Measuring Chandler's Impact on European Business Studies since the 1960s

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ID9621889
AuthorsMartin Jes Iversen (0000-0003-4085-5524, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume82
Issue2
Pages279-292
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Business History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0007680500062772
OpenAlexW2088320034
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

Recently, a number of groups sponsored large international research projects that are concerned with business history. Harm G. Schröter's group investigated the European integration that followed the Treaty of Rome in 1957 in order to discover whether it had led to the appearance of a characteristically “European” corporation. Franco Amatori, Camilla Brautaset, and Youssef Cassis coordinated an analysis with the ambitious title “The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century.” The projects shared some common “Chandlerian” features: they were problem-oriented, comparative studies of the long-term development of large enterprises, and their goal was to propose illuminating generalizations. Such Chandler-inspired studies are likely to undergo a renaissance in the next couple of years. Still, as the term “renaissance” implies, Chandler's impact on European business studies has undergone upswings and downturns over the past four decades

Art history · Economic history · Economics · Parade · Political science · Positive economics · Relevance (law · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · The Renaissance · Corporate Finance and Governance · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · History · Law · Management and Organizational Studies

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