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The politics of quantification: The General Confederation of Italian Industry and the cost-of-living index in the late 1920s Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Giovanni Favero, Oscar Gaspari
Business interests can indirectly affect political decisions through the definition of statistical procedures to produce the quantitative indexes used to assess policy choices. This observatory cap...
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Peer-to-peer, or peer pressure? Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Andrew Popp
In this response to the editorial, I consider the challenges currently faced by the peer review system. These challenges include both the state of the history profession, especially as it interacts...
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Small worlds: Institutional isomorphism and Australia’s corporate elite, 1910–2018 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Claire E. F. Wright, Benjamin Wilkie
The study of corporate elites is crucial for understanding power in society. This article uses prosopography to examine the gender, race, class and social composition of Australia’s top interlocked...
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Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Philip Garnett, Simon Mollan, Benjamin Richards
Hillards was a retail supermarket firm based in Yorkshire in the North of England between 1885 and 1987, when it was subject to a hostile takeover from Tesco. Using archival and interview data this...
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Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Therese Nordlund Edvinsson
This article explores how self-employed migrant women, particularly Swedish Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, established beauty salons in Stockholm upon their return ...
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Make peer review great (again?) Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Anders Ravn Sørensen
In this reply I comment on the editorial by Lubinski, Decker, and MacKenzie. I applaud the editors’ initiative to raise a discussion on peer-review, and point to the need for a new valuation of the...
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‘Like aid given by a mother to her young’: The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and the marketing of economic development 1948–1965 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lewis Charles Smith
This paper locates Britain’s nationalised airline, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), in the political discourse of colonial development. Between 1939 and 1974 BOAC connected Britain ...
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Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Christina Lubinski, Stephanie Decker, Niall MacKenzie
Peer review in Business History has benefitted from the insights of over 550 expert reviewers over the past three years. In this editorial, we contextualise the journal’s peer review process histor...
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The Bank of England and the ‘prehistory’ of corporate governance Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Andrew Johnston
Most accounts of the evolution of corporate governance in the UK take the Cadbury Report of 1992 as ground zero. This article draws on archival research to explore the work done from 1970 onwards b...
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Storm in a teacup: Empire products, blended teas, and origin marking debates in 1920s Britain Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 David M. Higgins, Aashish Velkar
This article uses the origin marking of tea as a case study to examine contemporary debates on imperial preference and ‘soft’ trade protection. The case integrates three themes affecting the UK bus...
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Is peer review ripe for a revise and resubmit? – Academics might be less the party answering that question Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Dirk Lindebaum
This is a short essay in response to the editorial by Lubinski, Decker, and MacKenzie (this issue), in which the authors emphasise the need for scientific peer-review, but also scrutinise it for it...
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The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Lara Pecis, Bingbing Ge, Florian Bauer
Family firms are paradoxical by nature due to the interplay of two distinct goal systems: the family and the firm. These systems involve nested tensions that can create apparent paradoxes over time...
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Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Shane Hamilton, Andrew C. Godley
This paper uses a historical case study of the emergence of a set of agrifood standards to explore the historical development of strategic paradoxes. The paper demonstrates the value of historical ...
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Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–1990 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Klas Eriksson, Erik Lakomaa, Rasmus Nykvist, Christian Sandström
Previous research in business and management history has identified the Icarus paradox, which describes how organisations may fall due to overconfidence and hubris. We build upon previous research ...
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Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Andrea Tunarosa, Patrick Le, Camille Pradies
Organisations, industries, and societies often grapple with paradoxes – opposing and interrelated demands that persist over time. While questions of opposition and interrelation have received exten...
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When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Juha-Antti Lamberg, Saku Mantere, Kalle Pajunen
The core assumption in the management literature on corporate political activity (CPA) is that firms and industry associations representing their interests seek political ends driven by strategic c...
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Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Lorraine Talbot
Teleological histories frequently identify the emergence of company law in England as originating in the charter corporations of the Elizabethan period. I argue that while the corporations created ...
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Industrial path creation, a business case approach: Daniel Alonso Group from steelmaking to wind power Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Guillermo Antuña
The need for European reindustrialisation has boosted the debate on regional path creation. Through a business case approach, this work contributes to this literature by exploring the history of Da...
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Negotiating Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856-1951 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Magali Eben
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technological diffusion Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 James Fowler
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Andrew Smith
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Accountability and information disclosure in a Catholic charity (1798–1801) Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Pedro Araújo-Pinzón, Mariló Capelo-Bernal, Manuel Núñez-Nickel
By examining a Spanish Catholic charity that operated in an unregulated environment in Cádiz between 1798 and 1801, this article analyses the motivations for discharging accountability to stakehold...
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Swedish business as a social movement? Mobilising the masses against wage-earner funds, 1975–1991 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Rikard Westerberg
In 1975, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation proposed transferring ownership of firms to union-controlled wage-earner funds. This radical idea was met with fierce resistance from Swedish business...
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Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, gold and dynasty Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mesrob Vartavarian
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Access to bank loans in economic transition: An oral history approach Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Lucie Coufalová
By means of the oral history method, this paper examines the factors that facilitated access to loans in the early years of Czechoslovak transition. Giving voice to entrepreneurs, bankers, and poli...
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Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine, Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Hubert Bonin
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–1998 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Gregory Ferguson-Cradler
This article examines why and how states use the legal and organisational construction of the state-owned enterprise (SOE) to deal with environmental and social crises. In 1973, in response to a dr...
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Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Mattia Boscaino
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Simon Gérard, Ian Brittain, Glauco De Vita
Using unique archival evidence on the evolution of the Paralympic movement from the mid-1940s to 1989, this paper advances our understanding of how new organisational forms emerge. Our historical n...
