The Oxford Handbook of Business History
Edited by Geoffrey G. Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin
Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of Business History provides a survey of research in business history. Business historians study the historical evolution of business systems, entrepreneurs and firms, as well as their interaction with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in management studies and business administration, as well as in economics, sociology, and political science; and to historians. Business historians employ a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. This book has brought together leading scholars to provide a comprehensive, critical, and interdisciplinary examination of business history, organized into four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. It shows that business history is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, generating compelling empirical data, which has sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested widely held views in management and the social sciences.
Keywords:
business historian,
business systems,
entrepreneurs,
management studies,
business administration,
economics,
political science,
business organization,
enterprise,
society
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Jan 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199263684
- Published online:
- Sep 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199263684.001.0001
Editors
Geoffrey G. Jones,
editor
Geoffrey Jones is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School, United States. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the history of international business, including British Multinational Banking 1830–1990 (Oxford University Press, 1993), Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000), Multinationals and Global Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2005), Renewing Unilever (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is a former President of both the European Business History Association and the Business History Conference of the United States, and is co‐editor of the journal Business History Review. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
Jonathan Zeitlin,
editor
Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Deptartment of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.
