Contemporary business history

The concepts of strategic management are especially visible in business history journals, despite a slight decline in strategy discourses in business history books.
From 2016 to 2019, roughly 60% of the articles published in BH and BHR used strategic management concepts in some way.

This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

While many history departments of American universities prefer to keep business as a separate discipline, HBS entrepreneurship professor Geoffrey Jones encourages the examination of history as a way to better understand contemporary management issues.

American business history is a history of business, entrepreneurship, and corporations, together with responses by consumers, critics, and government, in the United States from colonial times to the present.
In broader context, it is a major part of the Economic history of the United States, but focuses on specific business enterprises.