Screen LibraryReimagining business history /
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9781421408613 (hbk. : alk. paper) : 9781421408620 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1421408619 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1421408627 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | HD2346 |
| CLC: | F279.712.43 |
| Call Number: | F279.712.43/S433 |
| 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. |