Business History

1997 - 2025

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Volume 57, issue 8, 2015

The outsider consumer co-operative: lessons from the Community Co-operative Store (Nuriootpa), 1944-2010 pp. 1133-1154

Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore

From thrifts to universal banks: the sources of organisational change in French savings banks, 1945-2000 pp. 1155-1191

Olivier Butzbach

Measuring competition in Portuguese commercial banking during the Golden Age (1960-1973) pp. 1192-1218

Luciano Amaral

Dirt of whitewashing: re-conceptualising debtors' obligations in Chinese business by transplanting bankruptcy law to early British Hong Kong (1860s-1880s) pp. 1219-1247

Michael Ng

Managerial failure in mid-Victorian Britain?: Corporate expansion during a promotion boom pp. 1248-1276

Gareth Campbell and John Turner

A co-evolutionary analysis of longevity: Pakhoed and its predecessors pp. 1277-1305

Hugo van Driel, Henk W. Volberda, Sjoerd Eikelboom and Eline Kamerbeek

Territoires de l'illicite: ports et �les de la fraude au contrôle (xix-super-e-xx-super-e si�cles) pp. 1306-1307

Hubert Bonin

Bouygues. Les ressorts d'un destin entrepreneurial pp. 1307-1309

Hubert Bonin

Business in the age of extremes: essays in modern German and Austrian economic history pp. 1309-1310

Neil Forbes

The Peak Forest canal and railway - an engineering and business history pp. 1311-1312

Keith Harcourt

The color revolution pp. 1312-1314

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

The Oxford handbook of management theorists pp. 1314-1315

Derek Pugh

Volume 57, issue 7, 2015

In search of an integrated framework of business longevity pp. 955-969

Maria Rosaria Napolitano, Vittoria Marino and Jari Ojala

Who wants to live forever: exploring 30 years of research on business longevity pp. 970-987

Angelo Riviezzo, Mika Skippari and Antonella Garofano

A winning strategy? The employment of women and firm longevity during industrialisation pp. 988-1004

Bj�rn Eriksson and Maria Stanfors

Looking beyond the Buddenbrooks syndrome: the Salvadori Firm of Trento, 1660s - 1880s pp. 1005-1019

Cinzia Lorandini

Cultural approach to understanding the long-term survival of firms - Japanese Shinise firms in the sake brewing industry pp. 1020-1036

Innan Sasaki and Hidekazu Sone

Standing the test of time. Does firm performance improve with age? An analysis of the wine industry pp. 1037-1053

Arturo Capasso, Carmen Gallucci and Matteo Rossi

International taxation and corporate strategy: evidence from British overseas business, circa 1900-1965 pp. 1054-1081

Simon Mollan and Kevin D. Tennent

Networking capability building in the multinational enterprise: ITT and the Spanish adventure (1924-1945) pp. 1082-1111

Adoraci�n �lvaro-Moya

The business elite in Finland: a prosopographical study of family firm executives 1762-2010 pp. 1112-1132

Juha Kansikas

Volume 57, issue 6, 2015

Fellow-townsmenship as the mechanism for exploring and exploiting business opportunities: A longitudinal reflection of the nineteenth century Ningbo entrepreneurs in Shanghai pp. 773-799

Martin J. Liu, Jimmy Huang, Alain Yee-loong Chong, Zhengzhi Guan and Natalia Yannopoulou

Try it at home: Avon and gender in Brazil, 1958-1975 pp. 800-821

Shawn Moura

European luxury big business and emerging Asian markets, 1960-2010 pp. 822-840

Pierre-Yves Donz� and Rika Fujioka

The internationalisation of family firms: case histories of two Chinese overseas family firms pp. 841-861

Kee-Cheok Cheong, Poh-Ping Lee and Kam-Hing Lee

Transition to greener pulp: regulation, industry responses and path dependency pp. 862-884

Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina S�derholm

European market integration and the political economy of corporate adjustment: OTE and Telecom Italia, 1949-2009 pp. 885-902

Andreas Kornelakis

Beyond industrial policy. State intervention in the Swedish electricity supply industry, 1936-1946 pp. 903-918

Martin Eriksson

'Size revolution': the industrial foundations of the Italian clothing business pp. 919-941

Elisabetta Merlo

Histoire de la Banque africaine de d�veloppement et de sa contribution � l'essor de la Côte d'Ivoire, 1963-2005 pp. 942-944

Hubert Bonin

Distritos y Clústers en la Europa del Sur [Districts and Clusters in Southern Europe] pp. 944-945

Miguel A. L�pez-Morell

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT): cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community pp. 945-947

Bernardo B�tiz-Lazo

Redefining business models: strategies for a financialized world pp. 947-949

Julie Bower

The optical munitions industry in Great Britain, 1888-1923 pp. 949-950

Chris Corker

Trams or tailfins? Public and private prosperity in postwar West Germany and the United States pp. 950-952

Espen Ekberg

Industrial archaeology: a handbook pp. 952-953

Roy Edwards

Volume 57, issue 5, 2015

Editorial: re-introducing evolutionary theory to business history: making sense of today's structure pp. 655-663

Jim Quinn

The evolution of the pharmaceutical industry pp. 664-687

Franco Malerba and Luigi Orsenigo

Constructing an 'industry': the case of industrial gases, 1886-2006 pp. 688-704

Ray Stokes and Ralf Banken

Deepening the conversation between business history and evolutionary economics pp. 705-715

