Podnikatelé českých zemí. Pokus o historiografickou bilanci

• Authors: Kubů Eduard , Popelka Petr , Štolleová Barbora

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Entrepreneurs in the Czech Lands. An Attempt to Provide a Historiographical Account

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Subsequent to the 1989 revolution, the scope of historical research expanded such that researchers’ focus was transferred to topics which had been of peripheral concern in previous decades because they were ideologically unsuitable. A natural departure from the preferred history of the workers movement towards research of social elites took place, a trend that was marked in Czech historiography for at least two decades. The study of modern businesses and entrepreneurship was no different, with a consistent rise seen in the study of this field of research from the early 1990s. As in many other fields of historical investigation, domestic research had to confront the thorough methodology and rich ideas of modern business history, which has been a fully established research field for many decades. Looking back retrospectively, despite all its limits, research in this historiographical segment had many years of tradition and current research builds on this tradition. There are now an almost inexhaustible number of studies on various issues related to the development of industrial production in the Czech lands during the industrialisation period. Over the past few decades, it has mainly been studied on individual entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial families which have been published on the history of entrepreneurs. There are significantly fewer papers on entrepreneurial groups defined by sector or region, and we have only vague notions of entrepreneurship as a social group.

Keywords

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modern entrepreneurship; business history; historiography; methodology

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 115
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 731-755

Contributors

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Kubů Eduard

• Ústav hospodářských a sociálních dějin, FF UK, nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha, Czech Republic

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Popelka Petr

• Katedra historie, FF Ostavská univerzita, Raální 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic

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Štolleová Barbora

• Ústav hospodářských a sociálních dějin, FF UK, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2 Praha; Czech Republic