Business Failure and the Agenda of Business History

Patrick Fridenson

Enterprise & Society, 2004, vol. 5, issue 4, 562-582

Abstract: Is it really useful to focus the interest of business historians on major companies that failed in recent years, like Parmalat in Italy or Enron in the United States? What can we learn from studying cases like that of the French company Schneider, a first mover in metallurgy, armaments, and nuclear energy, which for almost 150 years dominated the company town Le Creusot, where the Business History Conference held its fiftieth anniversary meeting in 2004, but which has now disappeared?

Date: 2004
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