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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–1990	33
The introduction of financial services regulation in Britain in 1870: Cui bono?	18
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020	13
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison	12
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work	12
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse	11
Bargaining for oil: From multinational control to state ownership in Finland, 1917–1957	10
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations	9
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–1936	9
Venezia tra storia sviluppo e sostenibilità [Venice: Between History, Development and Sustainability]	8
The invention of the ecological consumer: A new history of green capitalism	7
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena	7
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)	7
Management thought and practice in 1920s China	7
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation	7
Latin America in turbulent times: Business, finance, and democracy during the 1970s and 1980s	6
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte [New Perspectives in Business History]	6
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking	6
Women’s roles in Turkish family businesses: Patterns and transformations from the 1960s to the 1990s	6
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present	6
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India	6
Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements	6
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise	5
Marking history and making history: Genres of internal historical narratives in rhetorical history	5
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank	5

The business of history: Tales and lessons from two centuries of British commerce	5
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region	5
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolution	5
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation	5
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks	5
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)	5
In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey	5
Social entrepreneurship from margin to centre: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s contributions in transforming society through practices of opening up	5
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands	4
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery	4
Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds	4
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 1945	4
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987	4
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	4
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland	4
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920	4
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	4
The historical roots of social entrepreneurship in South Asia: A tapestry of change	4
Chasing sources at the ‘Grey Zone’: Archival leaks, archival crowdsourcing, and writing business history without business archives in Turkey	4
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria	4
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 1881	4
Cartels within cartels: Business consortia, state power, and the economic field of cement in 1930s Czechoslovakia	4
Scale(s) and scope: Technology evolution and firm dynamics in the music synthesizer industry	4
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment	4
Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee	4
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–1863	3
Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy field: A historiographical analysis of regulatory dynamics from 1855 to 1995	3
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire	3
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control	3
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	3
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905	3
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications	3
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)	3
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920	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
La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur animal et la fabrique de la modernité [The beasts’ round. The animal motor and the factory of modernity]	3
Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci	3
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s	3
“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.)	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
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic	3
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment	3
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland	2
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga	2
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–1940	2
Where have all the business women gone? Women and business in the 20th century	2
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China	2
Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay	2
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company	2
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business	2

Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung	2
Reluctant partners: State industry, Brazilian business and German firms in the 1975 nuclear agreement between Brazil and West Germany	2
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s	2
Global family capitalism. A business history perspective	2
Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences	2
From imposition to concession, from compliance to resistance: Creating a Harvard Business School clone in a Turkish university, 1954–1965	2
Board composition in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1970-2005: A prosopographic and theoretical analysis	2
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia	2
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes	2
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards	2
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania	2