American business history: a very short introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Nicole C. Eva
Keyword(s):  
Business History ◽  
American Business ◽  
Short Introduction

American Business History: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter A. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Business History ◽  
American Business ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Democratic Capitalism ◽  
The World

American Business History: A Very Short Introduction looks at the rise of the American economy from its colonial and frontier beginnings. What made the United States an attractive testing ground for entrepreneurs? How did the United States come to have the largest business enterprises in the world by the early twentieth century? Why did business organizations gain a central place in American society? This VSI answers these questions through examining the formation of new organizational structures; the invention and commercialization of new technologies; the introduction of policymaking and regulatory frameworks; and the stories of entrepreneurs from around the world who embraced democratic capitalism in America.

scholarly journals Sources: Encyclopedia of American Business History

2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-66
Author(s):  
Carolyn J. Radcliff ◽  
Judith Faust
Keyword(s):  
Business History ◽  
American Business

Recent Developments in American Business Administration and their Conceptualization

1961 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred D. Chandler ◽  
Fritz Redlich
Keyword(s):  
Business Administration ◽  
Business History ◽  
American Business ◽  
Subsequent Issue ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Galley Proof ◽  
Broad Interest

The following article appeared in the March, 1961, issue of the Weltwirt-Schaftliche Archiv, published since 1913 by the Institut für Weltwirt-Schaft an der Universität Kiel. Because of the pertinence and broad interest of the study, publication in America seemed highly desirable. Reproduction rights were graciously extended by Dr. Anton Zottmann, editor of the Archiv, and by the authors. The article is printed here directly from galley proof supplied by the Archiv. Commentaries by American scholars will be published in a subsequent issue of the Business History Review.

The Premises Of Business Revisionism

1959 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Kolko
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Business History ◽  
American Business

The Revisionist trend in American business history has been shaped by values, premises, logic, and procedure that bear certain striking similarities to Marxism, most clearly seen in the Revisionists' acceptance of the inevitability of abuse in capital accumulation.

The Society Presents a Casebook in Business History

1939 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 93-94
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Business History ◽  
American Business ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Generous Friend

In January the members of the Business Historical Society will receive the Casebook in American Business History, written by N. S. B. Gras and Henrietta M. Larson and published by F. S. Crofts & Company, of New York. This book is presented to the members of the Society by a generous friend of business education.

scholarly journals Bay Days: The Managerial Revolutions and the Hudson’s Bay Company Department Stores, 1912‑1939

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Monod
Keyword(s):  
Business History ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
American Business ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
History Of ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
Marketing Methods ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Abstract North American business history has long been dominated by a belief in the centrality of entrepreneurial innovation to corporate success. This paper looks at the history of the Hudson's Bay Company Stores Department and attempts to explain from within the traditional business-history framework the company's prolonged inability to create a profitable chain of department stores in Western Canada. During the interwar years the HBC was highly competitive in its marketing methods and up-to-date in its business structure. Indeed, the company's failure seems to have stemmed in large measure from these very factors, from its excessive reliance upon scientific management formulas and organizational theories. It was only during the Depression that the Bay was able to recoup its losses by moving away from the professional orthodoxies of the twenties, returning to older business structures, and deciding on a more consumer-oriented approach.

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