Business History

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Volume 63, issue 8, 2021

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond pp. 1239-1252

Niall G. MacKenzie, Andrew Perchard, Christopher Miller and Neil Forbes

Shifts in government business relations: Assessing change using the restrictive business registers in the OECD, 1945-1995 pp. 1253-1272

Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman

Shaping the rules of the game: Spanish capitalism and the publishing industry under dictatorship (1939–1975) pp. 1273-1292

Maria Fernandez-Moya and Nuria Puig

‘No mutiny will be allowed’: business, the tax system and the Greek version of Mediterranean capitalism during dictatorship, 1967-1974 pp. 1293-1308

Zoi Pittaki

State intervention in East Asia’s varieties of capitalism: A case study of the electric power industry in China and Japan, 1882–1951 pp. 1309-1326

Chenxiao Xia

From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams: The Finnish government in business, 1970–2010 pp. 1327-1356

Pasi Nevalainen and Ville Yliaska

National institutions, regional outcomes. The political economy of post-war Swedish regional policy pp. 1357-1370

Martin Eriksson, Lena Andersson-Skog and Josefin Sabo

Only one way to raise capital? Colombian business groups and the dawn of internal markets pp. 1371-1392

Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal

Varieties of capitalism, competition policy and the UK alcoholic beverages industry pp. 1393-1412

Julie Bower

‘Settlers and comrades’. The variety of capitalism in South Africa, 1910–2016 pp. 1413-1446

Grietjie Verhoef

Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia’s newspaper empires pp. 1447-1448

Kosmas Tsokhas

The Market Makers: Creating Mass Market Consumer Durables in Inter-War Britain pp. 1449-1450

Nicholas Wong

Railway Photographic Advertising in Britain, 1900-1939 pp. 1451-1452

David Turner

Jacques R. Pauwels, big business and Hitler, Toronto 2017 pp. 1453-1453

Roman Köster

La désindustrialisation de la Lorraine du fer pp. 1454-1456

Hubert Bonin

Transnational Corporations and International Production: Concepts, Theories and Effects pp. 1457-1458

Howard Cox

El tabaco y la esclavitud en la rearticulación imperial ibérica (s. XV-XX) pp. 1459-1461

Juan Manuel Matés-Barco

In the Red and In the Black. Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions pp. 1462-1463

Paul Lagneau-Ymonet

Financial elites and European banking: historical perspectives pp. 1464-1465

Jane Knodell

History in the age of abundance? How the web is transforming historical research pp. 1466-1467

Adam Nix

Making managers in Canada, 1945-1995: companies, community colleges, and universities pp. 1468-1470

Keith Fleming

Venture Capital: An American History pp. 1471-1472

Andrew Smith

The origins of modern banking in Spain the role of monetary plurality pp. 1473-1474

Miguel A. López-Morell

Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829 pp. 1475-1476

Karolina Hutková

Fabricating transnational capitalism: A collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese global fashion pp. 1477-1479

Rui Shi

Volume 63, issue 7, 2021

The societas publicanorum and corporate personality in roman private law pp. 1055-1078

Geoffrey Poitras and Frederick Willeboordse

Overcoming institutional voids: Maisons spéciales and the internationalisation of proto-modern brands pp. 1079-1112

Nicholas Alexander and Anne Marie Doherty

Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s pp. 1113-1143

Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones and Erica H. Salvaj

Exceptional big linkers: Dutch evidence from the 20th century pp. 1144-1174

Abe de Jong, Philip T. Fliers and Gerarda Westerhuis

Organizational change in the hospitality industry: The change drivers in a longitudinal analysis pp. 1175-1196

Davide Bagnaresi, Francesco Maria Barbini and Patrizia Battilani

Portfolio advice before modern portfolio theory: The Belle Epoque of French analyst Alfred Neymarck pp. 1197-1221

Maxime Merli, Antoine Parent and Cécile Edlinger

Planning and profits: British naval armaments manufacture and the militaryindustrial complex, 1918–1941 pp. 1222-1223

Jonathan Grant

Making medicine a business: X-ray technology, global competition, and the transformation of the Japanese medical system, 1895–1945 pp. 1224-1225

Maki Umemura

Germany’s colony in China: Colonialism, protection and economic ­development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898–1914 pp. 1226-1227

Thomas David DuBois

Before the neoliberal turn: The rise of energy finances and the limits of US foreign economic policy pp. 1228-1229

Catherine Brégianni

Car safety wars: one hundred years of technology, politics, and death pp. 1230-1232

Jason Begley

Supermarket USA: food and power in the Cold War farms race pp. 1233-1234

Vicki Howard

Luxurious Citizens. The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America pp. 1235-1236

