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Author’s Rejoinder to Comments on Managing Communist Enterprises: Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1970

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2018

PHILIP SCRANTON*
Affiliation:
Philip Scranton is Professor Emeritus, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, and is drafting a monograph focused on enterprise management and experimentation in the People’s Republic of China, ca. 1950–1975, a follow-up to research on communist enterprises in Central Europe. E-mail: scranton@rutgers.edu

Abstract

This text is the author’s reply to reactions to “Managing Communist Enterprises” from three colleagues, Lee Vinsel, Natalya Vinokurova, and Pál Germuska. It includes reflections on his work process in researching capitalist and noncapitalist firms and sectors and the practical and theoretical bases for that work. In the course of replying to particular suggestions and critiques, the rejoinder also offers some considerations about the current and future course of business history as a discipline.

Type
Symposia
Copyright
Copyright © The Author 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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