OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Business History is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Using digital sources: the future of business history?	14
Women, uniforms and brand identity in Barclays Bank	9
Family entrepreneurial orientation as a driver of longevity in family firms: a historic analysis of the ennobled Trenor family and Trenor y Cía	7
Looking for cheap and abundant power: Business, government and nuclear energy in Finland	7
‘And one man in his time plays many parts’ – Samuel Pepys business administrator, accomptant and auditor	6
Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II	6
Good wives and corporate leaders: Duality in women’s access to Australia’s top company boards, 1910–2018	6
Embedding the market during times of crisis: the European automobile cartel during a decade of crisis (1973–1985)	5
The atomic business: structures and strategies	5
Chinese entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A business demography approach	5
Inter-firm convening and organisational power: How American multinationals mobilised the Venezuelan business community to adopt CSR practices, 1961–1967	5
From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams: The Finnish government in business, 1970–2010	5
The rise of Indian business in the global context in the twentieth century: A review and introduction	5
Cross-fertilising scenario planning and business history by process-tracing historical developments: Aiding counterfactual reasoning and uncovering history to come	5
Resilience and related variety: The role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region	5
How women broke into the old boys’ corporate network in Switzerland	4
Nazi German waste recovery and the vision of a circular economy: The case of waste paper and rags	4
Business organisation in the Mediterranean Sea: Genoese galley entrepreneurs in the service of the Spanish Empire (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries)	4
From Monsanto to ‘Monsatan’: Ownership and control of history as a strategic resource	4
Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and semi-colonial context	4
Art dealers’ inventory strategy: the case of Goupil, Boussod & Valadon from 1860 to 1914	4
Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: thesurvivalof an economic elite?*	4
Entrepreneurial strategies in a family business: growth and capital conversions in historical perspective	4
Soviet big business: The rise and fall of the state corporation Sovrybflot, 1965-1991	4
Women directors in Italy: 1913–2017	4

Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight	4
Filling a colonial void? German business strategies and development assistance in India, 1947–1974	4
Fast breeder reactor technology and the entrepreneurial state in the UK	4
Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates	4
Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy	4
Autarky, market creation and innovation: Snia Viscosa and Saici, 1933-1970	4
‘Settlers and comrades’. The variety of capitalism in South Africa, 1910–2016	3
German Capital and the development of the Spanish hotel industry (1950s-1990s): A tale of two strategic alliances	3
Feminist frustrations: The enduring neglect of a women’s business history and the opportunity for radical change	3
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)	3
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature	3
The paradox of nationality: Foreign investment in Portuguese Africa (1890–1974)	3
Only one way to raise capital? Colombian business groups and the dawn of internal markets	3
Varieties of capitalism, competition policy and the UK alcoholic beverages industry	3
An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s–1990s)	3
Gender inequality and the professionalisation of accountancy in the UK from 1870 to the interwar years	3
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–2019	3
Recycling war machines: Canadian munitions disposal, reverse logistics, and economic recovery after World War II	3
‘We have a prodigious amount in common’. Reappraising Americanisation and circulation of knowledge in the interwar Nordic advertising industry	3
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–1959	3
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond	3
The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century	3
Shaping the rules of the game: Spanish capitalism and the publishing industry under dictatorship (1939–1975)	3
Point of no return: Soviet paper reuse, 1932–1945	3
State and transforming institutional logics: the emergence and demise of Ottoman cooperatives as hybrid organizational forms, 1861–1888	3
The shifting corporate culture in the financial services industry: Explaining the emergence of the ‘culture of greed’ in an Australian Financial Services Company	2
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions	2
The Business Roundtable and the politics of U.S. manufacturing decline in the global 1970s	2
Caught between outreach and sustainability: The rise and decline of Dutch credit unions	2
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 1945	2
Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16^th-18^thcenturies)	2
The chemical brothers: Competition and the evolution of the board interlock network in the German chemical industry, 1950–2015	2
Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States	2
‘Buy British’: An analysis of UK attempts to turn a slogan into government policy in the 1970s and 1980s	2
The establishment of banking supervision in Italy: an assessment (1926–1936)	2
Fuel for commercial politics: the nucleus of early commercial proliferation of atomic energy in three acts	2
The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–1960	2
Mastering the narrative and the dirty tricks of trade: The re-establishment of a Swedish bank in 1668	2
Assessable stock and the Comstock mining companies	2
Strategy and business history rejoined: How and why strategic management concepts took over business history	2
‘No mutiny will be allowed’: business, the tax system and the Greek version of Mediterranean capitalism during dictatorship, 1967-1974	2
Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a ‘liberal bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987	2
National institutions, regional outcomes. The political economy of post-war Swedish regional policy	2
Bubbles in history	2
Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures	2
The embeddedness of ‘public’ enterprises: the case of the Gdynia (Poland) and Uljanik (Croatia) shipyards	2
Becoming the advocate for US-based multinationals: The United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1945–1974	2
Entrepreneurs as saviours of socialism? The complicated relationship between East German state socialism and entrepreneurship	2
Trading with the enemy? The flow of scrap between Britain and Germany from pre-war rearmament to post-war reconstruction	2
Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020)	2

Collaborating profitably? The fundraising practices of the contemporary art society, 1919–1939	2
Management of technological innovation: high tech R&D in the GDR	2
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation	2
Foreign direct investment and the undertow of history: Nationhood and the influence of history on the Czech-German relationship	2
Changing corporate domicile: The case of the Rhodesian Selection Trust companies	2
Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history	2
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present	2
Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism	2
Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s	2
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	2
Monopoly and competition: the Kenyan commercial banks at the end of the colonial period (1954–1963)	2
An integrative approach to investigating longstanding organisational phenomena; opportunities for practice theorists and historians	2
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–1999	2
Origins of disaster management: the British mine rescue system, c. 1900 to c. 1930	2