caa a22 4500 388099755 CHVBK 20180307125314.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007680500062437 doi S0007680500062437 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007680500062437 The Nature of the Firm: Towards an Ecocultural History of Business [Elektronische Daten] Business history has never paid much attention to the environment. Brushing aside the firm's reliance and impact on the natural world, early business historians zeroed in on the role of the entrepreneur in big business's rise. They found it easy to truncate, marginalize or altogether ignore the physical processes by which the stuff of nature—"raw” materials—was carved or coaxed out of mountains, forests, and deserts, channeled into factories and squeezed and cajoled into commodities. They scarcely considered the ever-changing varieties of "waste” generated by businesses and customers, which so often infiltrated, polluted, and otherwise altered the world beyond factory and office. They devoted equally little attention to the effects of resource extraction and use on plants, animals, land, air, or water, much less entire ecosystems and climate. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1999 Rosen Christine Meisner CHRISTINE MEISNER ROSEN is an associate professor of business and public policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Sellers Christopher C. CHRISTOPHER SELLERS is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Business History Review Cambridge University Press 73/4(1999), 577-600 0007-6805 73:4<577 1999 73 BHR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680500062437 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680500062437 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rosen Christine Meisner CHRISTINE MEISNER ROSEN is an associate professor of business and public policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sellers Christopher C. CHRISTOPHER SELLERS is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 73/4(1999), 577-600 0007-6805 73:4<577 1999 73 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge