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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Using digital sources: the future of business history?14
Women, uniforms and brand identity in Barclays Bank9
Looking for cheap and abundant power: Business, government and nuclear energy in Finland7
Family entrepreneurial orientation as a driver of longevity in family firms: a historic analysis of the ennobled Trenor family and Trenor y Cía7
Good wives and corporate leaders: Duality in women’s access to Australia’s top company boards, 1910–20186
‘And one man in his time plays many parts’ – Samuel Pepys business administrator, accomptant and auditor6
Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II6
Cross-fertilising scenario planning and business history by process-tracing historical developments: Aiding counterfactual reasoning and uncovering history to come5
Resilience and related variety: The role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region5
Embedding the market during times of crisis: the European automobile cartel during a decade of crisis (1973–1985)5
The atomic business: structures and strategies5
Chinese entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A business demography approach5
Inter-firm convening and organisational power: How American multinationals mobilised the Venezuelan business community to adopt CSR practices, 1961–19675
From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams: The Finnish government in business, 1970–20105
The rise of Indian business in the global context in the twentieth century: A review and introduction5
Women directors in Italy: 1913–20174
Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight4
Filling a colonial void? German business strategies and development assistance in India, 1947–19744
Fast breeder reactor technology and the entrepreneurial state in the UK4
Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates4
Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy4
Autarky, market creation and innovation: Snia Viscosa and Saici, 1933-19704
How women broke into the old boys’ corporate network in Switzerland4
Nazi German waste recovery and the vision of a circular economy: The case of waste paper and rags4
Business organisation in the Mediterranean Sea: Genoese galley entrepreneurs in the service of the Spanish Empire (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries)4
From Monsanto to ‘Monsatan’: Ownership and control of history as a strategic resource4
Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and semi-colonial context4
Art dealers’ inventory strategy: the case of Goupil, Boussod & Valadon from 1860 to 19144
Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: thesurvivalof an economic elite?*4
Entrepreneurial strategies in a family business: growth and capital conversions in historical perspective4
Soviet big business: The rise and fall of the state corporation Sovrybflot, 1965-19914
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–19593
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond3
The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century3
Shaping the rules of the game: Spanish capitalism and the publishing industry under dictatorship (1939–1975)3
Point of no return: Soviet paper reuse, 1932–19453
State and transforming institutional logics: the emergence and demise of Ottoman cooperatives as hybrid organizational forms, 1861–18883
‘Settlers and comrades’. The variety of capitalism in South Africa, 1910–20163
German Capital and the development of the Spanish hotel industry (1950s-1990s): A tale of two strategic alliances3
Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change3
Women may be climbing on board, but not in first class: A long-term study of the factors affecting women’s board participation in Argentina and Chile (1923–2010)3
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature3
The paradox of nationality: Foreign investment in Portuguese Africa (1890–1974)3
Only one way to raise capital? Colombian business groups and the dawn of internal markets3
Varieties of capitalism, competition policy and the UK alcoholic beverages industry3
An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s–1990s)3
Gender inequality and the professionalisation of accountancy in the UK from 1870 to the interwar years3
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–20193
Recycling war machines: Canadian munitions disposal, reverse logistics, and economic recovery after World War II3
‘We have a prodigious amount in common’. Reappraising Americanisation and circulation of knowledge in the interwar Nordic advertising industry3
Collaborating profitably? The fundraising practices of the contemporary art society, 1919–19392
Management of technological innovation: high tech R&D in the GDR2
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation2
Changing corporate domicile: The case of the Rhodesian Selection Trust companies2
Foreign direct investment and the undertow of history: Nationhood and the influence of history on the Czech-German relationship2
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present2
Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history2
Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism2
Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s2
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship2
Monopoly and competition: the Kenyan commercial banks at the end of the colonial period (1954–1963)2
An integrative approach to investigating longstanding organisational phenomena; opportunities for practice theorists and historians2
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–19992
Origins of disaster management: the British mine rescue system, c. 1900 to c. 19302
The shifting corporate culture in the financial services industry: Explaining the emergence of the ‘culture of greed’ in an Australian Financial Services Company2
Caught between outreach and sustainability: The rise and decline of Dutch credit unions2
The Business Roundtable and the politics of U.S. manufacturing decline in the global 1970s2
Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16th-18thcenturies)2
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 19452
The chemical brothers: Competition and the evolution of the board interlock network in the German chemical industry, 1950–20152
Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States2
‘Buy British’: An analysis of UK attempts to turn a slogan into government policy in the 1970s and 1980s2
The establishment of banking supervision in Italy: an assessment (1926–1936)2
Fuel for commercial politics: the nucleus of early commercial proliferation of atomic energy in three acts2
The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–19602
Mastering the narrative and the dirty tricks of trade: The re-establishment of a Swedish bank in 16682
Assessable stock and the Comstock mining companies2
Strategy and business history rejoined: How and why strategic management concepts took over business history2
Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a ‘liberal bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-19872
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions2
‘No mutiny will be allowed’: business, the tax system and the Greek version of Mediterranean capitalism during dictatorship, 1967-19742
Bubbles in history2
National institutions, regional outcomes. The political economy of post-war Swedish regional policy2
Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures2
The embeddedness of ‘public’ enterprises: the case of the Gdynia (Poland) and Uljanik (Croatia) shipyards2
Becoming the advocate for US-based multinationals: The United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1945–19742
Entrepreneurs as saviours of socialism? The complicated relationship between East German state socialism and entrepreneurship2
Trading with the enemy? The flow of scrap between Britain and Germany from pre-war rearmament to post-war reconstruction2
Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020)2
Monopolist logic? Managing technology in the telecom sector during technological and regulatory change1
Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London1
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 19871
National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s1
Organisational development in the context of radical institutional change: the case study of Poland’s Ursus1
An aristocratic enterprise: the Ginori porcelain manufactory (1735–1896)1
The brassware industry and the salvage campaigns of wartime colonial Korea (1937-1945)1
A ‘Magnificent’ military entrepreneur? The involvement of the Medici Bank in the arms trade (1482-1494)1
Success through failure? Four centuries of searching for Danish coal1
A price for toleration: The role of grain in shaping business relations between nobles and Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth1
Reassessing the historical dynamics of European business associations: The genesis of UNICE, late 1940s to 1970s1
The development of the chartered financial analyst in the United States during the twentieth century1
Nordic noblemen in business: The Ehrnrooth family and the modernisation of the Finnish economy during the late 19thcentury1
“‘Le miracle et le mirage’: Beauty institutes and the making of modern french women”1
Socio-economic activities of former feudal lords in Meiji Japan1
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France1
Modern Chinese banking networks during the Republican Era1
Unbundling the brand: Differentiation and the law in the Brazilian South American tea industry1
The paradox of scrap and the European steel industry’s loss of leadership (1950–1970)1
Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain1
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–20181
A gateway to the business world? The analysis of networks in connecting the modern Japanese nobility to the business elite1
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)1
Profiles of entrepreneurial success during two centuries. The case of Sweden, with comparisons to Italy1
The nationalisation of British banks in post-colonial Tanzania: Did the banks’ net capital export position and home government support influence compensation negotiation outcomes?1
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena1
Death and taxes: Estate duty – a neglected factor in changes to British business structure after World War two1
Women entrepreneurs and family networks in Andalusia (Spain) during the second industrial revolution1
The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition1
Companions to new pathways. Intermediary organisations and the resilience of the Frisian dairy industry, 1950–19701
Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history1
Reviving China’s global footprint along the Silk Roads and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Chinese overseas industrial park in Egypt1
A leading French trade house in China: Olivier (1900s–1930s)1
Born of necessity: The introduction of convertible bonds in The Netherlands1
Co-evolution of a MNE and institutional environment – focus on institutional logics change1
Women in corporate networks: An introduction1
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective1
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)1
Invented market traditions: The marketing of Italian breakfast (1973–1996)1
Imperial standard: Imperial oil, exxon, and the Canadian oil industry from 18801
The indigenous origins of UK corporate financial accountability: a comment1
‘The originator of Eni’s ideas’. Marcello Boldrini at the top of Agip/Eni (1948–1967)1
The ‘wine revolution’ in the United States, 1960–1980: Narratives and category creation1
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations1
The metamorphosis of China’s automotive industry (1953–2001): Inward internationalisation, technological transfers and the making of a post-socialist market1
Women leaders in industry in nineteenth-century France: The case of Amélie de Dietrich1
Tennessee valley in Southern Italy: How the ENSI project was the first and only World Bank loan for nuclear power1
The institutionalization of the fight against white-collar crime in Switzerland, 1970-19901
A history of corporate financial reporting in Britain1
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: storying Stockholm 1900–20201
Losing the global: (Re)building a Bosnian enterprise across transition1
How residues of deinstitutionalised practices persist over time: World Bank boundary work in development projects in Pakistan from the 1970s to the mid-2000s1
Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy1
Counternarrating entrepreneurship1
Northern grain and the Flemish nation in Genoa: the structural consequences of a famine (1585–1616)1
Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade1
The Genoese nobility: Land, finance and business from restoration to the First World War1
Risk management in prewar China: A study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Qing dynasty and Republican-era Shanxi province1
The pitfalls of multinational banking: The case of Italian banks in Egypt before WWII1
The origins of the tools suppliers in the semiconductor industry1
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century1
Richard Potter, Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist, by Geoffrey Channon, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, xv + 285 pp., illus., £61.99 (hardback), ISBN 1-5275-3106-6 (hardb0
Diana Kelly. The Red Taylorist: the life and times of Walter Nicholas Polakov The Red Taylorist: the life and times of Walter Nicholas Polakov , by Diana Kelly. Bingley:0
Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism0
Management thought and practice in 1920s China0
Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in0
Hong Kong takes flight: Commercial aviation and the making of a global hub, 1930s-19980
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results0
’A man of particular ability’: A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system0
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga0
Storm in a teacup: Empire products, blended teas, and origin marking debates in 1920s Britain0
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment0
Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret0
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolutionBanking and politics in the age of democratic revolution, by Niccolò Valmori, ­Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool, Liverp0
Entrepreneurial relationship marketing in 19th century India – The case of railway contractor Joseph Stephens0
Shipbuilding and early forms of modern management. Six months to rebuild the Ottoman fleet after the defeat at Lepanto0
Victorian literary businesses. The management and practices of the british publishing industry0
Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719–17300
