TY - CHAP AB - The history of international business has generated a growing literature. Over the AIB's fifty years, scholars associated with AIB have contributed to this literature but it has been a far broader one. This chapter surveys a sample of the wide variety of works on the history of multinational enterprise, published from the 1950s onward. The works are not only in business history but also in diplomatic and legal history. The literature makes it clear that the multinational enterprise has a long history and is far from a post-World War II or post-1989 phenomenon. The chapter shows the variety in the accumulation of studies in business history directly related to international business as well as the forums where business historians present their findings. It considers why and how international-business history matters for international-business research. VL - 14 SN - 978-0-7623-1470-6, 978-1-84950-550-5/1064-4857 DO - 10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00024-7 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00024-7 AU - Wilkins Mira ED - Jean J. Boddewyn PY - 2008 Y1 - 2008/01/01 TI - International business history: An AIB tradition T2 - International Business Scholarship: AIB Fellows on the First 50 Years and Beyond T3 - Research in Global Strategic Management PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 97 EP - 112 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -