Business History

Papers
(The median citation count of Business History is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Artisans abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Artisans abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 , by Fabrice 16
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:15
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century13
Business history: a research overview, Business History: A Research Overview , by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Ste12
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, 1870-191911
Entrepreneurship in Spain. A history11
Storm in a teacup: Empire products, blended teas, and origin marking debates in 1920s Britain10
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse9
Bargaining for investment funds during the ‘economic boom’ in communist Poland (1971–1974): A comparative analysis of provincial apparatchiks’ engagement9
The emergence of modern hospital management and organisation in the world 1880s–1930s7
“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.)7
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control7
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice6
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–19695
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)5
Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism5
The ‘Palladium of prosperity’: Lobbying between Marseilles and Paris from the revolution to the restoration (1789-1817)5
Gendered capitalism. Sewing machines and multinational business in Spain and Mexico (1850–1940)5
Ragusan trade diaspora and the commerce of grain in sixteenth century: A network-institutional approach5
Capital structure and business failure: The collapse of Canada’s Dome Petroleum4
Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England4
The experience of free banking, second edition The Experience of Free Banking, second edition , edited by Kevin Dowd, London, The Inst4
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work4
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, 24
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison4
Is peer review ripe for a revise and resubmit? – Academics might be less the party answering that question4
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire4
Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy4
Accountability and information disclosure in a Catholic charity (1798–1801)4
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 Pre4
Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles4
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–19203
Women leaders in industry in nineteenth-century France: The case of Amélie de Dietrich3
Business history goes East: An introduction3
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)3
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–20203
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–18633
The rise of Hong Kong’s textile industry, 1945–1974: The role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA)3
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic3
In the shadow of Americanisation: The origins and evolution of management education and training in Argentina (1940s–1960s)3
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 Watchmaking2
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry2
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–192
National conflicts in a multinational: The case of the Dutch-German AKU/VGF/Akzo, 1920s to 1970s2
Insights into the nature and dynamics of business power: The case of Credit Unions in 1960s Argentina2
Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system2
Selling ‘The World’s Favourite Airline’: British Airways’ privatisation and the motives behind it2
Review: Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain Review: Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Brita2
Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s2
Distribution channels and growth strategies in Spanish insurance: from networks of agents to branch offices (1870–1940)2
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation2
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, 1974–20222
Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London2
‘We have a prodigious amount in common’. Reappraising Americanisation and circulation of knowledge in the interwar Nordic advertising industry2
’A man of particular ability’: A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system2
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–20182
Management thought and practice in 1920s China2
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–19362
Against entrepreneurship: a critical examination2
Hong Kong takes flight: Commercial aviation and the making of a global hub, 1930s-19982
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 19452
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–19902
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations1
Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing1
The pitfalls of multinational banking: The case of Italian banks in Egypt before WWII1
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–19051
Business, politics and the transition from war to peace: The Federation of British Industries, 1916-251
French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s1
Women in corporate networks: An introduction1
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking1
Multinational banking in Egypt: A case-study of the Ionian Bank, 1907–19391
Compassionate capitalism: business and community in medieval England1
The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–19601
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)1
The establishment of the Eurodollar market in Paris and the failure of regulation and reform, 1959–19641
When in Poland: Strategic uses of historical narratives by foreign MNCs in a discontinuous host-country context1
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present1
Beers in stock: Financing legal beer’s return at the nadir of the Great Depression1
We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda1
Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank, Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank , edited by Duncan Campbell-Smith. Allen Lane (Pengu1
International Business in Australia Before World War One1
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland1
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature1
The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity1
Companies and entrepreneurs in the history of Spain. Centuries long evolution in business since the 15th century Companies and entrepreneurs in the history of Spain. C1
Deutsche Bank. The Global Bank, 1870-20201
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena1
Competing narratives in the Swedish 1929 deposit insurance-debate1
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results1
Servants of liquidation: The clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719–17301
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–20221
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756 , by Sh1
Shipbuilding and early forms of modern management. Six months to rebuild the Ottoman fleet after the defeat at Lepanto1
Crisis, criticisms, and damaged credibility: A case study of organisational trust repair by a Victorian joint-stock bank1
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–19261
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective1
Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine, Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumpt1
