Business History

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Volume 56, issue 8, 2014

As old as history: Family-controlled business groups in transport services: the case of SEUR pp. 1201-1222

Elena San Rom�n, Paloma Fern�ndez P�rez and �gueda Gil L�pez

The history of entrepreneurship: Medieval origins of a modern phenomenon pp. 1223-1242

Mark Casson and Catherine Casson

Majorca's tourism cluster: The creation of an industrial district, 1919-36 pp. 1243-1261

Joan Carles Cirer-Costa

Is the speed of post-acquisition integration manageable? Case study: post-acquisition integration of HSBC with the Mercantile Bank, 1959-84 pp. 1262-1280

Qing Lu

Across borders and beyond boundaries: How the Olivetti Company became a multinational pp. 1281-1311

Adriana Castagnoli

Europeanised French bankers? (From the 1830s to the 1970s) pp. 1312-1334

Hubert Bonin

Beneficiaries or policyholders? The role of women in Swedish life insurance 1900-1950 pp. 1335-1360

Liselotte Eriksson

Navigating the M-Form: Product Scope Review and the development of the General Electric Computer Department pp. 1361-1379

Roy Edwards and Anthony Gandy

The Pennsylvania Railroad. Volume 1: building an empire, 1846-1917 pp. 1380-1381

Terry Gourvish

The rise of marketing and market research pp. 1381-1382

Alex Gillett

Un cartel parfait: reseaux, R&D et profits dans l'industrie Suisse des cables pp. 1382-1383

Margrit M�ller

Wall street: A history pp. 1384-1385

Ranald Michie

Volume 56, issue 7, 2014

Family firm, health resort and industrial colony: The grand hotel and mineral springs at Mondariz Balneario, Spain, 1873-1932 pp. 1037-1056

John K. Walton

Made in Italy. Made in Britain. Quality, brands and innovation in the European poultry market, 1950-80 pp. 1057-1083

Alessandra Tessari and Andrew Godley

Associational autonomy or political influence? The case of the cooperation between the Danish Dairies' Buttermark Association and the Danish state, 1900-1912 pp. 1084-1110

Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen

A gamble forced upon them? A re-appraisal of Ulster Bank's operations in Southern Ireland 1921-32 pp. 1111-1128

Eoin Drea

In the eye of the storm: Isaac Seligman and the panic of 1873 pp. 1129-1142

Edwin J. Perkins

Anatomy of a rural meat operation: The family values/firm strategy nexus at Jackson's of Symington, c.1890-1981 pp. 1143-1168

Sam McKinstry, Ying Yong Ding and Ron Livingstone

Robust strategies: lessons from GKN 1759-2013 pp. 1169-1195

Chris Carr and Andrew Lorenz

The development of American finance pp. 1196-1197

Andrew Smith

The digital flood: the diffusion of information technology across the U.S., Europe, and Asia pp. 1197-1198

David L. Stearns

The new multinationals: Spanish firms in a global context pp. 1198-1200

Mar�a Fern�ndez Moya

Volume 56, issue 6, 2014

Corporations in the US and Europe 1790-1860 pp. 865-899

Les Hannah

From finance to management: Rui Ennes Ulrich, a Portuguese scholar of the early twentieth century pp. 900-914

Maria Eug�nia Mata and J.C. Rodrigues da Costa

The twilight world of British business politics: The Spring Sunningdale conferences since the 1960s pp. 915-935

Neil Rollings

Regulatory valuation of public utilities: A case study of the twentieth century pp. 936-955

Paul Grout, Andrew Jenkins and Anna Zalewska

Firm size and growth in Sweden's life insurance market between 1855 and 1947: A test of Gibrat's law pp. 956-974

Mike Adams, Lars Fredrik Andersson, Philip Hardwick and Magnus Lindmark

A tale of two asbestos giants: Corporate reports as (auto)biography pp. 975-995

Lee Moerman, Sandra van der Laan and David Campbell

Supplier networks in the German aircraft industry during World War II and their long-term effects on West Germany's automobile industry during the 'Wirtschaftswunder' pp. 996-1020

