Business History

1997 - 2025

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Volume 50, issue 6, 2008

Putting social capital to work pp. 685-694

Pamela Walker Laird

Nationalism, social capital and economic empowerment: SANLAM and the economic upliftment of the Afrikaner people, 1918-1960 pp. 695-713

Grietjie Verhoef

Religion, social capital and business bankruptcy in the United States, 1921-1932 pp. 714-727

Bradley Hansen and Mary Eschelbach Hansen

'A knavish people…': London Jewry and the stock market during the South Sea Bubble pp. 728-748

Ann Carlos, Karen Maguire and Larry Neal

Stakeholder relations as social capital in early modern international trade pp. 749-764

Jari Ojala and Vilma Luoma-aho

Social capital, institutional innovation and Atlantic trade before 1800 pp. 765-780

Robin Pearson and David Richardson

Industry associations as facilitators of social capital: The establishment and early operations of the Melbourne Woolbrokers Association pp. 781-794

David Merrett, Stephen Morgan and Simon Ville

New rules - old games? Social capital and privatisation in France, 1986-1998 pp. 795-810

Mairi Maclean

Volume 50, issue 5, 2008

Globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000 pp. 565-582

Camilla Brautaset and Stig Tenold

The evolution of the pharmaceutical-biotechnology industry pp. 583-601

Hans-Werner Gottinger and Celia Umali

Markets and managerial discretion: Tooth & Co., 1970-1981 pp. 602-618

Mark Westcott

Foreign direct investment into Denmark before 1939: Patterns and Scandinavian contrasts pp. 619-644

Jesper Strandskov and Kurt Pedersen

Petromin: The slow death of statist oil development in Saudi Arabia pp. 645-667

Steffen Hertog

Volume 50, issue 4, 2008

The birth of brand: 4000 years of branding pp. 419-432

Karl Moore and Susan Reid

Multinational corporations, totalitarian regimes and economic nationalism: United Fruit Company in Central America, 1899-1975 pp. 433-454

Marcelo Bucheli

State, firms and technology. The rise of multinational telecommunications companies: ITT and the Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana, 1924-1945 pp. 455-473

Ángel Calvo

Russia's struggle with the language of marketing in the communist and post-communist eras pp. 474-488

Nigel Holden, Andrei Kuznetsov and Jeryl Whitelock

Format development and retail change: supermarket retailing and the London Co-operative Society pp. 489-508

Andrew Alexander

Transitions in industrial research: the case of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994) pp. 509-529

F. Kees Boersma and Marc de Vries

Expansion for pollution reduction? Environmental adaptation of a Swedish and a Canadian metal smelter, 1960-2005 pp. 530-546

Magnus Lindmark and Ann Kristin Bergquist

Volume 50, issue 3, 2008

Work, income and stability: The late Victorian and Edwardian London male clerk revisited pp. 253-271

Michael Heller

Apartheid and business: Competition, monopoly and the growth of the malted beer industry in South Africa pp. 272-290

Anne Kelk Mager

Strategies, market concentration and hegemony in chemical parcel tanker shipping, 1960-1985 pp. 291-309

Hugh Murphy and Stig Tenold

The organisational structure of Spanish New Settlements in the eighteenth century pp. 310-327

Juan Banos Sanchez-Matamoros and Gloria Cuevas-Rodriguez

Going 'to paradise by way of Kensal Green': A most unfit subject for trading profit? pp. 328-350

A. J. Arnold and J. M. Bidmead

Tastes differ: Comparing company strategies, innovation trajectories and knowledge sources in Dutch soft drink production in the 1930s pp. 351-367

Eric Berkers

The rise and fall of single-letter ticker symbols pp. 368-385

David Michayluk

Volume 50, issue 2, 2008

Fifty years of Business History pp. 125-126

John Wilson and Steven Toms

Becoming fully functional: The conceptual struggle for a new structure for the giant corporation in the US and UK in the first half of the twentieth century pp. 127-146

John Quail

The role of implicit contracts: Building public works in the 1840s in Portugal pp. 147-162

Maria Eugenia Mata

A stable network as a source of entrepreneurial opportunities: The Rothschilds in Spain, 1835-1931 pp. 163-184

Miguel A. Lopez-Morell and Jose O'Kean

Reputation and export performance: Danish butter exports and the British market, c.1880-c.1914 pp. 185-204

David Higgins and Mads Mordhorst

Innovations in Dutch shipbuilding in the first half of the twentieth century pp. 205-225

Mila Davids and Hans Schippers

British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of the self-service revolution pp. 251-252

Gareth Shaw and Andrew Alexander

Volume 50, issue 1, 2008

Tribute to Charles Harvey pp. 1-3

John Wilson, Steven Toms, Jon Press, Andrew Popp and Teresa Lopes

Marketing mass home ownership and the creation of the modern working-class consumer in inter-war Britain pp. 4-25

Peter Scott

Productivity and patriotism: The management narrative of New South Wales Rail Chief Commissioner James Fraser, 1917-1929 pp. 26-39

Mark Hearn

The foreign expansion of a service company: The case of ISS A/S pp. 40-61

Jesper Strandskov and Kurt Pedersen

British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of the self-service revolution pp. 62-78

