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Store Wars: Some Thoughts on the Strategy and Tactics of Documenting Small Businesses

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Abstract

Most manuscript repositories and even many college and university archives collect the records of American businesses, and the archival literature has given much attention to this subject, but little has been said about documenting small businesses. Documentation strategy, as defined by Hackman and Blewett, provides a framework for considering this documentation area. "Small" business has been defined in terms of absolute numbers of employees and absolute dollar values of gross sales, but it may be more logical to define it relatively, within a particular class of business, narrowing the focus of a documentation strategy. "Documentation strategy" founders, both philosophically and practically, when it moves from defining documentation areas to assessing adequacy of existing documentation and advocating the creation of documentation.

How to Cite:

Greene, M. A., (1991) “Store Wars: Some Thoughts on the Strategy and Tactics of Documenting Small Businesses”, Archival Issues 16(2), 95–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10597