Business History

1997 - 2025

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Volume 67, issue 1, 2025

Women directors in Italy: 1913–2017 pp. 1-25

Alberto Rinaldi and Giulia Tagliazucchi

Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice pp. 26-49

Edoardo Demo and Giulio Ongaro

Risk management in prewar China: A study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Qing dynasty and Republican-era Shanxi province pp. 50-76

Matthew Lowenstein

International timber trade, merchants, and the business organisation of the sector: The role of Danzig and the southern ports of the Baltic Sea (1823–1913) pp. 77-104

Luciano Segreto

Mercantilism from below? Swedish consuls and merchant networks between Naples and Stockholm in the mid eighteenth century pp. 105-125

Martin Almbjär and Alida Clemente

Business, politics and the transition from war to peace: The Federation of British Industries, 1916-25 pp. 126-146

Philip Ollerenshaw

Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control pp. 147-166

Finn Erhard Johannessen

The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house pp. 167-184

Filip Vermeylen and Sandra van Ginhoven

Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987 pp. 185-210

James Fowler and Roy Edwards

The metamorphosis of China’s automotive industry (1953–2001): Inward internationalisation, technological transfers and the making of a post-socialist market pp. 211-238

Yuan Jia-Zheng and Carles Brasó Broggi

The contribution of the Stephenson Company, engine manufacturers to the genesis of the British railway industry c.1823-1840 pp. 239-267

Neveen Abdelrehim, Tom McGovern, Tom McLean, David Oldroyd and Thomas N. Tyson

Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–2010 pp. 268-295

Steven Toms and Chieh Lin

The emergence of modern hospital management and organisation in the world 1880s–1930s pp. 296-298

Donnacha Seán Lucey

The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China pp. 299-300

Stacie Kent

New Directions in Organisational and Management History pp. 301-302

Gabrielle Durepos

Cellular: An economic and business history of the international mobile-phone industry pp. 303-304

Juha-Antti Lamberg

Volume 66, issue 8, 2024

Taking stock and moving forward: What makes a contribution in business history? pp. 1923-1938

Stephanie Decker, Christina Lubinski, Niall G. MacKenzie and Nic Felton

Business history and the resilience of regional economies pp. 1939-1961

Ramon Ramon-Muñoz, Marijn Molema and Emil Evenhuis

Resilience and related variety: The role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region pp. 1962-1982

Rolv Petter Amdam, Ove Bjarnar and Dag Magne Berge

Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy pp. 1983-2007

Patrizio Bianchi, Raffaele Giardino, Sandrine Labory, Alberto Rinaldi and Giovanni Solinas

Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions pp. 2008-2033

Mila Davids

Companions to new pathways. Intermediary organisations and the resilience of the Frisian dairy industry, 1950–1970 pp. 2034-2049

Ronald Plantinga

Women in corporate networks: An introduction pp. 2050-2071

Stéphanie Ginalski, Erica Salvaj, Susie Pak and Lucy Taksa

Good wives and corporate leaders: Duality in women’s access to Australia’s top company boards, 1910–2018 pp. 2072-2094

Claire E. F. Wright

Women may be climbing on board, but not in first class: A long-term study of the factors affecting women’s board participation in Argentina and Chile (1923–2010) pp. 2095-2122

Andrea Lluch and Erica Salvaj

Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–2019 pp. 2123-2136

Chinmay Tumbe

How women broke into the old boys’ corporate network in Switzerland pp. 2137-2158

Stéphanie Ginalski

“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.) pp. 2159-2161

Béatrice Touchelay

Navigating nationalism in global enterprise: A century of Indo-German Business relations pp. 2162-2164

Michael Aldous

Postcolonial transition and global business history: British multinational companies in Ghana and Nigeria pp. 2165-2166

Christina Lubinski

Volume 66, issue 7, 2024

The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France pp. 1637-1667

Emilie Bonhoure, Hadrien Clausse, Eric Monnet and Angelo Riva

Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system pp. 1668-1688

Jeppe Nevers, Kristoffer Jensen and Morten Pedersen

The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations pp. 1689-1711

Ioanna Iordanou

Towards Americanisation and the corporate university in an elite business school: A leadership history of the Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University School of Business, 1974–2022 pp. 1712-1734

