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How to Do Things with Time
- Enterprise & Society
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 14, Number 3, September 2013
- pp. 435-466
- Article
- Additional Information
Sample selection bias is a common problem in the business history literature. This paper proposes methods for researching and writing the history of firms and industries designed to address the problem. The key elements are a forward-looking perspective and close attention to the development over time of selection environments, the resources individual firms can mobilize, and understanding an agency within the firm or firms.