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Cousins Once Removed? Revisiting the Relationship between Oral History and Business History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2019

ROBERT CRAWFORD  and
MATTHEW BAILEY
ROBERT CRAWFORD
Affiliation:
Robert Crawford is a professor of Advertising and Communication History at RMIT University, in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books include Behind Glass Doors: The World of Australian Advertising Agencies 1959–89 (Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing, 2016; coauthored with Jackie Dickenson); and Global Advertising Practice in a Borderless World (Abington, UK: Routledge, 2017; coedited with Linda Brennan and Lukas Parker). E-mail: Robert.Crawford@rmit.edu.au
MATTHEW BAILEY
Affiliation:
Matthew Bailey is a lecturer in the department of Modern History at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia. He has a research interest in urban, business, and retail history. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on retail and retail property history, and is currently writing a monograph on the history of shopping centers in Australia. E-mail: matthew.bailey@mq.edu.au
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Abstract

This article analyses the evolving relationship between mainstream oral history and business oral history, and explores the ways in which the latter has been deployed and discussed in business history journals. Business historians have, until relatively recently, tended to utilize oral history as a means to fill gaps in the archive. Interviews thus made important contributions to business history studies, but much of their potential remained untapped. Recent critical engagement with issues of methodology and interpretation has seen a discernible shift in the ways that oral history is being understood by business historians. This article outlines this evolution and the possibilities that it raises for both business and oral history.

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Special Section on Oral History
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 4 - 18
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Copyright © The Author 2019. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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Matthews, Derek. “Profit-Sharing in the Gas Industry, 1889–1949.” Business History 30, no. 3 (1988): 306–328.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Miner, Craig. “The New Wave, the Old Guard and the Bank Committee: William J. Gred at J. I. Case Company, 1953–1964.” Business History Review 61 (Summer 1987): 243–290.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitchell, Ronald K. “Oral History and Expert Scripts: Demystifying the Entrepreneurial Experience.” Journal of Management History 2, no. 3 (1996): 50–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Parker, Lee. “Historiography for the New Millennium: Adventures in Accounting and Management.” Accounting History 4, no. 2 (1999): 11–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Thomson, Alistair. “Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History.” Oral History Review 34, no. 1 (2007): 49–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Van der Putten, Frans-Paul. “Corporate Governance and the Eclectic Paradigm: The Investment Motives of Philips in Taiwan in the 1960s.” Enterprise & Society 5, no. 3 (2004): 490–526.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vik, Pål. “‘The Computer says No’: The Demise of the Traditional Bank Manager and the Depersonalisation of British Banking, 1960–2010.” Business History 59, no. 2 (2017): 231–249.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Walton, John K. “New Directions in Business History: Themes, Approaches and Opportunities.” Business History 52, no. 1 (2010): 1–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Witkowski, Terrence H. “General Book Store in Chicago, 1938–1947: Linking Neighborhood to Nation.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 1, no. 1, (2009): 93–121.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Fridenson, Patrick. “Business History and History.” In The Oxford Handbook of Business History, edited by Jones, Geoffrey and Zeitlin, Jonathan, 9–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Ritchie, Donald A. “Introduction: The Evolution of Oral History.” In The Oxford Handbook of Oral History, edited by Ritchie, Donald A., 3–22. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past, 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Aaronson, Susan Ariel. “Serving America’s Business? Graduate Business Schools and American Business, 1945–60.” Business History 34, no. 1 (1992): 160–180.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Alexander, Andrew. “Decision-Making Authority in British Supermarket Chains.” Business History 57, no. 4 (2015): 614–637.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Alexander, Andrew, Nell, Dawn, Bailey, Adrian R., and Shaw, Gareth. “The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain.” Enterprise & Society 10, no. 3 (2009): 529–558.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Appelgren, Staffan. “History as Business: Changing Dynamics of Retailing in Gothenburg’s Second-hand Market.” Business History. doi: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1447563.Google Scholar
