Business History and Management Studies
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https://doi.org/10.1344/jesb2016.1.j008Keywords:
Business History, Historic Turn, Internationalization, Applied Business History, EntrepreneurshipAbstract
This article traces back the origins and nature of business history to stress its potential to dialogue with other social sciences and, in particular, with management studies. It also summarizes the main current trends in business history research to later propose the research lines that editors would like to promote from an interdisciplinary approach and in the direction of a fruitful exchange with scholars active in management and organization studies.Downloads
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