1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Business History

Edited By John Wilson, Steven Toms, Abe de Jong, Emily Buchnea Copyright 2017
    408 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    394 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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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    List of contributors

    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

    Index

    Biography

    John F. Wilson is Professor and Director of School at the Newcastle University Business School, UK

    Steven Toms is Professor and Chair in Accounting at the University of Leeds, UK

    Abe de Jong is Professor of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

    Emily Buchnea is a Research Assistant at the Newcastle University Business School, UK

    "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

    The contributions to this collection provide concise and insightful overviews of the development, current state and future research directions of key aspects of the field of business history. Taken together, they capture the methodological, thematic and geographic diversity of a vibrant scholarly discipline with roots in and links to the broader fields of history, economics, management studies and sociology.

    Ray Stokes, Professor of Business History, University of Glasgow, Director, Centre for Business History in Scotland, Executive Editor, Business History

    Adventurously eclectic, authoritative and thought-provoking, this new handbook, organised in geographic and thematic chapters, is freshly up-to-date. It will be valued by specialist business historians wanting to catch up on missed recent work in related areas and social scientists aiming to deepen their researches by adding a business historical dimension.

     Leslie Hannah, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics.