Business History

1997 - 2025

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Volume 60, issue 8, 2018

Trademarks in branding: Legal issues and commercial practices pp. 1103-1124

Patricio Sáiz and Rafael Castro

Branding before the brand: Marks, imitations and counterfeits in pre-modern Europe pp. 1125-1144

Carlo Marco Belfanti

Early marks: American trademarks before US trademark law pp. 1145-1168

Paul Duguid

The ‘disguised’ foreign investor: Brands, trademarks and the British expatriate entrepreneur in Brazil pp. 1169-1193

Teresa Lopes, Carlos Gabriel Guimarães, Alexandre Saes and Luiz Fernando Saraiva

Brands in the Basque gun making industry: The case of ASTRA-Unceta y Cía pp. 1194-1224

Igor Goñi-Mendizabal

Cheese trademarks: Italian dairy firms’ practices during the 20th century pp. 1225-1252

Ilaria Suffia, Andrea Maria Locatelli and Claudio Besana

The effects of producers’ trademark strategies on the structure of the cognac brandy supply chain during the second half of the 19th century. The reconfiguration of commercial trust by the use of brands pp. 1253-1274

Thomas Mollanger

Disney in Spain (1930–1935) pp. 1275-1305

Jose Bellido and Kathy Bowrey

Volume 60, issue 7, 2018

New perspectives on 20th-century European retailing pp. 941-958

Peter Scott and Patrick Fridenson

Managing business performance: The contrasting cases of two multiple retailers 1920 to 1939 pp. 959-982

Andrew Hull

More than window dressing: visual merchandising and austerity in London’s West End, 1945–50 pp. 983-1003

Bethan Bide

Turning regulation into business opportunities: A brief history of French food mass retailing (1949–2015) pp. 1004-1025

Adam Dewitte, Sebastian Billows and Xavier Lecocq

The state, small shops and hypermarkets: A public policy for retail, France, 1945–1973 pp. 1026-1048

Tristan Jacques

Unlocking the padlock: Retail and public policy in Belgium (1930–1961) pp. 1049-1081

Peter Heyrman

Resistance to Inequality as a Competitive Strategy? – The Cases of the Finnish consumer Co-ops Elanto and HOK 1905–2015 pp. 1082-1104

Anitra Komulainen and Sakari Siltala

Volume 60, issue 6, 2018

Correction to: The expansion of branding in international marketing: The case of olive oil, 1870s–1930s pp. x-x

The Editors

The British corporate network, 1904–1976: Revisiting the finance–industry relationship pp. 779-806

John F. Wilson, Emily Buchnea and Anna Tilba

Retailing under resale price maintenance: Economies of scale and scope, and firm strategic response, in the inter-war British retail pharmacy sector pp. 807-832

Peter Scott and James Walker

Development built on crony capitalism? The case of Dangote Cement pp. 833-858

Akinyinka Akinyoade and Chibuike Uche

A moving target: The geographic evolution of Silicon Valley, 1953–1990 pp. 859-883

Stephen B. Adams, Dustin Chambers and Michael Schultz

‘In the best position to reap mutually beneficial results’: Sole-agency agreements and the distribution of consumer durables in inter-war Britain pp. 884-907

Nicholas D. Wong and Andrew Popp

Deadlock in corporate governance: Finding a common strategy for private telephone companies, 1978–1998 pp. 908-929

Pasi Nevalainen

Innovation and technological diffusion: An economic history of early steam engines pp. 930-931

Alessandro Nuvolari

Profits and Sustainability. A History of Green Entrepreneurship pp. 931-933

Ann-Kristin Bergquist

Natural resources and economic growth. Learning from history pp. 933-935

Valeria Giacomin

From main street to mall: The rise and fall of the American department store pp. 935-939

Franck Cochoy

Les banques françaises et la Grande Guerre pp. 939-940

Hubert Bonin

Volume 60, issue 5, 2018

Correction to: Interfield Dynamics: Law and the creation of new organisational fields in the nineteenth-century United States pp. x-x

The Editors

Special issue introduction: Historical research on institutional change pp. 613-627

Stephanie Decker, Behlül Üsdiken, Lars Engwall and Michael Rowlinson

Interfield Dynamics: Law and the creation of new organisational fields in the nineteenth-century United States pp. 628-654

R. Daniel Wadhwani

Moral dividends: Freemasonry and finance capitalism in early-nineteenth-century America pp. 655-676

Pamela A. Popielarz

Hey DJ, don’t stop the music: Institutional work and record pooling practices in the United States’ music industry pp. 677-698

Neil Thompson

Managing the paradox of unwanted efficiency: The symbolic legitimation of the hypermarket format in Finland, 1960–1975 pp. 699-727

Jarmo Seppälä

Change dynamics in institutional discontinuities: Do formal or informal institutions change first? Lessons from rule changes in professional American baseball pp. 728-753

Aya S. Chacar, Sokol Celo and William Hesterly

From data problems to questions about sources: elements towards an institutional analysis of population-level organisational change. The case of British building societies, 1845–1980 pp. 754-777

