Business History

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Volume 55, issue 8, 2013

Leading a multinational is history in practice: The use of invented traditions and narratives at AkzoNobel, Shell, Philips and ABN AMRO pp. 1265-1287

Ronald Kroeze and Sjoerd Keulen

Network interlocks: The connected emergence of chambers of commerce and provincial banks in the British Isles, 1767-1823 pp. 1288-1317

Robert J. Bennett

Nestl� coping with Japanese nationalism: Political risk and the strategy of a foreign multinational enterprise in Japan, 1913-45 pp. 1318-1338

Pierre-Yves Donz� and Takafumi Kurosawa

The perils of personal capital in antebellum America: John Spotswood Wellford and Virginia's Catharine Furnace pp. 1339-1360

Sean Patrick Adams

Pushing technological progress by strategic manoeuvring: the triumph of Blu-ray over HD-DVD pp. 1361-1384

Simon den Uijl and Henk J. de Vries

Volume 55, issue 7, 2013

The Age of Strategy: Strategy, Organizations and Society pp. 1047-1057

Chris Carter

Clausewitz: On strategy pp. 1058-1073

Martin Kornberger

The 'problem' of the office: Scientific management, governmentality and the strategy of efficiency pp. 1074-1099

Ingrid Jeacle and Lee Parker

Calculating failure: The making of a calculative infrastructure for forgiving and forecasting failure pp. 1100-1118

Liisa Kurunm�ki and Peter Miller

Constructing 'the history of strategic management': A critical analysis of the academic discourse pp. 1119-1142

Pete Thomas, John Wilson and Owen Leeds

A narrative approach to strategy-as-practice pp. 1143-1167

Andrew D. Brown and Edmund R. Thompson

Politics and strategy practice: An ethnomethodologically-informed discourse analysis perspective pp. 1168-1199

Frank Mueller, Andrea Whittle, Alan Gilchrist and Peter Lenney

Building castles from sand: Unlocking CEO mythopoetical behaviour in Hewlett Packard from 1978 to 2005 pp. 1200-1227

Sotirios Paroutis, Max Mckeown and Simon Collinson

Cultures of strategy: Remaking the BBC, 1968-2003 pp. 1228-1246

Chris Carter and Alan McKinlay

Making strategy matter: Social theory, knowledge interests and business education pp. 1247-1264

Stewart R. Clegg, Walter P. Jarvis and Tyrone S. Pitsis

Volume 55, issue 6, 2013

Long-term perspectives on family business pp. 841-854

Andrea Colli, Carole Howorth and Mary Rose

Blending personal and managerial capitalism: Bertelsmann's rise from medium-sized publisher to global media corporation and service provider, 1950-2010 pp. 855-874

Hartmut Berghoff

Backstreet capitalism: An analysis of the family firm in the nineteenth-century Sheffield cutlery industry pp. 875-891

Geoffrey Tweedale

Emotion, succession, and the family firm: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons pp. 892-909

Robin Holt and Andrew Popp

Dynamic capabilities in a sixth-generation family firm: Entrepreneurship and the Bibby Line pp. 910-941

Oswald Jones, Abby Ghobadian, Nicholas O'Regan and Valerie Antcliff

French family business and longevity: Have they been conducting sustainable development policies before it became a fashion? pp. 942-962

Nicolas Antheaume, Paulette Robic and Dominique Barbelivien

Family banking in an era of crisis: N.M. Rothschild & Sons and business in central and eastern Europe between the World Wars pp. 963-980

Neil Forbes

Can families resist managerial and financial revolutions? Swiss family firms in the twentieth century pp. 981-1000

St�phanie Ginalski

Worldwide ties: The role of family business in global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries pp. 1001-1018

Christof Dejung

Globalisation and the organisation of family philanthropy: A case of isomorphism? pp. 1019-1046

Marta Rey-Garcia and Nuria Puig-Raposo

Volume 55, issue 5, 2013

From money storage to money store: Openness and transparency in bank architecture pp. 695-720

Ann-Christine Frandsen, Tammy Bunn Hiller, Janice Traflet and Elton G. McGoun

Alex Cowan & Sons Ltd, Papermakers, Penicuik: a Scottish case of Weber's Protestant Work Ethic pp. 721-739

Sam McKinstry and Ying Yong Ding

The contests for power and influence over the regulatory space within the English professional football industry, 1980-2012 pp. 740-767

Geoff Walters and Sean Hamil

The Tavistock's 1945 invention of Organization Development: early British business and management applications of social psychiatry pp. 768-789

Bernard Burnes and Bill Cooke

A Penrosean theory of acquisitive growth pp. 790-817

Andy Lockett and Andrew Wild

Financing British manufacturing multinationals in Latin America, 1930-65 pp. 818-839

Rory M. Miller

Volume 55, issue 4, 2013

Does the law and finance hypothesis pass the test of history? pp. 524-542

Aldo Musacchio and John Turner

Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control pp. 543-564

James Foreman-Peck and Leslie Hannah

How insiders traded before rules pp. 565-584

Fabio Braggion and Lyndon Moore

A new view of shareholder voting in the nineteenth century: evidence from Brazil, England and France pp. 585-600

