The records of American business / [electronic resource] / edited by James M. O'Toole.. — Chicago : : Society of American Archivists,, c1997.. — xvii, 411 p. : : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Some of the essays were presented at a symposium held in April 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

: Introduction-Business and American culture: the archival challenge / : Business history and archival practice: shifts in sources and paradigms / : Evolving role of in-house business archives: from tradition to flexibility / : Archival mythology and corporate reality: a potential powder keg / : View from the Inside: corporate executives and the records of American business / : Strategy, structure, detail, function: four parameters for the appraisal of business records / : Avoiding accidents of evidence : functional analysis in the appraisal of business records / : Documentation with an attitude : a pragmatist's guide to the selection and acquisition of modern business records / : Blown to bits : electronic records, archivy, and the corporation / : Facing reality : oral history, corporate culture, and the documentation of business / : Corporate memory in sound and visual records / : Beyond business : external documentation and corporate records / : Reaching the mass audience : business history as popular history / : Collecting repositories and corporate archives : variations on a theme? / : Business records : the prospect from the global village / Francis X. Blouin, Jr. -- Michael Nash -- Marcy G. Goldstein -- Philip F. Mooney -- Edward G. Jefferson, Dolores Hanna, and Michael Miles -- Christopher T. Baer -- Bruce H. Bruemmer -- Mark A. Greene and Todd J. Daniels-Howell -- Richard J. Cox -- James E. Fogerty -- Ernest J. Dick -- Timothy L. Ericson -- John A. Fleckner -- Karen Benedict -- Michael S. Moss and Lesley M. Richmond.



ISBN: 0931828457 (alk. paper) 9780931828454 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 97024781

Nat. Bib. No.: B9844825

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 980114918

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Business records--Management.--United States
Business enterprises--United States--Archives.
Corporations--United States--Archives.
Archives--Administration.--United States
Documents administratisf--Gestion.--États-Unis
Entreprises--Archives.--États-Unis
Sociétés--Archives.--États-Unis
Archives--Administration.--États-Unis
Ondernemingen.
Archieven.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Commerce--History--Sources.
États-Unis--Commerce--Histoire--Sources.

LC Class. No.: HF5736 / .R3625 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 651.5