OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Enterprise & Society 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
ESO volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	18
Industrial Policy and its Funding at the Frontier of European Integration: Lessons from the Past and Present Challenges	11
ESO volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	10
Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century	8
Board Games: Antecedents of Australia’s Interlocking Directorates, 1910–2018	8
“Land Wickedness”: Technological Change, Institutions, and the Making of an Environmental Disaster in the Mining District of Cartagena-La Unión (Spain), 1840–1992	7
Roundtable Review	6
Explaining State Ownership in Listed Companies in Norway	5
Introduction	5
Futures of Europe: The City of London’s Commodity Exchanges, the European Economic Community, and the Global Regulation of Futures Trading (1960s–1980s)	5
The False Start: British Electrification, 1880–1888	4
Local Patriots: Dewar’s Scotch Whisky, Prosociality, Politics, and Place—1846–1930	4
Between State Control and Banking Power: Spanish Banking Supervision Under Franco (1940–1975)	4
The Creation of a Gendered Division of Labor in Mule Spinning: Evidence from Samuel Oldknow, 1788–1792	3
Marketing the Multinational in Shenbao, Shanghai, 1872–1889	3
Under the Influence of Commercial Values: Neoliberalized Business-Consumer Relations in the Swedish Certification Market, 1988–2018	3
Britain’s First Net Zero: Turning the Lights On and the Railways Off 1953–73	3
Fashion, Industry and Diplomacy: Reframing Couture–Textile Relations in France, 1950s–1960s	3
ESO volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Consumer Protection in Food Safety, 1946–2002	3
The business of city-building. Long-term change and continuity in the construction sector (Brussels, 1830–1970)	2
The Stock Market and the Space Age	2
Fighting for the soul of coal: Colliery closures and the moral economy of nationalization in Britain, 1947–1994	2
Private Lending in an Alpine Region during the Eighteenth Century: A Family of Merchant-Bankers and Their Credit Network	2
A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History	2

Yuppies: Young Urban Professionals and the Making of Postindustrial New York	2
Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670–1720	2
Under the Eagle’s Wings: The Coca-Cola Company’s Trademark Protection and Its Dilemmas in China (1930–1949)	2
How to Define (or Not to Define) the New History of Capitalism	2
The Great Leap Offshore: Sino-Norwegian Relations and Petro-Knowledge Transfers, 1976–1997	2
A World by Themselves: Protectionism and the Political Economy of Trade in the Ohio Valley, 1816–1828	2
Imperial Schemes: Empire and the Rise of the British Business-State, 1914–1939	2
“Killing Complaints with Courtesy”: The Role of Relationship Building in the Success of the Early U.S. Central Power Stations (1890–1938)	1
Capitalism Indivisible	1
Stavert, Zigomala & Co.: A Transnational History of the Anglo-Cuban Textile Trade During 1860s–1914	1
A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History – ERRATUM	1
Unfulfilled Promises and Desires: The British South Africa Company (BSAC), Settler Politics and the Development of Southern Rhodesia’s Fiscal System, 1890–1922	1
Expatriate Merchants and Partnership Formation 1840–1920: Danish Merchants in Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1
Canned Speech: Selling Democracy in the Phonographic Age	1
Introduction	1
Emancipation and the Business of Compensation in the Cape Colony	1
More than Just a Business: Recasting Literary Publishing in Postwar Germany, 1945–1949	1
Petrochemicals, Pollution, and the Moral Economy of Noxious Industry: Grangemouth, Scotland, from 1951 to 1989	1
Organizational Improvisation, Architectural “Piggybacking,” and Masonic Networking in the International Settlement, Shanghai: Building an Anglican Cathedral, 1864–1869	1
Nuclearization on the Iberian Peninsula: A Tale of Two Countries (c. 1947–1988)	1
Turning Students into Stock Market Investors: The Role of Civil Society and Public Schools in Swedish Financialization, c. 1985–2010	1
The Charismatic Organization: Vision 2000 and Corporate Change in a State-Owned Organization	1
Up and to the Right: The Development, Diffusion, and Impact of the Casey Life Cycle Model on Venture Capital Policy and Practice	1
Spillovers from Oil Firms to U.S. Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing: Smudging State–Industry Distinctions and Retelling Conventional Narratives	1
The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden: Micro-Infrastructures, Unlearning, and Moral Boundary Work	1
Swedish Copper, Spanish Hulls: Hans Jacob Gahn, a Global Arms Race, and Consuls’ Economic Impact (1780–1784)	1
Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763–1868	1
Introduction	1
ESO volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Vertical Integration Among Oil-producing Countries	1
A Historical Social Network Analysis of John Pinney’s Nevis–Bristol Network: Change over Time, the “Network Memory,” and Reading Against the Grain of Historical Sources	1
David M. Wight. Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 347 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-1572-3, $49.95 (cloth).	1
Banking and Eurodollars in Italy in the 1950s	1
Christian Wolmar. British Rail: A New History. London: Penguin Michael Joseph, 2022. 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-24145-620-0 $34.00 (cloth).	1
Trade Acceptances, Financial Reform, and the Culture of Commercial Credit in the United States, 1915–1920	1
Banking on Women: The Shanghai Women’s Commercial and Savings Bank, 1924–1955	1
A Brief History of the History of Capitalism, and a New American Variety	1
Bricolage and Innovation in the Emergence and Development of the Spanish Tourism Industry	1
Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1937–2023	1