Business History

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor John Wilson and Professor Steven Toms

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Financial institutions and corporate strategy: David Alliance and the transformation of British textiles, c.1950-c.1990 pp. 453-478: David Higgins and Steven Toms
Business and government in electricity network integration in Western Europe, c.1900-1950 pp. 479-500: Robert Millward
The development of British accountancy in the nineteenth century: A technological determinist approach pp. 501-528: Derek Matthews
In the service of the society: The labour management practices of an Australian life Insurer to 1940 pp. 529-550: Monica Keneley
The growth, development and management of J. & P. Coats Ltd, c.1890-1960: An analysis of strategy and structure pp. 551-579: Kirsten Kininmonth

Technology, science and American innovation pp. 311-331: Philip Scranton
'Though it is but a promise': Business probity in Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns pp. 332-353: Andrew Popp
In search of a new industry: Giovanni Battista Pirelli and his educational journey through Europe, 1870-1871 pp. 354-375: Francesca Polese
Trust, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. and the foundation of a modern pharmaceutical industry in Britain, 1880-1914 pp. 376-398: Roy Church
International investment and Nazi politics: The cloaking of German assets abroad, 1936-1945 pp. 399-427: Christopher Kobrak and Jana Wustenhagen

Why smart executives fail: Four case histories of how people learn the wrong lessons from history pp. 153-170: Sydney Finkelstein
The structure of the Philadelphia trading community on the transition from colony to state pp. 171-192: Sheryllynne Haggerty
Entrepreneurial enterprise and 'image' in the nineteenth-century trading firm: Shaping the legal environment for business pp. 193-219: Carol Matheson Connell
'She possessed her own fortune': Women investors from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century pp. 220-253: Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford
British business and the politics of trade with the USSR during the New Economic Policy (NEP) pp. 254-271: Roger Munting
Mira Wilkins: An interim assessment pp. 272-280: T. A. B. Corley

Public houses as multiple retailing: Peter Walker & Son, 1846-1914 pp. 1-19: Alistair Mutch
Path dependence, fragmented property rights and the slow diffusion of high throughput technologies in inter-war British coal mining pp. 20-42: Peter Scott
Technological networks and industrial research in Britain: The London, Midland & Scottish Railway, 1926-47 pp. 43-68: Colin Divall
'Fair play for the small man': Perspectives on the contribution of the independent shopkeeper 1930-c.1945 pp. 69-89: Andrew Alexander and Simon Phillips
The fable of the birth of the Japanese automobile industry: A reconsideration of the Toyoda-Platt agreement of 1929 pp. 90-118: Kazuo Wada
Revisiting the mature economy: Britain, 1860-1939 pp. 119-126: Tim Rooth

Magnus Alexander, the Economists and the Issue of Labour Turnover pp. 493-510: Kyle Bruce
Products, Firms and Consumption: Cadbury and the Development of Marketing, 1900-1939 pp. 511-531: Robert Fitzgerald
Why did Collusion Fail? The Indian Jute Industry in the Inter-War Years pp. 532-552: Bishnupriya Gupta
Management Consultancies in the Dutch Banking Sector, 1960s and 1970s pp. 553-568: Doreen Arnoldus and Joost Dankers
Financing Industrial Districts in Italy, 1971-91: A Private Venture? pp. 569-593: Anna Spadavecchia
Cotton: 'The Most Studied of all Manufactures' pp. 594-599: Eric Jones

The Business of Dependency: An Introduction pp. 331-336: Matthias Kipping and Lina Galvez Munoz
UK Government Regulation of Medicinal Drugs, 1890-2000 pp. 337-351: Tab Corley
Price Controls or Control through Prices? Regulating the Cost and Consumption of Prescription Pharmaceuticals in the UK, 1948-67 pp. 352-366: Judy Slinn
Too Little Regulation? The British Market for Sherry, 1840-90 pp. 367-382: James Simpson
In the Shadow of Prohibition: Domestic American Alcohol Policy since 1933 pp. 383-400: Pamela Pennock and K Austin Kerr
Regulating an Addictive Product: The Spanish Government, Brand Advertising and Tobacco Business (1880s to 1930s) pp. 401-420: Lina Galvez Munoz
'Carry on Smoking': Public Relations and Advertising Strategies of American and British Tobacco Companies since 1950 pp. 421-433: David Courtwright
Seduced by the Silver Screen: Film Addicts, Critics and Cinema Regulation in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s pp. 433-448: Peter Miskell
Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption: Government and Management Consultancy in Britain pp. 449-465: Matthias Kipping and Denis Saint-Martin

British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 2003 pp. 159-173: David Higgins
The Genesis of Corporate Governance: Nineteenth-Century Irish Joint-Stock Banks pp. 174-189: Charles Hickson and John Turner
New Manufacturing Plant Formation, Clustering and Locational Externalities in 1930s Britain pp. 190-218: Peter Scott and Peter Walsh
The Privatisation and Liberalisation of Dutch Telecommunications in the 1980s pp. 219-243: Mila Davids
The Emilian Model Revisited: Twenty Years After pp. 244-266: Alberto Rinaldi
Divergence and Convergence within Anglo-American Corporate Governance Systems: Evidence from the US and UK, 1950-2000 pp. 267-295: Steven Toms and Mike Wright
Industrialisation: What Distinguished Britain? pp. 296-301: Eric Jones

Nodes in the Global Webs of Japanese Shipping pp. 1-22: William Wray
Approaching Disaster: Personal Bankruptcy Legislation in Italy and England, c.1880-1939 pp. 23-43: Paolo Di Martino
American Advertising Agencies in Europe: J. Walter Thompson's Belgian Business in the Inter-War Years pp. 44-58: Veronique Pouillard
House Building in the Machine Age, 1920s-1970s: Realities and Perceptions of Modernisation in North America and Australia pp. 59-85: Richard Harris and Michael Buzzelli
Unions and Management in Engineering: A Case Study, 1964-79 pp. 86-101: Kenneth Brown
Spot-Welding Technology and the Development of Robotics at Fiat, 1972-87: A Case of Managerial Discontinuity? pp. 102-121: Giuliano Maielli
Fording the Atlantic: Ford and Fordism in Europe pp. 122-127: Len Holden