The records of American business / [electronic resource] edited by James M. O'Toole.

Some of the essays were presented at a symposium held in April 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction-Business and American culture: the archival challenge / Francis X. Blouin, Jr. -- Business history and archival practice: shifts in sources and paradigms / Michael Nash -- Evolving role of in-house business archives: from tradition to flexibility / Marcy G. Goldstein -- Archival mythology and corporate reality: a potential powder keg / Philip F. Mooney -- View from the Inside: corporate executives and the records of American business / Edward G. Jefferson, Dolores Hanna, and Michael Miles -- Strategy, structure, detail, function: four parameters for the appraisal of business records / Christopher T. Baer -- Avoiding accidents of evidence : functional analysis in the appraisal of business records / Bruce H. Bruemmer -- Documentation with an attitude : a pragmatist's guide to the selection and acquisition of modern business records / Mark A. Greene and Todd J. Daniels-Howell -- Blown to bits : electronic records, archivy, and the corporation / Richard J. Cox -- Facing reality : oral history, corporate culture, and the documentation of business / James E. Fogerty -- Corporate memory in sound and visual records / Ernest J. Dick -- Beyond business : external documentation and corporate records / Timothy L. Ericson -- Reaching the mass audience : business history as popular history / John A. Fleckner -- Collecting repositories and corporate archives : variations on a theme? / Karen Benedict -- Business records : the prospect from the global village / Michael S. Moss and Lesley M. Richmond.