Corporate History in the United States at the Late 20th CenturyCorporate History in the United States at the Late 20th Century and Early 20th Century -first is simultaneously thriving and struggling with his identity. There are clear signs of strength, including a growing membership in the industry's leading professional organisation, BHC (Business History Conference). The organization recently launched a new professional quarterly magazine; • Enterprise & Society • Economic and Business Historical Society. There are also some signs of stress, including a growing debate among economic historians about the future direction of the field. Business history has grown enormously in recent years, not only in terms of the number of scholars interested in the subject but also in the academic structure Alfred D. Chandler has dominated the field in recent decades. But the company story, of course, is more than Chandler. But although business historians are doing exciting new work, there is no consensus on how the industry should be oriented in the twenty-first century. The Economic History Association (EHA) has 1,242 members, more than double the membership of the BHC. To examine the state of business history in the United States at the end of the twentieth century, we need to get to the basics and ask some questions about business history. These are:• Where do we come from?• What do its practitioners say about the future of business history?• Who is currently doing business history and what are they doing? The debate over the future of business history can perhaps best be expressed as questions; • What is the relationship between economic history and corporate history? • Should a particular theory start from the basis of the analysis of corporate history? Although both economic and business history have their roots in nineteenth-century German and English studies, business history as a distinct area of ​​study arose at the Harvard Business Scholl in the mid-1920s. From the beginning economic historian Edwin F. Gray and his student Gras, the school's first Straus Professor of Business History. Gay and other economic historians of the time believed that business history should contribute to a synthetic view of economic history. After starting discussions in World War II, historians were an obvious source of potential support because they are always looking for new topics and new sources of knowledge. study. Business can be combined with politics, religion, education and leisure as components of life. Economic historians, of course, were not much better than economists, because the economic historian often takes his cue from the economist and therefore does not have a clear vision of the situation. the importance of the businessman.