Gareth Shaw and Andrew Alexander

Quality control: The origins of the Australian Consumers' Association pp. 79-98

Amanda McLeod

Volume 49, issue 6, 2007

The performance of British manufacturing in the Post-War long boom pp. 763-779

Derek Matthews

Opaque Networks: Business and community in the Isle of Man, 1840-1900 pp. 780-801

Tim Crumplin

American boomers and the flotation of shares in the city of London in the late nineteenth century pp. 802-822

Richard Hawkins

Business on trial: The tobacco securities trust and the 1935 pepper debacle pp. 823-843

Howard Cox

Employee representation plans at the Minnequa Steelworks, Pueblo, Colorado, 1915-1942 pp. 844-867

Greg Patmore

Regulation, innovation and market structure in International Telecommunications: The case of the 1956 TAT1 submarine cable pp. 868-885

Jill Hills

Why do successful companies fail? A case study of the decline of Dunlop pp. 886-907

Tom McGovern

Network Rail - forward or backward? Not-for-profit in British transport pp. 908-928

Gerald Crompton and Robert Jupe

Volume 49, issue 5, 2007

Technological change and the governance of joint-stock enterprise in the early nineteenth century: The case of coastal shipping pp. 573-594

Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson and James Taylor

Limits to Scale and Scope: The Failure of a Danish Slaughterhouse Merger in 1890/91 pp. 595-624

Peter Sørensen and Kurt Pedersen

Enterprises, incentives and networks: The formative years of the electrical network in Portugal, 1920-1947 pp. 625-645

Nuno Madureira

Small firms and networks in capital intensive industries: The case of Spanish steel wire manufacturing pp. 647-667

Paloma Fernandez Perez

Defence contractors and diversification into the civil sector: Rolls-Royce, 1945-2005 pp. 669-694

David Smith

The Role of Employer Unions in Hegemonic Struggle, Interest Representation and Promotion of Managerial Perspectives in Turkey pp. 695-716

Ufuk Cakmakcı and Beyza Oba

The scientific management of the consumer interest pp. 717-735

Chris Nyland and Amanda McLeod

Usinor-Arcelor: Du local au global … pp. 737-743

Mary O'Sullivan

Volume 49, issue 4, 2007

Introduction: Comparative perspectives on the managerial revolution pp. 399-403

Richard Whittington

The 'Divorce' of ownership from control from 1900 onwards: Re-calibrating imagined global trends pp. 404-438

Leslie Hannah

Testing the Chandler Thesis: Comparing middle management and administrative intensity in Dutch and US industries, 1900-1950 pp. 439-463

Hugo van Driel, Ferry de Goey and Jacques van Gerwen

Competing perspectives on the 'Managerial Revolution': From 'Managerialist' to 'Anti-Managerialist' pp. 464-482

Michael Rowlinson, Steven Toms and John F. Wilson

Americanization in comparative perspective: The managerial revolution in France and Norway, 1940-1990 pp. 483-505

Marie-Laure Djelic and Rolv Petter Amdam

Towards a 'Managerial Revolution' in European Business? The transformation of Danish and Spanish Big Business, 1973-2003 pp. 506-530

Veronica Binda and Martin Jes Iversen

Managerialism and the Post-war evolution of the French national business system pp. 531-551

Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Jon Press

Working for themselves? Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism pp. 552-572

Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams

Volume 49, issue 3, 2007

British business history: A review of the periodical literature for 2005 pp. 271-292

Neil Rollings

Doors and boundaries: A recent history of the relationship between research and practice in UK organizational and management research pp. 293-320

Chris Caswill and Robin Wensley

Building the market: John Shaw of Wolverhampton and commercial travelling in early nineteenth-century England pp. 321-347

Andrew Popp

The first wave of the Soviet oil offensive: The Anglo-American Alliance and the flow of 'Red Oil' to Finland during the 1950s pp. 348-366

Niklas Jensen-Eriksen

Cultural resistance and the gradual emergence of modern marketing and retailing practices in Spain, 1950-1975 pp. 367-384

Jose Luis Garcia Ruiz

Volume 49, issue 2, 2007

Capital in British banking, 1920-1970 pp. 139-162

Mark Billings and Forrest Capie

British business and the telephone, 1878-1911 pp. 163-185

Graeme Milne

Manufacturing profits and strategies in Argentine industrial development, 1904-1930 pp. 186-210

Yovanna Pineda

Harmonious relations? Music at work in the Rowntree and Cadbury factories pp. 211-234

Emma Robertson, Marek Korczynski and Michael Pickering

Business interests versus geopolitics: The case of the Siberian pipeline in the 1980s pp. 235-254

Hubert Bonin

Volume 49, issue 1, 2007

Redefining Business History: An editorial statement pp. 1-7

Charles Harvey and John Wilson

Acquisitions and firm growth: Creating Unilever's ice cream and tea business pp. 8-28

Geoffrey Jones and Peter Miskell

Early retailing: London's shopping exchanges, 1550-1700 pp. 29-51

William Baer

Making a little go further: Capital and the New Zealand entrepreneur pp. 52-74

Ian Hunter

The adaptive strategies of Spanish cotton industry companies, 1939-1970 pp. 75-97

Francisco Javier Fernandez Roca

'A new paradigm of British business history': A critique of Toms and Wilson pp. 98-105

Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis

Scale, scope and accountability: A response to Lloyd-Jones and Lewis pp. 106-111

Steven Toms and John Wilson