Enterprise and Society is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 on business history published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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 for the Business History Conference

Business History Conference

The Business History Conference is an american academic association that aims to promulgate the research and teaching of business history and the environment in which businesses operate. Since 2000, it has published the journal Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History...

, which holds its copyright.

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 0.617, ranking it 69th out of 87 journals in the category "Business" and 7th out of 22 in the category "History of Social Sciences". In addition, the journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents

Current Contents

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/Social and Behavioral Sciences, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

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, ProQuest

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, Scopus

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, and Social Sciences Citation Index

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