Enterprise & Society

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Volume 24, issue 4, 2023

Introduction pp. 953-955

Andrew Popp

Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763–1868 pp. 956-964

Liana DeMarco

History from the Dustbins pp. 965-976

Adam K. Frost

Building Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age of Disequilibrium pp. 977-986

Rob Konkel

Indigenization and the Long-Term Formation of Human Capital in Africa: The Airline Industry in East Africa Since 1946 pp. 987-1013

Nahashon Nzioka Nthenya and Pierre-Yves Donzé

From Marxist Venture to Venture Capitalists: The Swedish Wage-Earner Funds and the Market Turn, 1983–1994 pp. 1014-1037

Rikard Westerberg

Dealing in Debt: The Role of Credit in Early Sino–U.S. Trade pp. 1038-1065

Alicia Maggard

Doing Business in the Schools of the Welfare State: Competing “Entrepreneurial Selves” and the Roots of Entrepreneurship Education in 1980s Sweden pp. 1066-1092

Elin Åström Rudberg

Globalization from Below: Labor Inequality in the German Shipbuilding Industry, 1960–2000 pp. 1093-1118

Katharina Bothe and Carolin Decker-Lange

Bricolage and Innovation in the Emergence and Development of the Spanish Tourism Industry pp. 1119-1161

Jorge Hernández-Barahona, Elena San Román and Águeda Gil-López

The Stock Market and the Space Age pp. 1162-1187

Sarvnaz Lotfi

Volume 24, issue 3, 2023

Under the Influence of Commercial Values: Neoliberalized Business-Consumer Relations in the Swedish Certification Market, 1988–2018 pp. 647-675

Klara Arnberg, Martin Gustavsson and Kristina Tamm Hallström

Spillovers from Oil Firms to U.S. Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing: Smudging State–Industry Distinctions and Retelling Conventional Narratives pp. 676-701

Cyrus C. M. Mody

The Trees of the Forest: Uncovering Small-Scale Producers in an Industrial District, 1781–1851 pp. 702-730

Joe Lane

Futures of Europe: The City of London’s Commodity Exchanges, the European Economic Community, and the Global Regulation of Futures Trading (1960s–1980s) pp. 731-758

Marco Bertilorenzi

Banking and Eurodollars in Italy in the 1950s pp. 759-783

Ioan Achim Balaban

Part-Time Employment in the Breadwinner Era: Dutch Employers’ Initiatives to Control Female Labor Force Participation, 1945–1970 pp. 784-810

(Timon) de Groot, T. J.

Satisfaction Guaranteed: Your Choice and the Transnational Distribution of Hardcore Pornography Between the Netherlands and Britain pp. 811-837

Oliver Carter

Private Lending in an Alpine Region during the Eighteenth Century: A Family of Merchant-Bankers and Their Credit Network pp. 838-865

Cinzia Lorandini and Francesca Odella

Dividends, Efficiency, or Safety? Governance Choices at Corn Products Refining pp. 866-890

Sally H. Clarke

A Historical Social Network Analysis of John Pinney’s Nevis–Bristol Network: Change over Time, the “Network Memory,” and Reading Against the Grain of Historical Sources pp. 891-922

Peter Buckles

The Other Kitchen Debate: Gender, Microwave Safety, and Household Labor in Late Cold War America pp. 923-951

Wendy Gamber

Volume 24, issue 2, 2023

Strategic Transformation in Japan’s SMEs, 1990–2008: Flexible Specialization, Industrial Restructuring, and Technological Change pp. 319-354

Robert Fitzgerald, Romano Dyerson and Tatsuya Mishimagi

“Feudal Barons Extracting Tribute”: Narratives of Market Power in the Australian Retail Property Sector during the 1980s pp. 355-373

Matthew Bailey

“To Interfere on Their Behalf”: Sovereignty, Networks, and Capital in the Dominican Republic pp. 374-394

Paige Glotzer

Industrial Transitions in the Black: US Government-Business Relations in the Mobilization of Carbon during World War II pp. 395-424

David Foord

The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden: Micro-Infrastructures, Unlearning, and Moral Boundary Work pp. 425-454

Orsi Husz and David Larsson Heidenblad

Fashion, Industry and Diplomacy: Reframing Couture–Textile Relations in France, 1950s–1960s pp. 455-479

Vincent Dubé-Senécal

Creating and Protecting Paths: Learning in an Entrepreneurial State pp. 480-499

Knut Sogner

The Charismatic Organization: Vision 2000 and Corporate Change in a State-Owned Organization pp. 500-521

Ruth Barton and Bernard Mees

Business Against Drunk Driving: The Neoliberal State, Labatt Brewery, and the Creation of the “Responsible Drinker” pp. 522-545

