Business History

1997 - 2025

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Volume 65, issue 8, 2023

The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results pp. 1275-1293

Umut Dağıstan

Arabica or Robusta? Accounting for collective strategies within the coffee trade industry: the case of coffee merchants in Le Havre (France) between 1920 and 1954 pp. 1294-1312

Marie-Laure Baron and Nathalie Aubourg

The ‘wine revolution’ in the United States, 1960–1980: Narratives and category creation pp. 1313-1340

Ai Hisano and Nathaniel G. Chapman

Success through failure? Four centuries of searching for Danish coal pp. 1341-1365

Kristin Ranestad and Paul Sharp

Profiles of entrepreneurial success during two centuries. The case of Sweden, with comparisons to Italy pp. 1366-1389

Hans Sjögren and Fahmi Yusuf

Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: storying Stockholm 1900–2020 pp. 1390-1416

Andrea Lucarelli, Cecilia Cassinger and Karin Ågren

When GM met Austin: British and American variants of inter-war automobile mass production pp. 1417-1437

Peter Scott

Surviving peace: Resilience and production decentralization in the Italian gun-making district, 1945–1970 pp. 1438-1462

Riccardo Semeraro and José Miranda

The British aircraft industry and American-led globalisation, 1943–1982 pp. 1463-1464

Adrian Cozmuta

Business History in Spain (19th and 20th Centuries) pp. 1465-1466

José L. García-Ruiz

Dressing up: the women who influenced french fashion pp. 1467-1468

Alice Janssens

Volume 65, issue 7, 2023

Business history goes East: An introduction pp. 1119-1136

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica and Saša Vejzagić

Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–1980) pp. 1137-1157

Saša Vejzagić

Tensions between plan and market in a political factory in socialist Kosovo pp. 1158-1176

Pieter Troch

Management of technological innovation: high tech R&D in the GDR pp. 1177-1193

Dolores L. Augustine

Workers against technocrats: The failed economic reform and the rise of consumer socialism in the German Democratic Republic pp. 1194-1208

Eszter Bartha

Entrepreneurs as saviours of socialism? The complicated relationship between East German state socialism and entrepreneurship pp. 1209-1225

Max Trecker

Losing the global: (Re)building a Bosnian enterprise across transition pp. 1226-1241

Anna Calori

Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective pp. 1242-1274

Gareth Dale and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

Volume 65, issue 6, 2023

British overseas railway investment and economic development: The Colombian National Railway Company and its impact on the Colombian interior pp. 935-958

Andrew Primmer

The origins of the tools suppliers in the semiconductor industry pp. 959-982

Unni Pillai

Origins of disaster management: the British mine rescue system, c. 1900 to c. 1930 pp. 983-1004

John Singleton

Soviet big business: The rise and fall of the state corporation Sovrybflot, 1965-1991 pp. 1005-1028

Irina Yányshev-Nésterova

Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States pp. 1029-1047

Nicholas Phelps and Andrew M. Wood

Using digital sources: the future of business history? pp. 1048-1071

Adam Nix and Stephanie Decker

West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800–1850s pp. 1072-1098

Karolina Hutková

The decline of companies and voluntary organisations as infrastructure providers in nineteenth-century England pp. 1099-1117

Ian Webster

Volume 65, issue 5, 2023

Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy pp. 787-802

Marten Boon and Espen Storli

From traders to planters: The evolving role and importance of trading companies in the 19th century Anglo-Indian Indigo trade pp. 803-820

Michael Aldous

Foreign merchant businesses and the integration of the Black and Azov Seas of the Russian Empire into the First global economy pp. 821-847

Alexandra Papadopoulou

Sourcing and shipping museum objects from East Africa to the Smithsonian, 1887–1891 pp. 848-862

Amy Stambach

Global trading companies in the commodity chain of rubber between 1890 and the 1920s pp. 863-879

Bastian Linneweh

Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian soybean trade: Geopolitics and economic strategies in China’s Northeast, ca. 1870s–1920s pp. 880-901

Hiromi Mizuno and Ines Prodöhl

Branding and retail strategy in the condensed milk trade: Borden and Nestlé in East Asia, 1870–1929 pp. 902-919

Thomas David DuBois

Natural born merchants. The Hudson Bay Company, science and Canada’s final fur frontiers (1925–1931) pp. 920-934

Robrecht Declercq

Volume 65, issue 4, 2023

The shifting corporate culture in the financial services industry: Explaining the emergence of the ‘culture of greed’ in an Australian Financial Services Company pp. 583-605

Monica J. Keneley

The development of the chartered financial analyst in the United States during the twentieth century pp. 606-635

Simon Hussain

Bubbles in history pp. 636-655

William Quinn and John Turner

From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-1980 pp. 656-678

Qing Lu, Steven Toms and Yingqi Wei

Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–2018 pp. 679-698

G. Meeks and G. Whittington

Banking on détente: Barclays, Paribas, and Société Générale in Poland, 1950s-1980s pp. 699-718

