Business History

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Volume 53, issue 7, 2011

Corporate political activity in less developed countries: The Volta River Project in Ghana, 1958--66 pp. 993-1017

Stephanie Decker

Old times, better times? German miners' Knappschaften, pay-as-you-go pensions, and implicit rates of return, 1854--1913 pp. 1018-1043

Tobias A. Jopp

World War II prime defence contractors: Were they favoured? pp. 1044-1073

Fred R. Kaen

Mutuality as a control for information asymmetry: A historical analysis of the claims experience of mutual and stock fire insurance companies in Sweden, 1889 to 1939 pp. 1074-1091

Mike Adams, Lars-Fredrik Andersson, Joy Yihui Jia and Magnus Lindmark

Liverpool slave merchant entrepreneurial networks, 1725--1807 pp. 1092-1109

Katie McDade

The Taiwan hat industry: Pre-war roots of the post-war miracle pp. 1110-1129

Kelly B. Olds

Correspondence sales education in the early twentieth century: The case of The Sheldon School (1902--39) pp. 1130-1151

Mark Tadajewski

Organisational form and industry emergence: Nonprofit and mutual firms in the development of the US personal finance industry pp. 1152-1177

R. Daniel Wadhwani

Makers of the microchip: a documentary history of Fairchild Semiconductor pp. 1178-1179

Daniel Holbrook

Visual mechanical knowledge: the workshop drawings of Isaac Ebenezer Markham (1795--1825), New England textile mechanic pp. 1180-1181

John K. Brown

Statistics and the public sphere: numbers and the people in modern Britain, c.1800--2000 pp. 1181-1183

Roger Middleton

Doing well and doing good. Ross and Glendining. Scottish enterprise in New Zealand pp. 1183-1184

Simon Ville

Creative accounting, fraud and international accounting scandals pp. 1185-1186

Mark Billings

The Oxford India Anthology of Business History pp. 1186-1188

Giorgio Riello

Business in Britain in the twentieth century pp. 1188-1190

Alan McKinlay

Volume 53, issue 6, 2011

Still a niche communications medium: The diffusion and uses of the telephone system in interwar Britain pp. 801-820

Peter Scott

The organisation of British textile exports to the River Plate and Chile: Merchant houses in operation, c. 1810--59 pp. 821-865

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

‘Propositions put forward by quite honest men’: Company prospectuses and their contents, 1856 to 1940 pp. 866-899

Janette Rutterford

Seaside tourism in Europe: Business, urban and comparative history pp. 900-916

John K. Walton

Accounting and economic returns in British coal mining: The Carlton Main colliery, 1872--1909 pp. 917-938

Marianne Pitts and Trevor Boyns

How modern banking originated: The London goldsmith-bankers' institutionalisation of trust pp. 939-959

Jongchul Kim

Sydney Nevile: Squire in the slums or progressive brewer? pp. 960-969

David W. Gutzke

Sydney Nevile: Squire in the slums or progressive brewer? A response to David Gutzke pp. 970-975

Alistair Mutch

Internet Alley: high technology in Tysons Corner, 1945--2005 pp. 976-980

Michael Best

The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793--1815: management competence and incompetence Sustaining the fleet, 1793--1815: war, the British Navy and the contractor state The foundations of British maritime ascendancy: resources, logistics and the state, 1755--1815 pp. 981-984

Aaron Graham

Patron de Renault. Pierre Lefaucheux (1944--1955) pp. 984-986

Hubert Bonin

London clerical workers, 1880--1914 pp. 986-987

Jonathan Wild

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution pp. 987-989

Kent G. Deng

Entreprises en mouvement: Migrants, pratiques entrepreneuriales et diversit�s culturelles dans le monde (XVe--XXe siècle) pp. 989-991

Christof Dejung

Volume 53, issue 5, 2011

Regulating and deregulating the public utilities 1830--2010 pp. 659-672

Judith Clifton, Pierre Lanthier and Harm Schröter

Geo-politics versus market structure interventions in Europe's infrastructure industries c. 1830--1939 pp. 673-687

Robert Millward

Infrastructure and nation building: The regulation and financing of network transportation infrastructures in Spain (1720--2010) pp. 688-705

Germà Bel

States and start-ups: Public competitors in Australian communications pp. 706-722

Jock Given

How politics, economics, and institutions shaped electric utility regulation in the United States: 1879--2009 pp. 723-746

William Hausman and John L. Neufeld

The 3 Rs: Regulation, risk and responsibility in British utilities since 1945 pp. 747-760

Martin Chick

From national monopoly to multinational corporation: How regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalisation pp. 761-781

Judith Clifton, Francisco Com�n and Daniel D�az-Fuentes

Public utilities and private initiative: The French concession model in historical perspective pp. 782-800

Dominique Barjot

Volume 53, issue 4, 2011

Mastering failure: Technological and organisational challenges in British and American military jet propulsion, 1943-57 pp. 479-504

Philip Scranton

Organisational flexibility and governance in a civil-law regime: Scottish partnership banks during the Industrial Revolution pp. 505-529

Graeme Acheson, Charles Hickson and John Turner

British overseas retailing, 1900-60: International firm characteristics, market selections and entry modes pp. 530-556

Nicholas Alexander

Downfall delayed: Danish shipbuilding and industrial dislocation pp. 557-582

Rene Taudal Poulsen and Henrik Sornn-Friese

Madeira embroidery: A failed collective brand (1935-59) pp. 583-599

Maria Benedita Almada Camara

The decline of the British tyre industry: An evaluation of the policies of the Tyre Industry Sector Working Party pp. 600-616

Tom McGovern

'Out of light a little profit'? Returns to capital at Bryant and May, 1884-1927 pp. 617-640

