Business Enterprises and Global Worlds
本文探讨企业在过去两个世纪中整合经济的作用，指出相比宏观经济力量，企业角色研究不足，并呼吁商业史学家将研究重点从“为什么”转向“如何”，超越国界分析全球企业行为。
The role of business enterprise in integrating economies is one of the central historical themes of the last two centuries. Although globalization—both in its current iteration and in its nineteenth-century form—has been widely studied, the role of the firm, as opposed to macroeconomic forces, has yet to receive sufficient attention. Many research questions remain, including the role of the United States as a host country, the place of multinationals based in emerging markets, and the importance of understudied sectors such as retailing. Business historians should shift the focus of queries from “why” to “how” and go beyond the discipline's traditional organization along national lines to study the behavior of firms worldwide.