Johann Peter Murmann

What drove the financial crisis? Structuring our historical understanding of a predictable evolutionary disaster pp. 716-735

Michael G. Jacobides

The evolution of private equity: corporate restructuring in the UK, c.1945-2010 pp. 736-768

Steven Toms, Nicholas Wilson and Mike Wright

Evolutionary economics and recounting of business history pp. 769-772

Richard Nelson

Volume 57, issue 4, 2015

Liberty in Paris: International retailing, 1889-1932 pp. 485-511

Anne Marie Doherty and Nicholas Alexander

Cartel success and institutions. The Finnish Cotton Cartel, 1903-1939 pp. 512-527

Mika Kallioinen

Management control systems, trust and risk in inter-organisational relationships: The case of Francisco Gonz�lez de la Sierra and its partner Rivas y Cantallops (1847-1864) pp. 528-563

M. Capelo, P. Araújo and C. �lvarez-Dardet

Demonstrating distinction at 'the lowest edge of the black-coated class': The family expenditures of Edwardian railway clerks pp. 564-588

Peter Scott and James Trevor Walker

Co-operative wineries: Temporal solution or efficient firms? The Spanish case during late Francoism, 1970-1981 pp. 589-613

Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo

Decision-making authority in British supermarket chains pp. 614-637

Andrew Alexander

World insurance: the evolution of a global risk network pp. 638-639

Luis Lobo-Guerrero

A nation of small shareholders: marketing Wall Street after World War II pp. 639-640

Andrew Smith

Histoire de l'industrie horlog�re suisse, de Jacques David � Nicolas Hayek (1850-2000) / Histoire du Swatch Group pp. 641-642

Hubert Bonin

Business goals and social commitment. Shaping organisational capabilities - Colombia's Fundaci�n Social, 1984-2011 pp. 642-644

Felix Behling

Building co-operation: a business history of the co-operative group, 1863-2013 pp. 644-645

Nicholas Alexander

The East German economy, 1945-2010: falling behind or catching up? pp. 645-647

Ivor Bolton

The making of the modern British home: the suburban semi & family life between the wars pp. 647-648

Matthew Hollow

The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812-1941 pp. 649-650

Paloma Fern�ndez P�rez

Ferranti. A history: Volume 3: management, mergers and fraud, 1987-1993 pp. 650-652

Sarah Wilson

Historia de la investigaci�n de mercados en Colombia. Trayectoria empresarial de Napole�n Franco [Market research history in Colombia. Entrepreneurial trajectory of Napole�n Franco] pp. 652-654

Javier Mej�a

Volume 57, issue 3, 2015

Tripartism in Comparative and Historical Perspective pp. 347-357

Richerd Croucher and Geoffrey Wood

Institutions, history and wage bargaining outcomes: international evidence from the post-World War Two era pp. 358-375

Chris Minns and Marian Rizov

European tripartism: chimera or reality? The 'new phase' of the European social dialogue in the light of tripartite theory and practice pp. 376-397

Thomas James Prosser and Emmanuelle Perin

The dynamics of tripartism in post-democratic transitions: comparative lessons from Spain and Poland pp. 398-417

Guglielmo Meardi, Juliusz Gardawski and Oscar Molina

The life and death of Irish social partnership: lessons for social pacts pp. 418-437

Paul Teague and Jimmy Donaghey

Making Singapore's tripartism work (faster): the formation of the Singapore National Employers' Federation in 1980 pp. 438-460

Peter Sheldon, Bernard Gan and David Morgan

The ending of southern Africa's tripartite dream: the cases of South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique pp. 461-483

Pauline Dibben, Gilton Klerck and Geoffrey Wood

Volume 57, issue 2, 2015

Sisyphus in business: Success, failure and the different types of failure pp. 203-223

Arjan van Rooij

Investment decision-making and industrial performance: The British wool industry during the interwar years pp. 224-240

Sue Bowden and David Higgins

The world's key industry pp. 335-336

Alex Gillett

Beggar thy neighbour: a history of usury and debt pp. 336-337

Josephine Maltby

The people's car: a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle pp. 337-339

Tom�s Fern�ndez-de-Sevilla

Diriger une grande entreprise au xx-super-e si�cle. L'�lite industrielle fran�aise pp. 339-341

Hubert Bonin

Understanding Family Businesses: Undiscovered approaches, unique perspectives and neglected topics pp. 341-343

Farzana Nahid

Volume 57, issue 1, 2015

New business history? pp. 1-4

Abe de Jong and David Higgins

Towards a new business history? pp. 5-29

Abe de Jong, David Higgins and Hugo van Driel

New business histories! Plurality in business history research methods pp. 30-40

Stephanie Decker, Matthias Kipping and R. Daniel Wadhwani

Ethnomethodology and the production of history: studying 'history-in-action' pp. 41-63

Andrea Whittle and John Wilson

Large and entangled: Italian business groups in the long run pp. 64-96

Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta

Ownership, financial strategy and performance: the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1918-1938 pp. 97-121

David Higgins, Steven Toms and Igor Filatotchev

The determinants of bank internationalisation in times of financial globalisation: evidence from the world's largest banks, 1980-2007 pp. 122-155

Arjen Mulder and Gerarda Westerhuis

Back to the failure: an analytic narrative of the De Lorean debacle pp. 156-181

Graham Brownlow

Complexity in history: modelling the organisational demography of the British banking sector pp. 182-202

Philip Garnett, Simon Mollan and R. Alexander Bentley