Business History

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Volume 54, issue 7, 2012

The strategies of the Spanish cotton textile companies before the Civil War: The road to longevity pp. 1023-1054

F. Javier Fernández-Roca

The agency of branding and the location of value. Hallmarks and monograms in early modern tableware industries pp. 1055-1076

Bert De Munck

Reciprocity, associability and cartelisation: Organisational development of the New Zealand Shipowners’ Federation, 1906--1960s pp. 1077-1098

James Reveley

The ancient Hebrew culture: Illustrations of modern strategic management concepts in action pp. 1099-1117

William Ritchie, David Cavazos, Justin Barnard and Charles White

Claim and control: The functions of patents in the example of Berkel, 1898--1948 pp. 1118-1141

Arjan van Rooij

‘Public--private partnerships’: The Portuguese General Company of Pernambuco and Para�ba (1759) pp. 1142-1165

Lúcia Lima Rodrigues and Alan Sangster

Trans-generational renewal as managerial succession: The Behn Meyer story (1840--2000) pp. 1166-1185

Shakila Yacob

The Swedish financial revolution pp. 1186-1187

Tom Kärrlander

The capital and the colonies: London and the Atlantic economy 1660--1700 pp. 1187-1189

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Handbook of world exchange rates, 1590--1914 pp. 1189-1190

Derek H. Aldcroft

The triumph of the dark: European international history 1933--1939 pp. 1190-1191

Derek H. Aldcroft

Familienunternehmen in Westdeutschland. Corporate Governance und Gesellschafterkultur seit den 1960er Jahren pp. 1191-1193

Roman Köster

Mechanical to digital printing in Scotland: the Print Employers' Organisation pp. 1193-1194

Sean F. Johnston

Mahabharata in polyester: the making of the world's richest brothers and their feud pp. 1194-1196

Paloma Fernández P�rez

Frank Batten: the untold story of the founder of The Weather Channel pp. 1196-1197

James L. Baughman

Volume 54, issue 6, 2012

Introduction pp. 825-832

Anthony Webster and John K. Walton

Co-operative principles and the evolution of the ‘dismal science’: The historical interaction between co-operative and mainstream economics pp. 833-854

Philip Whyman

Producer co-operatives and economic efficiency: Evidence from the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry pp. 855-882

Steven Toms

Building the Wholesale: The development of the English CWS and British co-operative business 1863--90 pp. 883-904

Anthony Webster

Co-operation and the ‘new consumerism’ in interwar England pp. 905-924

Peter J. Gurney

Collective strength and mutual aid: Financial provisions for members of co-operative societies in Britain pp. 925-944

Nicole Robertson

Fagor Electrodom�sticos: The multinationalisation of a Basque co-operative, 1955--2010 pp. 945-963

Fernando Molina

The managerial transformation of Italian co-operative enterprises 1946--2010 pp. 964-985

Patrizia Battilani and Vera Zamagni

Rochdale consumer co-operatives in Australia: Decline and survival pp. 986-1003

Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore

Confronting three revolutions: Western European consumer co-operatives and their divergent development, 1950--2008 pp. 1004-1021

Espen Ekberg

Volume 54, issue 5, 2012

Japanese foreign direct investment in India: An institutional theory approach pp. 657-688

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

Bearing ‘the burden and heat of the day’: The experience of business failure in Douglas & Grant Ltd pp. 689-712

Robin Mackie

Industrial policy as an engine of economic growth: A framework of analysis and evidence from South Korea (1960--96) pp. 713-740

Jongseok Lee, Iain Clacher and Kevin Keasey

Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920--70 pp. 741-764

Martin Wilcox

The managing of competition: Government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957--63 pp. 765-782

Carlo Joseph Morelli, Jim Tomlinson and Valerie Wright

The British dynamic mail contract on the North Atlantic: 1860--1900 pp. 783-797

Chih-lung Lin

Still enamoured of the glocal: A comment on ‘From local to grobal, and back’ pp. 798-804

George Ritzer and Zach Richer

Ritzer malgr� lui: Reply to ‘Still enamoured of the glocal: A comment on “From local to grobal, and back”’ pp. 805-809

Marcel Hoogenboom, Duco Bannink and Willem Trommel

Historical foundations of entrepreneurship research pp. 810-811

James Reveley

Financial centres and international capital flows in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries pp. 811-813

Mark Billings

Financing India's imperial railways, 1875-1914 pp. 813-815

Latika Chaudhary

The economics of beer pp. 815-816

Terry Gourvish

I Feltrinelli. Storia di una dinastia imprenditoriale (1854--1942) pp. 816-818

Tito Menzani

The concise economic history of Portugal -- a comprehensive guide pp. 818-820

Maria Cristina Moreira

Global trade and commercial networks: eighteenth-century diamond merchants pp. 820-821

Albane Forestier

Electronic value exchange: origins of the Visa electronic payments system pp. 821-823

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Volume 54, issue 4, 2012

Constructors in a foreign land: Messrs. Lynch & Co. on the Bakhtiari road 1897--1913 pp. 487-509

David McLean

Industry associations and non-competitive behaviour in Australian wool marketing: Evidence from the Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association, 1890--1939 pp. 510-528

David Merrett and Simon Ville

Globalisation and the evolution of international retailing: A comment on Alexander's ‘British overseas retailing, 1900--1960’ pp. 529-541

Andrew Godley and Haiming Hang

Business history, global networks and the future of mobility pp. 542-555

Colin Divall

The ‘layering’ of management in post-war Britain: The case of the Office Management Association pp. 556-573

