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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 12, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(3):469-476; doi:10.1093/es/khl006
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Comment: Relevance and Representativeness

David Kirsch

DAVID KIRSCH is assistant professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Marlyand, MD, USA. Contact information: Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Van Munching Hall Cnllege Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: dkirsch@rhsmith.umd.edu

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I would like to use my brief remarks to reflect on JoAnne Yates’s conclusion, the idea of expanding the audiences for our brand of intellectual product, namely, business history. Specifically, how can we make business history relevant and meaningful for management researchers, educators, and students? Alternately, to what extent should we aspire to make business history relevant to these communities? Reflecting upon JoAnne Yates’s proposal, I will review some obstacles to the successful integration of history into management research, education, and practice, and I will propose one modest goal of my own.

Before delving into this topic in detail, let me frame my comments with an update and a quick pop quiz: since coming to Maryland in 2001, my research has focused on collecting digital ephemera from the Dot Com Era. Having studied the early history of the automobile industry for many years, where I was the beneficiary of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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