A Business History of the Bicycle Industry: Shaping Marketing Practices by Carlo Mari

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 969-971
Author(s):  
Bernhard Wieser
Keyword(s):  
Business History ◽  
Bicycle Industry ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Towards Big Data: Digitising Economic and Business History

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Jari Eloranta ◽  
Pasi Nevalainen ◽  
Jari Ojala
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Business History ◽  
General State ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Digital History ◽  
History Data ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
History Of

This chapter describes the experiences in computational and digital history of economic and business historians who for decades have been forerunners in digital history data gathering and computational analysis. It attempts to discuss the major developments within this area internationally and, in some specific cases, in Finland in the fields of digital economic and business history. It concentrates on a number of research projects that the authors have previously been involved in, as well as research outcomes by other economic and business historians within Finland and elsewhere. It is not claimed that the projects discussed are unique or ahead of their time in the field of economic and business history—on the contrary they are representing a more general state of the art within the field and used as illustrative cases illuminating the possibilities and challenges facing historians in the digital era.

Alfred Chandler and the Importance of Organization

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 419-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Jones
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Business History ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
London School ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Strong Assumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
London School Of Economics

Alfred D. Chandler entered my professional life incrementally rather than dramatically.As a student of economic history at CambridgeUniversity in Britain in the early 1970s, I barely encountered his name. British universities had their own long traditions in business and economic history, including a strong interest in entrepreneurship and in government policies toward industry. Most British scholars were not especially enthusiastic about ideas from across the Atlantic, whether the methodological approach of the new economic history of Robert Fogel, or Chandler's organizational synthesis. Cambridge was an especially closed academic world, with a strong assumption that little that happened outside its delightful campus could be really important. It was not until 1979, when I was recruited by the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE), headed by Chandler's (then) acolyte Leslie Hannah, that I read Strategy and Structure, nearly two decades after it was published.

scholarly journals Business Enterprise and Globalization: Towards a Transnational Business History

2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marten Boon
Keyword(s):  
Transnational History ◽  
Business History ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
New Research

Transnational history emerged strongly as globalization intensified in the 1990s, questioning national historiographies and creating new research agendas. Business history has not been part of this, but recent calls within the field to engage more visibly and authoritatively with debates on the history of globalization warrant a closer inspection of transnational history. The article draws on key concepts from transnational history and discusses their application in the work of, among others, Sven Beckert, Jessica Lepler, Stephanie Decker, Ray Stokes, and Michael Miller. The article argues that transnational history provides opportunities to increase business history's engagement with the history of globalization.

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