Henrikki Tikkanen

The establishment of the Eurodollar market in Paris and the failure of regulation and reform, 1959–1964 pp. 1735-1757

Ioan Achim Balaban

Insights into the nature and dynamics of business power: The case of Credit Unions in 1960s Argentina pp. 1758-1784

Andrés Spognardi

Crisis, criticisms, and damaged credibility: A case study of organisational trust repair by a Victorian joint-stock bank pp. 1785-1809

Alvin Chan, Carolyn Downs and James Taylor

The role of projects in shaping businesses capabilities and structure since the 1960s pp. 1810-1833

Pål Nygaard, Trond Holmen Erlien and Tine Petersen Malonæs

The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition pp. 1834-1861

Jason E. Taylor, Eline Poelmans and Evan Hayne

Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020) pp. 1862-1887

Pedro Araujo, Eric Davoine and Pierre-Yves Donzé

Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s pp. 1888-1915

Valeria Giacomin and Christina Lubinski

Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age pp. 1916-1917

Jeffrey Yost

The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity pp. 1918-1919

Astrid Van den Bossche

Hong Kong takes flight: Commercial aviation and the making of a global hub, 1930s-1998 pp. 1920-1922

Peter E. Hamilton

Volume 66, issue 6, 2024

Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade pp. 1313-1344

Nicholas Alexander and Anne Marie Doherty

Shipbuilding and early forms of modern management. Six months to rebuild the Ottoman fleet after the defeat at Lepanto pp. 1345-1372

Bulent Ari and Luca Zan

The wings of Daedalus: The business and politics of the linen trade in late seventeenth-century England pp. 1373-1393

Edward Legon

Reassessing the historical dynamics of European business associations: The genesis of UNICE, late 1940s to 1970s pp. 1394-1411

Yohann Morival

Born of necessity: The introduction of convertible bonds in The Netherlands pp. 1412-1441

Abe de Jong and Florian Madertoner

The establishment of banking supervision in Italy: an assessment (1926–1936) pp. 1442-1470

Marco Molteni and Dario Pellegrino

Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School pp. 1471-1495

Matthew Hollow

We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda pp. 1496-1523

Abel Ezeoha and Chibuike Uche

Caught between outreach and sustainability: The rise and decline of Dutch credit unions pp. 1524-1551

Amaury De Vicq

Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 1987 pp. 1552-1579

Ian G. Jones, Nicholas D. Wong, Marta Herrero and Andrew Smith

Forging new meanings of Europe. The cross-ideological logic of Western Business Interest Associations (BIAs) promoting trade with Mao’s China pp. 1580-1601

Valeria Zanier

Foucault, governing and knowledge: Everyday diplomacy in Tata Steel, 1907–1925 pp. 1602-1626

Alan McKinlay, Swapnesh Masrani and Eric Pezet

The meddlers: Sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance pp. 1627-1629

Dan Smith

A dissimulated trade. Northern European timber merchants in Seville (1574–1598) pp. 1630-1631

Iván Valdez-Bubnov

Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 pp. 1632-1634

Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez

Volume 66, issue 5, 2024

Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932) pp. 955-1000

Adrien Jean-Guy Passant

Monopolist logic? Managing technology in the telecom sector during technological and regulatory change pp. 1001-1027

Christoffer Friedl and Erik Lakomaa

Women entrepreneurs and family networks in Andalusia (Spain) during the second industrial revolution pp. 1028-1049

Juan A. Rubio-Mondejar and Josean Garrues-Irurzun

Globalisation of a state-owned enterprise: A history of Japan Tobacco (1985–2014) pp. 1050-1081

Hitoshi Iwashita

Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present pp. 1082-1102

Niall G. MacKenzie, Andrew Perchard, David Mackay and George Burt

Merchant networks and profits on merchant capital in the Mediterranean (Majorca, 18th century) pp. 1103-1125