Practices, merchants and mercantilisms. Jews and the cereal trade in Trieste between Eastern Europe, the Po and the Mediterranean (18th century)0
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture0
Ragusan trade diaspora and the commerce of grain in sixteenth century: A network-institutional approach0
Business, ethics and institutions: the evolution of Turkish capitalism in global perspectives0
Compassionate capitalism: business and community in medieval England0
Unending capitalism: How consumerism negated China's Communist Revolution0
Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets0
Make peer review great (again?)0
Selling ‘The World’s Favourite Airline’: British Airways’ privatisation and the motives behind it0
The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China0
Czechoslovak film industry on the way from private business to public good (1918-1945)0
Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School0
Business history: a research overview, Business History: A Research Overview , by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Ste0
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, 1974–20220
Banking on détente: Barclays, Paribas, and Société Générale in Poland, 1950s-1980s0
Is peer review ripe for a revise and resubmit? – Academics might be less the party answering that question0
Alun C Davies, the rise and decline of England’s watchmaking industry , 1550-1930 (New York and London: Routledge, 2022. pp xx + 394. £120)0
A cinematic soap opera: The development of cinematography as an advertising and promotional tool in Lever Brothers Limited0
Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci , by Luca Zan, Maria Lusiani, Jessica Tanghetti. Bologna University Pre0
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business ­Enterprise0
Gendered capitalism. Sewing machines and multinational business in Spain and Mexico (1850–1940)0
Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system0
British overseas railway investment and economic development: The Colombian National Railway Company and its impact on the Colombian interior0
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice0
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–19260
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control0
Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons0
Entrepreneurship in Spain. A history0
We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda0
The emergence of modern hospital management and organisation in the world 1880s–1930s0
Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy0
Artisans abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Artisans abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 , by Fabrice 0
French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s0
The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston0
The establishment of the Eurodollar market in Paris and the failure of regulation and reform, 1959–19640
Caffeinated memories: The creation of historical narratives as public goods in the Colombian coffee industry0
The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity0
Crisis, criticisms, and damaged credibility: A case study of organisational trust repair by a Victorian joint-stock bank0
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia0
Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: The Spanish strategies to deal with US, french and german nuclear manufacturers, 1955–19850
Post-War business planners in the United States, 1939–48: The rise of the corporate moderates0
Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–19980
Nothing succeeds like failure: the sad history of american business schools0
Accountability and information disclosure in a Catholic charity (1798–1801)0
Chinese hinterland capitalism and shanxi piaohao: Banking, state, and family, 1720-19100
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, 1870-19190
Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia0
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–190
Dressing up: the women who influenced french fashion Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion , edited by Elizabeth L. Block, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 20
Role of reinsurance in the world: case studies of eight countries0
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–20200
Review: Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain0
Deutsche Bank. The Global Bank, 1870-2020 Deutsche Bank. The Global Bank, 1870-2020 , byWerner Plumpe, Alexander Nützenadel, and Catherine Schenk,London,Bloomsbury,2020,0
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work0
Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856-1951 Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856-1951 , by Brent Salter. ­Cambridge University Press, Cambrid0
Insights into the nature and dynamics of business power: The case of Credit Unions in 1960s Argentina0
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–19200
Histoire de la Société générale. Tome III: 1914–1921. La Société générale dans la guerre et l’après-guerre,0
X-ray contrast agent technology. A revolutionary history, by Christoph de Haën, Boca Raton/London/New York, CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group, 2019, xi +326 pp., (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-35164-6 0
Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine, Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumpt0
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–19690
Small worlds: Institutional isomorphism and Australia’s corporate elite, 1910–20180
Market-based financing for small corporations during early industrialisation: The case of salt corporations in Japan, 1880s–1910s0
Business, politics and the transition from war to peace: The Federation of British Industries, 1916-250
From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-19800
Companies and entrepreneurs in the history of Spain. Centuries long evolution in business since the 15th century0
The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house0
Correction0
Koreankuzuya, ‘German-style control’ and the business of waste in wartime Japan, 1931-19450
Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews0
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective0
Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles0
The English East India Company’s silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750–18500
Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank, Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank , edited by Duncan Campbell-Smith. Allen Lane (Pengu0
Against entrepreneurship: a critical examination Against entrepreneurship: A critical examination , edited byAnders Örtenblad, Palgrave,Macmillan,2020, ebook, 286 pp., G0
Cellular: An economic and business history of the international mobile-phone industry0
State reforms in early modern mining: Røros copperworks and the role of workers managers, investors and the state in business development0
Quakers in the British Atlantic World, 1660-18000
Distribution channels and growth strategies in Spanish insurance: from networks of agents to branch offices (1870–1940)0
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire0
China bound. John Swire & Sons and its world, 1816-19800
Business history goes East: An introduction0
Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England0
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