi-perspective approach, it illustrates the unique contribution of business history and its relationship with a range of other disciplines, from finance and banking to gender issues in corporations.
The Routledge Companion to Business History is a vital source of reference for students and researchers in the fields of business history, corporate governance and business ethics.
"This collection is an excellent starting point for understanding the field and finding areas where business history, management theory, and social science can intersect." Canadian Business History Newsletter, January 2019
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PART I The discipline of business history
1 Introduction
John F. Wilson, Steven Toms, Abe de Jong and Emily Buchnea
2 Business history: Agendas, historiography and debates
Steven Toms and John Wilson
3 A revisionist historiography of business history: A richer past for a richer future 1
Matthias Kipping, Takafumi Kurosawa and R. Daniel Wadhwani
4 A citation analysis of business history and related disciplines
Abe de Jong, David Higgins and Hugo van Driel
Part II Business ownership
5 Personal capitalism
Andrea Colli
6 Managerial capitalism 2.0
John Quail
7 The past, present and future of banking history
Christopher L. Colvin
8 Stock markets and financial capitalism
Andrew Smith and Kevin D. Tennent
9 The ‘third sector’: Co-operatives, mutual, charities and social enterprises
Anthony Webster
PART III International varieties of capitalism
10 African business history
Gareth Austin
11 Australia: Settler capitalism sans doctrines
Simon Ville and David Merrett
12 Enterprise in the Soviet and Soviet-Type-Economies
Martin Kragh
13 The history of business in Latin America
Rory M. Miller
14 North American capitalism
Mark R. Wilson
15 International varieties of capitalism: The case of Western Europe
Keetie Sluyterman and Gerarda Westerhuis
PART IV Institutions
16 Pre-modern and early modern
Catherine Casson and Mark Casson
17 Networks and clusters in business history
Emily Buchnea
18 Business institutions and the state
Robert Millward
19 Evolution of UK corporate ownership and control: Codification,governance, transition and context
Anna Tilba
20 Globalisation
Pierre Gervais and Cheryl S. McWatters
PART V Management and ethics
21 The challenge of management professionalization
Mitchell J. Larson
22 Gender and business: Women in business or businesswomen? An assessment of the history of entrepreneurial women
Helen Doe
23 Fraud and financial scandals
Steven Toms
24 Changing approaches to business ethics
Bernard Mees
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