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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Using digital sources: the future of business history?16
Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight11
Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II9
Good wives and corporate leaders: Duality in women’s access to Australia’s top company boards, 1910–20187
How women broke into the old boys’ corporate network in Switzerland7
From Monsanto to ‘Monsatan’: Ownership and control of history as a strategic resource7
The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century7
From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams: The Finnish government in business, 1970–20106
Soviet big business: The rise and fall of the state corporation Sovrybflot, 1965-19916
Women directors in Italy: 1913–20176
Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy6
Cross-fertilising scenario planning and business history by process-tracing historical developments: Aiding counterfactual reasoning and uncovering history to come6
Women leaders in industry in nineteenth-century France: The case of Amélie de Dietrich6
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–20195
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena5
Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and semi-colonial context5
Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020)5
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature5
Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a ‘liberal bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-19875
Art dealers’ inventory strategy: the case of Goupil, Boussod & Valadon from 1860 to 19145
Mastering the narrative and the dirty tricks of trade: The re-establishment of a Swedish bank in 16685
Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates5
Inter-firm convening and organisational power: How American multinationals mobilised the Venezuelan business community to adopt CSR practices, 1961–19675
The atomic business: structures and strategies5
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 19874
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)4
‘We have a prodigious amount in common’. Reappraising Americanisation and circulation of knowledge in the interwar Nordic advertising industry4
Nazi German waste recovery and the vision of a circular economy: The case of waste paper and rags4
Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: thesurvivalof an economic elite?*4
An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s–1990s)4
The establishment of banking supervision in Italy: an assessment (1926–1936)4
Women in corporate networks: An introduction4
Bubbles in history3
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond3
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship3
Strategy and business history rejoined: How and why strategic management concepts took over business history3
Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16 th -18 th centuries)3
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–19593
Invented market traditions: The marketing of Italian breakfast (1973–1996)3
An integrative approach to investigating longstanding organisational phenomena; opportunities for practice theorists and historians3
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation3
The chemical brothers: Competition and the evolution of the board interlock network in the German chemical industry, 1950–20153
Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change3
Women entrepreneurs and family networks in Andalusia (Spain) during the second industrial revolution3
Point of no return: Soviet paper reuse, 1932–19453
The Business Roundtable and the politics of U.S. manufacturing decline in the global 1970s2
Ragusan trade diaspora and the commerce of grain in sixteenth century: A network-institutional approach2
Caught between outreach and sustainability: The rise and decline of Dutch credit unions2
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions2
Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s2
Counternarrating entrepreneurship2
Foucault, governing and knowledge: Everyday diplomacy in Tata Steel, 1907–19252
Swedish business as a social movement? Mobilising the masses against wage-earner funds, 1975–19912
Reviving China’s global footprint along the Silk Roads and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Chinese overseas industrial park in Egypt2
The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–19602
Origins of disaster management: the British mine rescue system, c. 1900 to c. 19302
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations2
Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history2
Forging new meanings of Europe. The cross-ideological logic of Western Business Interest Associations (BIAs) promoting trade with Mao’s China2
A price for toleration: The role of grain in shaping business relations between nobles and Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth2
Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain2
Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures2
Becoming the advocate for US-based multinationals: The United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1945–19742
Organizing long duration interdependence in Lloyd’s of London: Persistence in a part-whole paradox of organizing2
Fuel for commercial politics: the nucleus of early commercial proliferation of atomic energy in three acts2
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–19992
Management of technological innovation: high tech R&D in the GDR2
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 19452
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present2
A ‘Magnificent’ military entrepreneur? The involvement of the Medici Bank in the arms trade (1482-1494)2
Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism2
Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States2
The ‘wine revolution’ in the United States, 1960–1980: Narratives and category creation2
Death and taxes: Estate duty – a neglected factor in changes to British business structure after World War two2
Northern grain and the Flemish nation in Genoa: the structural consequences of a famine (1585–1616)2
British overseas railway investment and economic development: The Colombian National Railway Company and its impact on the Colombian interior2
The pitfalls of multinational banking: The case of Italian banks in Egypt before WWII2
Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London1
The metamorphosis of China’s automotive industry (1953–2001): Inward internationalisation, technological transfers and the making of a post-socialist market1
