Business History

1997 - 2025

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Volume 58, issue 8, 2016

Transaction costs of early modern multinational enterprise: measuring the transatlantic information lag of the British Royal African Company and its successor, 1680–1818 pp. 1147-1163

Klas Rönnbäck

A cricket ground or a football stadium? The business of ground sharing at the Adelaide Oval before 1973 pp. 1164-1182

Lionel Frost, Margaret Lightbody, Amanda Carter and Abdel K. Halabi

A decade of hybrid reporting and accountabilities of the Hanyeping Company (1909–1919) pp. 1183-1209

Lan Peng and Alistair M. Brown

Dealing with globalisation: the Nordic countries and inward FDI, 1900–1939 pp. 1210-1235

Andreas R. Dugstad Sanders, Pål Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli

Weber’s Protestant Work Ethic: a case study of Scottish entrepreneurs, the Coats Family of Paisley pp. 1236-1261

Kirsten Kininmonth

National image as a competitive disadvantage: the case of the New Zealand organic food industry pp. 1262-1288

Geoffrey Jones and Simon Mowatt

The power of corporate networks: a comparative and historical perspective pp. 1289-1290

Leslie Hannah

La Compagnie des compteurs, acteur et témoin des mutations industrielles du siècle (1872–1987) pp. 1290-1292

Hubert Bonin

The rise of the public authority: statebuilding and economic development in twentieth-century America pp. 1292-1293

Alex Gillett

The business of waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present pp. 1293-1295

Alex Gillett

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 58, issue 7, 2016

‘Inequality’ and ‘value’ reconsidered? the employment of post office women, 1910–1922 pp. 985-1007

Mark J. Crowley

The burden of the family company: Leopoldo Pirelli and his times pp. 1008-1033

Franco Amatori

The development of integrated marketing communications at the British General Post Office, 1931–39 pp. 1034-1054

Michael Heller

Food chains and the retailing revolution: supermarkets, dairy processors and consumers in Spain (1960 to the present) pp. 1055-1076

Fernando Collantes

Cartels and norms in the Swedish steel industry 1923–1953 pp. 1077-1094

Birgit Karlsson

The rise of the LP: the politics of diffusion innovation in the recording industry pp. 1095-1117

Mark Harvey

Issues in European business education in the mid-nineteenth century: a comparative perspective pp. 1118-1145

Adrien Jean-Guy Passant

Volume 58, issue 6, 2016

Turnaround and failure: Resource weaknesses and the rise and fall of Jarvis pp. 829-857

Andrew Wild and Andy Lockett

Economic and Social Power in Spain: corporate networks of banks, utilities and other large companies (1917–2009) pp. 858-879

Juan Rubio-Mondéjar and Josean Garrues-Irurzun

The transatlantic business community faced with US direct investment in Western Europe, 1958–1968 pp. 880-902

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

Strategic manoeuvres and impression management: communication approaches in the case of a crisis event pp. 903-924

Brendan O’Connell, Paul De Lange, Greg Stoner and Alan Sangster

A rum deal: The purser’s measure and accounting control of materials in the Royal Navy, 1665–1832 pp. 925-946

Karen McBride, Tony Hines and Russell Craig

‘Not to bet the farm’: SANLAM and internationalisation, 1995–2010 pp. 947-973

Grietjie Verhoef

L’Énergie de la France. De Zoé aux EPR, l’histoire du programme nucléaire pp. 974-977

Hubert Bonin

Capital of capital. Money, banking and power in New York City, 1784–2012 pp. 977-979

Hubert Bonin

British economic growth, 1270–1870 pp. 979-981

Roger Middleton

The Cadbury Committee: a history pp. 981-982

Anna Tilba

Crisis, credibility and corporate history pp. 982-983

Robin Pearson

Volume 58, issue 5, 2016

Beer, brewing, and business history pp. 609-624

Ignazio Cabras and David Higgins

From reviving tradition to fostering innovation and changing marketing: the evolution of micro-brewing in the UK and US, 1980–2012 pp. 625-646

Ignazio Cabras and Charles Bamforth

Vertical and financial ownership: Competition policy and the evolution of the UK pub market pp. 647-666

Julie Bower

Vertical monopoly power, profit and risk: The British beer industry, c.1970–c.2004 pp. 667-693

David Higgins, Steven Toms and Moshfique Uddin

How beer created Belgium (and the Netherlands): the contribution of beer taxes to war finance during the Dutch Revolt pp. 694-724

Koen Deconinck, Eline Poelmans and Johan Swinnen

Happy hour followed by hangover: financing the UK brewery industry, 1880–1913 pp. 725-751

Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle and John Turner

A taste for temperance: how American beer got to be so bland pp. 752-784

Ranjit S. Dighe

Death and re-birth of Alabama beer pp. 785-795

Richard White

New identities from remnants of the past: an examination of the history of beer brewing in Ontario and the recent emergence of craft breweries pp. 796-828

Kai Lamertz, William M. Foster, Diego M. Coraiola and Jochem Kroezen

Volume 58, issue 4, 2016

‘To invite disappointment or worse’: governance, audit and due diligence in the Ferranti–ISC merger pp. 453-478

Mark Billings, Anna Tilba and John Wilson

International shipping traffic as a determinant of the growing use of advertisements by local shopkeepers: a case study of eighteenth century Ghent pp. 479-500

Stijn Ronsse and Glenn Rayp

The Oaks Colliery disaster of 1866: a case study in responsibility pp. 501-531

Ben Harvey

Standing in the shadow of the corporation: women’s contribution to Swedish family business in the early twentieth century pp. 532-546

Therese Nordlund Edvinsson

The British Airways Heritage Collection: an ethnographic ‘history’ pp. 547-570

Kristene E. Coller, Jean Helms Mills and Albert J. Mills

Complexity, anachronism and time-parochialism: historicising strategy while strategising history pp. 571-596

Luca Zan

Nickel. La naissance de l’industrie calédonienne pp. 597-599

Hubert Bonin

Libr. XV: Cotrugli and de Raphaeli on Business and Bookkeeping in the Renaissance pp. 599-600

Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli

Il farsi di una grande impresa. La Montecatini fra le due guerre mondiali pp. 600-601

Vera Zamagni

The international distribution of news: the Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848–1947 pp. 601-603

Howard Cox

Sanders Bros: the rise and fall of a British grocery giant pp. 603-604

Phil Lyon

The entrepreneur in history: from medieval merchant to modern business leader pp. 604-606

Matthew McCaffrey

The lion wakes: a modern history of HSBC pp. 606-608

Geoffrey Wood

Volume 58, issue 3, 2016

Special Issue: History and Evolution of Entrepreneurship and Finance in China pp. 317-318

Douglas Cumming, Alessandra Guariglia, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee

The emergence of the private entrepreneur in reform era China: re-birth of an earlier tradition, or a more recent product of development and change? pp. 319-344

Andrew Atherton and Alexander Newman

Taking China private: The Carlyle Group, leveraged buyouts and financial capitalism in Greater China pp. 345-363

Douglas Cumming and Grant Fleming

Collective financing among Chinese entrepreneurs and department store retailing in China pp. 364-377

Andrew C. Godley and Haiming Hang

Institutional logic dynamics: private firm financing in Ningbo (1912–2008) pp. 378-407

Xiuping Hua, Yuhuilin Chen and Shameen Prashantham

Family business development in mainland China from 1872 to 1949 pp. 408-432

Cheryl Susan McWatters, Qiu Chen, Shujun Ding, Wenxuan Hou and Zhenyu Wu

Shanxi Piaohao and Shanghai Qianzhuang: a comparison of the two main banking systems of nineteenth-century China pp. 433-452

Craig Wilson and Fan Yang

Volume 58, issue 2, 2016

Pure diffusion? The great English hotel charges debate in The Times, 1853 pp. 159-178

David Bowie

The winds of change and the end of the Comprador System in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation pp. 179-206

Andrew Smith

Networks of power and networks of capital: evidence from a peripheral area of the first globalisation. The energy sector in Naples: from gas to electricity (1862-1919) pp. 207-243

Maria Carmela Schisani and Francesca Caiazzo

The European response to the challenge of the Japanese steel industry (1950-1980) pp. 244-263

Pablo D�az-Morl�n and Miguel S�ez-Garc�a

The emergence of winemaking cooperatives in Catalonia pp. 264-282

Jordi Planas

Business returns from gold price fixing and bullion trading on the interwar London market pp. 283-308

Anthony John Arnold

Building a market. The rise of the home improvement industry, 1914-1960 pp. 309-310

Peter Scott

The triumph of emptiness; consumption, higher education and work organization pp. 310-312

Philip Warwick

Le cr�dit � la consommation en France, 1947-1965. De la stigmatisation � la r�glementation pp. 312-313

Hubert Bonin

Le grand �tat-major financier: les inspecteurs des Finances, 1918-1946. Les hommes, le m�tier, les carri�res pp. 314-316

Hubert Bonin

Volume 58, issue 1, 2016

Editorial: special issues in Business History pp. 1-5

Andrea Colli, Stephanie Decker, Abe de Jong, Paloma Fern�ndez P�rez, Neil Rollings and Ray Stokes

Business groups around the world: an introduction pp. 6-29

Mar�a In�s Barbero and Nuria Puig

The only way to grow? Italian Business groups in historical perspective pp. 30-48

Andrea Colli, Alberto Rinaldi and Michelangelo Vasta

Business groups in Portugal in the Estado Novo period (1930-1974): family, power and structural change pp. 49-68

�lvaro Ferreira da Silva, Luciano Amaral and Pedro Neves

Business groups, entrepreneurship and the growth of the Ko� Group in Turkey pp. 69-88

Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones

Imprints of an Entrepreneur and Evolution of a Business Group, 1948-2010 pp. 89-110

Mehmet Er�ek and Öner G�n�avdı

The nexus between business groups and banks: Mexico, 1932-1982 pp. 111-128

Gustavo Del Angel

'Interlocked' business groups and the state in Chile (1970-2010) pp. 129-148

Erica Salvaj Carrera and Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian

Reimagining business history pp. 149-153

Robin Holt

Veuve Gu�rin & fils. Banque et soie. Une affaire de famille (Saint-Chamond-Lyon, 1716-1932) pp. 153-155

Hubert Bonin

Historical and international comparison of business interest associations, 19th-20th Centuries pp. 155-158

Hubert Bonin