Do great American business leaders share similar characteristics?
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook Compiling a handbook on the current thinking in any area of study seems daunting enough, but the Oxford Handbook of Business History carries an even larger mission: bring the lessons of business history to current research in other disciplines and to the practice of business management itself. A Q&A with coeditor Geoffrey Jones. Key concepts include: Key concepts include: • Business historians over recent decades have generated rich empirical data on firms and business systems that can confirm or challenge many of today’s fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines. • Business history has broadened its scope in the last two decades by including research on corporate governance, industrial districts, business groups, business culture, business education, skills training, accounting and information systems, design, and engineering. • Historical knowledge helps us to truly understand business, but the growing ahistorical nature of
