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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–193615
Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles13
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 194512
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–196912
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work12
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison10
Management thought and practice in 1920s China10
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–199010
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse9
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century9
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)7
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations7
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation6
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)6
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena6
French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s6
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–20206
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking5
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–20195
Compassionate capitalism: business and community in medieval England5
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India5
Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia4
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region4
In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in TurkeyIn the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics4
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–19204
Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, ­markets, and minds<4
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, Liverp4
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank4
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 19454
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship4
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present4
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business ­Enterprise4
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks4
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 18814
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation4
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery3
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism , by Geoffrey M. Hodgson.3
Becoming the World’s Biggest Brewer: Artois, Piedbouef and Interbrew (1880-2000)3
Tobias Straumann: 1931. Debt, crisis and the rise of Hitler3
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria3
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–19873
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond3
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment3
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland2
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment2
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 Pre2
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions2
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications 2
A price for toleration: The role of grain in shaping business relations between nobles and Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth2
“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.)2
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 game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–19602
The pitfalls of multinational banking: The case of Italian banks in Egypt before WWII2
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–192
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)2
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s2
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, 22
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic2
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire2
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–19052
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control2
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–18632
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland2
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–19202
The decline of companies and voluntary organisations as infrastructure providers in nineteenth-century England2
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–20182
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture1
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia1
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)1
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga1
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice1
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective1
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara1
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–19591
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France1
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-17001
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy1
Correction1
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s1
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–19261
The rise and fall and reinvention of a global icon1
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
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung1
Alun C Davies, the rise and decline of England’s watchmaking industry , 1550-1930 (New York and London: Routledge, 2022. pp xx + 394. £120) The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking1
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society1
Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism1
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion1
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900-1933 Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1901
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania1
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation1
Counternarrating entrepreneurship1
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco1
Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence1
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–19401
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results1
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company1
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:1
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business1
Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s1
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes1
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry1
Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16 th -18 th centuries)1
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–20221
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina1
Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets1
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards1
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–18451
Women in corporate networks: An introduction1
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China1
Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research0
Social entrepreneurship and the social economy of Victorian and Edwardian Britain0
Selling ‘The World’s Favourite Airline’: British Airways’ privatisation and the motives behind it0
How women broke into the old boys’ corporate network in Switzerland0
Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures0
Deeply Responsible Business0
The rise of Hong Kong’s textile industry, 1945–1974: The role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA)0
The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire0
Industry dynamics and trade association power: The shifting nature of business influence in UK aluminium0
Beyond convergence: Uncovering the recruitment patterns of white-collar employees in a peripheral economy0
Gendered capitalism. Sewing machines and multinational business in Spain and Mexico (1850–1940)0
Deutsche Bank. The Global Bank, 1870-20200
Foreign direct investment policy, multinationals, and subsidiary entrepreneurship success and failure in post-war Scotland0
The Routledge companion to makers of global business0
Unbundling the brand: Differentiation and the law in the Brazilian South American tea industry0
Business groups and the ‘big push’ concept: Rethinking the dynamics of zaibatsu growth in Japan0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century AmericaBranding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Jennifer M. Black. Philadelphia: University 0
Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020)0
The experience of free banking, second edition The Experience of Free Banking, second edition , edited by Kevin Dowd, London, The Inst0
Women directors in Italy: 1913–20170
Access to bank loans in economic transition: An oral history approach0
The evolution of the Wellcome Trust and market-based philanthropy in the UK0
Is peer review ripe for a revise and resubmit? – Academics might be less the party answering that question0
Book review of historical organization studies: Theory and applications0
Organising through time: Paradox and history0
Being unbusinesslike. Financing strategy at the Great Exhibition0
The politics of quantification: The General Confederation of Italian Industry and the cost-of-living index in the late 1920s0
Shipbuilding and early forms of modern management. Six months to rebuild the Ottoman fleet after the defeat at Lepanto0
Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System0
Business, ethics and institutions: the evolution of Turkish capitalism in global perspectives Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectiv0
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
Business, politics and the transition from war to peace: The Federation of British Industries, 1916-250
