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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on November 3, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(4):837-846; doi:10.1093/es/khp078
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Business History Conference]. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Comments on Comments, or the Richness of Dialogue

Eric Godelier

ERIC GODELIER is a professor of management and business history at the École Polytechnique courses and Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences department

Contact information: Eric.godelier@polytechnique.edu.

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If my initial essay at a minimum had the objective of generating a debate and fruitful exchanges, it has succeeded. Of course, probably because of the inevitable ambiguities of translation, some of Chris Kobrak’s, Andrew Popp’s, and Paul Tiffany's comments suggest that a few further remarks are in order to clarify a set of ideas and allow further developments or discussions.

My first reaction was that, besides the geographical differences between the three commentators, the fact that they point to a parallel between the French situation and recent or older trends in Great Britain and the United States attests to how far the globalization of the discipline's training or research structures has progressed. That stimulates two preliminary remarks. First, the fact that French business historians wrestle with the same questions, research problems, and institutional issues as their colleagues in other countries underscores the urgency of the debate initiated in these . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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