Olivier Butzbach

Volume 60, issue 4, 2018

Correction to: Emile and Isaac Pereire. Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France pp. x-x

The Editors

How far does the apple fall from the tree? The size of English bank branch networks in the nineteenth century pp. 447-473

Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton

Interweaving threads of credit and debt: Trading (through) textiles in colonial Dar es Salaam pp. 474-491

Benjamin Brühwiler

Legal structure, business organisations and lobbying: The Japanese publishing sector, 1990–2001 pp. 492-511

Takahiro Endo

In the city: The John Lewis partnership and planned shopping centres pp. 512-541

Thomas R. Buckley

Innovation and entrepreneurship as strategies for success among Cuban-based firms in the late years of the transatlantic slave trade pp. 542-561

Manuel Barcia and Effie Kesidou

Internationalisation choices of Polish firms during the post-socialism transition period: The role of institutional conditions at firm’s foundation pp. 562-600

Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinaric, Krzysztof Obloj and Aleksandra Wasowska

Emile and Isaac Pereire. Bankers, socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France pp. 601-602

Giandomenico Piluso

What is modernity? pp. 603-605

Gita Piramal

The economic history of China: From antiquity to the nineteenth century pp. 605-607

Carles Brasó Broggi

Dividends of development: Securities markets in the history of US capitalism, 1866–1922 pp. 608-609

Mark Billings

La mobilisation financière pendant la Grande Guerre. Le front financier, un troisième front pp. 609-611

Hubert Bonin

Volume 60, issue 3, 2018

Shady business: On the history of white-collar crime pp. 289-304

Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann

The changing place of fraud in seventeenth-century public debates about international trading corporations pp. 305-320

William A. Pettigrew

Privatisation and corruption in historical perspective: The case of secularisation in Bavaria and Prussia in the early nineteenth century pp. 321-342

Robert Bernsee

White-collar crime and the law in nineteenth-century Britain pp. 343-360

James Taylor

Cleaning San Francisco, cleaning the United States: The graft prosecutions of 1906–1909 and their nationwide consequences pp. 361-380

Uwe Spiekermann

Howard Hopson’s billion dollar fraud: The rise and fall of associated gas & electric company, 1921–1940 pp. 381-398

William J. Hausman

Corporate behaviour and ecological disaster: Dow Chemical and the Great Lakes mercury crisis, 1970–1972 pp. 399-422

Simone M. Müller

“Organised irresponsibility”? The Siemens corruption scandal of the 1990s and 2000s pp. 423-445

Hartmut Berghoff

Volume 60, issue 2, 2018

Thinking about industry decline: A qualitative meta-analysis and future research directions pp. 127-156

Juha-Antti Lamberg, Jari Ojala and Mirva Peltoniemi

The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901–1930 pp. 157-177

Laura Panza, Simon Ville and David Merrett

Longevity challenges and leadership interventions: Strategy journeys of two Indian banks pp. 178-201

Kamal R. Sharma and Mukund R. Dixit

A European role in intra-Asian commercial development: The Maclaine Watson network and the Java sugar trade c.1840–1942 pp. 202-230

Alexander Claver and G. Roger Knight

Accessing capital markets: Aristocrats and new share issues in the British bicycle boom of the 1890s pp. 231-256

Shima Amini and Steven Toms

Trading forward: The Paris Bourse in the nineteenth century pp. 257-280

Paul Lagneau-Ymonet and Angelo Riva

Jean Monnet, banquier, 1914–1945. Intérêts privés et intérêt général pp. 281-282

Hubert Bonin

On the origins of self-service pp. 282-283

Emanuela Scarpellini

Regulating competition. Cartel registers in the twentieth-century world pp. 283-286

Mária Hidvégi

Les banques et les mutations des entreprises. Le cas de Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing aux XIXe et XXe siècles pp. 286-288

Carlo Brambilla

Volume 60, issue 1, 2018

Change of referencing style pp. 1-3

Stephanie Decker, Ray Stokes, Andrea Colli, Abe de Jong, Paloma Fernandez Perez and Neil Rollings

War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur pp. 4-22

Rafael Torres-Sánchez, Pepijn Brandon and Marjolein ‘t Hart

The impact of war: New business networks and small-scale contractors in Britain, 1739–1770 pp. 23-40

Gordon Bannerman

The French navy and war entrepreneurs: Identity, business relations, conflicts, and cooperation in the eighteenth century pp. 41-56

David Plouviez

Military entrepreneurs and the development of the French economy in the eighteenth century pp. 57-71

Pierrick Pourchasse

The Spanish monarchy as a contractor state in the eighteenth century: Interaction of political power with the market pp. 72-86

Sergio Solbes Ferri

War contracting and artillery production in Spain pp. 87-104

Agustín González Enciso

Shipbuilding administration under the Spanish Habsburg and Bourbon regimes (1590‒1834): A comparative perspective pp. 105-125

Ivan Valdez-Bubnov