Business History

Papers
(The median citation count of Business History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–199036
The invention of the ecological consumer: A new history of green capitalism20
The introduction of financial services regulation in Britain in 1870: Cui bono?16
Venezia tra storia sviluppo e sostenibilità [Venice: Between History, Development and Sustainability]13
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work12
Bargaining for oil: From multinational control to state ownership in Finland, 1917–195712
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–193611
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations11
Management thought and practice in 1920s China10
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–20209
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation9
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena8
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison8
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)8
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse8
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte [New Perspectives in Business History]7
Women’s roles in Turkish family businesses: Patterns and transformations from the 1960s to the 1990s7
Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements7
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking7
Towards a new understanding of occupational liberalisation: The lifting of entry requirements to the craft trades in Norway during the 1980s7
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present7
Latin America in turbulent times: Business, finance, and democracy during the 1970s and 1980s7
First class workmanship at reasonable prices: Redeveloping Berlin ready-to-wear’s international reputation (1919–1929)7
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India6
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise6
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolution6
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)6
Marking history and making history: Genres of internal historical narratives in rhetorical history6
The business of history: Tales and lessons from two centuries of British commerce6
In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey6
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank5
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 19455
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks5
Cartels within cartels: Business consortia, state power, and the economic field of cement in 1930s Czechoslovakia5
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region5
Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds5
Scale(s) and scope: Technology evolution and firm dynamics in the music synthesizer industry5
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship5
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation5
Social entrepreneurship from margin to centre: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s contributions in transforming society through practices of opening up5
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–19205
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 18815
Beyond big business. Rethinking the role of married women in Catalonia (Spain) in the first quarter of the 20th century4
The historical roots of social entrepreneurship in South Asia: A tapestry of change4
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria4
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–19874
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery4
Democratizing luxury: Name brands, advertising, and consumption in modern Japan4
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment4
How incumbents navigate a green transition: Organizational ambidexterity, false starts, and strategic reversals in Renault’s electrification efforts (1972–2020)4
Chasing sources at the ‘Grey Zone’: Archival leaks, archival crowdsourcing, and writing business history without business archives in Turkey4
Breakneck: China’s quest to engineer the future4
Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee4
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism4
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands4
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland4
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire3
Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy field: A historiographical analysis of regulatory dynamics from 1855 to 19953
The contracts to win the Orient : The interplay of formality and informality in the onset of American–Ottoman small arms business (1869–1873)3
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–19203
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–18633
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications3
“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.)3
‘The most up-to-date and complete form of capitalist organisation the world has ever seen’ – The rise and fall of the British armour plate ring, 1860–19143
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control3
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–193
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s3
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)3
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic3
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–19052
La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur animal et la fabrique de la modernité [The beasts’ round. The animal motor and the factory of modernity]2
British trading companies and tacit knowledge seeding: Diversifying Japanese industrialisation, 1906–19182
Making an Industrial Revolution: Skill, knowledge, community and innovation2
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung2
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business2
From imposition to concession, from compliance to resistance: Creating a Harvard Business School clone in a Turkish university, 1954–19652
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment2
Towards Americanisation and the corporate university in an elite business school: A leadership history of the Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University School of Business, 1974–20222
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga2
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–19402
Association football and the administrators who made it, c. 1863–19142
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia2
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland2
Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci2
Board composition in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1970-2005: A prosopographic and theoretical analysis2
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company2
