Business History

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Volume 62, issue 8, 2020

Military food supply in the Republic of Venice in the eighteenth century: Entrepreneurs, merchants, and the state pp. 1255-1278

Giulio Ongaro

To know or not to know: Silent complicity in crimes against humanity in Argentina (1976–1983) pp. 1279-1302

Willem de Haan

Evading labour market regulations to preserve team performance: evidence from the Victorian Football League, 1930–70 pp. 1303-1323

Luc Borrowman, Lionel Frost, Abdel K Halabi and Peter Schuwalow

Compensating the passengers. A comparison of the management of three London underground crashes 1909–1975 pp. 1324-1340

James Fowler

The Population of Non-corporate Business Proprietors in England and Wales 1891–1911 pp. 1341-1372

Robert J. Bennett, Harry Smith and Piero Montebruno

Mistresses of company capital: Female partners in multi-owner firms, Spain (1886–1936) pp. 1373-1394

Susana Martinez-Rodriguez

Volume 62, issue 7, 2020

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Correction pp. II-II

The Editors

Business history special issue on foreign investment and the development of entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities in host economies pp. 1063-1078

Adoracion Álvaro-Moya, Susanna Fellman and Nuria Puig

Foreign investment in Portugal and knowledge spillovers: From the Methuen Treaty to the 21st century pp. 1079-1106

T. S. Lopes and Vitor Simões

Technology transfer networks in the first industrial age: the case of Derosne & Cail and the sugar industry (1818–1871) pp. 1107-1136

Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo, Rafael Castro and David Pretel

Staffing policies and human resource management in Argentina: American and British firms (1890–1930s) pp. 1137-1161

Norma Silvana Lanciotti and Andrea Lluch

Immigrant entrepreneurs, technology transfer and knowledge spillovers: The case of Lyon Barcelona (1933–1981) pp. 1162-1181

Montserrat Llonch-Casanovas

Decolonisation and the organisation of the international workforce: Dutch multinationals in Indonesia, 1945–1967 pp. 1182-1201

Keetie Sluyterman

Partners in a journey to the centre of the world: Spanish and Japanese knowledge transfer and alliances in the Spanish healthcare industries (1960s–1980s) pp. 1202-1230

Paloma Fernández Pérez

Managing foreign know-how and local human capital: Urquijo Group and the rise of Spanish engineering firms pp. 1231-1253

Adoración Álvaro-Moya, Núria Puig and Eugenio Torres

Volume 62, issue 6, 2020

French textile specialisation in long run perspective (1836–1938): trade policy as industrial policy pp. 891-914

Stéphane Becuwe and Bertrand Blancheton

Debates and dissent inside the FOMC during WWII pp. 915-939

Etienne Farvaque, Antoine Parent and Piotr Stanek

Enter the middleman: Legitimisation of literary agents in the British Victorian publishing industry 1875–1900 pp. 940-959

Marrisa Joseph

Strategic responses to low-cost competition: Technological lock-in in the Dundee jute industry pp. 960-981

Swapnesh K. Masrani, Peter McKiernan and Alan McKinlay

Share trading activity and the rise of the rentier in the UK before 1920* pp. 982-1001

Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle, David P. Jordan and John Turner

The British house magazine 1945 to 2015: The creation of family, organisation and markets pp. 1002-1026

Michael Heller and Michael Rowlinson

British corporate networks, 1976–2010: Extending the study of finance–industry relationships pp. 1027-1057

Emily Buchnea, Anna Tilba and John F. Wilson

Tourisme, mobilité et développement régional dans les Alpes suisses. Montreux, Finhaut et Zermatt du xix e siècle à nos jours; Stations en tensions pp. 1058-1060

Hubert Bonin

Entrepreneurship in Africa pp. 1061-1062

Nicolaas Strydom

Volume 62, issue 5, 2020

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Business history and European integration: How EEC competition policy affected companies’ strategies pp. 717-742

Neil Rollings and Laurent Warlouzet

Babcock and Wilcox Ltd, the ‘Babcock Family’ and regulation 17/62: A business response to new competition policy in the early 1960s pp. 743-762

Neil Rollings

Creating clubs and giants: How competition policies influenced the strategy and structure of Nordic pulp and paper industry, 1970–2000 pp. 763-781

Niklas Jensen-Eriksen

From cartels to futures. The aluminium industry, the London Metal Exchange and European competition policies, 1960s–1980s pp. 782-814

Marco Bertilorenzi

Embedding the market during times of crisis: the European automobile cartel during a decade of crisis (1973–1985) pp. 815-836

Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez

The European Lilliputians attacking IBM: Balancing innovation and competition in the European Commission’s first big antitrust case (1973–1984) pp. 837-857

Arthe Van Laer

The collapse of the French Shipyard of Dunkirk and EEC state-aid control (1977–86) pp. 858-878

Laurent Warlouzet

The impact of globalisation on Argentina and Chile. Business enterprises and entrepreneurship pp. 879-880

Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal

Anschluss an den Weltmarkt. Ungarns elektrotechnische Leitunternehmen, 1867–1949 pp. 881-882

Claudius Ruch

Fashionability: Abraham Moon and the creation of British cloth for the global market pp. 883-884

Bethan Bide

European Banks and the Rise of International Finance: the post-Bretton Woods era pp. 885-886

Catherine Schenk

Histoire des chemins de fer en France. Tome III: 1937–1997 pp. 887-889

Hubert Boni

Volume 62, issue 4, 2020

Friends in high places: Government-industry relations in public sector house-building during Britain’s tower block era pp. 545-565

