The early emergence of European commercial education in the nineteenth century: Insights from higher engineering schools

The setting of European commercial education has traditionally been addressed with reference to higher schools of commerce and faculties of business. This has not taken into account empirical evidence showing that, historically, higher engineering schools also offered a mixed education in mercantile...

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Published inBusiness history Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 1051 - 1082
Main Author Passant, Adrien Jean-Guy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Liverpool Routledge 18.08.2019
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Subjects
19th century
Business administration
Business education
Business students
commercial departments
Commercial education
Education
Engineering
Engineering schools
Europe
higher engineering schools
Humanities and Social Sciences
polytechnic institutes
Trade
Europe
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Summary:The setting of European commercial education has traditionally been addressed with reference to higher schools of commerce and faculties of business. This has not taken into account empirical evidence showing that, historically, higher engineering schools also offered a mixed education in mercantile and technical subjects to students who wanted to devote themselves to business. However, this type of schooling has received little attention. This article investigates how commercial departments from higher engineering schools constituted an initial, yet ephemeral, public attempt to build an engineering model of commercial education that closely combined mercantile and technical instruction well before the twentieth century.
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ISSN:0007-6791
1743-7938
DOI:10.1080/00076791.2018.1448063