“The Vast and Unsolved Enigma of Power”: Business History and Business Power
这篇主席演讲指出，商业通常被视为当今世界最强大的行为者之一，但商业史学者很少直接研究商业权力。随着资本主义史研究的兴起，作者呼吁商业史学者更充分、明确地探讨权力概念，并用它来照亮商业史研究。
Business is commonly regarded as one of the powerful actors in the world today. However, this position is neither as straightforward as often believed nor particularly new. Nevertheless, business historians have not focused on the topic of business power to date, often leaving it as something lurking in the background of their analyses. There are signs that this may be beginning to change with the growth of studies on the history of capitalism, but this revised presidential address encourages business historians to engage more fully and explicitly with the concept of power and to recognize the different ways in which the concept can be used to enlighten the study of business history.