Jon Stobart

Las empresas extranjeras en Argentina desde el siglo XIX al siglo XXI pp. 1237-1238

Rory M. Miller

Volume 63, issue 6, 2021

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets pp. 877-891

José L. García-Ruiz and Michelangelo Vasta

The coevolution of banks and corporate securities markets: The financing of Belgium’s industrial take-off in the 1830s pp. 892-913

Stefano Ugolini

Did French stock markets support firms of the second industrial revolution? pp. 914-943

Emilie Bonhoure and David Le Bris

Debating banking in Britain: The Colwyn committee, 1918 pp. 944-965

Mark Billings, Simon Mollan and Philip Garnett

Corporate networks in post-war Britain: Do finance–industry relationships matter for corporate borrowing? pp. 966-987

Philipp Kern and Gerhard Schnyder

The banking-industry relationship in Italy: large national banks and small local banks compared (1913–1936) pp. 988-1006

Alberto Rinaldi and Anna Spadavecchia

The role of institutional entrepreneurship in the development of accounting in the early 20th century in China pp. 1007-1029

Lina Xu, Sophia Ji and Steven Dellaportas

International mercantile networks and financial intermediation in nineteenth century Scania (Sweden). Foreign private capital imports and informal credit market imbalances pp. 1030-1047

Anders Perlinge

In Chocolate We Trust: The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped pp. 1048-1049

Stefano Magagnoli

Cash and dash: How ATMS and computers changed banking pp. 1050-1051

Pål M. Vik

Uneven centuries: Economic development of Turkey since 1820 pp. 1052-1053

Vera Costantini

Volume 63, issue 5, 2021

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Correction pp. II-II

The Editors

Correction pp. III-III

The Editors

Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800 pp. 705-726

Aaron Graham

The Rootes group: From growth to take-over pp. 727-752

Tom Donnelly, Jason Begley and Clive Collis

Women entrepreneurs in Italy: A prosopographic study pp. 753-775

Alberto Rinaldi and Giulia Tagliazucchi

Women production workers’ introduction into a Norwegian Shipyard 1965–1989 pp. 776-794

Richard Croucher and Gunnar Magne Økland

Implementing and operating the Portsmouth Block Mill, 1803–1812 pp. 795-825

James M. Wilson

The rise of professional asset management: The UK investment trust network before World War I pp. 826-849

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Janette Rutterford and Carry van Lieshout

Business integration and its impact on film industry: The case of Korean film policies from the 1960s until the present pp. 850-867

Jimmyn Parc

The fashion forecasters: a hidden history of color and trend prediction pp. 868-869

Rika Fujioka

BIANCHI. Una storia italiana pp. 870-871

Carlo Mari

History of Financial Institutions. Essays in the History of European Finance, 1800–1950 pp. 872-873

Hubert Bonin

Beiersdorf. The Company behind the Brands Nivea, Tesa, Hansaplast & Co pp. 874-875

Geoffrey Jones

Volume 63, issue 4, 2021

Seasonal variation in production, household composition and earnings in cottage manufacture: Evidence from women weavers employed by a mid-19th century Yorkshire firm pp. 529-556

Craig Heinicke

Why does a prestigious emission house emit a loan for a peripheral state? The house of Rothschild and the Greek guaranteed loan of 1833 pp. 557-573

Korinna Schönhärl

The curse of agility: The Nokia Corporation and the loss of market dominance in mobile phones, 2003–2013 pp. 574-605

Juha-Antti Lamberg, Sandra Lubinaitė, Jari Ojala and Henrikki Tikkanen

Non-financial motivations in mergers and acquisitions: The Fiat–Ferrari case pp. 606-667

Laura Maran and Lee Parker

The curious compatibility of consensus, corporatism, and neoliberalism: The Finnish business community and the retasking of a corporatist welfare state pp. 668-685

Maiju Wuokko

Early regulation and social organisation on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1887–1892 pp. 686-704

Mariusz Lukasiewicz

Volume 63, issue 3, 2021

‘To save the industry from complete ruin’: Crisis and response in British fishing 1945-1951 pp. 353-377

Martin Wilcox

Great expectations: geological theories and technological transfer at Aardal Copperworks in Norway in the first half of the eighteenth century pp. 378-396

Finn Erhard Johannessen

Progressive strategies of municipal trading: The policies of the London County Council Tramways c. 1891–1914 pp. 397-420

David A. Turner and Kevin D. Tennent

Business must go on: 175 years of an olive oil business beyond firms and families pp. 421-442

