Business History

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): Professor John Wilson and Professor Steven Toms

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Volume 68, issue 4, 2026

In the absence of archives: Epistemic repair and the remaking of business history pp. 765-783

Adam K. Frost, Grietjie Verhoef and Gabrielle Durepos

‘Popular sources’ in Chinese business history: New perspectives on Chinese enterprise pp. 784-802

Matthew Lowenstein, Zhou Ya and Meng Wei

Chasing sources at the ‘Grey Zone’: Archival leaks, archival crowdsourcing, and writing business history without business archives in Turkey pp. 803-834

Akansel Yalçınkaya

Minding the gaps: Triangulation strategies for colonial and postcolonial archives pp. 835-859

Stephanie Decker, Adam Nix and Guting Shen

‘Stranger’ in a strange land: A phenomenological approach to historical cross-cultural research pp. 860-884

Gillian Forster, Steven Pattinson and John Wilson

The quest to explore ancestral Berber management practices: Inventing sources and reimagining business history pp. 885-912

Laurent Beduneau-Wang and Majda Soumane

Methodological subversions in the absence of archives pp. 913-942

Marta Gasparin, Martin Quinn, Steven D. Brown and Enrico Macciò

Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences pp. 943-944

Akansel Yalçınkaya

International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks pp. 945-947

Susanna Fellman

Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business pp. 948-949

Andrea Colli

Deeply Responsible Business pp. 950-952

David Chan Smith

Volume 68, issue 3, 2026

Management and social order in ancient India pp. 539-573

Jim Rooney and Vijaya Murthy

Convenience store retailing – The embedding of a new approach in the British retail landscape pp. 574-595

Andrew Alexander

Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War pp. 596-612

Eoin McLaughlin, Paul Sharp, Xanthi Tsoukli and Christian Vedel

Freedom of contract and company freedom. Corporate governance in Norway, 1890–1930 pp. 613-635

Knut Sogner and Victoria Ciobanu Austveg

An entrepreneurial turf war: Travel agencies, ICEM, and the migration industry since the 1950s pp. 636-657

Ioannis Limnios-Sekeris

From imposition to concession, from compliance to resistance: Creating a Harvard Business School clone in a Turkish university, 1954–1965 pp. 658-678

Behlül Üsdiken

Colonial capitalisation and business investment in the Federated Malay States in the interwar years pp. 679-698

Mohd Shazwan Mokhtar

Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands pp. 699-727

Christopher L. Colvin, Abe de Jong, Philip T. Fliers and Florian Madertoner

Kneeling to violent men: Investors and insurrection in Imperial Russia pp. 728-753

Christopher Hartwell

Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India pp. 754-756

Michael O’Sullivan

Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System pp. 757-759

Peter Miskell

Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse pp. 760-761

Leslie Hannah

Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison pp. 762-764

Edwin Lopez-Rivera

Volume 68, issue 2, 2026

UK investment trusts and the Baring crisis pp. 241-270

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Daniele Tori and Janette Rutterford

Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–1845 pp. 271-298

Eoin McLaughlin and Rowena Pecchenino

Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–1940 pp. 299-346

Kristin Ranestad

Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company pp. 347-372

David Le Bris, William N. Goetzmann and Sébastien Pouget

Regulatory capture in the first Spanish Nuclear Program (c.1951-64)? pp. 373-397

Josean Garrues-Irurzun and Juan A. Rubio-Mondejar

British business-government relationships: A case study of the Burmah Oil Company, 1974–1975 pp. 398-421

Shraddha Verma, John F. Wilson, Philip Linsley and Neveen Abdelrehim

Business schools and museum learning in historical perspective: Lessons from the forgotten history of commercial school museums pp. 422-463

Adrien Jean-Guy Passant

History is prologue: Impact of closed economy imprints (1956–1991) on investments in innovation by Indian firms pp. 464-489

Lakshmi Goyal and Manish Popli

Kicking away the ladder? Trade, technology transfer, and Chinese-East German disputes on the development of precision mechanics and optical industry pp. 490-508

Tao Chen

Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements pp. 509-529

Jeremy Goh

Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications pp. 530-531

Christoffer Friedl

Greytown is No More! The 1854 Razing of a Central American Port, the U.S. Businesses Behind Its Demise, and the Lasting Foreign Policy Legacy pp. 532-534

Gary Bugh

The experience of free banking, second edition pp. 535-536

Andrew Allison

Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade pp. 537-538

Guting Shen

Volume 68, issue 1, 2026

Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905 pp. 1-33

Tehreem Husain and Emily Buchnea

The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 1881 pp. 34-56

Robert J. Bennett and Les Hannah

CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–2022 pp. 57-78

Alexander Pepper

When in Poland: Strategic uses of historical narratives by foreign MNCs in a discontinuous host-country context pp. 79-101

Rafał Staszek vel Staszewski and Tomasz Olejniczak

Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s pp. 102-122

Geoffrey Jones, Yuan Jia-Zheng, Yuhai Wu and Qianru Wang

Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic pp. 123-147

Ioanna Iordanou

Resilience in conflict: Venetian merchants and the dynamics of trade in wartime in the Renaissance pp. 148-171

Stefania Montemezzo

Beyond convergence: Uncovering the recruitment patterns of white-collar employees in a peripheral economy pp. 172-205

Lingyu Kong, Wenxiao Wang and Caiquan Bai

Beers in stock: Financing legal beer’s return at the nadir of the Great Depression pp. 206-231

Jason E. Taylor, Robert E. Wright and Abdul-Samed Adamu Bukari

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism pp. 232-233

Ian G. Jones

The Impact of the First World War on International Business pp. 234-235

Chris Corker

Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America pp. 236-237

Paul Duguid

In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey pp. 238-239

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