Business History

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Volume 52, issue 7, 2010

New financial elites, or financial dualism in historical perspective? An extended reply to Folkman, Froud, Johal and Williams pp. 1027-1047

Matthias Beck

Wayward agents, dominant elite, or reflection of internal diversity? A critique of Folkman, Froud, Johal and Williams on financialisation and financial intermediaries pp. 1048-1067

Geoffrey Wood and Mike Wright

'The trauma of competition': The entry of Air Products Inc. into the industrial gases business in Britain and continental Europe, 1947-70 pp. 1068-1085

Ralf Banken and Ray Stokes

Mecca and the birth of commercial bingo 1958-70: A case study pp. 1086-1106

Carolyn Downs

Symbolic consumption, signification and the 'lockout' of electric cars, 1885-1914 pp. 1107-1122

Chris Ivory and Audley Genus

Evolution of firms' product strategy over the life cycle of technology-based industries: A case study of the global mobile phone industry, 1980-2009 pp. 1123-1150

Claudio Giachetti and Gianluca Marchi

Different evolutionary paths: Technological development of laser diodes in the US and Japan, 1960-2000 pp. 1151-1181

Hiroshi Shimizu

The Chiltern Railways story pp. 1182-1183

Terry Gourvish

L'Ivresse de la fortune. A.-M. Aguado, un genie des affaires pp. 1183-1185

Hubert Bonin

When money was in fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the founding of Wall Street pp. 1185-1187

Robert Wright

For business and pleasure. Red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 pp. 1187-1188

John Walton

Trade and trust in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world pp. 1188-1190

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Has Latin America always been unequal? A comparative study of asset and income inequality in the long twentieth century pp. 1190-1191

Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Japanese shipping and shipbuilding in the twentieth century: the writings of Peter N. Davies pp. 1192-1193

Nicholas White

The international order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s pp. 1193-1195

Stephen Morgan

Trademarks, brands, and competitiveness pp. 1195-1196

David Clampin

Volume 52, issue 6, 2010

Innovation in non-food retailing in the early nineteenth century: The curious case of the bazaar pp. 875-891

Ian Mitchell

An international business blunder: Fennia 1913-16 pp. 892-911

Kurt Pedersen, Peter Sørensen and Jesper Strandskov

Risk, kinship and personal relationships in late eighteenth-century West Indian trade: The commercial network of Tobin & Pinney pp. 912-931

Albane Forestier

From local to grobal, and back pp. 932-954

Marcel Hoogenboom, Duco Bannink and Willem Trommel

The US government dual banking regulation levels, transaction costs and HSBC's strategy in acquiring Marine Midland Banks, Inc., 1978-80 pp. 955-977

Qing Lu

The evolution of business continuity management: A historical review of practices and drivers pp. 978-1002

Brahim Herbane

The origins of English financial markets: investment and speculation before the South Sea Bubble pp. 1003-1004

Larry Neal

Making the market: Victorian origins of corporate capitalism pp. 1005-1006

James Taylor

The twilight of the East India Company: the evolution of Anglo-Asian commerce and politics, 1790-1860 pp. 1006-1008

Santhi Hejeebu

British business in the formative years of European integration, 1945-1973 pp. 1008-1010

Peter Wardley

Swiss aluminium for Hitler's war? The history of the 'Alusuisse' 1918-1950 pp. 1010-1012

Ralf Banken

Freud on Madison Avenue: motivation research and subliminal advertising in America pp. 1012-1014

Michael Heller

Horace Plunkett in America: an Irish aristocrat on the Wyoming range pp. 1014-1015

Wilson Warren

The second automobile revolution. Trajectories of the world carmakers in the 21st century pp. 1016-1017

Giuliano Maielli

Chips and change: how crisis reshapes the semiconductor industry pp. 1017-1019

Martin Campbell-Kelly

The rise and fall of management: a brief history of practice, theory and context pp. 1019-1020

John Wilson

Management history. Text and cases pp. 1020-1021

John Wilson

Strategy without design: the silent efficacy of indirect action pp. 1022-1024

Richard Blundel

The origins of the twenty-first century: an essay on contemporary social and economic history pp. 1024-1025

Derek Aldcroft

Volume 52, issue 5, 2010

Oil on the water: Government regulation of a carcinogen in the twentieth-century Lancashire cotton spinning industry pp. 695-712

David Higgins and Geoffrey Tweedale

Switzerland and the industrialisation of Japan: Swiss direct investments and technology transfers to Japan during the twentieth century pp. 713-736

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Salaries and promotion opportunities in the English banking industry, 1890-1936 pp. 737-759

Andrew Seltzer

Rethinking the assembly line: Organisation, performance and productivity in Ford Motor Company, c. 1908-27 pp. 760-778

James Wilson and Alan McKinlay

Enforcing and re-enforcing trust: Employers, managers and upper-white-collar employees in Finnish manufacturing companies, 1920-1980 pp. 779-811

Susanna Fellman

Networks and business development: Convict businesspeople in Australia, 1817-24 pp. 812-833

Leanne Johns and Pierre van der Eng

The rise of Firefox in the web browser industry: The role of open source in setting standards pp. 834-856

Ilan Oshri, Henk de Vries and Huibert de Vries

A social history of company law: Great Britain and the Australian colonies, 1854-1920 pp. 857-858

James Taylor

Women and their money 1700-1950: essays on women and finance pp. 858-860

Hannah Barker

Trade and industry in early modern Italy pp. 860-862

Guido Alfani

Politique et finance a travers l'Europe du XXe siecle. Entretiens avec Robert Jablon pp. 862-863

Hubert Bonin

Russia's factory children: state, society, and law, 1800-1917 pp. 863-865

Michael Hickey

The history of black business in America: capitalism, race, entrepreneurship pp. 865-867

Douglas Walter Bristol

Engineering invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. electrical industry pp. 867-869

William Hausman

The cost of living in America: a political history of economic statistics pp. 869-870

Giovanni Favero

Experiments in financial democracy: corporate governance and financial development in Brazil, 1882-1950 pp. 870-872

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

A business case for business history: how companies can profit from their past pp. 872-873

Lesley Richmond

Volume 52, issue 4, 2010

Improving the public house in Britain, 1920-40: Sir Sydney Nevile and 'social work' pp. 517-535

Alistair Mutch

Regulation, deregulation, and internationalisation in South African and New Zealand banking pp. 536-563

John Singleton and Grietjie Verhoef

Can macro-economic sources be used to define UK business performance, 1855-1914? pp. 564-589

A. J. Arnold and Sean McCartney

Bank affiliations and corporate dividend policy in pre-World War I Belgium pp. 590-616

Marc Deloof, Annelies Roggeman and Wouter Van Overfelt

Learning the wrong lessons from history: Underestimating strategic change in business turnarounds pp. 617-650

Andrew Wild

Advertising expenditure in 1950s Britain pp. 651-665

David Clayton

The spinning world: a global history of cotton textiles, 1200-1850 / King Cotton: a tribute to Douglas Farnie pp. 666-669

John Singleton

Regulated lives: life insurance and British society, 1800-1914 pp. 669-671

Robin Pearson

Oceans of wine: Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste pp. 671-673

Gaspar Martins Pereira

Revista de la historia de la economia y de la empresa. Las sociedades anonimas y el desarrollo economico en Espana pp. 674-675

Pedro Fernández Sánchez

The years of the lion. Generali: 175 years, 1831-2006 pp. 675-676

Hubert Bonin

Deux siecles d'Assurance Mutuelle: le Groupe Azur pp. 676-677

Hubert Bonin

Female entrepreneurs in nineteenth-century Russia pp. 678-679

Hans-Heinrich Nolte

The development of marketing management: the case of the USA c. 1910-1940 pp. 679-682

Mark Tadajewski

How India clothed the world: the world of South Asian textiles, 1500-1850 pp. 682-684

Roberto Davini

Histoire du Canal de Suez pp. 684-686

Hubert Bonin

La Mediterranee Asiatique: villes portuaires et reseaux marchands en Chine, au Japon et en Asie du Sud-Est, xvie-xxie siecles pp. 686-688

Hubert Bonin

Boulevard of broken dreams: why public efforts to boost entrepreneurship and venture capital have failed - and what to do about it pp. 688-689

Jonathan Bean

This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly pp. 689-691

Ranald Michie

Global experience industries: the business of the experience economy pp. 691-692

Steve Baron

A century of ferment: the fight for the foam in twentieth century Spain pp. 692-694

Gerald Crompton

Volume 52, issue 3, 2010

Introduction: The evolution of business history as an academic field in Spain pp. 359-370

Carles Sudria and Paloma Fernandez Perez

Internationalisation and political bargaining under oligopoly: International Harvester in Spain (c. 1900-1980) pp. 371-389