Fco. Javier Fernández-Roca and Jesús D. López-Manjón

The emergence of neuromarketing investigated through online public communications (2002–2008) pp. 443-466

Clement Levallois, Ale Smidts and Paul Wouters

Customer of last resort? The Swedish advertising industry and the government from World War II to the end of the Cold War pp. 467-488

Erik Lakomaa

Entrepreneurs of the sky: Case studies on entrepreneurial learning from the early British aviation industry pp. 489-520

Catherine Jill Bamforth and Malcolm Abbott

Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law pp. 521-522

Andrew Smith

People, Places and Business Cultures, Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali pp. 523-524

Jim Tomlinson

Terrence H. Witkowski, A History of American Consumption: Threads of Meaning, Gender, and Resistance pp. 525-526

Daniel Levinson Wilk

Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II pp. 527-528

Andrew Perchard

Volume 63, issue 2, 2021

History in corporate social responsibility: Reviewing and setting an agenda pp. 175-204

Christian Stutz

Bounded Reliability and the termination of international joint ventures – insights from the Mid-Med Bank, 1975–1979 pp. 205-224

Qing Lu

‘The caprice of a local board of guardians’: Geographies of new poor law procurement in England and Wales pp. 225-248

Douglas H.L. Brown

Emergence of the small-scale iron foundry industry in Howrah (India), 1833–1913 pp. 249-270

Sudhanshu Shekhar and Vidyanand Jha

The political economy of banking regulation: interest groups and rational choice in the formation of the Swedish banking system 1822–1921 pp. 271-291

Anders Ögren

British IPO directors, 1891–1911 pp. 292-313

Sturla Fjesme, Neal Galpin and Lyndon Moore

Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century pp. 314-341

Eoin McLaughlin and Paul Sharp

50 ans de construction navale en bord de Seine. Les ACSM et leur cité-jardin (1917–1966) pp. 342-344

Hubert Bonin

Decision taking, confidence and risk management in banks from early modernity to the twentieth century pp. 345-346

Hubert Bonin

A global history of co-operative business pp. 347-348

Tito Menzani

How Americans kept warm in the 19th century pp. 349-350

Michael Douma

Bankers and empire. How Wall Street colonized the Caribbean pp. 351-352

Jelle Bruinsma

Volume 63, issue 1, 2021

The rise of Indian business in the global context in the twentieth century: A review and introduction pp. 1-17

Swapnesh K. Masrani, Carlo Joseph Morelli and Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Reassessing FERA: Examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’ pp. 18-37

Michael Aldous and Tirthankar Roy

Regulating the post-independence textile trade: Anglo-Indian tariff negotiations from independence to the Multi-Fibre Arrangement pp. 38-51

Carlo Morelli

Internationalisation of the Indian telecommunication industry (1947–2004): A firm-level perspective pp. 52-71

Ajit Nayak

Internment as a business challenge: Political risk management and German multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947) pp. 72-97

Christina Lubinski, Valeria Giacomin and Klara Schnitzer

Ambiguous decolonisation: a postcolonial reading of the IHRM strategy of the Burmah Oil Company pp. 98-126

Neveen Abdelrehim, Aparajith Ramnath, Andrew Smith and Andrew Popp

Getting together, living together, thinking together: Management development at Tata Sons 1940–1960 pp. 127-145

Swapnesh K. Masrani, Linda Perriton and Alan McKinlay

Philippe Marguerat, Banques et grande industrie: France, Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne (1880–1930) [Banks and big industry: France, Britain, Germany (1880–1930)] pp. 146-148

Hubert Bonin

Storia del Banco di Sicilia pp. 149-150

Maria Stella Chiaruttini

Dutch capitalism pp. 151-152

Mark Spoerer

Global Luxury. Organizational change and emerging markets since the 1970s pp. 153-154

The Editors

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry pp. 155-156

Sedgwick John

Lancashire cotton spinners. A fortune made in the mills pp. 157-158

Roberto Rossi

Risk and ruin: Enron and the culture of American capitalism pp. 159-160

Adam Nix

European fashion. The creation of a global industry pp. 161-162

Valeria Pinchera

The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West pp. 163-164

Louis Galambos

Multinational business and transnational regions. A transnational business history of energy transition in the Rhine region, 1945-1973 pp. 165-166

Maurizio Romano

Feeding Gotham. The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860 pp. 167-168

Lavinia Parziale

Between depression and disarmament. The international armaments business, 1919–1939 pp. 169-170

Riccardo Semeraro

Innovation and entrepreneurial networks in Europe pp. 171-172

David E. Andersson

A new history of management pp. 173-174

Patricia Genoe McLaren