TY - JOUR
T1 - Cousins once removed?
T2 - Revisiting the relationship between oral history and business history
AU - Crawford, Robert
AU - Bailey, Matthew
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060926200&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/eso.2018.111
DO - 10.1017/eso.2018.111
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060926200
VL - 20
SP - 4
EP - 18
JO - Enterprise and Society
JF - Enterprise and Society
SN - 1467-2227
IS - 1
ER -