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Stable support, scant initiative: European business associations and Economic and Monetary Union, 1946–1992 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Aleksandra Komornicka
The article investigates the views of European business associations on the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) project between 1946 and 1992. In doing so, it places the campaign for EMU organised by...
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Organizing long duration interdependence in Lloyd’s of London: Persistence in a part-whole paradox of organizing Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Wendy Kilminster, Paula Jarzabkowski, Alessandro Giudici
A critical challenge for interorganizational groups is to organize themselves in a way that balances the interests of the group as a whole and those of individual participants. How interorganizatio...
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The Business of Emotions in Modern History Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Ludovic Cailluet
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Simon Mollan, Chris Corker
This article examines the relationship between Sudan and Egypt during the colonial period to explore how control over international business and finance integrated Sudan within the British empire. ...
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Gender and bankarization in Spain, 1949–1970 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Susana Martínez-Rodríguez, Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo
This article analyzes an unexplored register of Spanish banks’ marketing material to document the access of women to the retail banking sector. In 1949 the Franco dictatorship deployed a Censorship...
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Market-making strategies in Tanzimat era Istanbul: The quest for an elusive cosmopolitanism Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Kubra Uygur, Cagri Yalkin, Selcuk Uygur
Focusing on a pivotal period of the Ottoman Empire, we illustrate how advertising tactics act as market-making tools for local and non-local businesses during the Tanzimat (1839–1876) (Re-organizat...
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Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett, Simon Ville
The no liability company – where investors are not liable for uncalled parts of their shares – is unique to Australasia. Deploying a large dataset, we provide the first empirical examination of the...
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Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Daniela Pirani, Christina Lubinski
Business historians have for long described the marketing value of country-of-origin (COO), often foregrounding the advantages of goods from a particular region. We argue that to fully understand C...
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Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Giuseppe Telesca
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–2010 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Steven Toms, Chieh Lin
The paper argues that the incidence of financial fraud and scandals has systemic macro-economic determinants. While not denying organisation specific causes, short-run triggering events, and key pl...
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Corporate restructuring in the telecommunications equipment industry: The case of Spain in the late twentieth century Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Ángel Calvo
A new technological paradigm coupled with a powerful wave of deregulation and liberalisation that was unleashed worldwide from the 1980s onwards acted as a catalyst for profound transformation in t...
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Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolution Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Anne L. Murphy
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900) Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Maria Carmela Schisani, Giancarlo Ragozini
In this article, we study the trajectories of marine insurance companies within the Naples business network over the nineteenth century in connection with the business interests of local elites. Fi...
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Artisans abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Akın Sefer
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank, Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Hubert Bonin
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Commodities in History: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Case Studies Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Özgür Burçak Gürsoy
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Charlotte Nilsson
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The age of global economic crises, 1929–2022 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Irina Yányshev-Nésterova
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The contribution of the Stephenson Company, engine manufacturers to the genesis of the British railway industry c.1823-1840 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Neveen Abdelrehim, Tom McGovern, Tom McLean, David Oldroyd, Thomas N. Tyson
The paper investigates the Stephenson Company’s contribution to genesis of the railway industry by exploring its business model in its formative years. The Company capitalised on a well-developed b...
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Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Alejandra Irigoin
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Histoire de la Société générale. Tome III: 1914–1921. La Société générale dans la guerre et l’après-guerre, Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Patrice Baubeau
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 James Fowler, Roy Edwards
Abstract This paper examines a transformation in the corporate control of London’s transport between 1977 and 1987. We offer a detailed case study explaining how a corporatist consensus broke down, what replaced it, and why. By 1977, London Transport was a centralised monopoly captured by its producer groups while passengers were treated as passive recipients. Two alternatives presented themselves:
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Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Elena Cooper
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Finn Erhard Johannessen
Abstract The sea route between Denmark and Sweden to the Baltic Sea was provided with lighthouses as early as the 1560s, and much later two lighthouses at the southern tip of Norway were added. Like other Norwegian lighthouses these were built and operated by private individuals with privileges giving them the right to levy duties on shipping. Ronald Coase has described the same phenomenon in England
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The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Filip Vermeylen, Sandra van Ginhoven
Abstract By 1800, the city of London had developed into a major hub for the art trade and numerous auction houses vied for market share in this competitive environment. Combining data from the Getty Provenance Index® and a unique set of journals preserved at the Christie’s archives in London which contain presale evaluations for paintings during the 1820s, this paper explores the business strategy
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The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Jan-Otmar Hesse
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Industrial Clusters: Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Emily Buchnea
Published in Business History (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)
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Business, politics and the transition from war to peace: The Federation of British Industries, 1916-25 Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Philip Ollerenshaw
Abstract The economic and political stresses of the First World War and its immediate aftermath strengthened the associational culture in British business. This article focuses on the Federation of British Industries, established in 1916 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1923, which quickly became one of the largest trade associations in the world, with global connections. For British business,
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The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Hussain G. Rammal, Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri, Benjamin Laker, Shlomo Tarba, João J. Ferreira
Abstract The Islamic finance sector has experienced rapid growth since its commercialisation in the 1970s. For many Muslim countries that gained independence from their colonial rulers, developing a financial industry that represented their faith and value belief systems gave the population a sense of identity. In our study, we traced the historical development of the Islamic finance sector in the
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National brands and global markets. An historical perspective Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Valeria Pinchera
Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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International timber trade, merchants, and the business organisation of the sector: The role of Danzig and the southern ports of the Baltic Sea (1823–1913) Business History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Luciano Segreto
Abstract The aim of this work is to study the quantitative and qualitative changes that occurred in the timber trade and in its business organisation, between the early 1820s and the outbreak of the First World War, on the southern bank of the Baltic, paying special attention to Danzig. In particular, we will analyse the role of the merchants and the other social and economic actors involved, at different