Robbie Guerriero Wilson

The design of licensing contracts: Chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electrical engineering in imperial Germany pp. 574-593

Carsten Burhop and Thorsten Lübbers

European cartels, European multinationals and economic de-globalisation: Insights from the rayon industry, c. 1900--1939 pp. 594-622

Valerio Cerretano

‘A masterpiece of knavery’? The activities of the Sword Blade Company in London's early financial markets pp. 623-638

Stuart Bell

Sir Ernest Lemon: the production engineer who modernised the LMS railway and equipped the RAF for war. A biography pp. 639-640

Terry Gourvish

A guide to tracing the history of a business pp. 640-642

M. J. Lewis

Men, women, and money: perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment 1850--1930 pp. 642-643

Christopher Colvin

Beecham's, 1848--2000. From pills to pharmaceuticals pp. 643-647

Roy Church

Commanders of Dutch East India ships in the eighteenth century pp. 647-649

Jaap Jacobs

Camille Gutt and post-war international finance pp. 649-650

Forrest Capie

Business history. Complexities and comparisons pp. 651-652

John Wilson

Vickers' Master Shipbuilder, Sir Leonard Redshaw pp. 652-654

Anthony Slaven

The ages of voluntarism: how we got to the Big Society pp. 654-655

Simon Fowler

Volume 54, issue 3, 2012

Foreword pp. 307-308

Jonathan Michie

New perspectives on not-for-profit financial institutions: Organisational form, performance and governance pp. 309-324

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo and Mark Billings

Mutual life insurers: Origins and performance in pre-1900 Britain pp. 325-345

Christopher O'Brien and Paul Fenn

The path to Project Darwin: The evolution of the AMP's organisational structure pp. 346-362

Monica J. Keneley

Montes de piedad and savings banks as microfinance institutions on the periphery of the financial system of mid-nineteenth-century Barcelona pp. 363-380

Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller

The rise and fall of the cooperative spirit: The evolution of organisational structures in American thrifts, 1831--1939 pp. 381-398

David L. Mason

Advertising, promotion, and the rise of a national building society movement in interwar Britain pp. 399-423

Peter Scott and Lucy Newton

Development credit corporations: Not-for-profit development finance institutions in the postwar United States pp. 424-440

David Koistinen

Microcredit in Palestine (1995--2008): A business history perspective pp. 441-461

Paolo Di Martino and Shaker Sarsour

Origins and development of SWIFT, 1973--2009 pp. 462-482

Susan V. Scott and Markos Zachariadis

De la beneficencia al Estado del Bienestar, pasando por los seguros sociales pp. 483-485

Miguel A. Lopez-Morell

Volume 54, issue 2, 2012

Divided loyalties? In-migration, ethnicity and identity: The integration of German merchants in nineteenth-century Liverpool pp. 117-153

Robert Lee

Business history and operations management pp. 154-178

Niall Piercy

Trademarks, product differentiation and competitiveness in the Catalan knitwear districts during the twentieth century pp. 179-200

Montserrat Llonch-Casanovas

Globalising the hotel industry 1946--68: A multinational case study of the Intercontinental Hotel Corporation pp. 201-226

Mary Quek

Inheritance and continuity in small family businesses during the early industrial revolution pp. 227-244

Hannah Barker and Mina Ishizu

The Americanisation that never was? The first decade of the Baden-Badener Unternehmergespräche, 1954--64 and top management training in 1950s Germany pp. 245-261

Armin Grünbacher

Corporate Europe in the US: Olivetti's acquisition of Underwood fifty years on pp. 262-284

Federico Barbiellini Amidei and Andrea Goldstein

The Bank of England, 1950s to 1979 pp. 285-286

Roger Middleton

The voice of Liverpool business: the first Chamber of Commerce and the Atlantic economy, 1774--c. 1796 pp. 286-288

Emily Buchnea

Making, selling and wearing boys' clothes in late-Victorian England pp. 288-289

Laura Ugolini

The East India Company's maritime service, 1746--1834: masters of the Eastern Seas pp. 290-291

Margaret Makepeace

Swedish naval administration 1521--1721: resource flows and organisational capabilities pp. 291-293

Aaron Graham

The perfect prey: the fall of ABN AMRO, or what went wrong in the banking industry pp. 293-295

Hubert Bonin

Encuentro Internacional sobre la Historia del Seguro pp. 296-297

Jos� M. Ortiz-Villajos

British trade with Spanish America, 1763--1808 pp. 297-299

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

Federal banking in Brazil: policies and competitive advantages pp. 299-301

Aldo Musacchio

Central banking in the twentieth century pp. 301-302

Geoffrey Wood

Nueva Historia de las Grandes Crisis Financieras: Una Perspective Global, 1873--2008 pp. 302-306

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Volume 54, issue 1, 2012

Editorial pp. 1-5

John Wilson and Steven Toms

Fashion forward: The business history of fashion pp. 6-9

Francesca Polese and Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Colouring markets: The industrial transformation of the dyestuff business revisited pp. 10-29

Alexander Engel

International couture: The opportunities and challenges of expansion, 1880--1920 pp. 30-47

Lourdes M. Font

Madeleine Vionnet and Galeries Lafayette: The unlikely marriage of a Parisian couture house and a French department store, 1922--40 pp. 48-66

Florence Brachet Champsaur

Vogue in Britain: Authenticity and the creation of competitive advantage in the UK magazine industry pp. 67-87

Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt

Copy or copyright fashion? Swedish design protection law in historical and comparative perspective pp. 88-107

Marianne Dahl�n

H&M -- documenting the story of one of the world's largest fashion retailers pp. 108-115

Ingrid Giertz-Mårtenson