Business History

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Volume 64, issue 9, 2022

International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature pp. 1567-1599

Alfred Reckendrees, Boris Gehlen and Christian Marx

Changing corporate domicile: The case of the Rhodesian Selection Trust companies pp. 1600-1622

Simon Mollan, Billy Frank and Kevin Tennent

The paradox of nationality: Foreign investment in Portuguese Africa (1890–1974) pp. 1623-1647

Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Pedro Neves

‘American Management’ vs ‘Swiss Labour Peace’. The closure of the Swiss Firestone factory in 1978 pp. 1648-1665

Sabine Pitteloud

The defence of cosmopolitan capitalism by Sir Charles Addis, 1914-1919: A microhistorical study of a classical liberal banker in wartime pp. 1666-1683

Andrew Smith and Maki Umemura

Filling a colonial void? German business strategies and development assistance in India, 1947–1974 pp. 1684-1708

Julian Faust

National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s pp. 1709-1734

Christian Marx and Ben Wubs

Tobias Straumann: 1931. Debt, crisis and the rise of Hitler pp. 1735-1736

Christopher Kopper

French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s pp. 1737-1738

Luman Wang

Unfree markets: The slaves’ economy and the rise of capitalism in South Carolina pp. 1739-1740

Rafael I. Pardo

Book review of historical organization studies: Theory and applications pp. 1741-1743

Trevor Israelsen

History in management and organization studies: from margin to mainstream pp. 1744-1745

Amon Barros

Volume 64, issue 8, 2022

The atomic business: structures and strategies pp. 1395-1412

M. Rubio-Varas, J. De la Torre and D. P. Connors

Looking for cheap and abundant power: Business, government and nuclear energy in Finland pp. 1413-1434

Niklas Jensen-Eriksen

Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: The Spanish strategies to deal with US, french and german nuclear manufacturers, 1955–1985 pp. 1435-1459

Joseba De la Torre, Mar Rubio-Varas, Esther M. Sánchez-Sánchez and Gloria Sanz Lafuente

Tennessee valley in Southern Italy: How the ENSI project was the first and only World Bank loan for nuclear power pp. 1460-1493

Rita Mascolo

Fast breeder reactor technology and the entrepreneurial state in the UK pp. 1494-1509

Niall G. MacKenzie, Stephen Knox and Matthew Hannon

Fuel for commercial politics: the nucleus of early commercial proliferation of atomic energy in three acts pp. 1510-1553

Matti Roitto, Pasi Nevalainen and Miina Kaarkoski

American blockbuster: movies, technology, and wonder pp. 1554-1555

Richard Ravalli

Compassionate capitalism: business and community in medieval England pp. 1556-1557

James Davis

Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia pp. 1558-1559

David Merrett

China bound. John Swire & Sons and its world, 1816-1980 pp. 1560-1563

Hubert Bonin

The rise and fall and reinvention of a global icon pp. 1564-1565

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Volume 64, issue 7, 2022

The institutionalization of the fight against white-collar crime in Switzerland, 1970-1990 pp. 1185-1210

Thibaud Giddey

Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates pp. 1211-1243

Robert J. Bennett, Harry Smith, Piero Montebruno and Carry van Lieshout

Gender inequality and the professionalisation of accountancy in the UK from 1870 to the interwar years pp. 1244-1259

Claire Evans and Nick Rumens

‘Buy British’: An analysis of UK attempts to turn a slogan into government policy in the 1970s and 1980s pp. 1260-1280

David Clayton and David Higgins

Instrumentality and influence of Fayol’s doctrine: history, politics and emotions in two post-war settings pp. 1281-1294

Aykut Berber, Nancy Harding and Farooq Mughal

A leading French trade house in China: Olivier (1900s–1930s) pp. 1295-1318

Hubert Bonin

Co-evolution of a MNE and institutional environment – focus on institutional logics change pp. 1319-1345

Anna Karhu

A Wesleyan work ethic? Entrepreneurship and Weber’s protestant work ethic in the case of Isaac Holden, c. 1807–1897 pp. 1346-1368

Matthew Hollow

‘And one man in his time plays many parts’ – Samuel Pepys business administrator, accomptant and auditor pp. 1369-1387

Karen McBride

Becoming the World’s Biggest Brewer: Artois, Piedbouef and Interbrew (1880-2000) pp. 1388-1389

Ignazio Cabras

The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston pp. 1390-1391

Lily Geismer

Entrepreneurship in Spain. A history pp. 1392-1393

Juan Hernández Andreu

Volume 64, issue 6, 2022

Strategy and business history rejoined: How and why strategic management concepts took over business history pp. 1011-1039

