German Yearbook on Business History 1987

M. Raymond de Roover publie, dans les Harvard Studies in Business History, le premier des ouvrages que cette célèbre collection ait encore consacré à une entreprise médiévale . Cet exceptionnel accueil manifeste déjà, autant que l'importance de la banque Médicis et la notoriété de l'auteur, la qualité de l'ouvrage. En fait, M. R. de Roover, qui s'est attaché depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans à retracer, avec les connaissances du technicien et la science de l'historien, la préhistoire des grandes affaires modernes, donne avec cet ouvrage consacré à la plus brillante et la plus célèbre des entreprises de la Renaissance italienne le livre de sa maturité, qui fera date dans l'historiographie du XVe siècle.

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Business History in Italy and the New Digital Frontiers: Archives and IT Sources (Part 2)

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1998120 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Amedeo Lepore

Keyword(s):

Business History

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INFORMING HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT: TRADITIONS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES

Accounting Historians Journal ◽

10.2308/0148-4184.24.2.111 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 111-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Lee D. Parker

Keyword(s):

Historical Research ◽

Business History ◽

Historical Knowledge ◽

The Past ◽

Field Of Inquiry ◽

Historical Thought ◽

The Way

Historical research in accounting and management, hitherto largely neglected as a field of inquiry by many management and accounting researchers, has experienced a resurgence of interest and activity in research conferences and journals over the past decade. The potential lessons of the past for contemporary issues have been rediscovered, but the way forward is littered with antiquarian narratives, methodologically naive analyses, ideologically driven interpretation and ignorance of the traditions, schools and philosophy of the craft by accounting and management researchers as well as traditional and critical historians themselves. This paper offers an introduction to contributions made to the philosophies and methods of history by significant historians in the past, a review of some of the influential schools of historical thought, insights into philosophies of historical knowledge and explanation and a brief introduction to oral and business history. On this basis the case is made for the philosophically and methodologically informed approach to the investigation of our past heritage in accounting and management

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198706977.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Geoffrey Jones

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Environmental Pollution ◽

Business History ◽

Wealth Creation ◽

New Firms ◽

Green Entrepreneurship ◽

The Cost

This chapter lays out the principal aims of the book and its contribution. It shows that business drove unprecedented wealth creation over the last two hundred years but the cost was unprecedented environmental pollution resulting in new geological era known as the Anthropocene Age. Already in the nineteenth century there was resistance which mostly took the form of elite conservation movements. Overlooked has been the advent of green entrepreneurs who sought to create new firms to facilitate sustainability. Today there is much discussion about green entrepreneurship, but these figures predate today’s green entrepreneurs by a century. The book breaks new ground in business history by looking at these many small and marginal entrepreneurial figures, who were often highly unconventional. The book will explore what has motivated green entrepreneurs in each generation, how they build businesses, and whether they achieved their goals.

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