Bailey, Matthew. “Written Testimony, Oral History and Retail Environments: Australian Shopping Centers in the 1960s.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 7, no. 3 (2015): 356–372.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baskerville, Rachel F. “Professional Closure by Proxy: The Impact of Changing Educational Requirements on Class Mobility for a Cohort of Big 8 Partners.” Accounting History 11, no. 3 (2006): 290–317.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Battilani, Patrizia, and Zamagni, Vera. “The Managerial Transformation of Italian Co-operative Enterprises, 1946–2010.” Business History 54, no. 6 (2012): 964–985.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berger, Ron, Lamond, David, Gavish, Yossi, and Herstein, Ram. “The Evolution of Management from a Trust to Arm’s Length Model in Family Run Businesses: The Case of the Diamond Industry.” Journal of Management History 22, no. 3 (2016): 341–362.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boersma, Kees. “Tensions within an Industrial Research Laboratory: The Philips Laboratory’s X-Ray Department between the Wars.” Enterprise & Society 4, no. 1 (2003): 65–98.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burton, Nicholas. “The Thatcher Government and (de)Regulation: Modularisation of Individual Personal Pensions.” Journal of Management History. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-06-2017-0030.Google Scholar
Carnevali, Francesca. “Between Markets and Networks: Regional Banks in Italy.” Business History 38, no. 3 (1996): 84–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chi-Cheung, Choi. “Kinship and Business: Paternal and Maternal Kin in Chaozhou Chinese Family Firms.” Business History 40, no. 1 (1998): 26–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clapham, John H. “Industrial Organisation in the Woollen and Worsted Industries of Yorkshire.” Economic Journal 16, no. 64 (1906): 515–522.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Collins, Marilyn, and Bloom, Robert. “The Role of Oral History in Accounting.” Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 4, no. 4 (1991): 23–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crawford, Robert, and Bailey, Matthew. “Speaking of Research: Oral History and Marketing History.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 10, no. 1 (2018): 107–128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davies, Andrea. “Voices Passed.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 3, no. 4 (2011): 469–485.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davies, Andrea, and Elliott, Richard. “The Evolution of the Empowered Consumer.” European Journal of Marketing 40, no. 9–10 (2006): 1106–1121.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Jong, Abe, Higgins, David Michael, and van Driel, Hugo. “Towards a New Business History?” Business History 57, no. 1 (2015): 5–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dessaux, Pierre-Antoine, and Mazaud, Jean-Philippe. “Hybridizing the Emerging European Corporation: Danone, Hachette, and the Divisionalization Process in France during the 1970s.” Enterprise & Society 7, no. 2 (2006): 227–265.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Durepos, Gabrielle, McKinlay, Alan, and Taylor, Scott. “Narrating Histories of Women at Work: Archives, Stories, and the Promise of Feminism.” Business History 59, no. 8 (2017): 1261–1279.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Emery, Michelle, Hooks, Jill, and Stewart, Ross. “Born at the Wrong Time? An Oral History of Women Professional Accountants in New Zealand.” Accounting History 7, no. 2 (2002): 7–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Friedman, Walter, and Jones, Geoffrey. “Debating Methodology in Business History.” Business History Review 91, (Autumn 2017): 443–455.Google Scholar
Gao, Cheng, Zuzl, Tiona, Jones, Geoffrey, and Khanna, Tarun. “Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long-Run Survival.” Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 1 (2017): 2147–2167.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gebrieter, Florian, Davies, Matt, Finley, Simon, Gee, Lara, Weaver, Lisa, and Yates, David. “From ‘Rock Stars’ to ‘Hygiene Factors’: Teachers at Private Accountancy Tuition Providers.” Accounting History 23, no. 1–2 (2018): 138–150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gibbs, Ewean. “The Moral Economy of the Scottish Coalfields: Managing Deindustrialization under Nationalization c.1947–1983.” Enterprise & Society 19, no. 1 (2018): 124–152.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Harrison, Robert L. III, Veeck, Ann, and Gentry, James W.. “A Life Course Perspective of Family Meals via the Life Grid Method.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 3, no. 2 (2011): 214–233.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hendry, John. “The Teashop Computer Manufacturer: J. Lyons, Leo and the Potential and Limits of High-Tech Diversification.” Business History 29, no. 1 (1987): 73–102.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hollow, Matthew, and Vik, Pål. “Another Step up the Ladder or Another Foot in the Grave? Re-evaluating the Role of Formal and Informal Training in the Career Development Process within Barclays Bank, 1945–1980.” Management & Organizational History 11, no. 4 (2016): 345–363.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, Geoffrey, and Spadafora, Andrew. “Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000.” Enterprise & Society 18, no. 1 (2017): 146–183.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Keulen, Sjoerd, and Kroeze, Ronald. “Back to Business: A Next Step in the Field of Oral History—The Usefulness of Oral History for Leadership and Organizational Research.” Oral History Review 39, no. 1 (2012): 15–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kroeze, Ronald, and Keulen, Sjoerd. “Leading a Multinational Is History in Practice: The Use of Invented Traditions and Narratives at AkzoNobel, Shell, Philips and ABN AMRO. Business History 55, no. 8 (2013): 1265–1287.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lightbody, Margaret G. “Turnover Decisions of Women Accountants: Using Personal Histories to Understand the Relative Influence of Domestic Obligations.” Accounting History 14, no. 1–2 (2009): 55–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lord, Beverley, and Robb, Alan. “Women Students and Staff in Accountancy: The Canterbury Tales.” Accounting History 15, no. 4 (2010): 529–558.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maclean, Mairi, Harvey, Charles, and Stringfellow, Lindsay. “Narrative, Metaphor and the Subjective Understanding of Historic Identity Transition.” Business History 59, no. 8 (2017): 1218–1241.