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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.
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization.
The history of the lumber industry in the United States spans from the precolonial period of British timber speculation, subsequent British colonization, and American development into the twenty-first century. Following the near eradication of domestic timber on the British Isles, the abundance of old-growth forests in the New World posed an ...
New Jersey followed New York's lead in 1816, when it enacted its first corporate law. [ 3] In 1837, Connecticut adopted a general corporation statute that allowed for the incorporation of any corporation engaged in any lawful business. [ 3] Delaware did not enact its first corporation law until 1883.
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse , AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Company .
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
v. t. e. Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneurs. It is related to economic history. [ 1]
ISBN. 978-0-87140-712-2. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights is a book-length history of American corporate personhood and other rights of corporations written by constitutional law professor Adam Winkler and published by W. W. Norton in 2018. The title was a 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist.