Explorations in Entrepreneurial History

…In 1949, the Center for Entrepreneurial History was established as an interdisciplinary research organization by specialists in economic history, sociology, business administration, and other fields, led by A.H. Cole (1889-1974), also of Harvard University. Entrepreneurial history, which focuses on the elucidation of entrepreneurship, i.e., the performance of entrepreneurs and managers and the social meaning of their activities, developed as a new trend in business administration, different from the narrow definition of business history by Glass and others. The results of the research conducted by the Center, which continued to operate until 1959, were published in the journal Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, and the culmination of this work was published in Business Enterprise in its Social Setting (1959) by Cole. The greatest feature of entrepreneurial history is that it attempts to consider the development of business management in relation to the unique ways of thinking and acting (cultural factors or cultural structures) of each country's society, and it also had a major impact on economic development theory. …

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…1949年同じハーバード大学のコールA.H.Cole(1889‐1974)を中心に，経済史，社会学，経営学など諸分野の専門研究者による学際的研究組織として〈企業者史研究センター〉が設立され，〈企業者活動entrepreneurship〉すなわち企業者，経営者の性能とその活動の社会的意味の解明に重点をおく〈企業者史entrepreneurial history〉が，グラスらの狭義の〈経営史business history〉とは異なった新しい経営学の流れとして発展した。1959年まで活動を続けた同センターの研究成果は機関誌《Explorations in Entrepreneurial History》に発表され，コール著《Business Enterprise in its Social Setting》(1959)はその集大成である。企業者史学の最大の特徴は，企業経営の発展を各国社会に固有な思考行動様式(文化的要因ないし文化構造)との関連において考察しようとしていることであり，経済発展論にも大きな影響を与えた。…

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