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How Business Enterprises Use Technology: Extending the Demand-Side Turn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Joanne Yates
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Abstract

Today, we are all aware of the importance of technology to modern business, including process technologies as well as consumer and industrial products incorporating technology. The significant role of technology in business (and vice versa) is not, of course, new. Although the history of technology and business history have different professional organizations and often focus on different theoretical and empirical phenomena, the large number of historians who work at the intersection of the two today reflects the importance of each to the other over a much longer time period. Yet historians of both types still too often give short shrift to the role of business enterprises as technology users as well as to the actual business use of technology.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 422 - 455
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2006. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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