The document discusses the importance of understanding business history. It notes that business history involves analyzing past trading activities, successes, failures, and other recorded business events over time to understand changing business trends and provide context and references for future research. Studying business history combines understanding different times, places, languages, and behaviors to help improve future business models or identify past successful models.

1. Immigrant entrepreneurship:
Nur Suhaili Ramli
University of York, UK

2.  The past trading done between two parties or more
with benefits
 Understanding the past activities by human
 Past barter trading – recorded , history
 Win-win situation by parties involved in trading
 Past trading that give impact and future opportunities
to potential investors / buyers
 Recorded business activities
 Success, failed, consistent, small enterprise, corporation,
joint venture, merged, etc.

3. knowledge
Human
time behavior
skills Business History networking
change environment
experiences

4.  Collins dictionary : a commercial or industrial establishment
 Business dictionary: an organization or economic
system where goods and services are exchanged for one another
or for money.
 Wikipedia: A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is
an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both
to consumers
For??
Marketing, finance, sales, purchasing, production, accounting, etc

5.  Yes! Absolutely!
Why?
Human structure Human system
Benefit each other

6.  History inquire demands an analysis of context
 Changing of time, different year, era
 Business trends gradually change
 Combines the understanding of different
 Time
 Places
 Languages
 Behaviors
 References for future research, and business activity
 To improve business model in the future or remain the
success model

7. Business historians often
write books with big issues
Most research takes the form
of case studies and always
qualitative rather than
quantitative
Business historians works on
national framework. As a
result literature still place
within particular countries.

8.  Wikipedia
 Collins dictionary
 Historical Knowledge in Business, Dr. Peter Cullen
 http://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/k
nowing-business-history-is-as-important/