Carles Manera, Antònia Morey and Andreu Seguí

How stickiness to low-end markets leads to innovation: Co-evolution between Brother Industry Ltd. and Brother International Corp. USA, 1908–2000 pp. 1126-1150

Yuki Nakajima and Motohiro Nakauchi

Corporate restructuring in the telecommunications equipment industry: The case of Spain in the late twentieth century pp. 1151-1186

Ángel Calvo

Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania pp. 1187-1213

Sean McCartney

Women leaders in industry in nineteenth-century France: The case of Amélie de Dietrich pp. 1214-1237

Herrade Igersheim and Charlotte Le Chapelain

Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–1926 pp. 1238-1258

Peter Gibson

Caffeinated memories: The creation of historical narratives as public goods in the Colombian coffee industry pp. 1259-1283

Marcelo Bucheli and Luis Felipe Saenz

The evolution of genre: Systematic review of Polish corporate histories pp. 1284-1307

Tomasz Olejniczak and Anna Pikos

Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy pp. 1308-1309

Prescott C. Ensign

Business, ethics and institutions: the evolution of Turkish capitalism in global perspectives pp. 1310-1311

Beyza Oba

Volume 66, issue 4, 2024

Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research pp. 773-792

Christina Lubinski, Stephanie Decker and Niall MacKenzie

Peer-to-peer, or peer pressure? pp. 793-795

Andrew Popp

Revise and resubmit? Or conditional accept? pp. 796-798

Marian Iszatt-White

Make peer review great (again?) pp. 799-801

Anders Ravn Sørensen

Is peer review ripe for a revise and resubmit? – Academics might be less the party answering that question pp. 802-806

Dirk Lindebaum

State finance, merchant stake, and foreign interests: The certificate system in the Chinese salt administration, 1912–1949 pp. 807-828

Xiaoqun Xu and Yin Xu

Gender and bankarization in Spain, 1949–1970 pp. 829-858

Susana Martinez-Rodriguez and Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Unbundling the brand: Differentiation and the law in the Brazilian South American tea industry pp. 859-883

Teresa da Silva Lopes, Bruna Dourado and Elizabeth Santos de Souza

Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719–1730 pp. 884-904

Patrik Winton

Invented market traditions: The marketing of Italian breakfast (1973–1996) pp. 905-926

Daniela Pirani

Foreign direct investment policy, multinationals, and subsidiary entrepreneurship success and failure in post-war Scotland pp. 927-949

Ewan Gibbs

Role of reinsurance in the world: case studies of eight countries pp. 950-951

Robin Pearson

Review: Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain pp. 952-954

Gavin Benke

Volume 66, issue 3, 2024

The grain trade and minorities in the early modern Italian Peninsula and beyond: An introduction pp. 535-550

Luca Andreoni, David Do Paço, Luca Mocarelli and Giulio Ongaro

Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews pp. 551-579

Marina Romani and Rachele Scuro

Northern grain and the Flemish nation in Genoa: the structural consequences of a famine (1585–1616) pp. 580-597

Sofia Gullino

Ragusan trade diaspora and the commerce of grain in sixteenth century: A network-institutional approach pp. 598-624

Dario Dell’Osa and Stella Lippolis

’A man of particular ability’: A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system pp. 625-652

Michael Martoccio

Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16th-18th centuries) pp. 653-671

Antonio Iodice and Luisa Piccinno

Practices, merchants and mercantilisms. Jews and the cereal trade in Trieste between Eastern Europe, the Po and the Mediterranean (18th century) pp. 672-686

Daniele Andreozzi

A price for toleration: The role of grain in shaping business relations between nobles and Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth pp. 687-708

Stefania Ecchia

A ‘Magnificent’ military entrepreneur? The involvement of the Medici Bank in the arms trade (1482-1494) pp. 709-738

Fabrizio Antonio Ansani

The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–1959 pp. 739-764

Mercedes Fernández-Paradas and Carlos Larrinaga

Alun C Davies, the rise and decline of England’s watchmaking industry, 1550-1930 (New York and London: Routledge, 2022. pp xx + 394. £120) pp. 765-766

