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Unearthing Business History: Can Archeology Provide Evidence for Interpreting Management Styles? (Research Note) (1992)

Edward F. Heite (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 18
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 123-128

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40968254

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Commercial forests Management; administration Natural resource management Forests and forestry Business history Charcoal and charcoal industry Iron and iron industry Industrial archaeology 19th century United States

This article proposes the use of archeological methods to interpret business history questions. Field studies can demonstrate a high level of central management control and vertical integration in the 18th-century charcoal ironmaking industry, which functioned more like a modern business organization than a traditional craft.

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