Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6043748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Popp (0000-0001-9603-7681, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1315-1330 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076791.2024.2359724 |
| OpenAlex | W4399428129 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Taking its departure in the correspondence of eighteenth-century entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood, focusing on his development and use of two field-based metaphors or heuristics, this article explores two modes of enquiry employed in business history and argues for the maintenance and strengthening of ties to humanistic modes of historical enquiry. In doing so, the essay identifies a loose genre of agenda-setting books and articles within business history, to which it seeks to add a modest proposal
Business · Business administration · Business history · Business practice · Economics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Heuristics · Humanism · Management · Political science · Sociology · American History and Culture · Computer Science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |