OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Business History is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–1990	36
The invention of the ecological consumer: A new history of green capitalism	20
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 work	12
Bargaining for oil: From multinational control to state ownership in Finland, 1917–1957	12
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations	11
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–1936	11
Management thought and practice in 1920s China	10
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation	9
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020	9
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison	8
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 powerhouse	8
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena	8
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking	7
Towards a new understanding of occupational liberalisation: The lifting of entry requirements to the craft trades in Norway during the 1980s	7
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present	7
Latin America in turbulent times: Business, finance, and democracy during the 1970s and 1980s	7
First class workmanship at reasonable prices: Redeveloping Berlin ready-to-wear’s international reputation (1919–1929)	7
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 1990s	7
Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements	7
Marking history and making history: Genres of internal historical narratives in rhetorical history	6
The business of history: Tales and lessons from two centuries of British commerce	6

In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey	6
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India	6
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise	6
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolution	6
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)	6
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region	5
Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds	5
Scale(s) and scope: Technology evolution and firm dynamics in the music synthesizer industry	5
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	5
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation	5
Social entrepreneurship from margin to centre: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s contributions in transforming society through practices of opening up	5
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920	5
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 1881	5
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank	5
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 1945	5
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks	5
Cartels within cartels: Business consortia, state power, and the economic field of cement in 1930s Czechoslovakia	5
Democratizing luxury: Name brands, advertising, and consumption in modern Japan	4
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment	4
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 Turkey	4
Breakneck: China’s quest to engineer the future	4
Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee	4
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	4
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands	4
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland	4
Beyond big business. Rethinking the role of married women in Catalonia (Spain) in the first quarter of the 20th century	4
The historical roots of social entrepreneurship in South Asia: A tapestry of change	4
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria	4
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987	4
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery	4
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications	3
“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, 1860–1914	3
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control	3
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–19	3
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s	3
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)	3
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic	3
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire	3
Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy field: A historiographical analysis of regulatory dynamics from 1855 to 1995	3
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, 1870–1920	3
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–1863	3
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment	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, 1974–2022	2
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga	2
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–1940	2
Association football and the administrators who made it, c. 1863–1914	2
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia	2

Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland	2
Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci	2
Board composition in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1970-2005: A prosopographic and theoretical analysis	2
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company	2
Reluctant partners: State industry, Brazilian business and German firms in the 1975 nuclear agreement between Brazil and West Germany	2
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences	2
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905	2
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, 1906–1918	2
Making an Industrial Revolution: Skill, knowledge, community and innovation	2
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung	2
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business	2
From imposition to concession, from compliance to resistance: Creating a Harvard Business School clone in a Turkish university, 1954–1965	2
Caffeinated memories: The creation of historical narratives as public goods in the Colombian coffee industry	1
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation	1
Don’t mention the war: The effect of war threat on entrepreneurial activity in the Second Industrial Revolution of Belgium	1
The international expansion of Navimor International: Leveraging resources and capabilities remaining from the era of red globalization	1
The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house	1
1929: Inside the greatest crash in Wall Street history – and how it shattered a nation	1
Women in corporate networks: An introduction	1
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France	1
Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s	1
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s	1
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture	1
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania	1
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–2022	1
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China	1
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, 1870-1919	1
Global family capitalism. A business history perspective	1
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700	1
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry	1
Big business as political actors: FIAT, SEAT and VAZ in nationalist economic contexts (1940–1973)	1
A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870–1914 (Volume 1): Entry, Enterprise Formation, and Early Firm Growth	1
‘The very latest, modom’: The British Commercial Gas Association, the Gas Light and Coke Company and content marketing in interwar Britain	1
Counternarrating entrepreneurship	1
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature	1
Convenience store retailing – The embedding of a new approach in the British retail landscape	1
Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence	1
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective	1
‘Progressive conservatism’: The evolution of paternalism as a means of management control at Michelin	1
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina	1
Chandlerian growth in a ‘taboo market’? The American deathcare industry since the early 20th century	1
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 practice	1
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards	1
Foundations of Managing British Olympics: Institutions through Time	1
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion	1
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara	1
Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–1998	1
Women in the Factory, 1880–1930: Class and Gender	1
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy	1
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 1900-1933	1
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results	1
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco	1
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–1845	1
Ethics, business and capitalism: Thailand and Indonesia in an Asian perspective	1
Building a maritime empire: The foundations of Ante Topić’s shipping enterprise (1910–1945)	1
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society	1
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice	1
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes	1
Mining elites in developing economies: Big Bad Wolf or Ugly Duckling? The Bolivian case, c. 1850–1950	1
Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay	1
Where have all the business women gone? Women and business in the 20th century	1
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–1926	1