The Evolution of Commercial Credit Reporting Agencies in Nineteenth-Century America
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Business History Review
- Vol. 48 (2) , 164-186
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3112840
Abstract
Professor Madison examines the formative decades of an important new industry in the nineteenth-century American economy. Overcoming a wide range of problems and challenges, firms such as the Bradstreet and the Dun agencies became established enterprises by the end of the century primarily because they effectively met new needs in a changing business environment.Keywords
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