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How to Do Things with Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Daniel M. G. Raff
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Abstract

Sample selection bias is a common problem in the business history literature. This paper proposes methods for researching and writing the history of firms and industries designed to address the problem. The key elements are a forward-looking perspective and close attention to the development over time of selection environments, the resources individual firms can mobilize, and understanding an agency within the firm or firms.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 435 - 466
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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