Wide-ranging papers and presentations from some of the world's leading business historians
6/26/2000
Many of the world's leading business historians gather each year for the annual meeting of the Business History Conference. Get a glimpse into their research via this online review of papers and presentations from this year's event, "Enterprise in Society," held in March in Palo Alto, California. It includes abstracts of 65 papers with full text of about a dozen of these. The topics range far and wide. Examples include: "The Birth of Consumer Society" a study of the sewing machine, "the world's first mass-produced and mass-marketed complex consumer durable;" "The Evolution of Multinational Strategies in the Alcoholic Beverages Industry;" "The Death and Resurrection of Corporate Research;" and "Old South, New South, Sun Belt South," an analysis of "the emergence and persistence of a distinctive regional business culture in the American South, viewed from the perspective of economic history."