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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using digital sources: the future of business history?	16
Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight	11
Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II	9
Good wives and corporate leaders: Duality in women’s access to Australia’s top company boards, 1910–2018	7
How women broke into the old boys’ corporate network in Switzerland	7
From Monsanto to ‘Monsatan’: Ownership and control of history as a strategic resource	7
The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century	7
From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams: The Finnish government in business, 1970–2010	6
Soviet big business: The rise and fall of the state corporation Sovrybflot, 1965-1991	6
Women directors in Italy: 1913–2017	6
Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy	6
Cross-fertilising scenario planning and business history by process-tracing historical developments: Aiding counterfactual reasoning and uncovering history to come	6
Women leaders in industry in nineteenth-century France: The case of Amélie de Dietrich	6
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–2019	5
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena	5
Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and semi-colonial context	5
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 literature	5
Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a ‘liberal bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987	5
Art dealers’ inventory strategy: the case of Goupil, Boussod & Valadon from 1860 to 1914	5
Mastering the narrative and the dirty tricks of trade: The re-establishment of a Swedish bank in 1668	5
Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates	5
Inter-firm convening and organisational power: How American multinationals mobilised the Venezuelan business community to adopt CSR practices, 1961–1967	5
The atomic business: structures and strategies	5
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 1987	4

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 industry	4
Nazi German waste recovery and the vision of a circular economy: The case of waste paper and rags	4
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 introduction	4
Bubbles in history	3
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond	3
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	3
Strategy and business history rejoined: How and why strategic management concepts took over business history	3
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, 1900–1959	3
Invented market traditions: The marketing of Italian breakfast (1973–1996)	3
An integrative approach to investigating longstanding organisational phenomena; opportunities for practice theorists and historians	3
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation	3
The chemical brothers: Competition and the evolution of the board interlock network in the German chemical industry, 1950–2015	3
Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change	3
Women entrepreneurs and family networks in Andalusia (Spain) during the second industrial revolution	3
Point of no return: Soviet paper reuse, 1932–1945	3
The Business Roundtable and the politics of U.S. manufacturing decline in the global 1970s	2
Ragusan trade diaspora and the commerce of grain in sixteenth century: A network-institutional approach	2
Caught between outreach and sustainability: The rise and decline of Dutch credit unions	2
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions	2
Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s	2
Counternarrating entrepreneurship	2
Foucault, governing and knowledge: Everyday diplomacy in Tata Steel, 1907–1925	2
Swedish business as a social movement? Mobilising the masses against wage-earner funds, 1975–1991	2
Reviving China’s global footprint along the Silk Roads and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Chinese overseas industrial park in Egypt	2
The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–1960	2
Origins of disaster management: the British mine rescue system, c. 1900 to c. 1930	2
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations	2
Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history	2
Forging new meanings of Europe. The cross-ideological logic of Western Business Interest Associations (BIAs) promoting trade with Mao’s China	2
A price for toleration: The role of grain in shaping business relations between nobles and Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	2
Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain	2
Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures	2
Becoming the advocate for US-based multinationals: The United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1945–1974	2
Organizing long duration interdependence in Lloyd’s of London: Persistence in a part-whole paradox of organizing	2
Fuel for commercial politics: the nucleus of early commercial proliferation of atomic energy in three acts	2
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–1999	2
Management of technological innovation: high tech R&D in the GDR	2
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 1945	2
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present	2
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 feminism	2
Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States	2
The ‘wine revolution’ in the United States, 1960–1980: Narratives and category creation	2
Death and taxes: Estate duty – a neglected factor in changes to British business structure after World War two	2
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 interior	2
The pitfalls of multinational banking: The case of Italian banks in Egypt before WWII	2
Success through failure? Four centuries of searching for Danish coal	1
Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London	1
Socio-economic activities of former feudal lords in Meiji Japan	1
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	1
Globalisation of a state-owned enterprise: A history of Japan Tobacco (1985–2014)	1
Business history goes East: An introduction	1
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: storying Stockholm 1900–2020	1
Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade	1
Monopolist logic? Managing technology in the telecom sector during technological and regulatory change	1
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France	1
Profiles of entrepreneurial success during two centuries. The case of Sweden, with comparisons to Italy	1
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s	1
Reassessing the historical dynamics of European business associations: The genesis of UNICE, late 1940s to 1970s	1
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–19	1
Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews	1
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century	1
Born of necessity: The introduction of convertible bonds in The Netherlands	1
’A man of particular ability’: A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system	1
How residues of deinstitutionalised practices persist over time: World Bank boundary work in development projects in Pakistan from the 1970s to the mid-2000s	1
Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719–1730	1
The evolution of genre: Systematic review of Polish corporate histories	1
The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition	1
Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–1990	1
American blockbuster: movies, technology, and wonder	1
Risk management in prewar China: A study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Qing dynasty and Republican-era Shanxi province	1
The metamorphosis of China’s automotive industry (1953–2001): Inward internationalisation, technological transfers and the making of a post-socialist market	1
A history of corporate financial reporting in Britain	1
Accountability and information disclosure in a Catholic charity (1798–1801)	1
Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–2010	1
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020	1
Practices, merchants and mercantilisms. Jews and the cereal trade in Trieste between Eastern Europe, the Po and the Mediterranean (18th century)	1
Selling ‘The World’s Favourite Airline’: British Airways’ privatisation and the motives behind it	1
Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy	1
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–2018	1
Industry dynamics and trade association power: The shifting nature of business influence in UK aluminium	1
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, 1970-1990	1
Mercantilism from below? Swedish consuls and merchant networks between Naples and Stockholm in the mid eighteenth century	1
West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800–1850s	1
The origins of the tools suppliers in the semiconductor industry	1
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards	1
The brassware industry and the salvage campaigns of wartime colonial Korea (1937-1945)	1
Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research	1
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)	1
Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets	1
National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s	1