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

The pitfalls of multinational banking: The case of Italian banks in Egypt before WWII pp. 719-739

Enrico Berbenni

The paradox of scrap and the European steel industry’s loss of leadership (1950–1970) pp. 740-761

Pablo Díaz-Morlán and Miguel Á. Sáez-García

German Capital and the development of the Spanish hotel industry (1950s-1990s): A tale of two strategic alliances pp. 762-786

Elena San Román, Nuria Puig and Águeda Gil-López

Volume 65, issue 3, 2022

Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history pp. 397-413

Robin Pearson

An integrative approach to investigating longstanding organisational phenomena; opportunities for practice theorists and historians pp. 414-422

Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek, Wendy Kilminster and Paul Spee

State and transforming institutional logics: the emergence and demise of Ottoman cooperatives as hybrid organizational forms, 1861–1888 pp. 423-453

Cemil Ozan Soydemir and Mehmet Erçek

Entrepreneurial strategies in a family business: growth and capital conversions in historical perspective pp. 454-478

Nicholas D. Wong and Tom McGovern

Cross-fertilising scenario planning and business history by process-tracing historical developments: Aiding counterfactual reasoning and uncovering history to come pp. 479-501

James Derbyshire

Market-based financing for small corporations during early industrialisation: The case of salt corporations in Japan, 1880s–1910s pp. 502-524

Kiyotaka Maeda

Entrepreneurial relationship marketing in 19th century India – The case of railway contractor Joseph Stephens pp. 525-540

Stefan Lagrosen and Achinto Roy

Infant company protection in the German semi-synthetic fibre industry: Market power, technology, the Nazi government and the post-1945 world market pp. 541-571

Jonas Scherner and Mark Spoerer

Chinese hinterland capitalism and shanxi piaohao: Banking, state, and family, 1720-1910 pp. 572-573

Ghassan Moazzin

Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–1969 pp. 574-575

Nicolaas Strydom

L’Arsenale di venezia. Da grande complesso industriale a risorsa patrimoniale pp. 576-577

Isabella Cecchini

Quakers in the British Atlantic World, 1660-1800 pp. 580-581

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Volume 65, issue 2, 2023

The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena pp. 217-234

Pierre Eichenberger, Neil Rollings and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century pp. 235-259

Neil Rollings

’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century pp. 260-283

Thomas David and Pierre Eichenberger

Becoming the advocate for US-based multinationals: The United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1945–1974 pp. 284-301

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–1999 pp. 302-328

Grace Ballor

The Business Roundtable and the politics of U.S. manufacturing decline in the global 1970s pp. 329-344

Benjamin C. Waterhouse

Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a ‘liberal bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987 pp. 345-365

Sabine Pitteloud

Fighting for a neoliberal Europe: Swiss business associations and the UNICE, 1970–1978 pp. 366-381

Ludovic Iberg

Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in pp. 382-388

Glenda Sluga

The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games pp. 389-390

Kevin Tennent

Diana Kelly. The Red Taylorist: the life and times of Walter Nicholas Polakov pp. 391-392

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire pp. 393-394

Alka Raman

Trade and nation: how companies and politics reshaped economic thought pp. 395-396

William Pettigrew

Volume 65, issue 1, 2023

Collaborating profitably? The fundraising practices of the contemporary art society, 1919–1939 pp. 1-23

Marta Herrero and Thomas R. Buckley

Art dealers’ inventory strategy: the case of Goupil, Boussod & Valadon from 1860 to 1914 pp. 24-55

Geraldine David, Christian Huemer and Kim Oosterlinck

Business organisation in the Mediterranean Sea: Genoese galley entrepreneurs in the service of the Spanish Empire (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) pp. 56-87

Benoît Maréchaux

‘The originator of Eni’s ideas’. Marcello Boldrini at the top of Agip/Eni (1948–1967) pp. 88-112

Maurizio Romano

The embeddedness of ‘public’ enterprises: the case of the Gdynia (Poland) and Uljanik (Croatia) shipyards pp. 113-130

Peter Wegenschimmel and Andrew Hodges

Comparing private and public approaches to state megaproject implementation: The R100-R101 airship development case study pp. 131-156

Catherine Jill Bamforth and Malcolm Abbott

Assessable stock and the Comstock mining companies pp. 157-185

Glenda Oskar

Death and taxes: Estate duty – a neglected factor in changes to British business structure after World War two pp. 187-209

Marie M. Fletcher

Gendered capitalism. Sewing machines and multinational business in Spain and Mexico (1850–1940) pp. 210-211

Susana Martinez-Rodriguez

Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism pp. 212-213

Swapnesh Masrani

The English East India Company’s silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850 pp. 214-215

Alka Raman

Canada, a working history pp. 216-217

Peter Scott