Constructing an 'industry': the case of industrial gases, 1886-2006

Ray Stokes and Ralf Banken

Business History, 2015, vol. 57, issue 5, 688-704

Abstract: Historically minded social scientists who analyse business and industrial development over time - including business historians - often deploy the term 'industry' as if its meaning were both self-evident and unchanging through time. This article uses the case of the international industrial gases industry over the course of 12 decades to demonstrate some ways in which a more critical and dynamic view of 'industry' - in combination with recognition of the imperfect overlap between firms on the one hand and industries on the other - enables better understanding and analysis of both.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2014.975123

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