Mariana Pargendler and Henry Hansmann

Questioning 'law and finance': US stock market development, 1930-70 pp. 601-619

Brian R. Cheffins, Steven A. Bank and Harwell Wells

Shareholder voting rights in early American corporations pp. 620-635

Eric Hilt

Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850 pp. 636-652

Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson and James Taylor

Corporation formation in the antebellum United States in comparative context pp. 653-669

Richard Sylla and Robert Wright

Ownership dispersion and the London Stock Exchange's 'two-thirds rule': an empirical test pp. 670-693

Brian R. Cheffins, Dmitri K. Koustas and David Chambers

Volume 55, issue 3, 2013

A distribution revolution: Changes in music distribution in the UK 1950--76 pp. 327-347

Kevin D. Tennent

Creating better boards through codification: Possibilities and limitations in UK corporate governance, 1992--2010 pp. 348-374

Donald Nordberg and Terry McNulty

Foreign direct investment in high-risk environments: an historical perspective pp. 375-404

Mark Casson and Teresa Lopes

The spatial redistribution of Japanese direct investment in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 2010 pp. 405-430

Peter J. Buckley, Sierk A. Horn, Adam R. Cross and John Stillwell

Banking, bureaucracy and the career: the curious case of Mr Notman pp. 431-447

Alan McKinlay

The growth and development of Clarke Chapman from 1864 to 1914 pp. 448-478

Tom McGovern and Tom McLean

‘Keeping unbroken ways’: the role of the Railway Clearing House Secretariat in British freight transportation, c.1923--c.1947 pp. 479-497

Roy Edwards

The ‘miracle’ of car ownership in Japan's ‘Era of High Growth’, 1955--73 pp. 498-523

Susan C. Townsend

Volume 55, issue 2, 2013

Bankers’ bonuses and the financial crisis: Context, evidence and the rhetoric--policy gap pp. 139-160

Alistair Bruce and Rodion Skovoroda

Where now for fair trade? pp. 161-189

Bob Doherty, Iain A. Davies and Sophi Tranchell

Coping with the Leviathan: Minority shareholders in state-owned enterprises -- evidence from Italy pp. 190-214

Andrea Colli

Appropriate reactions to globalisation? Interest group theory and trade associations in clothing between 1970 and 2000 -- a comparison between Denmark and Sweden pp. 215-235

Kristoffer Jensen and Carina Gråbacke

The co-evolution of third stream activities in UK higher education pp. 236-258

Andy Lockett, Mike Wright and Andrew Wild

Opportunities, contradictions and attitudes: The evolution of university--business engagement since 1960 pp. 259-279

Mary Rose, Moira Decter, Sarah Robinson, Sarah Jack and Nigel Lockett

Accounting for money: The legal presuppositions of money and accounting in ancient Greece pp. 280-301

Mark S. Peacock

Retailing in international markets, 1900--2010: A response to Godley and Hang's ‘Globalisation and the evolution of international retailing: A comment on Alexander's “British overseas retailing, 1900--1960”’ pp. 302-312

Nicholas Alexander

Beauty imagined: a history of the global beauty industry pp. 313-315

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Local business voice: the history of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland, and Revolutionary America 1760--2011 pp. 315-317

Andrew Dilley

El impacto histórico de la globalización en Argentina y Chile: empresas y empresarios pp. 317-318

Roy Hora

Creating wine: the emergence of a world industry, 1840--1914 pp. 318-320

Carlos Manuel Faísca

Financial crisis management and the pursuit of power: American pre-eminence and the credit crunch pp. 320-322

Ranald Michie

Personal capitalism and corporate governance: British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century pp. 322-323

Roy Edwards

Finance, politics, and imperialism: Australia, Canada and the City of London, c.1896--1914 pp. 323-325

Andrew Smith

Volume 55, issue 1, 2013

Entrepreneurship: Contexts, opportunities and processes pp. 1-8

Colin Mason and Charles Harvey

The presence of entrepreneurial opportunity pp. 9-28

Andrew Popp and Robin Holt

Co-evolution, opportunity seeking and institutional change: Entrepreneurship and the Indian telecommunications industry, 1923--2009 pp. 29-52

Ajit Nayak and Mairi Maclean

How does an old firm learn new tricks? A material account of entrepreneurial opportunity pp. 53-72

Philip Roscoe, Allan Discua Cruz and Carole Howorth

Institutional entrepreneurship in North American lightning protection standards: Rhetorical history and unintended consequences of failure pp. 73-97

Sara L. McGaughey

Entrepreneurial forms and processes inside a multiethnic pre-capitalist environment: Greek and British enterprises in the Levant (1740s--1820s) pp. 98-118

Despina Vlami and Ikaros Mandouvalos

Family character and international entrepreneurship: A historical comparison of Italian and Spanish ‘new multinationals’ pp. 119-138

Andrea Colli, Esteban Garc�a-Canal and Mauro F. Guill�n