Reluctant partners: State industry, Brazilian business and German firms in the 1975 nuclear agreement between Brazil and West Germany2
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences2
A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870–1914 (Volume 1): Entry, Enterprise Formation, and Early Firm Growth1
‘The very latest, modom’: The British Commercial Gas Association, the Gas Light and Coke Company and content marketing in interwar Britain1
Counternarrating entrepreneurship1
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature1
Convenience store retailing – The embedding of a new approach in the British retail landscape1
Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence1
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective1
‘Progressive conservatism’: The evolution of paternalism as a means of management control at Michelin1
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina1
Chandlerian growth in a ‘taboo market’? The American deathcare industry since the early 20th century1
Die Geschichte des Hauses Bahlsen. Keks – Krieg – Konsum 1911–1974 [The History of the Bahlsen Family Business – A Story of Biscuits, War and Consumption]1
Managing legacy and change: New frontiers for theory and practice1
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards1
Foundations of Managing British Olympics: Institutions through Time1
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion1
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara1
Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–19981
Women in the Factory, 1880–1930: Class and Gender1
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy1
From local notables to global players: Law firms in a tax haven (Luxembourg, 1960s to 2020s)1
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900-19331
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results1
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco1
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–18451
Ethics, business and capitalism: Thailand and Indonesia in an Asian perspective1
Building a maritime empire: The foundations of Ante Topić’s shipping enterprise (1910–1945)1
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society1
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice1
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes1
Mining elites in developing economies: Big Bad Wolf or Ugly Duckling? The Bolivian case, c. 1850–19501
Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay1
Where have all the business women gone? Women and business in the 20th century1
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–19261
Caffeinated memories: The creation of historical narratives as public goods in the Colombian coffee industry1
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation1
Don’t mention the war: The effect of war threat on entrepreneurial activity in the Second Industrial Revolution of Belgium1
The international expansion of Navimor International: Leveraging resources and capabilities remaining from the era of red globalization1
The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house1
1929: Inside the greatest crash in Wall Street history – and how it shattered a nation1
Women in corporate networks: An introduction1
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France1
Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s1
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s1
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture1
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania1
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–20221
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China1
Foreign banks and global finance in modern China: Banking on the Chinese frontier, 1870-1919 Foreign banks and global finance in modern China: Banking on the Chinese frontier, 1870-19191
Global family capitalism. A business history perspective1
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-17001
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry1
Big business as political actors: FIAT, SEAT and VAZ in nationalist economic contexts (1940–1973)1
Make peer review great (again?)0
Nationalism and colonialism: Sino-Japanese rivalry in the condiment industry, 1908–410
Freedom enterprise: Black entrepreneurship and racial capitalism in Detroit0
Competing narratives in the Swedish 1929 deposit insurance-debate0
The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China0
The Business of Emotions in Modern History0
Connecting the dots: Business history research on social entrepreneurship in the Global South0
‘Popular sources’ in Chinese business history: New perspectives on Chinese enterprise0
The globalisation of German industry after the Bretton Woods collapse0
The ‘Palladium of prosperity’: Lobbying between Marseilles and Paris from the revolution to the restoration (1789-1817)0
Social entrepreneurship and the social economy of Victorian and Edwardian Britain0
The evolution of the Wellcome Trust and market-based philanthropy in the UK0
Doomed to fail? Legitimacy crisis and the fiscal-military state in Republican China0
Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England0
The age of global economic crises, 1929–20220
Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School0
Business groups and the ‘big push’ concept: Rethinking the dynamics of zaibatsu growth in Japan0
Against entrepreneurship: a critical examination0
From globalisation to autarky. business strategies, governmental policies and international interests in the Italian aluminium industry (1928–1943)0
Beyond revolutions: Mao-era China’s market entry strategies in Latin America0
An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technological diffusion0
The role of projects in shaping businesses capabilities and structure since the 1960s0
Survival through globalisation: Innovation, internationalisation, and the endurance of big business in Central Europe0
Reassessing the historical dynamics of European business associations: The genesis of UNICE, late 1940s to 1970s0
The Bank of England and the ‘prehistory’ of corporate governance0
The grain trade and minorities in the early modern Italian Peninsula and beyond: An introduction0
Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews0
Navigating stigma while balancing between the social and the commercial: An account of Clarity & Co0
Business schools and museum learning in historical perspective: Lessons from the forgotten history of commercial school museums0
National brands and global markets. An historical perspective0
The Impact of the First World War on International Business0
Business Euroskeptics: British industry on economic and monetary union, 1978–19990
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective0
Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade0
Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War0
Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in0
Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine,0
The Business Strategies of the Major Hollywood Film Studios, 1929–20240
Norway’s Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pursuing and Accomplishing Innovation in Nyegaard & Co., 1945-19970
Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020)0
International Business in Australia Before World War One0
British business-government relationships: A case study of the Burmah Oil Company, 1974–19750
Narratives of exploitation and resistance: European immigration, business, and accounting on Ibicaba farm in the 19th century0
Freedom of contract and company freedom. Corporate governance in Norway, 1890–19300
From charity to markets: The evolving narratives of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship in Brazil0
Deeply Responsible Business0
Multinational banking in Egypt: A case-study of the Ionian Bank, 1907–19390
The wings of Daedalus: The business and politics of the linen trade in late seventeenth-century England0
Shipbuilding and early forms of modern management. Six months to rebuild the Ottoman fleet after the defeat at Lepanto0
The rise of Hong Kong’s textile industry, 1945–1974: The role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA)0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America0
Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons0
Business history: a research overview, Business History: A Research Overview , by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Ste0
Working behind the scenes: The Scotch Whisky Association and the US liquor market c1950–c19700
Insights into the nature and dynamics of business power: The case of Credit Unions in 1960s Argentina0
Swedish business as a social movement? Mobilising the masses against wage-earner funds, 1975–19910
Business practice in socialist Hungary. Volume 1 creating the theft economy, 1945–19570
Beyond convergence: Uncovering the recruitment patterns of white-collar employees in a peripheral economy0
Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research0
An entrepreneurial turf war: Travel agencies, ICEM, and the migration industry since the 1950s0
Peer-to-peer, or peer pressure?0
Stability in search of explanations: Quantifying Italian businesswomen in the twentieth century0
Colonial capitalisation and business investment in the Federated Malay States in the interwar years0
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 19870
The establishment of banking supervision in Italy: an assessment (1926–1936)0
Balancing efficiency and equity. Consumer cooperatives in Barcelona (Spain), 1898–1936: An economic and financial-ratio analysis0
Minding the gaps: Triangulation strategies for colonial and postcolonial archives0
The management of international boycotts in historical perspective: Volkswagen and the Arab League boycott, 1960–19770
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, gold and dynasty0
The Ecological Crisis and Water Supply – The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context | Brill0
The dressmakers: Women and entrepreneurship in Cape Town 1900–19390
Structural change as the primary driver of water pollution reductions: Re-evaluating the role of command and control in the Swedish pulp and paper industry (1969–1989)0
International timber trade, merchants, and the business organisation of the sector: The role of Danzig and the southern ports of the Baltic Sea (1823–1913)0
Role of reinsurance in the world: case studies of eight countries Role of Reinsurance in the World: Case Studies of Eight Countries , edited by Leonardo Caruana de las C0
Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank,0
Tax farming as business: Contracts, cooperation, and the absence of corporate organization in the Ottoman Empire (1550–1800)0
Taking stock and moving forward: What makes a contribution in business history?0
Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing0
Recycling waste byproducts and restructuring in the UK animal feed industry, 1859–1914: Exploring the historical emergence of the circular economy0
The business of central banking in Sweden, 1924–1939: Regime change and adaptation0
Fostering collective endurance: The history of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India0
Milk in Spain and the history of diet change: The political economy of dairy consumption since 19500
Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s0
Industry dynamics and trade association power: The shifting nature of business influence in UK aluminium0
No Birds of Passage. A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–19750
Dealing with jokers in the pack: Social enterprise and the State in Scotland, 1965–19990
The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition0
Green entrepreneurship in UK foods and the emergence of the alternative meat sector: Quorn 1965–20060
Access to bank loans in economic transition: An oral history approach0
Review: Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain Review: Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Brita0
Shifting to trade for profit: The Andean Development Corporation’s strategy during the crisis of the 1980s0
Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–20100
Systems of Deceit: Financial Fraud and Scandal in the United Kingdom, 1700–20100
Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–18280
The internationalisation of Chinese apparel companies, 1990–20200
Organising through time: Paradox and history0
The evolution of genre: Systematic review of Polish corporate histories0
Being unbusinesslike. Financing strategy at the Great Exhibition0
Industrial districts in medieval England: Examining the significance of the ‘elementary localisation of industry’0
Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age0
The politics of quantification: The General Confederation of Italian Industry and the cost-of-living index in the late 1920s0
Business, ethics and institutions: the evolution of Turkish capitalism in global perspectives Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectiv0
Navigating nationalism in global enterprise: A century of Indo-German Business relations0
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–19990
Business power in fascist Italy: Business associations and corporate tax policies0
A dissimulated trade. Northern European timber merchants in Seville (1574–1598)0
Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy , by Ivan Light and0
We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda0
Double marginality: Women in the Finnish scrap recycling business since the 1960s0
The contribution of the Stephenson Company, engine manufacturers to the genesis of the British railway industry c.1823-18400
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