A Review of the New Literature on Business History

About 150 of the approximately 250 monographic descriptions concerning business history, which were published in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984, commemorated the anniversary of a company or association or the birthday of an entrepreneur. These works were therefore a commemorative publication or contract work in its narrowest sense and were therefore not primarily intended for readers with scientific demands. In spite of this many of these commemorative documents contain information, of interest to economic and in particular business historians, which was first published as a result of papers from the company archives. In addition there were also publications — some supported by companies — which were not only concerned with one company, entrepreneur or association and which were mainly written by scientists.