CONTENTS



3 Contributors to this issue
5 Editorial: The story of the business to a crossroads
Eric Godelier


TRENDS IN CORPORATE HISTORY


11 Business history: state of the art and controversies
Franco AMATORI
24 The lack of history in French research in strategic management. Archaeological site and epistemic implications
Alain Charles Martinet, Marielle A. PAYAUD
37 The ambiguity of the role of industrial research in French historiography or the history of porosity?
Muriel Le Roux
48 The teaching of business history in the United States
Daniel RAFF
67 Archives in France in 2009
Roger NOUGARET
74 Treat the archives of the canvas. A story of an information system in a community: WordPress (2003-2008)
Emmanuel RUZE
90 The cultural turn in business history
Michael Rowlinson, Agnes Delahaye

DISCUSSION

111 Archives of companies: new or potential resource constraint?
BARJOT with Dominique, Jean-Claude DAUMAS, Patrick Fridenson, GAREL Gilles, Pierre de Longuemar, Jean-Pierre Nioche, Roger and Catherine NOUGARET OMNES debate moderated by Eric Godelier Interview by Lise Gastaldi


DOCUMENT


124 The Three Ages of the company seen by André Courtaigne (1965)
presented by Patrick Fridenson


CHRONIC


In reading the thesis and HDR
134 Francesca Tesi
European auto exports to the United States (1947-1979): comparison of strategies between Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy
by Dominique BARJOT
137 Melanie Burlet
Executives in the organization, organization for executives: the case of engineers and technical managers in the sector in the design of Renault
by Denis Segrestin
141 Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel
Management citizenship. A social history of contemporary consumer
by Mary Louise Roberts
146 News archives
The historical archives of the Total group: the sources of oil history
Benedict DOESSANT
149 Wink
Crisis and social violence
presented by Alexander GIANDOU
152 News
153 Books Received
154 Abstracts
159 List of back issues of Business History and
160 2009 Subscriptions