Juha-Antti Lamberg, Jari Ojala and Jan-Peter Gustafsson

From Monsanto to ‘Monsatan’: Ownership and control of history as a strategic resource pp. 1040-1070

Shane Hamilton and Beatrice D’Ippolito

Monopoly and competition: the Kenyan commercial banks at the end of the colonial period (1954–1963) pp. 1071-1087

Christian Velasco

The nationalisation of British banks in post-colonial Tanzania: Did the banks’ net capital export position and home government support influence compensation negotiation outcomes? pp. 1088-1109

Emmanuel Onah, Chinwe Okoyeuzu and Chibuike Uche

Autarky, market creation and innovation: Snia Viscosa and Saici, 1933-1970 pp. 1110-1130

Valerio Cerretano

Protection and the British rayon industry during the 1920s pp. 1131-1148

Brian Varian

A loose coupling perspective on Ancient Egypt economy and society pp. 1149-1171

Jean-Loup Richet

Post-War business planners in the United States, 1939–48: The rise of the corporate moderates pp. 1172-1173

Sebastian Huempfer

Unending capitalism: How consumerism negated China's Communist Revolution pp. 1174-1175

Thomas David DuBois

Promoting monopoly: AT&T and the politics of public relations, 1876–1941, by Karen Miller Russell pp. 1176-1177

Pasi Nevalainen

Victorian literary businesses. The management and practices of the british publishing industry pp. 1178-1179

María Fernández-Moya

Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles pp. 1180-1181

Mark Billings

The Routledge companion to makers of global business pp. 1182-1183

Nuria Puig

Volume 64, issue 5, 2022

Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II pp. 855-881

Chad Denton and Heike Weber

Nazi German waste recovery and the vision of a circular economy: The case of waste paper and rags pp. 882-903

Heike Weber

Korean kuzuya, ‘German-style control’ and the business of waste in wartime Japan, 1931-1945 pp. 904-922

Chad B. Denton

The brassware industry and the salvage campaigns of wartime colonial Korea (1937-1945) pp. 923-945

Michael Kim

Point of no return: Soviet paper reuse, 1932–1945 pp. 946-962

Birgitte Beck Pristed

Trading with the enemy? The flow of scrap between Britain and Germany from pre-war rearmament to post-war reconstruction pp. 963-983

Peter Thorsheim

Recycling war machines: Canadian munitions disposal, reverse logistics, and economic recovery after World War II pp. 984-1000

Alex Souchen

Imperial standard: Imperial oil, exxon, and the Canadian oil industry from 1880 pp. 1001-1002

Ilaria Suffia

Nothing succeeds like failure: the sad history of american business schools pp. 1003-1005

Christoph Viebig

A history of corporate financial reporting in Britain pp. 1006-1009

Richard Macve

Volume 64, issue 4, 2022

Chinese culture and banyan-tree style family businesses: The enterprising family of Lo Ying-shek in Hong Kong pp. 633-654

Victor Zheng and Po-san Wan

Modern Chinese banking networks during the Republican Era pp. 655-681

Lingyu Kong and Florian Ploeckl

Chinese entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A business demography approach pp. 682-703

Pierre van der Eng

Corporate structural change for tax avoidance: British multinational enterprises and international double taxation between the First and Second World Wars pp. 704-726

Ryo Izawa

Foreign direct investment and the undertow of history: Nationhood and the influence of history on the Czech-German relationship pp. 727-754

Anna Soulsby

Organisational development in the context of radical institutional change: the case study of Poland’s Ursus pp. 755-780

Aleksandra Wąsowska

Czechoslovak film industry on the way from private business to public good (1918-1945) pp. 781-800

Antonie Doležalová and Hana Moravcová

Women, uniforms and brand identity in Barclays Bank pp. 801-830

Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton

State reforms in early modern mining: Røros copperworks and the role of workers managers, investors and the state in business development pp. 831-853

Kristin Ranestad

Volume 64, issue 3, 2022

Business schools and the Spanish business elite since the mid-twentieth century pp. 457-474

Luis Chirosa-Cañavate, Juan Rubio-Mondéjar and Josean Garrues-Irurzun

Between the market and the state: Ibáñez, the Marquis of Sargadelos (1749–1809), a Spanish businessman sailing against the tide pp. 475-490

Joaquín Ocampo Suárez-Valdés and Patricia Suárez Cano

Selling the past. The use of history as a marketing strategy in Spain, 1900-1980 pp. 491-510

