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business history  

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  • Business history is the study from a historical perspective of business and business firms in the environmental context—social, cultural, legal, political, and economic—in which they operate. The temporal dimension, understood as sensitivity to both real historical time and to the passage of time, is clearly crucial and leads often to an emphasis on factors such as change, processes of growth and development, and, indeed, persistence and decline across time. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Business History]

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