Il Portello and Business History 25 Years After

Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Fabio Lavista
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/147
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 121-129 File size 508 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2015-147008
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The article evaluates the relevance of Duccio Bigazzi’s lesson for present-day Economic and Business historians. Taking into consideration the evolution of these disciplines in the last decades, the paper tries to understand in which way the peculiar attention to the complexity of historical processes that characterised Bigazzi’s works could be integrated with disciplines that sometimes seem to choose as their preferred method some sort of simplistic modelling.

Keywords: Business History, Labour History; Historical Method.

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Fabio Lavista, Il portello e la storia d’impresa a venticinque anni dalla sua pubblicazione in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 147/2015, pp 121-129, DOI: 10.3280/SS2015-147008