Chris Wrigley

Richard Potter, Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist, by Geoffrey Channon, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, xv + 285 pp., illus., £61.99 (hardback), ISBN 1-5275-3106-6 (hardback), ISBN 1-5275-6467-3 (paperback), £25.99 pp. 767-768

Tehreem Husain

Companies and entrepreneurs in the history of Spain. Centuries long evolution in business since the 15th century pp. 769-771

Mar Cebrián

Volume 66, issue 2, 2024

Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation pp. 347-363

Christina Lubinski, R. Daniel Wadhwani, William B. Gartner and Renee Rottner

Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship pp. 364-385

Hadar Ram, Valeria Giacomin and Cheryl Wakslak

Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures pp. 386-406

Morten Tinning

Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and semi-colonial context pp. 407-436

Shuang L. Frost and Adam K. Frost

Counternarrating entrepreneurship pp. 437-454

Ewald Kibler and Lauri Laine

Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight pp. 455-477

Rick Colbourne, Ana Maria Peredo and Irene Henriques

Inter-firm convening and organisational power: How American multinationals mobilised the Venezuelan business community to adopt CSR practices, 1961–1967 pp. 478-509

Rami Kaplan

Distribution channels and growth strategies in Spanish insurance: from networks of agents to branch offices (1870–1940) pp. 510-528

Jerònia Pons Pons and Pablo Gutiérrez González

Business history: a research overview pp. 529-530

Adam Nix

The Blacketts. A Northern dynasty’s rise, crisis and redemption pp. 531-532

John F. Wilson

Foreign banks and global finance in modern China: Banking on the Chinese frontier, 1870-1919 pp. 533-534

Mary Bridges

Volume 66, issue 1, 2024

Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history pp. 1-13

Hannah Dean, Linda Perriton, Scott Taylor and Mary Yeager

Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change pp. 14-28

Albert J. Mills and Kristin S. Williams

Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London pp. 29-58

Amy Louise Erickson

‘Le miracle et le mirage’: Beauty institutes and the making of modern french women pp. 59-75

Holly Grout

The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–1960 pp. 76-92

Therese Nordlund Edvinsson

Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism pp. 93-106

Jennifer Aston, Hannah Barker, Gabrielle Durepos, Shenette Garrett-Scott, Peter James Hudson, Angel Kwolek-Folland, Hannah Dean, Linda Perriton, Scott Taylor and Mary Yeager

How residues of deinstitutionalised practices persist over time: World Bank boundary work in development projects in Pakistan from the 1970s to the mid-2000s pp. 107-135

Amer Khan and Kyle Bruce

A cinematic soap opera: The development of cinematography as an advertising and promotional tool in Lever Brothers Limited pp. 136-156

Jeannette Strickland

The chemical brothers: Competition and the evolution of the board interlock network in the German chemical industry, 1950–2015 pp. 157-180

Hubert Buch-Hansen and Anton Grau Larsen

Selling ‘The World’s Favourite Airline’: British Airways’ privatisation and the motives behind it pp. 181-200

Adrian Cozmuta

Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 1945 pp. 201-220

Leon Gooberman

Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s pp. 221-240

Qing Xia and Pierre-Yves Donzé

‘We have a prodigious amount in common’. Reappraising Americanisation and circulation of knowledge in the interwar Nordic advertising industry pp. 241-263

Elin Åström Rudberg and Elina Kuorelahti

Mastering the narrative and the dirty tricks of trade: The re-establishment of a Swedish bank in 1668 pp. 264-286

Christopher Pihl

An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s–1990s) pp. 287-310

Alexis Drach

Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain pp. 311-339

Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Roy Suddaby

Industrial Clusters: Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK pp. 340-341

Emily Buchnea

Deutsche Bank. The Global Bank, 1870-2020 pp. 342-343

Hubert Bonin

Against entrepreneurship: a critical examination pp. 344-345

Gerald Hanlon