Business History

1997 - 2025

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

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Shareholders and Shareholding: The Case of the Football Company in Late Victorian England pp. 503-524: Pamela Dixon, Neal Garnham and Andrew Jackson
Executive Remuneration and Firm Performance: The Case of Large German Banks, 1854-1910 pp. 525-543: Carsten Burhop
A Pipe Dream Come True: The International Expansion of the Hume Pipe Company in the 1920s pp. 544-567: Richard Emerson-Elliott
Selling Self-Service and the Supermarket: The Americanisation of Food Retailing in Britain, 1945-60 pp. 568-582: Gareth Shaw, Louise Curth and Andrew Alexander
Finance of Industry in Hong Kong 1950-70: A Case of Market Failure? pp. 583-608: Catherine Schenk
Communities of Knowledge: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Networks in the British Outdoor Trade, 1960-90 pp. 609-639: Mike Parsons and Mary Rose
New Frame - Same Picture? pp. 640-644: Bwe Alford
Business in South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and Realities pp. 645-651: Tilak Doshi

Introduction: History in Organisation Studies pp. 321-330: Behlul Usdi-super-˙ken and Alfred Kieser
The Treatment of History in Organisation Studies: Towards an 'Historic Turn'? pp. 331-352: Peter Clark and Michael Rowlinson
The Birth, Transformation and Regeneration of Business Incubators as New Organisational Forms: Understanding the Interplay between Organisational History and Organisational Theory pp. 353-380: Huseyin Leblebici and Nina Shah
Academy, Economy and Polity: Betriebswirtschaftslehre in Germany, Denmark and Turkey before 1945 pp. 381-406: Behlul Usdi-super-˙ken, Alfred Kieser and Peter Kjaer
Innovations and Value Creation in Major League Baseball, 1860-2000 pp. 407-438: Aya Chacar and William Hesterly
Changes in Work Organisation in French Top-Quality Restaurants pp. 439-460: Hans-Dieter Ganter
W(h)ither Economic History, or Economic History is what Economic Historians Do? pp. 461-473: Roger Middleton

British Business History: Review of the Periodical Literature for 2002 pp. 155-170: Andrew Popp
Retailing Revolution in the Eighteenth Century? Evidence from North-West England pp. 171-194: Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann
American Machinery and European Footwear: Technology Transfer and International Trade, 1860-1939 pp. 195-218: José Miranda
European Family Firms in International Business: British and Greek Tramp-Shipping Firms pp. 219-255: Gelina Harlaftis and Ioannis Theotokas
Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control: The British Experience pp. 256-284: Brian Cheffins

Defence and the decline of UK mechanical engineering: the case of Vickers at Barrow pp. 1-22: Maggie Mort and Graham Spinardi
Tribute to Geoffrey Jones pp. 11-13: Charles Harvey
Strategic alliances and competitive edge: insights from Spanish and UK banking histories pp. 23-56: Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
Government intervention in the British gas industry, 1948 to 1970 pp. 57-78: Andrew Jenkins
Knowledge and training in family firms of the European periphery: Spain in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries pp. 79-99: Paloma Fernandez Perez and Nuria Puig
Corporate venturing: the origins of Unilever's pregnancy test pp. 100-122: Geoffrey Jones and Alison Kraft

Scale, scope and accountability: towards a new paradigm of British business history pp. 1-23: Steven Toms and John Wilson
Chandlerian image or mirror image? managerial and accounting control in the chemical industry: the case of Albright & Wilson, c.1892 to c.1923 pp. 24-52: Mark Matthews, Trevor Boyns and John Richard Edwards
Materials handling in British industry, 1945-c1975: the anatomy of a manufacturing fundamental pp. 53-72: Nick Tiratsoo
Synthetic fuels in Spain, 1942-66: the failure of Franco's autarkic dream pp. 73-88: Elena San Roman and Carles Sudria
Statistical portraits of American business elites: a review essay pp. 89-113: Walter Friedman and Richard Tedlow
The selected essays of John H. Dunning pp. 114-118: Mira Wilkins

The Role of Internal Labour Markets and Social Networks in the Recruitment of Top Managers in Finnish Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1975 pp. 1-21: Susanna Fellman
From Cartel Regulation to Monopolistic Control? The Founding of the German 'Steel Trust' in 1926 and its Effect on Market Regulation pp. 22-51: Alfred Reckendrees
British Manufacturing Financial Performance, 1950-79: Implications for the Productivity Debate and the Post-War Consensus pp. 52-71: David Higgins
Brand Building and Structural Change in the Scotch Whisky Industry since 1975 pp. 72-89: S. R. H. Jones
The Search for Identity: Spanish Perfume in the International Market pp. 90-118: Nuria Puig
Review article - The East Asian Miracle pp. 119-124: Eric Jones
Book reviews pp. 125-154: Peter Scott
Books Received pp. 155-155: Peter Scott

Survey article - British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 2001 pp. 1-14: Mansel Blackford
Compradors, Firm Architecture and the 'Reinvention' of British Trading Companies: John Swire & Sons' Operations in Early Twentieth-Century China pp. 15-34: Howard Cox, Huang Biao and Stuart Metcalfe
Riding the Tiger: Merchant-State Alliance in a Coalmine Modernisation Scheme pp. 35-51: Jeff Hornibrook
Network Knowledge and Network Routines: Negotiating Activities between Shipowners and Shipbuilders pp. 52-76: Gordon Boyce
The Role of Middlemen in the International Coffee Trade since 1870: The Dutch Case pp. 77-101: Hugo van Driel
Book reviews and books received pp. 102-140: Peter Scott

The Emergence Of Modern Marketing: Internation Dimensions pp. 1-5: Roy Church and Andrew Godley
Madame Tussaud and the Business of Wax: Marketing to the Middle Classes pp. 6-22: Pamela Pilbeam
Purposive Strategy or Serendipity? Development and Diversification in Three Consumer Product Companies, 1918-39: J. & J. Colman, Reckitt & Sons, and Lever Bros./Unilever pp. 23-59: Roy Church and Christine Clark
Closing the Deal: Gm's Marketing Dilemma and its Franchised Dealers, 1921-41 pp. 60-79: Sally Clarke
Foreign Multinationals and Innovation in British Retailing, 1850-1962 pp. 80-100: Andrew Godley
Building Knowledge about the Consumer: The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry pp. 101-127: Gerben Bakker
'Times Change and We Change with Them': The German Advertising Industry in the Third Reich - Between Professional Self-Interest and Political Repression pp. 128-147: Hartmut Berghoff
Review article - The Economic Development of Modern Japan pp. 151-184: Janet Hunter