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Towards a new business history?

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  • Abe de Jong
  • David Michael Higgins
  • Hugo van Driel

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This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history - dominantly case study analysis - maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to develop theory and test hypotheses. These approaches are well established in the social sciences, but require adaptation to the particular needs of business history. The purpose of this article is to argue that opportunities for scientific explanations in business history are enhanced by engagement with the circle of knowledge creation where theory is confronted with empirical evidence and empirical observations feed back into theory formation.

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  • Abe de Jong & David Michael Higgins & Hugo van Driel, 2015. "Towards a new business history?," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(1), pages 5-29, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:57:y:2015:i:1:p:5-29
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2014.977869
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    1. Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, 2015. "A Dainty Review of the Business and Economic History of Chile and Latin America," Estudios de Economia, University of Chile, Department of Economics, vol. 42(2 Year 20), pages 5-16, December.
    2. Eero Vaara & Juha-Antti Lamberg, 2016. "Taking historical embeddedness seriously : Three historical approaches to advance strategy process and practice research," Post-Print hal-02276732, HAL.

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