Matthew J. Bellamy

From the Margins to the Core of Haute Couture: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Coco Chanel pp. 546-588

Gino Cattani, Mariachiara Colucci and Simone Ferriani

Board Games: Antecedents of Australia’s Interlocking Directorates, 1910–2018 pp. 589-616

Claire E. F. Wright

The Great Leap Offshore: Sino-Norwegian Relations and Petro-Knowledge Transfers, 1976–1997 pp. 617-641

Jonas Fossli Gjersø

Marcia Chatelain. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 2020. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-63149-394-2 $28.95 (cloth) pp. 642-644

Marlene H. Gaynair

Ghassan Moazzin. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-1-31651-703-1, $99.99 (cloth) pp. 644-646

Dong Yan

Volume 24, issue 1, 2023

Introduction pp. 1-1

Andrew Popp

“Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914 pp. 2-27

Emma Robertson and Charles Fahey

The Birth of a Business Icon through Cultural Branding: Ferrari and the Prancing Horse, 1923–1947 pp. 28-58

Paolo Aversa, Katrin Schreiter and Filippo Guerrini

Safe before Green! The Greening of Volvo Cars in the 1970s–1990s pp. 59-89

Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Mattias Näsman

Making Managers in Latin America: The Emergence of Executive Education in Central America, Peru, and Colombia pp. 90-122

Rolv Petter Amdam and Carlos Dávila

The Booster, the Snitch, and the Bogus False Arrest Victim: Retailers and Shoplifters in Interwar America and Britain pp. 123-148

Peter M. Scott

Business Co-operatives in Australia: “Unlikely Soil for a Co-operative Movement” pp. 149-173

Greg Patmore, Nikola Balnave and Olivera Marjanovic

Patent Law and the Materiality of Inventions in the California Oil Industry: The Story of Halliburton v. Walker, 1935–1946 pp. 174-196

Gerardo Con Díaz

Repurposing Institutions: Trust Offices and the Dutch Financial System, 1690s–2000s pp. 197-221

Abe De Jong, Joost Jonker, Ailsa Röell and Gerarda Westerhuis

The Financial Crisis on Trial: What Went Wrong pp. 222-252

John H. Sturc

Double Objective in Mind: Translating American Management Ideas in the Context of Cold War Finland pp. 253-285

Jarmo Seppälä, Pasi Nevalainen, Pekka Mattila and Mikko Laukkanen

Litigation and Lobbying in Support of the Marque: The Scotch Whisky Association, c. 1945–c. 1990 pp. 286-316

Julie Bower and David M. Higgins

Christian Wolmar. British Rail: A New History. London: Penguin Michael Joseph, 2022. 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-24145-620-0 $34.00 (cloth) pp. 317-318

Lewis Charles Smith

Volume 23, issue 4, 2022

Introduction pp. 889-891

Andrew Popp

Embracing Complexity and Diversity in Business History: A Latin American Perspective pp. 892-915

Andrea Lluch

Masters of the Market: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic, 1680–1774 pp. 916-922

Hannah Knox Tucker

Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century pp. 923-927

Bench Ansfield

Imperial Schemes: Empire and the Rise of the British Business-State, 1914–1939 pp. 928-937

Ian Kumekawa

Smuggler States: Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Contraband Trade Across the Soviet Frontier, 1919–1924 pp. 938-949

Andrey Shlyakhter

Uncertainty: Staple Credit and the Measurement of Later Medieval “Business Confidence” pp. 950-983

Richard Goddard

Business Establishment Opposition to Southern Ireland’s Exit from the United Kingdom pp. 984-1018

Frank Barry

Systems of Male Privilege: The Industrial Relations Policies of the Ford Motor Company in the 1940s pp. 1019-1046

Brett Theodore Morritt

Regulating Resort Revelry: Alcohol, Music, and the Entertainment Market in Miami Beach, 1935–1955 pp. 1047-1091

Keith D. Revell

Sole Traders? The Role of the Extended Family in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Business Networks pp. 1092-1121

Sophie H. Jones and Siobhan Talbott

Exploring the Limits of the Limited Partnership: The Case of the Bank of Twente, 1860s–1920s pp. 1122-1147

Amaury de Vicq

Volume 23, issue 3, 2022

Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990) pp. 599-639

Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez and Jerònia Pons-Pons

The Nature of Failure: The Protracted Demise of the American-Colombian Corporation, 1909–1960 pp. 640-679

Shawn van Ausdal

Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 pp. 680-710

Denise Hardesty Sutton

The Changing Role of CEOs in Dutch Listed Companies, 1957–2007 pp. 711-745

Keetie Sluyterman and Gerarda Westerhuis

Enslaved Financing of Southern Industry: The Nesbitt Manufacturing Company of South Carolina, 1836–1850 pp. 746-789

