Bibliograph

Reimagining business history, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson

Type

Label

Reimagining business history, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reimagining business history

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

965483508

Responsibility statement

Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson

Series statement

Project Muse eBooks

Table Of Contents

Misplaced concreteness -- Not recognizing that the state is always "in" -- Periodization as a (necessary) constraint -- Privileging the firm -- Retrospective rationalization -- Searching for a new dominant paradigm -- Scientism -- Taking discourse at face value and numbers for granted -- Taking the United States (or the West) as normal and normative -- The rush to the recent -- Artifacts -- Creation and creativity -- Complexity -- Improvisation -- Microbusiness -- The military and war -- Nonprofits and quasi enterprises -- Public-private boundaries -- Reflexivity -- Ritual and symbolic practices -- The centrality of failure -- Varieties of uncertainty -- Deconstructing property -- Fraud and fakery -- From empires to emergent nations -- Gender -- Professional services -- Projects -- Reassessing classic themes -- Standards -- The subaltern -- Transnational exchanges -- Trust, cooperation, and networks -- Assumptions -- Communities of practice -- Flows -- Follow the actors -- Futures past -- Memory -- Modernity -- Risks -- Spatiality -- Time

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