1985 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
What can the Businessman Learn from History, especially Business History?
verfasst von : Dieter Lindenlaub
Erschienen in: German Yearbook on Business History 1984
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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In this essay I should like to put forward a few arguments in support of the thesis that commerce and economics graduates working in companies can benefit from a study of history, especially business history. In my view history imparts a knowledge of how to act that can help target identification and the allocation of means in a company. This thesis is contrary to the results of a recent survey, which showed that the majority of businessmen interviewed and the researcher who evaluated the answers thought a study and knowledge of economic history was not necessary for the commerce or economics graduate who wanted to work in a business1.