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matthews, Derek. “Profit-Sharing in the Gas Industry, 1889–1949.” Business History 30, no. 3 (1988): 306–328.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Miner, Craig. “The New Wave, the Old Guard and the Bank Committee: William J. Gred at J. I. Case Company, 1953–1964.” Business History Review 61 (Summer 1987): 243–290.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitchell, Ronald K. “Oral History and Expert Scripts: Demystifying the Entrepreneurial Experience.” Journal of Management History 2, no. 3 (1996): 50–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Musacchio Adorisio, Anna, and Mutch, Alistair. “In Search of Historical Methods.” Management & Organizational History 8, no. 2, (2013): 105–110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parker, Lee. “Historiography for the New Millennium: Adventures in Accounting and Management.” Accounting History 4, no. 2 (1999): 11–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parsons, Mike, and Beth Rose, Mary. “The Neglected Legacy of Lancashire Cotton: Industrial Clusters and the U.K. Outdoor Trade, 1960–1990.” Enterprise & Society 6, no. 4 (2005): 682–709.Google Scholar
Perchard, Andrew, MacKenzie, Niall G., Decker, Stephanie, and Favero, Giovanni. “Clio in the Business School: Historical Approaches in Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship.” Business History 59, no. 6 (2017): 904–927.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perks, Rob. “‘Corporations Are People Too!’: Business and Corporate Oral History in Britain.” Oral History Review 38, no. 1 (2010): 36–54.Google Scholar
Perks, Rob. “The Roots of Oral History: Exploring Contrasting Attitudes to Elite, Corporate, and Business Oral History in Britain and the U.S.” Oral History Review 37, no. 2 (2010): 215–224.Google Scholar
Pilkington, Alan. “Learning from Joint-Venture: The Rover-Honda Relationship.” Business History 38, no. 1 (1996): 90–114.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reed, Heidi. “Corporations as Agents of Social Change: A Case Study of Diversity at Cummins Inc.” Business History 59, no. 6 (2017): 821–843.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sakai, Ken. “Thriving in the Shadow of Giants: The Success of the Japanese Surgical Needle Producer MANI, 1956–2016.” Business History (2018), doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00076791.2018.1424833.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shapiro, Helen. “Determinants of Firm Entry into the Brazilian Automobile Manufacturing Industry, 1956–1968.” Business History Review 65, no. 4 (1991): 876–947.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sheftel, Anna, and Zembrzycki, Stacey. “Who’s Afraid of Oral History? Fifty Years of Debates and Anxiety about Ethics.” Oral History Review 43, no. 2 (2016): 338–366.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sheldon, Peter, Gan, Bernard, and Morgan, David. “Making Singapore’s Tripartism Work (Faster): The Formation of the Singapore National Employers’ Federation in 1980.” Business History 57, no. 3 (2015): 438–460.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shopes, Linda. “‘Insights and Oversights’: Reflections on the Documentary Tradition and the Theoretical Turn in Oral History.” Oral History Review 41, no. 2 (2014): 257–268.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Śliwa, Martyna. “Learning to Listen: An Organizational Researcher’s Reflections on ‘Doing Oral History.’” Management & Organizational History 8, no. 2 (2013): 185–196.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Śliwa, Martyna, and Taylor, Becky. “‘Everything Comes Down to Money?’: Migration and Working Life Trajectories in a (Post-)Socialist Context.” Management & Organizational History 6, no. 4 (2011): 347–366.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, Andrew, and Russell, Jason. “Toward Polyphonic Constitutive Historicism: A New Research Agenda for Management Historians.” Management & Organizational History 11, no. 2 (2016): 236–251.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stebenne, David. “Thomas J. Watson and the Business-Government Relationship, 1933–1956.” Enterprise & Society 6, no. 1 (2005): 45–75.Google Scholar
Stevenson, Lorna, Power, David, Ferguson, John, and Collison, David. “The Development of Accounting in UK Universities: An Oral History.” Accounting History 23, no. 1–2 (2018): 117–137.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thomson, Alistair. “Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History.” Oral History Review 34, no. 1 (2007): 49–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thomson, Alistair. “Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History.” Journal of American History 85, no. 2 (1998): 581–595.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van der Putten, Frans-Paul. “Corporate Governance and the Eclectic Paradigm: The Investment Motives of Philips in Taiwan in the 1960s.” Enterprise & Society 5, no. 3 (2004): 490–526.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vik, Pål. “‘The Computer says No’: The Demise of the Traditional Bank Manager and the Depersonalisation of British Banking, 1960–2010.” Business History 59, no. 2 (2017): 231–249.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wall, Christine. “Something to Show for It: The Place of Mementoes in Women’s Oral Histories of Work.” Management & Organizational History 5, no. 3–4, (2010): 378–394.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walton, John K. “New Directions in Business History: Themes, Approaches and Opportunities.” Business History 52, no. 1 (2010): 1–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Witkowski, Terrence H. “General Book Store in Chicago, 1938–1947: Linking Neighborhood to Nation.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 1, no. 1, (2009): 93–121.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zundel, Mike, Holt, Robin, and Popp, Andrew. “Using History in the Creation of Organizational Identity.” Management & Organizational History 11, no. 2 (2016): 211–235.CrossRefGoogle Scholar