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, 1974–20221
A history of corporate financial reporting in Britain1
Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–20101
Practices, merchants and mercantilisms. Jews and the cereal trade in Trieste between Eastern Europe, the Po and the Mediterranean (18th century)1
Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy1
Industry dynamics and trade association power: The shifting nature of business influence in UK aluminium1
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)1
The institutionalization of the fight against white-collar crime in Switzerland, 1970-19901
Mercantilism from below? Swedish consuls and merchant networks between Naples and Stockholm in the mid eighteenth century1
West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800–1850s1
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–191
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
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards1
’A man of particular ability’: A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system1
The brassware industry and the salvage campaigns of wartime colonial Korea (1937-1945)1
Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research1
Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets1
Success through failure? Four centuries of searching for Danish coal1
Socio-economic activities of former feudal lords in Meiji Japan1
Globalisation of a state-owned enterprise: A history of Japan Tobacco (1985–2014)1
Business history goes East: An introduction1
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: storying Stockholm 1900–20201
Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade1
Accountability and information disclosure in a Catholic charity (1798–1801)1
Monopolist logic? Managing technology in the telecom sector during technological and regulatory change1
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–20201
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France1
Selling ‘The World’s Favourite Airline’: British Airways’ privatisation and the motives behind it1
Profiles of entrepreneurial success during two centuries. The case of Sweden, with comparisons to Italy1
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–20181
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s1
Reassessing the historical dynamics of European business associations: The genesis of UNICE, late 1940s to 1970s1
Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews1
Born of necessity: The introduction of convertible bonds in The Netherlands1
How residues of deinstitutionalised practices persist over time: World Bank boundary work in development projects in Pakistan from the 1970s to the mid-2000s1
Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719–17301
The evolution of genre: Systematic review of Polish corporate histories1
The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition1
Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–19901
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)1
American blockbuster: movies, technology, and wonder1
National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s1
Risk management in prewar China: A study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Qing dynasty and Republican-era Shanxi province1
Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank, Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank , edited by Duncan Campbell-Smith. Allen Lane (Pengu0
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region0
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–19690
The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house0
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice0
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 Politics0
Gendered capitalism. Sewing machines and multinational business in Spain and Mexico (1850–1940)0
A cinematic soap opera: The development of cinematography as an advertising and promotional tool in Lever Brothers Limited0
The experience of free banking, second edition The Experience of Free Banking, second edition , edited by Kevin Dowd, London, The Inst0
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
The ‘Palladium of prosperity’: Lobbying between Marseilles and Paris from the revolution to the restoration (1789-1817)0
Multinational banking in Egypt: A case-study of the Ionian Bank, 1907–19390
Artisans abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Artisans abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 , by Fabrice 0
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia0
Unending capitalism: How consumerism negated China's Communist Revolution0
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 , by Sh0
Commodities in History: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Case Studies Commodities in History: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Case Studies ,edited by Juan Car0
Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–19980
Entrepreneurship in Spain. A history0
Business, politics and the transition from war to peace: The Federation of British Industries, 1916-250
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
Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England0
Taking stock and moving forward: What makes a contribution in business history?0
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China0
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control0
‘The very latest, modom’: The British Commercial Gas Association, the Gas Light and Coke Company and content marketing in interwar Britain0
The rise and fall and reinvention of a global icon0
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire0
Victorian literary businesses. The management and practices of the british publishing industry0
L’Arsenale di venezia. Da grande complesso industriale a risorsa patrimoniale0
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)0
Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia0
Management and social order in ancient India0
Business history: a research overview, Business History: A Research Overview , by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Ste0
Banking on détente: Barclays, Paribas, and Société Générale in Poland, 1950s-1980s0
Companies and entrepreneurs in the history of Spain. Centuries long evolution in business since the 15th century Companies and entrepreneurs in the history of Spain. C0
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank0
Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret0
From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-19800
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective0