Adoracion Alvaro Moya

Product differentiation and entry barriers: Mediterranean export firms in the American markets for olive oil prior to World War II pp. 390-416

Ramon Ramon Munoz

External competitiveness of Spanish canned fruit and vegetable businesses during the second half of the twentieth century pp. 417-434

Francisco Medina Albaladejo

The French armament firms and the Spanish market, 1948-75 pp. 435-452

Esther Sánchez

A family-owned publishing multinational: The Salvat company (1869-1988) pp. 453-470

Maria Fernandez Moya

Renault in Spain: From assembly to manufacture, 1961-72 pp. 471-492

Tomas Fernandez de Sevilla

Centrality and investment strategies at the beginning of industrialisation in mid-nineteenth-century Catalonia pp. 493-515

Marc Badia Miro, Yolanda Blasco-Martel, Sergi Lozano and Raimon Soler

Volume 52, issue 2, 2010

Peterson and Berger revisited: Changing market dominance in the British popular music industry, c.1950-80 pp. 187-206

Terry Gourvish and Kevin Tennent

Strategic policy revisited: The origins of mass production in the motor industry of Argentina, Korea and Spain, 1945-87 pp. 207-230

Jordi Catalan

Wasted opportunities? The Great Northern Telegraph Company and the wireless challenge pp. 231-250

Kurt Jacobsen

Multinationals, host countries and subsidiary development: Falconbridge Nikkelverk in Norway, 1929-39 pp. 251-267

Pål Thonstad Sandvik

The determinants of reinsurance in the Swedish property fire insurance market during the interwar years, 1919-39 pp. 268-284

Hale Abdul Kader, Michael Adams, Lars Fredrik Andersson and Magnus Lindmark

Protecting wood and killing germs: 'Burnett's Liquid' and the origins of the preservative and disinfectant industries in early Victorian Britain pp. 285-305

David McLean

Management paradigms in Finnish journals and literature between 1921 and 2006 pp. 306-336

Hannele Seeck and Anna Kuokkanen

State and market in Victorian Britain: war, welfare and capitalism pp. 337-338

James Thompson

Guilty money: the City of London in Victorian and Edwardian culture, 1815-1914 pp. 338-340

James Taylor

The foundations of female entrepreneurship. Enterprise, home and household in London, c.1800-1870 pp. 340-342

Katrina Honeyman

Enterprising women and shipping in the nineteenth century pp. 342-343

Sheryllynne Haggerty

The Guernsey merchants and their world in the Georgian era pp. 343-344

Kenneth Morgan

The information master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system pp. 344-346

Christopher Napier

American firms in Europe 1880-1980: strategy, identity perception and performance pp. 346-348

Giuliano Maielli

To serve God and Wal-Mart: the making of Christian free enterprise pp. 348-350

Agnes Delahaye

Cold War kitchen: Americanization, technology and European users pp. 350-352

Rachel Maines

Communication under the seas: the evolving cable network and its implications pp. 352-353

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

Shifting boundaries of the firm: Japanese company - Japanese labour pp. 354-355

Tony Elger

The ascent of money: a financial history of the world pp. 356-358

Elif Cepni

Volume 52, issue 1, 2010

New directions in business history: Themes, approaches and opportunities pp. 1-16

John Walton

A mark of distinction: Branding and trade mark law in the UK from the 1860s pp. 17-42

John Mercer

Did royalties really impact on profits to the extent that coal companies believed? A case study of the Denbighshire Coalfield, 1870-1914 pp. 43-61

Bethan Lloyd Jones

Revisiting Hanyeping Company (1889-1908): A case study of China's early industrialisation and corporate history pp. 62-73

Yun Liu

Consumers as risk takers: Evidence from the film industry during the 1930s pp. 74-99

John Sedgwick and Michael Pokorny

Unsuccessful responses to quality uncertainty: Brands in Spain's sherry industry, 1920-1990 pp. 100-119

Eva Fernández

Inter-firm R&D networks in the global software industry: An overview of major trends and patterns pp. 120-149

Myriam Cloodt, John Hagedoorn and Nadine Roijakkers

Learning the business of banking: The management of the Bank of England's first tellers pp. 150-168

Anne Murphy

The family silver, business efficiency and the City, 1970-1987 pp. 169-185

Robert Millward

22nd ABHRU Conference Call for Papers pp. 186-186

Marcia Annisette