A. J. Arnold

Network nation: inventing American telecommunications pp. 641-647

Dwayne Winseck

Framus - built in the heart of Bavaria: the history of a German musical instrument manufacturer 1946-1977 pp. 648-649

Christina Lubinski

Founding choices: American economic policy in the 1790s pp. 649-651

Edwin Perkins

Ernest Dichter and motivation research: new perspectives on the making of post-war consumer culture pp. 651-653

Lee Quinn

History of the Suez Canal Company, 1858-2008. Between controversy and utility pp. 653-655

Samir Saul

The electricity industry in modern Taiwan: colonial industrialisation and capital market pp. 655-656

Chih-Lung Lin

Bourgeois dignity: why economics can't explain the modern world pp. 656-658

William Ashworth

Volume 53, issue 3, 2011

Strapping, as well as numerate: Occupational identity, masculinity and the aesthetics of nineteenth-century banking pp. 289-301

Diane van den Broek

The English cotton spinning industry, 1780-1840, as revealed in the columns of the London Gazette pp. 302-323

Peter Solar and John Lyons

'A Poll Tax on wheels': Might the move to privatise rail in Britain have failed? pp. 324-343

Robert Jupe

Italian fashion business: Achievements and challenges (1970s-2000s) pp. 344-362

Elisabetta Merlo

Path dependence, change and the emergence of the first joint-stock companies pp. 363-374

Nicholas Kyriazis and Theodore Metaxas

Foreign direct investment in the Ottoman Empire: Attitudes and political risk pp. 375-400

Necla Geyikdağı and M. Yasar Geyikdagi

Varieties of business history: Subject and methods for the twenty-first century pp. 401-424

Christopher Kobrak and Andrea Schneider

Andrew Carnegie and the foundations of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy pp. 425-450

Charles Harvey, Mairi Maclean, Jillian Gordon and Eleanor Shaw

The rise and fall of great companies: Courtaulds and the reshaping of the man-made fibres industry pp. 451-452

David Higgins

Lyndall Urwick, management pioneer: a biography pp. 452-453

Alistair Mutch

The East India Company's London workers: management of the warehouse labourers, 1800-1858 pp. 454-455

Tony Webster

Les entreprises et l'outre-mer Francais pendant la seconde guerre mondiale pp. 455-456

Alessandro Stanziani

La croissance en economie ouverte, XVIIe-XXIe siecle. Hommages a Jean-Charles Asselain pp. 457-458

Laure Quennouelle-Corre

Cultures et medias sous l'Occupation, des entreprises dans la France de Vichy pp. 458-460

Dominique Veillon

Les comptes de groupe en France (1929-1985) - origines, enjeux et pratiques de la consolidation des comptes pp. 460-461

Rahma Chekkar

Forms of enterprise in 20th century Italy. Boundaries, structures and strategies pp. 462-463

Luciano Ciravegna

Nationalisme economique et industrialisation. L'experience des pays de l'Est (1789-1939) pp. 463-465

Hubert Bonin

El Puerto del Acero: historia de la Siderurgia de Sagunto (1900-1984) pp. 465-467

Jesus Valdaliso

In hock: pawning in America from independence through the Great Depression pp. 469-470

Josh Lauer

Chocolate, women and empire: a social and cultural history pp. 470-472

Bianca Murillo

From Betamax to Blockbuster: video stores and the invention of movies on video pp. 472-474

Gerben Bakker

Sustainable prosperity in the new economy? Business organization and high-tech employment in the United States pp. 474-476

Chris Kobrak

The gold standard at the turn of the century: rising powers, global money, and the age of empire pp. 476-477

Derek Aldcroft

Volume 53, issue 2, 2011

The '2008 Crisis' in an economic history perspective: Looking at the twentieth century pp. 175-192

Christopher Kobrak and Mira Wilkins

Financial crisis, contagion, and the British banking system between the world wars pp. 193-215

Mark Billings and Forrest Capie

New perspectives on the 1931 banking crisis in Germany and Central Europe pp. 216-229

Christopher Kopper

Banks and Swedish financial crises in the 1920s and 1930s pp. 230-248

Mikael Lonnborg, Anders Ögren and Michael Rafferty

Canada and the United States: Different roots, different routes to financial sector regulation pp. 249-269

Donald Brean, Lawrence Kryzanowski and Gordon Roberts

The effect of banking crises on deposit growth: State-level evidence from 1900 to 1930 pp. 270-287

Carlos Ramirez

Volume 53, issue 1, 2011

Mapping strategy, structure, ownership and performance in European corporations: Introduction pp. 1-13

Andrea Colli, Martin Jes Iversen and Abe de Jong

Changing big business in Italy and Spain, 1973-2003: Strategic responses to a new context pp. 14-39

Veronica Binda and Andrea Colli

Strategic responses to global challenges: The case of European banking, 1973-2000 pp. 40-62

Mitchell Larson, Gerhard Schnyder, Gerarda Westerhuis and John Wilson

Strategic and structural responses to international dynamics in the open Dutch economy, 1963-2003 pp. 63-84

Abe de Jong, Keetie Sluyterman and Gerarda Westerhuis

Explaining corporate success: The structure and performance of British firms, 1950-84 pp. 85-118

David Higgins and Steven Toms

Strategic transformations in Danish and Swedish big business in an era of globalisation, 1973-2008 pp. 119-143

Martin Jes Iversen and Mats Larsson

The evolution of German industrial legends: The case of Baden-Wurttemberg, 1940-2007 pp. 144-168

Olaf Ehrhardt and Eric Nowak

More SSOP: Commentary on the special issue pp. 169-173

Richard Whittington