Peter Scott

Untangling government, market, and investment failure during the Nigerian oil boom: the Cement Armada scandal 1974–1980 pp. 566-587

Hanaan Marwah

Retail trade and payment innovations in the digital era: a cross-industry and multi-country approach pp. 588-612

J. Carles Maixé-Altés

The ‘Duce hometown effect’ on local industrial development: The case of Forlì pp. 613-636

Francesca Fauri and Matteo Troilo

Accounting for the resilience of the machine-tool industry in Spain (c. 1960–2015) pp. 637-662

Jesús M. Valdaliso

Why leverage does not always deliver: Lessons from the performance of the top 50 industrial firms in Greece during the Great Depression pp. 663-685

Ioanna-Sapfo Pepelasis, Stefanos Zarkos and Constantine Aivalis

Europeanisation under authoritarian rule: Greek business and the hoped-for transition to electoral politics, 1967–1974 pp. 686-709

Christos Tsakas

Réguler l’économie. L’apport des organisations patronales. Europe, xixe–xxe siècles pp. 710-711

Hubert Bonin

Family and business during the industrial revolution pp. 712-713

Niall G. MacKenzie

Industrial development, technology transfer and global competition pp. 714-715

Yasushi Hara

Volume 62, issue 3, 2020

Introduction: The room for manoeuvre for firms in the Third Reich pp. 375-392

Ralf Banken

Sewing for Hitler? The clothing industry during the ‘Third Reich’ pp. 393-409

Roman Köster and Julia Schnaus

The Munich Re: an internationally-oriented reinsurer in the Nazi era pp. 410-420

Christopher Kopper

A hard-to-untangle business conglomerate: The economic empire of the German labour front pp. 421-437

Rüdiger Hachtmann

Between values orientation and economic logic: Bosch in the Third Reich pp. 438-450

Johannes Bähr

Commercial expansion in the steel industry of World War II: The case of Henry J. Kaiser and Friedrich Flick pp. 451-467

Tim Schanetzky

Property, control and room for manoeuvre: Royal Dutch Shell and Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 pp. 468-487

Marten Boon and Ben Wubs

The country-of-origin effect and the international expansion of Spanish fashion companies, 1975–2015 pp. 488-508

José Miranda

Microfinances in the banking houses of Rio de Janeiro in 1864 pp. 509-535

Carlos Eduardo Valencia Villa

La sidérurgie française et la maison de Wendel pendant les Trente Glorieuses pp. 536-538

Hubert Bonin

Policy signals and market responses: a 50-year history of Zambia’s relationship with foreign capital pp. 539-540

Simone Halleen

Small business, education, and management. The life and times of John Bolton pp. 541-542

Silvia Milanesi

Les bassins industriels des territoires occupés, 1914–1918. Des opérations militaires à la reconstruction pp. 543-544

Hubert Bonin

Volume 62, issue 2, 2020

Multinational mining companies, employment and knowledge transfer: Chile and Norway from ca. 1870 to 1940 pp. 197-221

Kristin Ranestad

Managing policy lapse risk in Sweden’s life insurance market between 1915 and 1947 pp. 222-239

Mike Adams, Lars-Fredrik Andersson, Magnus Lindmark, Liselotte Eriksson and Elena Veprauskaite

Business failure in an age of globalisation: Interpreting the rise and fall of the LG project in Wales, 1995–2006 pp. 240-260

Leon Gooberman

The professionalisation of selling and the transformation of a family business: Kenrick & Jefferson, 1878–1940 pp. 261-291

David Paulson

Corporate social responsibility before CSR: Practices at Aluminium du Cameroun (Alucam) from the 1950s to the 1980s pp. 292-342

Marie-Claire Loison, Celine Berrier-Lucas and Anne Pezet

Extending William Baumol’s theory on entrepreneurship and institutions: lessons from post-Second World War Greece pp. 343-363

Zoi Pittaki

Indochine années vingt. L’âge d’or de l’affairisme colonial (1918–1928). Banquiers, hommes d’affaires et patrons en réseaux pp. 364-366

Hubert Bonin

Equity capital. From ancient partnerships to modern exchange traded funds pp. 367-368

Tim Kooijmans

Baking powder wars: the cutthroat food fight that revolutionized cooking pp. 369-370

Marco Marigliano

The rise of the global company: multinationals and the making of the modern world pp. 371-372

Julian Faust

Green capitalism? Business and the environment in the twentieth century pp. 373-374

Mattias Näsman

Volume 62, issue 1, 2020

Cross-cultural factors in international branding pp. 1-25

Rafael Castro and Patricio Sáiz

The transformation of global luxury brands: The case of the Swiss watch company Longines, 1880–2010 pp. 26-41

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Making Italian fashion global: Brand building and management at Gruppo Finanziario Tessile (1950s‒1990s) pp. 42-69

Elisabetta Merlo and Mario Perugini

Brand image, cultural association and marketing: ‘New Zealand’ butter and lamb exports to Britain, c. 1920–1938 pp. 70-97

Felicity Barnes and David M. Higgins

The expansion of branding in international marketing: The case of olive oil, 1870s–1930s pp. 98-122

Ramon Ramon-Muñoz

The making of Labatt ‘Blue’: The quest for a national lager brand, 1959–1971 pp. 123-150

Matthew J. Bellamy

The emergence of Italy as a fashion country: Nation branding and collective meaning creation at Florence’s fashion shows (1951–1965) pp. 151-178

Valeria Pinchera and Diego Rinallo

Dreaming of the West: The power of the brand in Soviet Lithuania, 1960s–1980s pp. 179-195

Brigita Tranavičiūtė