Business History: Time for debate

Business History Review

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Friedman, Walter A ^a   Jones, Geoffrey ^a  

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EID: 79959197976     PISSN: 00076805     EISSN: 2044768X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007680511000201     Document Type: Review

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1. BHR is available through Cambridge Journals Online: http://journals. cambridge.org/BHR.
2. The five-year impact factor for BHR (2009) is 0.64, a score similar to that of other journals in the field. The same figure for the Quarterly Journal of Economics is 8.17;
3. and for Academy of Management Journal is 9.26. Some of the discrepancy is due to the different sizes of the membership of these fields. But some of the reasons for the low business history scores stem from a lack of cross-disciplinary appeal.
4. Alfred D. Chandler's concept of "strategy and structure," which arose from detailed observations of DuPont, General Motors, Sears, and Standard Oil, is one example;
5. see Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of American Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass., 1962). Similarly, Mira Wilkins's conceptualization of the stages of multinational enterprise grew out of her careful research on individual firms.
6. See Mira Wilkins, The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914 (Cambridge, Mass., 1970), and The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970 (Cambridge, Mass., 1974).
7. For instance, business scholar Howard Stevenson developed the concept of "entrepreneurial management;" and economist William Baumol made the distinction between "productive" and "unproductive" entrepreneurship.
8. See Howard H. Stevenson and Teresa M. Amabile, "Entrepreneurial Management: In Pursuit of Opportunity," in The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995, ed.
9. Thomas K. McCraw and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (Boston, 1999);
10. and William Baumol, "Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive," Journal of Political Economy 98, no. 3 (1990): 893-921.
11. David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol, eds., The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (Princeton, 2010).
12. See Naomi R. Lamoreaux, "Entrepreneurship, Business Organization, and Economic Concentration," Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 2 (2000);
13. Eric Hilt with Katharine E. O'Banion, "The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822-1858: Partnerships without Kinship," Journal of Economic History 69, no. 3 (2009);
14. Aurora GómezGalvarriato, "Networks and Entrepreneurship: The Modernization of the Textile Business in Porfirian Mexico," Business History Review 82 (Autumn 2008);
15. and Geoffrey Jones, Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford, 2000). Entrepreneurship can be investigated not only in individual firms, but also collectively. On this,
16. see Alain Cottereau, "The Fate of Collective Manufactures in the Industrial World: The Silk Industries of Lyons and London, 1800-1850," in World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization, ed.
17. Jonathan Zeitlin and Charles Sabel (Cambridge, U.K., 2007).
18. See Margaret B. W. Graham, "Technology and Innovation," in The Oxford Handbook of Business History, ed. Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford, 2008).
19. See Zeitlin and Sabel, eds., World of Possibilities; and Tetsuji Okazaki, ed., Production Organizations in Japanese Economic Development (London, 2007). On the beginnings of a theory of innovation,
20. see Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (Cambridge, Mass., 2007). On Silicon Valley,
21. see Christophe Lecuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (2006).
22. See also Ross Thomson's Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865 (Baltimore, 2009).
23. See Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L Sokoloff, Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present (Cambridge, Mass., 2007).
24. See also Richard R. John, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (Cambridge, Mass., 2010), which emphasizes the role of state and local governments in shaping technological change;
25. and Gabriel Galvez-Behar, La république des inventeurs: Propriété et organisation de l'innovation en France, 1791-1922 (Rennes, 2008).
26. Petra Moser, "How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs," American Economic Review 95 (Sept. 2005): 1215-36;
27. and "Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the Nineteenth Century Sewing Machine Industry," Journal of Economic History 70 (Mar. 2010): 898-920;
28. and Zorina Kahn, The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920 (Cambridge, U.K., 2005).
29. Tom Nicholas, "The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930," Journal of Economic History 70 (Mar. 2010);
30. and Nicholas, "What Drives Innovation?" Antitrust Law Journal (forthcoming).
31. See also Adrian Johns, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (Chicago, 2011);
32. and on knowledge transfer,
33. see Renate Mayntz, Friedhelm Neidhardt, Peter Weingart, and Ulrich Wengenroth, Wissens-produktion und Wissenstransfer: Wissen im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit (Bielefeld, 2008).
34. Geoffrey Jones, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford, 2010);
35. William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner, and Mira Wilkins, Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007 (Cambridge, U.K., 2008);
36. Teresa da Silva Lopes, Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Cambridge, U.K., 2007);
37. Christopher McKenna, The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, U.K., 2006);
38. Tony A. Freyer, Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004 (Cambridge, Mass., 2006);
39. and Walter A. Friedman, Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Cambridge, Mass., 2004).
40. Laurence Badel, Diplomatie et grands contrats: L'Etat français et les marchés extérieurs au XXe siècle (Paris, 2011).
41. Business History Review published a special issue on women in the international service industries in Autumn 2007.
42. See Angel Kwolek-Folland and Margaret Walsh, "Women in the Service Industries: National Pespectives," pp. 421-27.
43. See, in Business History Review: Christine Meisner Rosen, "Businessmen against Pollution in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago," 69 (Autumn 1995): 351-91;
44. David Stradling and Joel A. Tarr, "Environmental Activism, Locomotive Smoke, and the Corporate Response," 73 (Winter 1999): 677-704;
45. Keetie Sluyterman, "Royal Dutch Shell: Company Strategies for Dealing with Environmental Issues," 84 (Summer 2010): 203-26.
46. l6 See, for instance, Frank Uekoetter, The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970 (Pittsburgh, 2009);
47. David Stradling and Pierre Desrochers, "How Did the Invisible Hand Handle Industrial Waste? By-product Development before the Modern Environmental Era," Enterprise & Society 8 (June 2007): 348-74;
48. and Peter Thorsheim, Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 (Athens, Oh., 2006).
49. For an exception, see Aldo Musacchio, Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (Cambridge, U.K., 2009).
50. See, for instance, Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, and Pier Angelo Toninelli, Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy (London, 2011);
51. and Pier Angelo Toninelli, Louis Galambos, Franco Amatori, eds., The Rise and Fall of StateOwned Enterprise in the Western World (Cambridge, U.K., 2000).
52. Business under the Nazi regime has been the focus of recent investigations, including the work of Adam Tooze, Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (New York, 2008),
53. and Joachim Lund, Working for the New Order: European Business under German Domination, 1933-1945 (Copenhagen, 2006). For a broader discussion,
54. see Christopher Kobrak and Per Hansen, eds., European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 (Oxford, U.K., 2004).
55. There is a growing literature on government-business relations in Latin America, including Marcelo Bucheli, Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000 (New York, 2005).