Business History

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor John Wilson and Professor Steven Toms

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Volume 59, issue 8, 2017

Theorising narrative in business history pp. 1155-1175

Mads Mordhorst and Stefan Schwarzkopf

The strategic use of historical narratives: a theoretical framework pp. 1176-1200

William M. Foster, Diego M. Coraiola, Roy Suddaby, Jochem Kroezen and David Chandler

How business historians can save the world – from the fallacy of self-made success pp. 1201-1217

Pamela Walker Laird

Narrative, metaphor and the subjective understanding of historic identity transition pp. 1218-1241

Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Lindsay Stringfellow

Writing business history: Creating narratives pp. 1242-1260

Andrew Popp and Susanna Fellman

Narrating histories of women at work: Archives, stories, and the promise of feminism pp. 1261-1279

Gabrielle Durepos, Alan McKinlay and Scott Taylor

Histories of leadership in the Copenhagen Phil – A cultural view of narrativity in studies of leadership in symphony orchestras pp. 1280-1302

Søren Friis Møller

La place financière de Paris au siècle. Des ambitions contrariées pp. 1303-1305

Hubert Bonin

Les concessions hydroélectriques dans le grand sud-ouest, Histoire et débats 1902/2015 pp. 1305-1306

Alain Beltran

Wall streeters: The creators and corruptors of American finance pp. 1306-1308

C. Edoardo Altamura

America’s bank: The epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve pp. 1308-1309

Linda Arch

Start with the future and work back: a heritage management manifesto pp. 1310-1311

Daniele Pozzi

The international aluminium cartel, 1886–1978: The business and politics of a cooperative industrial institution pp. 1311-1313

Valerio Cerretano

Business History pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 59, issue 7, 2017

Uniting business history and global environmental history pp. 987-1009

Andrew Smith and Kirsten Greer

Long-range forecasts: Linseed oil and the hemispheric movement of market and climate data, 1890–1939 pp. 1010-1033

Joshua MacFadyen

Business interrupted: remote resources and environmental knowledge flows in times of global crisis (Alcan and Greenland 1940–1945) pp. 1034-1053

Dawn Alexandrea Berry

Knowing nature in the business records of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1670–1840 pp. 1054-1080

George Colpitts

The problem of milk in the nineteenth-century Ontario cheese industry: an envirotechnical approach to business history pp. 1081-1110

Hayley Goodchild

Transfer of European technologies and their adaptations: The case of the Bengal silk industry in the late-eighteenth century pp. 1111-1135

Karolina Hutková

Making the global local? Overseas goods in English rural shops, c.1600–1760 pp. 1136-1153

Jon Stobart

Volume 59, issue 6, 2017

Corporations as agents of social change: A case study of diversity at Cummins Inc pp. 821-843

Heidi Reed

‘A highly successful model’? The rail franchising business in Britain pp. 844-876

Robert Jupe and Warwick Funnell

Reaching for global in the Japanese cosmetics industry, 1951 to 2015: the case of Shiseido pp. 877-903

Maki Umemura and Stephanie Slater

Clio in the business school: Historical approaches in strategy, international business and entrepreneurship pp. 904-927

Andrew Perchard, Niall G. MacKenzie, Stephanie Decker and Giovanni Favero

Business success and the architectural practice of Sir George Gilbert Scott, c.1845–1878: a study in hard work, sound management and networks of trust pp. 928-950

Sam McKinstry and Ying Yong Ding

Religious minority in business history: The case of Old Believers pp. 951-974

Danila Raskov and Vadim Kufenko

Histoire de l’emballage en France, du siècle à nos jours pp. 975-976

Hubert Bonin

La doyenne des «Sénégalaises» de Bordeaux: Maurel et H. Prom de 1831 à 1919, tome I. De l’édification à la période africaine; tome II. Maurel & H.Prom en Afrique pp. 977-979

Hubert Bonin

El Banco de Barcelona, 1874–1920. Decadencia y quiebra pp. 979-981

José L. García-Ruiz

Family multinationals. Entrepreneurship, governance, and pathways to internationalization pp. 981-983

Hans Sjögren

Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European Cities pp. 983-985

Pamela H. Smith

Volume 59, issue 5, 2017

Managing political imperatives in war time: strategic responses of Philips in Australia, 1939–1945 pp. 645-666

Pierre van der Eng

The genesis of the electricity supply industry in Britain: A case study of NESCo from 1889 to 1914 pp. 667-689

Tom McGovern and Tom McLean

‘A fraud, a drunkard, and a worthless scamp’: estate agents, regulation, and Realtors in the interwar period pp. 690-709

Mark Latham

Bring in the brewers: business entry in the Swedish brewing industry from 1830 to 2012 pp. 710-743

Marcus Box

Pioneering strategies in the digital world. Insights from the Axel Springer case pp. 744-777

Gianvito Lanzolla and Alessandro Giudici

The making of the modern retail market: economic theory, business interests and economic policy in the passage of the 1964 Resale Prices Act pp. 778-801

Helen Mercer

The decline in the British bank population since 1810 obeys a law of negative compound interest pp. 802-813

