Business History

1997 - 2025

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Volume 61, issue 8, 2019

Financial fraud, scandals, and regulation: A conceptual framework and literature review pp. 1259-1299

Hugo van Driel

Hidden in plain sight: Correspondent banking in the 1930s pp. 1300-1325

Laura Panza and David Merrett

‘An indispensable luxury’: British American Tobacco in the occupation of Germany, 1945–1948 pp. 1326-1351

Thomas J. Kehoe and Elizabeth M. Greenhalgh

Exclusion of women and organisational characteristics: Swedish mutual health insurance 1901–1910 pp. 1352-1378

Lars-Fredrik Andersson and Liselotte Eriksson

Intérêts économiques français et décolonisation de l’Afrique du Nord (1945–1962) pp. 1379-1381

Hubert Bonin

The Formative Period of American Capitalism: A materialist interpretation pp. 1382-1383

Michael J. Douma

West German industrialists and the making of the economic miracle. A history of mentality and recovery pp. 1384-1385

Matthias Kemmerer

Money changes everything: how finance made civilisation possible pp. 1386-1387

Andrew Smith

Win-win corporations: the Indian way of shaping successful strategies pp. 1388-1389

Sashi Sivramkrishna

Ladies of the ticker. Women and Wall Street from the gilded age to the great depression pp. 1390-1391

Alberto Rinaldi

The history of the beer and brewing industry: Brewing, beer and pubs. A global perspective pp. 1392-1393

Julien del Marmol

Volume 61, issue 7, 2019

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Introduction: Leslie Hannah and business history in his time pp. 1091-1107

James Foreman-Peck, Daniel Raff and Peter Scott

Hannah on ‘Hollywood history’: Exploring the limits of the Chandlerian model pp. 1108-1128

Daniel M.G. Raff

The concept of the corporation pp. 1129-1143

John Kay

Taxes and industrial structure pp. 1144-1157

Peter Temin

An American and European technological difference: The early motor car power source pp. 1158-1174

James Foreman-Peck

Financial diversification strategies before World War I: Buy-and-hold versus naïve portfolio selection pp. 1175-1198

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos and Janette Rutterford

Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: Contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries pp. 1199-1221

Ron Harris and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Incentives, inequality and taxation: The Meade Committee Report on the Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation (1978) pp. 1222-1235

Martin Chick

Enterprise vs. product logic: the industrial reorganisation corporation and the rationalisation of the British electrical/electronics industry pp. 1236-1257

Anthony Gandy and Roy Edwards

Volume 61, issue 6, 2019

Prospects for a transparency revolution in the field of business history pp. 919-941

Andrew Smith and Maki Umemura

What’s in a price? The American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American War pp. 942-970

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Restructuring of the Danish pork industry: The role of mergers and takeovers, 1960–2010 pp. 971-1004

Jesper Strandskov

Failure to learn from failure: The 2008 mortgage crisis as a déjà vu of the mortgage meltdown of 1994 pp. 1005-1050

Natalya Vinokurova

The early emergence of European commercial education in the nineteenth century: Insights from higher engineering schools pp. 1051-1082

Adrien Jean-Guy Passant

Les Gillet de Lyon. Fortunes d’une grande dynastie industrielle (1838-2015) pp. 1083-1085

Hubert Bonin

La sfida internazionale della Comit pp. 1086-1087

Giuseppe Telesca

Aluminiumville: Government, global business, and the Scottish Highlands pp. 1088-1089

Lachlan MacKinnon

Volume 61, issue 5, 2019

Introduction: Rhenish capitalism and business history pp. 745-784

Christian Marx and Morten Reitmayer

The concept of social fields and the productive models: Two examples from the European automobile industry pp. 785-809

Morten Reitmayer

Corporate law and corporate control in West Germany after 1945 pp. 810-832

Boris Gehlen

Between national governance and the internationalisation of business. The case of four major West German producers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fibres, 1945–2000 pp. 833-862

Christian Marx

Financing Rhenish capitalism: ‘bank power’ and the business of crisis management in the 1960s and 1970s pp. 863-878

Ralf Ahrens

Supplier relations within the German automobile industry. The case of Daimler-Benz, 1950–1980 pp. 879-897

Stephanie Tilly

Confrontational coordination: The rearrangement of public relations in the automotive industry during the 1970s pp. 898-917

Ingo Köhler

Volume 61, issue 4, 2019

The virtues of dialogue between academics and businessmen pp. 581-602

Lise Arena and Leonard Minkes

Directors and syndics in corporate networks: Argentina and Italy compared (1913–1990) pp. 603-628

Andrea Lluch, Alberto Rinaldi, Erica Salvaj and Michelangelo Vasta

A French migrant business network in the period of export-led growth (ELG) in Mexico: The case of the Barcelonnettes pp. 629-658

José Galindo

Cadbury and the rise of the supermarket: innovation in marketing 1953–1975 pp. 659-680

Adrian R. Bailey and Andrew Alexander

Technical self-sufficiency, pricing independence: a Penrosean perspective on China’s emergence as a major oil refiner since the 1960s pp. 681-702

