History of the company


The history of the company is an intermediate discipline between historiography and economic science, which has recently become an academic discipline. Its purpose is the study of the historical development of the company, production unit in the capitalist system or in the market economy.

The private company or the public company, which coincides with the person of the individual entrepreneur, the family business or the different forms of association of capitals, from the medieval societies and companies to the privileged companies of mercantilism, the limited company and the great corporation that emerged in the twentieth century are, in its emergence and historical development, studied by the history of the company.

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