History of business in the United States at the end of the 20th centuryHistory of business in the United States at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 20th century -first is both thriving and struggling with its identity. There are clear signs of strength, including a growing number of members of the leading professional organization in the field, the BHC (Business History Conference). The organization recently launched a new quarterly professional journal;• Enterprise & Society• Society for the History of Economics and Business. There are also signs of stress, including a growing debate among business historians about the future direction of the field. Business history has seen considerable growth in recent years, not only in terms of the number of interested scholars. in the subject but also in the academic structure. Alfred D. Chandler has dominated the field in recent decades. But business history, of course, isn't limited to Chandler. But even as business historians do exciting new work, there is no consensus on how the field should be led in the 21st century. The Economic History Association (EHA) has 1,242 members, more than twice the number of members of the BHC. Examine the state of business history in the United States during the late 20th century. , we need to go back to basics and ask some questions about business history. They are: • Where do we come from? • What do its practitioners say about the future of business history? • Who is currently making business history and what are they doing? Thinking about the future of business history can perhaps be best expressed in the form of questions; • What is the relationship between economic history and business history? • Should a particular theory be based on analysis of business history? While business history has its roots in 19th-century German and English studies, it originated at the Harward Business Scholl in the mid-1920s as a distinct field of study. From the beginning, economic historian Edwin F. Gray and his student Bold, the first Straus Professor of Business History at the school. Gay and other economic historians of the time believed that business history should contribute to a synthetic view of economic history. After we began discussing World War II, historians were an obvious source of potential support, as they are always looking for new themes and new sources of information. study. Business can be placed alongside politics, religion, education and leisure as building blocks of life. Economic historians, of course, are little better than economists, because the economic historian often takes his cues from the economist and therefore has no clear view of life. the importance of the businessman.