Sharon Ann Murphy

“What cannot be helped must be indured”: Coping with Obstacles to Business During the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652–1674 pp. 790-824

Siobhan Talbott

Poisoned Partnership: The International Mercury Cartel and Spanish–Italian Relations, 1945–1954 pp. 825-856

Pablo Del Hierro and Espen Storli

The Material Politics of Finance: The Ticker Tape and the London Stock Exchange, 1860s–1890s pp. 857-887

John Handel

Volume 23, issue 2, 2022

For All Intents and Purposes: Depositor Behavior and Strategy in a London Savings Bank pp. 289-324

Linda Perriton and Stuart Henderson

“Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930 pp. 325-356

David Baillargeon

Innovation in Urban Transit at the Start of the Twentieth Century: A Case Study of Metropolitan Street Railway’s Stealth Hostile Takeover of Third Avenue Railroad pp. 357-407

Timothy A. Kruse, Steven Kyle Todd and Mark D. Walker

Getting a Foot in the Door: Small-Firm Credit and Interest Group Politics in the Netherlands, 1900–1927 pp. 408-444

Ruben Peeters

Flexible Corporate Nationality: Transforming Cathay Pacific for the Shifting Geopolitics of Hong Kong in the Closing Decades of British Colonial Rule pp. 445-477

John D. Wong

Making European Managers in Business Schools: A Longitudinal Case Study on Evolution, Processes, and Actors from the Late 1960s Onward pp. 478-511

Adrien Jean-Guy Passant

A Narrative Approach to Corporate Relations: The Historical Background on Telenor’s Success pp. 512-547

Sverre A. Christensen

Financial Inclusion with Hybrid Organizational Forms: Microfinance, Philanthropy, and the Poor Law in Ireland, c. 1836–1845 pp. 548-581

Eoin McLaughlin and Rowena Pecchenino

Profit and Statecraft in Nineteenth-Century China pp. 582-589

Daniel Knorr

David Blanke. Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture, 1910–1960. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xv + 328 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-76985-1, $135 (cloth); 978-3-030-08341-0, $98 (paper) pp. 590-591

Richard Ravalli

Allyson P. Brantley. Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-6102-5 $95.00 (cloth); 978-1-4696-6103-2 $29.95 (paper) pp. 591-593

Nicole de Silva

David M. Wight. Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 347 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-1572-3, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 593-594

Caleb Wellum

Benjamin Holtzman. The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiii + 331 pp. ISBN 9780190843700, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 594-596

Sean H. Vanatta

Under the Influence of Commercial Values: Neoliberalized Business-Consumer Relations in the Swedish Certification Market, 1988–2018—ERRATUM pp. 597-597

Klara Arnberg, Martin Gustavsson and Kristina Tamm Hallström

Volume 23, issue 1, 2022

Cyclonic Change: How Tracy Shaped Australian Loss Adjusters’ Break from Britain pp. 1-32

Elizabeth Voneiff Marx and Olav Titus Muurlink

A “Quiet Victory”: National Provincial, Gibson Hall, and the Switch from Comprehensive Redevelopment to Urban Preservation in 1960s London pp. 33-67

Victoria Barnes, Lucy Newton and Peter Scott

The Entrepreneurial State in Action: The Danish Robotics Cluster and the Role of the Public Sector pp. 68-98

Julian Lamberty and Jeppe Nevers

Viewing Corporations as Information Ecosystems: The Case of IBM, 1914–1980s pp. 99-132

James W. Cortada

Driving Semiconductor Innovation: Moore’s Law at Fairchild and Intel pp. 133-163

Christophe Lécuyer

A “Body of Business Makers”: The Detroit Housewives League, Black Women Entrepreneurs, and the Rise of Detroit’s African American Business Community pp. 164-205

Kendra D. Boyd

A Resilient Industry? Business Strategies in the Footwear Industry of Southern Europe, 1970–2007 pp. 206-238

José Miranda and Alba Roldán

A Risky Business: The Tai Ping Insurance Company and Fire Insurance in China, 1928–1937 pp. 239-276

Philip Thai

Ian Saxine. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 320 pages. ISBN 978-1-479-83212-5, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 277-279

Christine DeLucia

Sarah Ruth Hammond. God's Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War. Edited by Darren Dochuk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv + 228 pp. ISBN 0-226-50977-X, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 279-281

Joseph P. Slaughter

Joshua R. Greenberg. Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-5224-8, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 281-284

Aaron L. Chin

Ben Marsh. Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-1-108-41828-7, $39.99 (hardback) pp. 284-286

Dan Du

Caley Horan. Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021. 264pp. ISBN 978-0-226-78438-0, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 286-288

Clarence Hatton-Proulx