Jonas Scherner, Jochen Streb and Stephanie Tilly

El Banco de Barcelona (1844-1874), historia de un banco emisor pp. 1021-1022

Gabriel Tortella

Empresariado en Colombia: perspectiva hist�rica y regional pp. 1022-1024

Juan Santiago Correa

Financing the Raj: the City of London and colonial India 1858-1940 pp. 1024-1026

Tirthankar Roy

Institutions and European trade: merchants guilds, 1000-1800 pp. 1026-1028

Oscar Gelderblom

L'entreprise et sa m�moire. M�langes en l'honneur de Maurice Hamon pp. 1028-1030

Hubert Bonin

Le biscuit et son march�. Olibet, LU et les autres marques depuis 1850 pp. 1030-1031

Hubert Bonin

Occupation, �puration, reconstruction. Le monde de l'entreprise au Havre (1940-1950) pp. 1031-1033

Hubert Bonin

Pme et grandes entreprises en Europe du Nord-Ouest (xix-super-e-xx-super-e si�cles). Activit�s, strat�gies et performance pp. 1033-1034

Hubert Bonin

The Karimjee Jivanjee family: merchant princes of East Africa 1800-2000 pp. 1034-1036

James R. Brennan

Volume 56, issue 5, 2014

Hollywood in the world market - evidence from Australia in the mid-1930s pp. 689-723

John Sedgwick, Michael Pokorny and Peter Miskell

Global strategies, differing experiences. Electricity companies in two late-industrialising countries: Spain and Argentina, 1890-1950 pp. 724-745

Norma S. Lanciotti and Isabel Bartolom�

Strategic inertia, financial fragility and organisational failure: The case of the Birkbeck Bank, 1870-1911 pp. 746-764

Matthew Hollow

An elastic managerial revolution: Family, managers and multidivisional organisation at Pirelli (1943-56) pp. 765-788

Daniele Pozzi

From merchant to merchant-ruler: A structure-conduct-performance perspective of the East India Company's history, 1600-1765 pp. 789-815

Sashi Sivramkrishna

Crisis and change in the system of innovation: The Japanese pharmaceutical industry during the Lost Decades, 1990-2010 pp. 816-844

Maki Umemura

The Rise of the Modern Firm pp. 845-846

Leslie Hannah

The computer boys take over: computers, programmers, and the politics of technical expertise pp. 846-847

Richard R. John

The Essential P/E: Understanding the Stock Market through the price-earnings ratio pp. 847-849

Ali Kabiri

A business and labour history of Britain: case studies of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries pp. 849-851

Neville Kirk

Wall Street women pp. 851-852

Josephine Maltby

Money over two centuries: Selected topics in British monetary history pp. 852-853

Ranald Michie

'Merely for Money'? Business culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1850 pp. 853-855

Siobhan Talbott

When the shopping was good: Woolworths and the Irish main street pp. 855-857

Kevin D. Tennent

Inside the illicit economy: reconstructing the smugglers' trade of sixteenth century Bristol pp. 857-858

Alex Gillett

Commerce by a frozen sea. Native Americans and the European fur trade pp. 858-860

Catherine Desbarats

Volume 56, issue 4, 2014

Air Afrique: the demise of a continental icon pp. 517-546

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah and Yaw A. Debrah

Selling agricultural products: farmers' co-operatives in production and marketing, 1880-1930 pp. 547-568

Eva Fern�ndez

'Profligacy in the encouragement of thrift': Savings banks in Ireland, 1817-1914 pp. 569-591

Eoin McLaughlin

An institutional account of governance structures in early modern business history: the Coventry business (hi)story pp. 592-622

Edward Kasabov and Usha Sundaram

Making 'Green Giants': Environment sustainability in the German chemical industry, 1950s-1980s pp. 623-649

Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski

Patents, what for? The case of Crossley Brothers and the introduction of the gas engine into Spain, c. 1870-1914 pp. 650-676

