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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Long term perspectives on family business
AU - Colli, Andrea
AU - Rose, Mary
AU - Howorth, Carole
PY - 2013/3/31
Y1 - 2013/3/31
N2 - A good business history, old or new, is increasingly the one able to speak, or to be understood, by other social scientists, unfamiliar with the historians’ research methodology but, nevertheless interested in the evidence, and also spillovers, provided by historical research. This has recently brought business historians to examine the possibility of a closer dialogue between business history and areas of management research which are more oriented towards the time dimension as a component of their conceptual framework, such as international business studies, management and strategy, and in particular family business studies. Generally speaking, these reflections have had ambiguous outcomes so far: they recognize the necessity of a closer dialogue, they emphasize the 'history-friendly' nature of some sub-fields of management studies (as well as the isolation of others), and try to identify how business history can fruitfully interact with disciplines oriented towards speculation, synthesis and normative purposes.
AB - A good business history, old or new, is increasingly the one able to speak, or to be understood, by other social scientists, unfamiliar with the historians’ research methodology but, nevertheless interested in the evidence, and also spillovers, provided by historical research. This has recently brought business historians to examine the possibility of a closer dialogue between business history and areas of management research which are more oriented towards the time dimension as a component of their conceptual framework, such as international business studies, management and strategy, and in particular family business studies. Generally speaking, these reflections have had ambiguous outcomes so far: they recognize the necessity of a closer dialogue, they emphasize the 'history-friendly' nature of some sub-fields of management studies (as well as the isolation of others), and try to identify how business history can fruitfully interact with disciplines oriented towards speculation, synthesis and normative purposes.
KW - family business
KW - generations
KW - long term trends
U2 - 10.1080/00076791.2012.744589
DO - 10.1080/00076791.2012.744589
M3 - Journal article
VL - 55
SP - 841
EP - 854
JO - Business History
JF - Business History
SN - 0007-6791
IS - 6
ER -