Title: Reimagining business history /
Authors: Scranton, Philip.; Fridenson, Patrick, 1944-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Small business United States History.; Business Research
Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. I TRAPS: PRACTICES BUSINESS HISTORIANS WOULD DO WELL TO AVOID -- 1.Misplaced Concreteness -- 2.Not Recognizing That the State Is Always "In" -- 3.Periodization as a (Necessary) Constraint -- 4.Privileging the Firm -- 5.Retrospective Rationalization -- 6.Searching for a New Dominant Paradigm -- 7.Scientism -- 8.Taking Discourse at Face Value and Numbers for Granted -- 9.Taking the United States (or the West) as Normal and Normative -- 10.The Rush to the Recent -- pt. II OPPORTUNITIES: THEMATIC DOMAINS -- 1.Artifacts -- 2.Creation and Creativity -- 3.Complexity -- 4.Improvisation -- 5.Microbusiness -- 6.The Military and War -- 7.Nonprofits and Quasi Enterprises -- 8.Public-Private Boundaries -- 9.Reflexivity -- 10.Ritual and Symbolic Practices -- 11.The Centrality of Failure -- 12.Varieties of Uncertainty -- pt. III PROSPECTS: PROMISING THEMES IN DEVELOPING LITERATURES -- 1.Deconstructing Property -- 2.Fraud and Fakery -- 3.From Empires to Emergent Nations -- 4.Gender -- 5.Professional Services -- 6.Projects -- 7.Reassessing Classic Themes -- 8.Standards -- 9.The Subaltern -- 10.Transnational Exchanges -- 11.Trust, Cooperation, and Networks -- pt. IV RESOURCES: GENERATIVE CONCEPTS AND FRAMEWORKS -- 1.Assumptions -- 2.Communities of Practice -- 3.Flows -- 4.Follow the Actors -- 5.Futures Past -- 6.Memory -- 7.Modernity -- 8.Risks -- 9.Spatiality -- 10.Time.