J. J. Bissell

Banks, births, and tipping points in the historical demography of British banking: A response to J.J. Bissell pp. 814-820

Philip Garnett, Simon Mollan and R. Alexander Bentley

Volume 59, issue 4, 2017

Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company. A personal and professional relationship pp. 471-496

Bjørn Basberg

Strategic transformations in large Irish-owned businesses pp. 497-524

Colm O’Gorman and Declan Curran

Rehabilitating the intermediary: brokers and auctioneers in the nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian trade pp. 525-553

Michael Aldous

The obsolescing bargain model and oil: the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1933–1951 pp. 554-571

Neveen Abdelrehim and Steven Toms

United we stand, divided we fall: historical trajectory of strategic renewal activities at the Scandinavian Airlines System, 1946–2012 pp. 572-606

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Jan Ottosson and Hans Sjögren

Who financed the expansion of the equity market? Shareholder clienteles in Victorian Britain pp. 607-637

Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell and John Turner

Le crédit à la consommation en France, 1947-1965. De la stigmatisation à la réglementation pp. 638-639

Hubert Bonin

Early Victorian railway excursions: ‘The million go forth’ pp. 639-640

Mark Learmonth

Du Capitalisme familiale au Capitalisme financier? Le Cas de l’Industrie Suisse des Machines, de l’Electrotechnique et de la Métallurgie au XXe Siècle pp. 641-642

Margrit Müller

Handbook of cliometrics pp. 642-643

Anna Missiaia

Volume 59, issue 3, 2017

State intervention and economic growth in Southern Italy: the rise and fall of the ‘Cassa per il Mezzogiorno’ (1950–1986) pp. 319-341

Emanuele Felice and Amedeo Lepore

Oil multinationals and governments in post-colonial transitions: Burmah Shell, the Burmah Oil Company and the Indian state 1947–70 pp. 342-361

Shraddha Verma and Neveen Abdelrehim

Facing the inevitable? The public telecom monopoly’s way of coping with deregulation pp. 362-381

Pasi Nevalainen

Cocooned: path dependence and the demise of Anderson & Robertson Ltd, Scotland’s last silk throwsters pp. 382-407

Ying Yong Ding, Kirsten Kininmonth and Sam McKinstry

The confident forecaster. Lessons from the upscaling of the electricity industry in England and Wales pp. 408-430

Nuno Luis Madureira

Enterprise logic vs product logic: the development of GE’s computer product line pp. 431-452

Anthony Gandy and Roy Edwards

Cooperation rather than competition in industrial organisations: Albion W. Small’s underestimated view pp. 453-470

Guillaume Vallet

Volume 59, issue 2, 2017

Business and State in the development of the steel industry in Spain and Italy (c.1880–1929) pp. 159-178

Miguel A. Sáez-García

Barriers to ‘industrialisation’ for interwar British retailing? The case of Marks & Spencer Ltd pp. 179-201

Peter Scott and James Walker

The parochial realm, social enterprise and gender: the work of Catharine Cappe and Faith Gray and others in York, 1780–1820 pp. 202-230

Linda Perriton

‘The computer says no’: the demise of the traditional bank manager and the depersonalisation of British banking, 1960–2010 pp. 231-249

Pål Vik

The breakdown of the workplace ‘family’ and the rise of personnel management within an Australian financial institution 1950–1980 pp. 250-267

Monica J. Keneley

Mad women: gendered divisions in the Swedish advertising industry, 1930–2012 pp. 268-291

Klara Arnberg and Jonatan Svanlund

Risk management and reinsurance strategies in the Spanish insurance market (1880–1940) pp. 292-310

Pablo Gutiérrez González and Jerònia Pons Pons

The power of corporate networks. A comparative and historical perspective pp. 311-312

Hubert Buch-Hansen

The Qing opening to the ocean: Chinese maritime policies, 1684–1757 pp. 312-313

Ronald Chung-yam PO

Connexions électriques. Technologies, hommes et marchés dans les relations entre la Compagnie générale d’électricité et l’État, 1898-1992 pp. 313-316

Hubert Bonin

Le sacre du roquefort. L’émergence d’une industrie agroalimentaire (fin XVIIIe siècle-1925) pp. 316-318

Hubert Bonin

Volume 59, issue 1, 2017

Perspectives articles for pp. 1-3

The Editors

The stagflation crisis and the European automotive industry, 1973–85 pp. 4-34

Jordi Catalan Vidal

Voluntary export restraints between Britain and Japan: The case of the UK car market (1971–2002) pp. 35-55

James Walker

The West Midlands automotive industry: the road downhill pp. 56-74

Tom Donnelly, Jason Begley and Clive Collis

Industrial policy and the British automotive industry under Margaret Thatcher pp. 75-100

Tommaso Pardi

Path-dependent product development and Fiat's takeover of Lancia in 1969: meta-routines for design selection between synergies and brand autonomy pp. 101-120

Giuliano Maielli

Growth amid a storm: Renault in Spain during the stagflation crisis, 1974–1985 pp. 121-140

Tomàs Fernández-de-Sevilla

Reversing gear: trade union responses to economic crises at Opel (1974–1985) pp. 141-157

Thomas Fetzer