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Review and Perspectives of the French Business History

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2006, (14), pp.197~223
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Hyang-Lan Choi 1

1성신여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The history of business is now one of the most dynamic fields of research in economic history. Hampered in France by Marxist tendencies, it flowered from 1980 onward, steadily opening new angles of study, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and increasingly focusing on people, such as entrepreneurs and employees. Business history is located at the intersection of economic, social and cultural history. Because it can incorporate local issues into major national debates. Economic history does not play the same role in France as it does in Anglo-American countries. It has nevertheless undergone a major revival of perspectives. The watershed occurred in the mid 1970s, when a Marxist-learning economic and social history withered in the face of micro-economic approaches based notably on the study of business and technical innovation. Even as it has produced a largely rejuvenated vision of the French economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this revival has profited from advances in the analysis of net works and study of the State, international business relations and regional development, not to mention business history and the history of technological change. Main sources of innovation were the ability of certain entrepreneurs to seize opportunities offered by advances in knowledge, using them to resolve dys-functional aspects of the technical system and of social demand.

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