General Internet Gateway Resources (Sites with large collections of relevant and useful links)

• Economic History Services (links to the Business History Conference, the Cliometric Society, the Economic History Association, the History of Economics Society, and much more)
• Tennessee Technological University’s Collection of Business, Labor and Economic History Sites
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Labour and Business History

Scholarly Societies, etc.

• Academy of Accounting Historians
• Academy of Management, Management History Division
• Association for Historical Research in Marketing
• Association of Business Historians
• Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
• Business History Conference
• Business History Society (Japan)
• Centre for European Business History
• Cliometric Society
• Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM)
• Economic History Society
• European Association for Banking History
• European Business History Association
• Society for European Business History
• Society for the History of Technology
• Society of American Archivists

Journals

• Accounting Historians Journal (this looks as if it may be on the move to another site)
• Accounting History
• Accounting, Business & Financial History
• Business & Economic History (re-badged as Enterprise & Society from 2000)
• Business History
• Business History Review
• Economic & Business History Abstracts
• Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
• European Review of Economic History
• European Yearbook of Business History
• Explorations in Economic History
• Financial History Review
• Historical Studies In Industrial Relations
• International Labour and Working Class History
• Journal of Economic History
• Journal of Industrial History
• Journal of Management History (now defunct)
• Journal of Marketing History
• Labor History
• Labour History (Australia)
• Labour History Review
• Management Decision (has a regular "Focus on Management History" section)
• Technology & Culture (journal of the Society for the History of Technology)

Museums and Exhibitions

• Advertising, Marketing, and Commercial Imagery Collections at the Archive Center
• Computer History Museum
• Early Office Museum
• Hagley Museum and Library
• Harvard University Baker Library Guide to Women, Enterprise and Society
• Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
• Investigating Disruptive Technology: The Emergence Of Ring Spinning In The American Textile Industry (Baker Library)
• Marketing in the Modern Era: Trade Catalogs and the Rise of 19th-Century American Advertising (Baker Library)
• Museum of American Financial History
• National Railway Museum
• The Museum of Advertising Icons
• The Museum of Public Relations
• Tax History Museum
• Virtual Museum of Accounting History
• Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

Academic Centres and Departments

• Business History at Ohio State
• Cardiff University Business History Research Unit
• Centre for Business History in Scotland
• Centre for International Business History, University of Reading
• Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History
• Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD)
• Erasmus Center for History in Management and Economics (CHIMES)
• Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
• Leiden University’s Business History Site
• LSE Business History Unit

Encyclopaedia Entries, etc

British History 1700-1900:  Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)

British History 1700-1900: Scientists and Engineers (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)

British History 1700-1900: The Trade Union Movement (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)

USA History 1840-1960:  Business Leaders (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)

USA History 1840-1960: Trade Unionism (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)

Email Networks and Listservers

• Business Archives discussion list
• design-history
• EH.Net email networks (8 lists, including H-Business)
• euro-business-history
• history-econ
• history-of-computing-uk
• management-history
• mining-history
• New Economic Papers- economic history (nep-his)
• New Economic Papers- history and philosophy of economics (nep-hpe)
• transport-history
• women-soc-econ-history

People

Babbage Pages

F. W. Taylor Collection at the Stevens Institute of Technology

Frank & Lilian Gilbreth (part of a much larger site on “Building Better Humans”)

Hugo Munsterberg Page

Kurt Lewin Page

Peter F Drucker Foundation

The Maslow Reading Room

W Edwards Deming Institute

Verstehen: Max Weber HomePage

Miscellaneous

• A (brief) History of Management Consulting
• Accounting: A Virtual History
• Basics of Business History: Top 100 Events at a Glance
• Best Corporate History Sites (The Prologue Group)
• Beyond Face Value
• Big Blue's Innovative History
• Brief Note on the Historical Background of Organizational Behavior
• Business History Net
• Corporate Histories on the Web (Ohio State)
• David Forrester: An Invitation to Accounting History
• Directory of Corporate Archives (US/Canada)
• From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office
• Gary Giroux's Accounting History page
• Harvard Business School's Business History links
• More Business History from HBS
• History of Money
• History of the US Banking Industry
• Inside an American Factory
• London College of Fashion: College Archive
• Los Angeles at Work: 1920-1939
• Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley
• Marketing and Advertising History from the Marketing Virtual Library
• Newcomen Prize Essays Online
• 19th Century Advertising
• Organisational Theories, Models and People: An Historical Timeline with Links
• Prosperity and Thrift
• Tax History Project
• The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
• The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911

Please email me if you want to suggest any additions!

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School of Strategy & International Business
Bristol Business School
University of the West of England
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This page last updated March 21, 2002