Damian Tobin

History of microfinance in Bangladesh: A life cycle theory approach pp. 703-733

Md Aslam Mia, Hwok-Aun Lee, Vgr Chandran, Rajah Rasiah and Mahfuzur Rahman

Les Européens dans les ports en situation coloniale, xixe-xxe siècles: Espaces portuaires. L’Europe du Nord à l’interface des économies et des cultures, xixe-xxe siècles: Gouverner les ports de commerce à l’heure libérale. Regards sur les pays d’Europe du Sud pp. 734-736

Hubert Bonin

Geschichte und Gewinn. Der Umgang deutscher Konzerne mit ihrer NS-Vergangenheit pp. 737-738

Simon Gogl

The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite pp. 739-740

Jason Russell

Foundations of managing sporting events: organising the 1966 FIFA World Cup pp. 741-742

Alan Tomlinson

Trade and technology networks in the Chinese textile industry. Opening up before the reforms pp. 743-744

Valeria Zanier

Volume 61, issue 3, 2019

Health Industries in the Twentieth Century pp. 385-403

Pierre-Yves Donzé and Paloma Fernández Pérez

Learning from giants: Early exposure to advance markets in the growth and internationalisation of Spanish health care corporations in the twentieth century pp. 404-428

Paloma Fernández Pérez, Nuria Puig, Esteban García-Canal and Mauro F. Guillén

Thriving in the shadow of giants: The success of the Japanese surgical needle producer MANI, 1956–2016 pp. 429-455

Ken Sakai

Challenging the Problem of ‘Fit’: Advancing the Regenerative Medicine Industries in the United States, Britain and Japan pp. 456-480

Maki Umemura

‘Importance of Germany to Countries around and to World Economy makes it impossible to ignore’ – The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health in Germany after WWII pp. 481-497

Sabine Schleiermacher

Socialisation of healthcare demand and development of the French health system (1890–1938) pp. 498-517

Jean-Paul Domin

China: The development of the health system during the Maoist period (1949–76) pp. 518-537

Roser Alvarez-Klee

Architects and knowledge transfer in hospital systems: The introduction of Western hospital designs in Japan (1918–1970) pp. 538-557

Pierre-Yves Donzé

The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015) pp. 558-579

Jerònia Pons-Pons and Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez

Volume 61, issue 2, 2019

The business history of the preindustrial world: Towards a comparative historical analysis pp. 225-259

Oscar Gelderblom and Francesca Trivellato

When union strategy meets business strategy: The union voucher at Axa pp. 260-280

Rémi Bourguignon and Mathieu Floquet

Guilds, authority and the individual: The Company of Mercers prosecution of Dorothy Gretton in early eighteenth-century Derby pp. 281-298

Peter Collinge

Big business in the Russian empire: A European perspective pp. 299-321

Volodymyr Kulikov and Martin Kragh

Sober business: Shared value creation between the insurance industry and the temperance movement pp. 322-342

Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Liselotte Eriksson

Competitive advantage and the transformation of value chains over time: The example of a South Korean diversified business group, 1953–2013 pp. 343-370

In Woo Jun and Chris Rowley

Bordeaux et les États-Unis, 1776–1815. Politique et stratégie négociantes dans la genèse d’un réseau commercial pp. 371-373

Hubert Bonin

The business of sports agents pp. 374-375

Alex G. Gillett

World market transformation: Inside the German fur capital Leipzig, 1870–1939 pp. 376-377

Alice Janssens

Dutch enterprise in the twentieth century. Business strategies in a small open economy pp. 378-379

Marten Boon

Sport in Urban England: Middlesbrough, 1870–1914 pp. 380-381

Alex G. Gillett

Revolutions from Grub Street: A history of magazine publishing in Britain pp. 382-383

Catherine Armstrong

Volume 61, issue 1, 2019

Corrigendum pp. I-I

The Editors

Changing Secondhand Economies pp. 1-16

Karen Tranberg Hansen and Jennifer Le Zotte

Domestic textiles and country house sales in Georgian England pp. 17-37

Jon Stobart

‘Fence-ing lessons’: child junkers and the commodification of scrap in the long nineteenth century pp. 38-72

Wendy A. Woloson

Jews, second-hand trade and upward economic mobility: Introducing the ready-to-wear business in industrializing Helsinki, 1880–1930 pp. 73-92

Laura Katarina Ekholm

Shylocks to superheroes: Jewish scrap dealers in Anglo-American popular culture pp. 93-105

Jonathan Z. S. Pollack

The mass consumption of refashioned clothes: Re-dyed kimono in post war Japan pp. 106-121

Miki Sugiura

The work of shopping: Resellers and the informal economy at the goodwill bins pp. 122-154

Jennifer Ayres

Valuation in action: Ethnography of an American thrift store pp. 155-171

Frederik Larsen

History as business: Changing dynamics of retailing in Gothenburg’s second-hand market pp. 172-186

Staffan Appelgren

Second-hand vehicle markets in West Africa: A source of regional disintegration, trade informality and welfare losses pp. 187-204

Abel Ezeoha, Chinwe Okoyeuzu, Emmanuel Onah and Chibuike Uche

Urban prototypes: Growing local circular cloth economies pp. 205-224

Lucy Norris