In defence of business history: A reply to Taylor, Bell and Cooke

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-120

  Toms, Steve ^a   Wilson, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business history; Epistemology; Historiography; Reflexivity; Ricoeur

Indexed keywords

EID: 75849148382     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935909353919     Document Type: Article

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