While these initiatives were proliferating, the main forum for business historians still focused on the small annual seminar at the Polytechnic of London.

The room was packed with business historians from across Britain, and was quite tense.

When business historians map some of the most curious and important marketing innovations of the 20th century, they may take note of this.

Alliances have become a popular route to company growth, so the possible fallout of the Ford-Firestone split has attracted much attention among business historians.

However, Latin American business historians have still not devoted enough attention to agricultural enterprises or comparative histories between the many countries.

Operational information is generally low grade and of low utility for the business historian.

For the general business historian, this is a loss of little importance.

Strategic information is the rich, top layer of information that is of primary interest to the business historian.

But the news is fascinating for Wall Street and business historians.

They were the companies, according to business historians, that proved able to adapt to change instead of being prisoners of past success.