Business, ethics and institutions: the evolution of Turkish capitalism in global perspectives Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectiv0
Capital structure and business failure: The collapse of Canada’s Dome Petroleum0
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business ­Enterprise0
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India0
Merchant networks and profits on merchant capital in the Mediterranean (Majorca, 18th century)0
Crisis, criticisms, and damaged credibility: A case study of organisational trust repair by a Victorian joint-stock bank0
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–19050
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–18630
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
Against entrepreneurship: a critical examination0
Competing narratives in the Swedish 1929 deposit insurance-debate0
Is peer review ripe for a revise and resubmit? – Academics might be less the party answering that question0
Small worlds: Institutional isomorphism and Australia’s corporate elite, 1910–20180
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 Watchmaking0
Shipbuilding and early forms of modern management. Six months to rebuild the Ottoman fleet after the defeat at Lepanto0
Surviving peace: Resilience and production decentralization in the Italian gun-making district, 1945–19700
Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system0
When GM met Austin: British and American variants of inter-war automobile mass production0
Post-War business planners in the United States, 1939–48: The rise of the corporate moderates0
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland0
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<0
Mining the informal empire: Sino-Japanese relations and ironmaking in Manchuria, 1909–19310
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison0
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–19260
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes0
In the shadow of Americanisation: The origins and evolution of management education and training in Argentina (1940s–1960s)0
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment0
The role of projects in shaping businesses capabilities and structure since the 1960s0
Hong Kong takes flight: Commercial aviation and the making of a global hub, 1930s-19980
Chinese hinterland capitalism and shanxi piaohao: Banking, state, and family, 1720-19100
Access to bank loans in economic transition: An oral history approach0
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work0
The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston0
New Directions in Organisational and Management History0
The rise of Hong Kong’s textile industry, 1945–1974: The role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA)0
China bound. John Swire & Sons and its world, 1816-19800
The establishment of the Eurodollar market in Paris and the failure of regulation and reform, 1959–19640
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business0
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
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
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture0
Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School0
The emergence of modern hospital management and organisation in the world 1880s–1930s0
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga0
Compassionate capitalism: business and community in medieval England0
Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy , by Ivan Light and0
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
Cellular: An economic and business history of the international mobile-phone industry0
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results0
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung0
Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism0
Deutsche Bank. The Global Bank, 1870-20200
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
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks0
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–19360
Make peer review great (again?)0
Storm in a teacup: Empire products, blended teas, and origin marking debates in 1920s Britain0
Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons0
Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles0
We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda0
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
Histoire de la Société générale. Tome III: 1914–1921. La Société générale dans la guerre et l’après-guerre,0
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry0
Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine, Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumpt0
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–19200
Management thought and practice in 1920s China0
French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s0
An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technological diffusion An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technol0
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–19200
The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China0
Promoting monopoly: AT&T and the politics of public relations, 1876–1941, by Karen Miller Russell0
Insights into the nature and dynamics of business power: The case of Credit Unions in 1960s Argentina0
Quakers in the British Atlantic World, 1660-18000
‘Like aid given by a mother to her young’: The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and the marketing of economic development 1948–19650
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
Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in0
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
Distribution channels and growth strategies in Spanish insurance: from networks of agents to branch offices (1870–1940)0
Green entrepreneurship in UK foods and the emergence of the alternative meat sector: Quorn 1965–20060
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking0
History-informed institutional change: Houghton Mifflin and the shifting dynamics of the US book publishing industry (1950–1970)0
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
The English East India Company’s silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750–18500
The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity0
Caffeinated memories: The creation of historical narratives as public goods in the Colombian coffee industry0
Koreankuzuya, ‘German-style control’ and the business of waste in wartime Japan, 1931-19450
Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856-1951 Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856-1951 , by Brent Salter. ­Cambridge University Press, Cambrid0
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