Forging new meanings of Europe. The cross-ideological logic of Western Business Interest Associations (BIAs) promoting trade with Mao’s China0
Reassessing the historical dynamics of European business associations: The genesis of UNICE, late 1940s to 1970s0
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 19870
Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s0
Market-making strategies in Tanzimat era Istanbul: The quest for an elusive cosmopolitanism0
Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews0
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, gold and dynastyHarry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, gold and dynasty, by Michael Cardo, Johannesburg and Cape Town, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2023, xxiv + 526 pp., illus., £20.500
Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–20100
We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda0
Insights into the nature and dynamics of business power: The case of Credit Unions in 1960s Argentina0
Business history: a research overview, Business History: A Research Overview , by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Ste0
The chemical brothers: Competition and the evolution of the board interlock network in the German chemical industry, 1950–20150
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective0
Beyond revolutions: Mao-era China’s market entry strategies in Latin America0
Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England0
The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective0
Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank, Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank , edited by Duncan Campbell-Smith. Allen Lane (Pengu0
No Birds of Passage. A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975No Birds of Passage. A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975, edited by Michael O’ Sullivan, Harva0
Against entrepreneurship: a critical examination0
State finance, merchant stake, and foreign interests: The certificate system in the Chinese salt administration, 1912–19490
Multinational banking in Egypt: A case-study of the Ionian Bank, 1907–19390
Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School0
An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s–1990s)0
Capital structure and business failure: The collapse of Canada’s Dome Petroleum0
Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons0
The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house0
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: storying Stockholm 1900–20200
The role of projects in shaping businesses capabilities and structure since the 1960s0
Shifting to trade for profit: The Andean Development Corporation’s strategy during the crisis of the 1980s0
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
Tin mining in Cornwall 1900 to 1950: Decline, fall and resurrection0
Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade0
The establishment of banking supervision in Italy: an assessment (1926–1936)0
Business practice in socialist Hungary. Volume 1 creating the theft economy, 1945–1957 Business practice in socialist Hungary. Volume 1 creating the theft economy, 1945–1957 0
The establishment of the Eurodollar market in Paris and the failure of regulation and reform, 1959–19640
Distribution channels and growth strategies in Spanish insurance: from networks of agents to branch offices (1870–1940)0
The management of international boycotts in historical perspective: Volkswagen and the Arab League boycott, 1960–19770
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire , by Edmond Smith, Woodbridge, Yale Unive0
Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–18280
Urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship: A microhistorical study of a Community Land Trust0
Balancing efficiency and equity. Consumer cooperatives in Barcelona (Spain), 1898–1936: An economic and financial-ratio analysis0
The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China0
The grain trade and minorities in the early modern Italian Peninsula and beyond: An introduction0
Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s0
Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719–17300
Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade0
The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century0
The contribution of the Stephenson Company, engine manufacturers to the genesis of the British railway industry c.1823-18400
Make peer review great (again?)0
American blockbuster: movies, technology, and wonder0
When GM met Austin: British and American variants of inter-war automobile mass production0
A dissimulated trade. Northern European timber merchants in Seville (1574–1598)0
Green entrepreneurship in UK foods and the emergence of the alternative meat sector: Quorn 1965–20060
The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston0
The Impact of the First World War on International BusinessThe Impact of the First World War on International Business, edited by Andrew Smith, Simon Mollan and Kevin D. Tennent. Routledge, London, 200
Unfree markets: The slaves’ economy and the rise of capitalism in South Carolina0
Regulatory capture in the British Empire: The British South Africa Company and the redefinition of property rights in Southern Africa0
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–19990
Globalisation of a state-owned enterprise: A history of Japan Tobacco (1985–2014)0
Canada, a working history0
The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events that Transformed the Olympic Games , by Step0
Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine, Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumpt0
The Business of Emotions in Modern History The Business of Emotions in Modern History , edited by Mandy L. Cooper and Andrew Popp. London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 2880
Entrepreneurship in Spain. A history0
Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight0
An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technological diffusion0
Surviving peace: Resilience and production decentralization in the Italian gun-making district, 1945–19700
‘We have a prodigious amount in common’. Reappraising Americanisation and circulation of knowledge in the interwar Nordic advertising industry0
Stable support, scant initiative: European business associations and Economic and Monetary Union, 1946–19920
The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition0
Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy , by Ivan Light and0
Navigating nationalism in global enterprise: A century of Indo-German Business relations0
Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system0
Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in0
Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy0
The evolution of genre: Systematic review of Polish corporate histories0
Swedish business as a social movement? Mobilising the masses against wage-earner funds, 1975–19910
The age of global economic crises, 1929–2022 The age of global economic crises, 1929–2022 , edited by Juan Manuel Matés-Barco and María Vázquez-Fariñas. Routledge Explor0
The English East India Company’s silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750–18500
Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London0
Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age0
How stickiness to low-end markets leads to innovation: Co-evolution between Brother Industry Ltd. and Brother International Corp. USA, 1908–20000
Gender and bankarization in Spain, 1949–19700
’A man of particular ability’: A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system0
National brands and global markets. An historical perspective0
Northern grain and the Flemish nation in Genoa: the structural consequences of a famine (1585–1616)0
Working behind the scenes: The Scotch Whisky Association and the US liquor market c1950–c19700
Competing narratives in the Swedish 1929 deposit insurance-debate0
Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-19310
The Bank of England and the ‘prehistory’ of corporate governance0
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)0
Invented market traditions: The marketing of Italian breakfast (1973–1996)0
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 , by Sh0
Hidden in plain sight: QWERTY, the search for optimality and IP complementarity0
Merchant networks and profits on merchant capital in the Mediterranean (Majorca, 18th century)0
Peer-to-peer, or peer pressure?0
Taking stock and moving forward: What makes a contribution in business history?0
Moulding clay, making gold. Credit, labour and demand in ceramic businesses in late medieval Barcelona0
Practices, merchants and mercantilisms. Jews and the cereal trade in Trieste between Eastern Europe, the Po and the Mediterranean (18th century)0
The British aircraft industry and American-led globalisation, 1943–1982 The British aircraft industry and American-led globalisation, 1943-1982 0
The wings of Daedalus: The business and politics of the linen trade in late seventeenth-century England0
International Business in Australia Before World War One0
Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War0
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
Mercantilism from below? Swedish consuls and merchant networks between Naples and Stockholm in the mid eighteenth century0
Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing0
Women leaders in industry in nineteenth-century France: The case of Amélie de Dietrich0
National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s0
Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–19900
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