Desmistificando os negócios: os limites e possibilidades da história empresarial

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the limits and possibilities of the emerging studies of business history. For this we draw a brief history about the development of this discipline, signaling aspects that encompassed its state of the art. Founded in the context of the expansion and solidification of Economic History during the 1930s, business history has been a constant object of improvement of its paradigmatic foundations established mainly in the universities of the United States and France. This article shows that, despite the significant advances, business history still needs to go beyond the formal boundaries of companies, moving forward on the historical performance of entrepreneurs and their firms in social and political spaces.