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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–1936	15
Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles	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
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 1945	12
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–1969	12
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–1990	10
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison	10
Management thought and practice in 1920s China	10
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century	9
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse	9
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations	7
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)	7
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020	6
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation	6
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 arena	6
French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s	6
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–2019	5
Compassionate capitalism: business and community in medieval England	5
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India	5
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking	5
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, Liverp	4
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank	4
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 1945	4
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	4

Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present	4
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise	4
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks	4
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 1881	4
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation	4
Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia	4
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region	4
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 Politics	4
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920	4
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
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond	3
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment	3
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery	3
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 Hitler	3
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria	3
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987	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	2
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)	2
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s	2
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, 2	2
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic	2
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire	2
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905	2
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control	2
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–1863	2
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland	2
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920	2
The decline of companies and voluntary organisations as infrastructure providers in nineteenth-century England	2
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–2018	2
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland	2
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment	2
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 Pre	2
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions	2
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 Commonwealth	2
“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, 1974–2022	2
The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–1960	2
The pitfalls of multinational banking: The case of Italian banks in Egypt before WWII	2
Counternarrating entrepreneurship	1
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina	1
Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence	1
Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets	1
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results	1
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards	1
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
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China	1
Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s	1

Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia	1
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry	1
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga	1
Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16 ^th -18 ^th centuries)	1
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective	1
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–2022	1
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France	1
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–1845	1
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700	1
Women in corporate networks: An introduction	1
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy	1
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture	1
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s	1
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)	1
The rise and fall and reinvention of a global icon	1
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice	1
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung	1
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara	1
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society	1
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–1959	1
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania	1
Correction	1
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation	1
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–1926	1
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco	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
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–1940	1
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 Watchmaking	1
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company	1
Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism	1
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business	1
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion	1
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes	1
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900-1933 Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 190	1