José Miranda and Felipe Ruiz-Moreno

Succession in large nineteenth-century Chilean family businesses pp. 511-536

Juan Ricardo Nazer and Manuel Llorca-Jaña

German economic power in Southeastern Europe: The case of Reemtsma and the Greek tobacco merchants (1923-1939) pp. 537-557

Juan Carmona-Zabala

Origins resting behind banking financial accountability of paragraphs 78 to 82 of the First Schedule of the Companies Act 1862 (UK) pp. 558-582

Chantal S. Game, Lisa M. Cullen and Alistair M. Brown

The indigenous origins of UK corporate financial accountability: a comment pp. 583-586

Robin Pearson

Couture ltd: French fashion’s debut in London’s west end pp. 587-609

Véronique Pouillard and Waleria Dorogova

A return ticket to the world market? The Leipzig fur industry, internationalism and the case of the International Fur Exhibition (IPA) in 1930 pp. 610-625

Robrecht Declercq

La industrialización en bogotá entre 1830 y 1930: un proceso lento y difícil pp. 626-627

Martha Elizabeth Garavito

X-ray contrast agent technology. A revolutionary history, by Christoph de Haën, Boca Raton/London/New York, CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group, 2019, xi +326 pp., (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-35164-6 show [zaq no="AQ1"] pp. 628-628

Paloma Fernández Pérez

La politique pétrolière de la France de 1861 à 1974 à travers le rôle de la compagnie privée Desmarais frères pp. 629-630

Hubert Bonin

The overseers of early american slavery: supervisors, enslaved labourers and the plantation enterprise pp. 631-632

Trevor Burnard

Volume 64, issue 2, 2022

Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: the survival of an economic elite?* pp. 207-225

Silvia A. Conca Messina and Takeshi Abe

Far from the passive property. An entrepreneurial landowner in the nineteenth century Papal State pp. 226-238

Daniela Felisini

The noble entrepreneurs coming from the bourgeoisie: Counts Bettoni Cazzago during the nineteenth century pp. 239-254

Paolo Tedeschi

Agriculture and nobility in Lombardy. Land, management and innovation (1815-1861) pp. 255-279

Silvia A. Conca Messina and Catia Brilli

Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective pp. 280-296

Maria Eugenia Mata

The Genoese nobility: Land, finance and business from restoration to the First World War pp. 297-326

Roberto Tolaini

Family entrepreneurial orientation as a driver of longevity in family firms: a historic analysis of the ennobled Trenor family and Trenor y Cía pp. 327-358

Begoña Giner and Amparo Ruiz

An aristocratic enterprise: the Ginori porcelain manufactory (1735–1896) pp. 359-384

Monika Poettinger

Nordic noblemen in business: The Ehrnrooth family and the modernisation of the Finnish economy during the late 19th century pp. 385-404

Niklas Jensen-Eriksen, Saara Hilpinen and Annette Forsén

Socio-economic activities of former feudal lords in Meiji Japan pp. 405-433

Takeshi Abe, Izumi Shirai and Takenobu Yuki

A gateway to the business world? The analysis of networks in connecting the modern Japanese nobility to the business elite pp. 434-455

Shunsuke Nakaoka

Volume 64, issue 1, 2022

Cooking the books: Feminist restaurant owners’ relationships with banks, loans and taxes pp. 1-27

Alexandra D. Ketchum

De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951–2001, and its broad implications pp. 28-54

Jim Tomlinson, Jim Phillips and Valerie Wright

Succession and inheritance in Scottish business families, c.1875–1935 pp. 55-74

Robin Mackie

The gas companies in Spain, a long-run approach (1842–2018) pp. 75-97

Mercedes Fernández-Paradas, Alberte Martínez-López and Jesús Mirás-Araujo

Travel agencies in Spain during the first third of the 20th century. A tourism business in the making pp. 98-117

Rafael Vallejo Pousada and Carlos Larrinaga

Cooperatives, opportunism and quality product: Why the early Spanish cooperative wineries produced ordinary wine pp. 118-133

Samuel Garrido

Shaping success through creative failure: A historical sensemaking analysis of the computerisation of the UK financial market pp. 134-155

Marta Gasparin, William Green and Christophe Schinckus

Managers in the command economy: Case studies from Poland, 1956-1970 pp. 156-182

Maciej Tymiński

General Motors’ other franchise system: Creating an effective distribution model for Frigidaire pp. 183-200

Peter Scott

Entreprises dans la tourmente pp. 201-203

Hubert Bonin

Creating Global Shipping Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820–1970 pp. 204-205

Espen Ekberg