José M. Ortiz-Villajos

Trademarks, brands, and competitiveness pp. 677-678

Alex Gillett

Le p�trole et la guerre. Oil and war pp. 679-680

Hubert Bonin

La France et les Fran�ais en Russie. Nouvelles sources et approches (1815-1914) pp. 680-682

Hubert Bonin

Intervention in the modern UK brewing industry pp. 682-683

Gerald Crompton

Internet architecture and innovation pp. 683-685

Henk J. de Vries and Robert M. van Wessel

Management innovation: essays in the spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr pp. 685-687

Robert Grant

Volume 56, issue 3, 2014

Revisiting the fit-performance thesis half a century later: a historical financial analysis of Chandler's own matched and mismatched firms pp. 341-371

Kenneth E. Aupperle, William Acar and Debmalya Mukherjee

Bringing history (back) into the resource-based view pp. 372-390

Andy Lockett and Andrew Wild

The French paradox: A financial crisis during the golden age of the 1960s pp. 391-413

Bertrand Blancheton, Hubert Bonin and David Le Bris

Product strategy choices - Honeywell and RCA mainframe computer product strategies 1963-71 pp. 414-433

Anthony Gandy

Transforming Australian business attitudes to competition: Responses to the Trade Practices Act 1965 pp. 434-455

Martin Shanahan and Kerrie Round

Rhetorics and realities of management practices in Pakistan: Colonial, post-colonial and post-9/11 influences pp. 456-484

Ashique Ali Jhatial, Nelarine Cornelius and James Wallace

Change and continuity in management systems and corporate performance: Human resource management, corporate culture, risk management and corporate strategy in South Korea pp. 485-508

Woo Jun and Chris Rowley

Ownership dispersion and listing rules in companies large and small: A reply pp. 509-516

Les Hannah and James Foreman-Peck

Volume 56, issue 2, 2014

A successful British MNE in the backyard of American big business: Explaining the performance of the American and Canadian subsidiaries of Lever Brothers 1888-1914 pp. 135-160

Andrew David Allan Smith

Opening the black box of entrepreneurship: The Italian case in a historical perspective pp. 161-186

PierAngelo Toninelli and Michelangelo Vasta

The art of advertising railways: organisation and coordination in Britain's railway marketing, 1860-1910 pp. 187-213

Hiroki Shin

Technology, labour and the rise of a financial newspaper - the early years of Dagens Industri pp. 214-235

Erik Lakomaa

Business, finance, and politics: the rise and fall of international aluminium cartels, 1914-45 pp. 236-269

Marco Bertilorenzi

Salaries and promotion opportunities in the English banking industry, 1890-1936: a rejoinder pp. 270-286

Michael Heller and Bernadette Kamleitner

Issues of management identity: attitudes to management within the Australian Institute of Management, 1940-73 pp. 287-313

Denis Jon Nettle

Interlocking directorates and conflicts of interest: the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging, M�ller & Co. and the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s pp. 314-334

Christopher Colvin

Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control pp. 335-335

James Foreman-Peck and Leslie Hannah

Editorial pp. 336-339

Ray Stokes, Andrea Colli, Stephanie Decker, Paloma Fern�ndez P�rez, Abe de Jong and Neil Rollings

Volume 56, issue 1, 2014

Scholarship in business history pp. 1-4

Mats Larsson, Lars Magnusson and Kersti Ullenhag

Prosopographic studies of business leaders for understanding industrial and corporate change pp. 5-21

Susanna Fellman

What do firms maximise? The contribution of business history to a controversial topic pp. 22-36

Margrit M�ller

Family business and business history: An example of comparative research pp. 37-53

Andrea Colli and Mats Larsson

Business history and legal history pp. 54-70

Marianne Dahl�n and Mats Larsson

Business history and the history of work - a contested relationship pp. 71-83

Lars Magnusson

The part and the whole pp. 84-100

Kersti Ullenhag

Business history and economic globalisation pp. 101-115

Espen Ekberg and Even Lange

Arla and Danish national identity - business history as cultural history pp. 116-133

Mads Mordhorst