TY - JOUR
T1 - Writing history for the business man: the development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge
AU - Ponzoni, E.
AU - Boersma, F.K.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing pressure towards valorization of knowledge, their work is connected with the importance of contract research from within the university. In this paper we use the actor network approach to show how the book - the most important output of the business historian - plays a role in the recognition of business history as a academic discipline.Throughout the article, the business history of the Royal Dutch Shell is used as an illustration.© The Author(s), 2011.
AB - This article focuses on the recent developments in business history as an academic discipline. Recently, the strategies used by commissioned, academic researchers are to make corporate history an institutional form of knowledge production. Corporate history is the more narrowed, often commissioned, brand of business history. Whereas in the past the commissioned activities of the business historians were looked down upon, with the increasing pressure towards valorization of knowledge, their work is connected with the importance of contract research from within the university. In this paper we use the actor network approach to show how the book - the most important output of the business historian - plays a role in the recognition of business history as a academic discipline.Throughout the article, the business history of the Royal Dutch Shell is used as an illustration.© The Author(s), 2011.
U2 - 10.1177/1744935910364050
DO - 10.1177/1744935910364050
M3 - Article
SN - 1744-9359
VL - 6
SP - 123
EP - 143
JO - Management & Organizational History
JF - Management & Organizational History
IS - 2
ER -