Business History

1997 - 2025

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

From Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 67, issue 4, 2025

Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–1998 pp. 997-1020

Gregory Ferguson-Cradler

Stable support, scant initiative: European business associations and Economic and Monetary Union, 1946–1992 pp. 1021-1042

Aleksandra Komornicka

Swedish business as a social movement? Mobilising the masses against wage-earner funds, 1975–1991 pp. 1043-1062

Rikard Westerberg

Moulding clay, making gold. Credit, labour and demand in ceramic businesses in late medieval Barcelona pp. 1063-1086

Luis Almenar Fernández

Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–1936 pp. 1087-1112

Joaquim Cuevas and Maria A. Pons

In the shadow of Americanisation: The origins and evolution of management education and training in Argentina (1940s–1960s) pp. 1113-1140

Andrea Lluch and Rolv Petter Amdam

Storm in a teacup: Empire products, blended teas, and origin marking debates in 1920s Britain pp. 1141-1164

David M. Higgins and Aashish Velkar

Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons pp. 1165-1185

Therese Nordlund Edvinsson

Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920 pp. 1186-1188

Elena Cooper

Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828 pp. 1189-1190

Alejandra Irigoin

Histoire de la Société générale. Tome III: 1914–1921. La Société générale dans la guerre et l’après-guerre pp. 1191-1192

Patrice Baubeau

Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine pp. 1193-1194

Hubert Bonin

Volume 67, issue 3, 2025

Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900) pp. 665-710

Maria Carmela Schisani and Giancarlo Ragozini

Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia pp. 711-737

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920 pp. 738-757

Daniela Pirani and Christina Lubinski

Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China pp. 758-789

Rui Shi

Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work pp. 790-818

Simon Gérard, Ian Brittain and Glauco De Vita

Access to bank loans in economic transition: An oral history approach pp. 819-844

Lucie Coufalová

Accountability and information disclosure in a Catholic charity (1798–1801) pp. 845-885

Pedro Araújo-Pinzón, Mariló Capelo-Bernal and Manuel Núñez-Nickel

Industrial path creation, a business case approach: Daniel Alonso Group from steelmaking to wind power pp. 886-912

Guillermo Antuña

Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment pp. 913-955

Lorraine Talbot

Market-making strategies in Tanzimat era Istanbul: The quest for an elusive cosmopolitanism pp. 956-986

Kubra Uygur, Cagri Yalkin and Selcuk Uygur

Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England pp. 987-989

David Bholat

The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga pp. 990-991

Vladyslava Moskalets

The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture pp. 992-993

Jan-Otmar Hesse

National brands and global markets. An historical perspective pp. 994-995

Valeria Pinchera

Volume 67, issue 2, 2025

Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region pp. 305-317

Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri, Shlomo Tarba and Neveen Abdelrehimd

Reviving China’s global footprint along the Silk Roads and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Chinese overseas industrial park in Egypt pp. 318-341

Yijun Xing, Yipeng Liu, Sir Cary L. Cooper and Demetris Vrontis

Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire pp. 342-363

Simon Mollan and Chris Corker

Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria pp. 364-394

Christine Bischoff, Mehmet Demirbag and Geoffrey Wood

The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective pp. 395-412

Hussain G. Rammal, Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri, Benjamin Laker, Shlomo Tarba and João J. Ferreira

Organising through time: Paradox and history pp. 413-429

Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Charles Harvey, Mairi Maclean and Álvaro Ferreira da Silva

Organizing long duration interdependence in Lloyd’s of London: Persistence in a part-whole paradox of organizing pp. 430-465

Wendy Kilminster, Paula Jarzabkowski and Alessandro Giudici

Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020 pp. 466-495

Andrea Tunarosa, Patrick Lê and Camille Pradies

State-owned enterprises after the market turn: Hybridisation and the historical development of nested paradoxes in the case of Norway pp. 496-520

Ola Innset

Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank pp. 521-550

Christopher Hartwell and Vladimir Korovkin

Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–1990 pp. 551-576

Klas Eriksson, Erik Lakomaa, Rasmus Nykvist and Christian Sandström

The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective pp. 577-607

Lara Pecis, Bingbing Ge and Florian Bauer

Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards pp. 608-628

Shane Hamilton and Andrew C. Godley

How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery pp. 629-657

Nicholas D. Wong, Andrew Smith, Allan Discua Cruz, Nicholas Burton and Elenia Charalambous

Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara pp. 658-659

Giuseppe Telesca

An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technological diffusion pp. 660-661

James Fowler

ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion pp. 662-663

Keshav Krishnamurty

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