Business and Industry Historiography in the Valle del Cauca, 1950-2007

The objective of the article is to elaborate a state of the question about business historiography in the Valle del Cauca (Colombia). To achieve this goal the quantitative status of this sectorial historiography will be elucidated, attending seven categories: types of publication, publication periods, thematic, spaces, historical periods, authors and disciplines. Similarly, a qualitative State is presented where the problems, assumptions, and empirical evidence developed by the investigations in its study of regional entrepreneurship are analyzed. Through this analysis, it is identified the way business historiography on the region deals with, explains, and reconstructs the business history for the period 1950-2007. The supported idea is that despite the undeniable progress in the conformation of a field of business historiography in the core of the historiographical studies on the region, it still remains many issues, problems and periods where investigations are little, insufficient or they simply do not exist.