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment1
Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence1
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture1
A cinematic soap opera: The development of cinematography as an advertising and promotional tool in Lever Brothers Limited1
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India1
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–19991
Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II1
Make peer review great (again?)1
Business as usual: How sponsored media sold American capitalism in the twentieth century0
Richard Potter, Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist, by Geoffrey Channon, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, xv + 285 pp., illus., £61.99 (hardback), ISBN 1-5275-3106-6 (hardb0
Tin mining in Cornwall 1900 to 1950: Decline, fall and resurrection0
Moulding clay, making gold. Credit, labour and demand in ceramic businesses in late medieval Barcelona0
Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age0
Reviving China’s global footprint along the Silk Roads and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Chinese overseas industrial park in Egypt0
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 19870
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900-1933 Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900
Peer-to-peer, or peer pressure?0
The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house0
American blockbuster: movies, technology, and wonder0
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion , by Nicholous M. Deal, Christopher M. 0
Working behind the scenes: The Scotch Whisky Association and the US liquor market c1950–c19700
Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons0
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy0
The Mystique of Running the Public House in England Quest for El Dorado, 1840-19390
West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800–1850s0
An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s–1990s)0
When GM met Austin: British and American variants of inter-war automobile mass production0
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism , by Geoffrey M. Hodgson.0
Regulatory capture in the British Empire: The British South Africa Company and the redefinition of property rights in Southern Africa0
Unbundling the brand: Differentiation and the law in the Brazilian South American tea industry0
Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a ‘liberal bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-19870
Unfree markets: The slaves’ economy and the rise of capitalism in South Carolina0
The Blacketts. A Northern dynasty’s rise, crisis and redemption, The Blacketts. A Northern Dynasty’s Rise, Crisis and Redemption , by Greg Finch, Tyne BridgePublishing, 0
The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition0
Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism0
Business history and the resilience of regional economies0
Globalisation of a state-owned enterprise: A history of Japan Tobacco (1985–2014)0
Unlocking dynamic capabilities in the Scotch whisky industry, 1945–present0
A price for toleration: The role of grain in shaping business relations between nobles and Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth0
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical trajectory of the commercialising of cities: storying Stockholm 1900–20200
The evolution of genre: Systematic review of Polish corporate histories0
Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and semi-colonial context0
The grain trade and minorities in the early modern Italian Peninsula and beyond: An introduction0
Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16 th -18 th centuries)0
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region0
Gender and bankarization in Spain, 1949–19700
The decline of companies and voluntary organisations as infrastructure providers in nineteenth-century England0
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland0
Navigating nationalism in global enterprise: A century of Indo-German Business relations0
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung0
Hidden in plain sight: QWERTY, the search for optimality and IP complementarity0
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina0
Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets0
The British aircraft industry and American-led globalisation, 1943–1982 The British aircraft industry and American-led globalisation, 1943-1982 0
The Bank of England and the ‘prehistory’ of corporate governance0
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–19870
Using digital sources: the future of business history?0
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, gold and dynastyHarry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, gold and dynasty, by Michael Cardo, Johannesburg and Cape Town, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2023, xxiv + 526 pp., illus., £20.500
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society0
An integrative approach to investigating longstanding organisational phenomena; opportunities for practice theorists and historians0
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-17000
Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–18280
Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond0
Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–20100
A dissimulated trade. Northern European timber merchants in Seville (1574–1598)0
The age of global economic crises, 1929–2022 The age of global economic crises, 1929–2022 , edited by Juan Manuel Matés-Barco and María Vázquez-Fariñas. Routledge Explor0
Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–19900
Cellular: An economic and business history of the international mobile-phone industry0
Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States0
A ‘Magnificent’ military entrepreneur? The involvement of the Medici Bank in the arms trade (1482-1494)0
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–18450
Noblemen in business in the nineteenth century: thesurvivalof an economic elite?*0
Stable support, scant initiative: European business associations and Economic and Monetary Union, 1946–19920
Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-19310
Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s0
How residues of deinstitutionalised practices persist over time: World Bank boundary work in development projects in Pakistan from the 1970s to the mid-2000s0
Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research0
Being unbusinesslike. Financing strategy at the Great Exhibition0
Market-making strategies in Tanzimat era Istanbul: The quest for an elusive cosmopolitanism0
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco0
Industry dynamics and trade association power: The shifting nature of business influence in UK aluminium0
From local notables to global players: Law firms in a tax haven (Luxembourg, 1960s to 2020s)0
Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight0
The evolution of the Wellcome Trust and market-based philanthropy in the UK0
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications 0
Inter-firm convening and organisational power: How American multinationals mobilised the Venezuelan business community to adopt CSR practices, 1961–19670
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria0
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation0
Mining the informal empire: Sino-Japanese relations and ironmaking in Manchuria, 1909–19310
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions0
The chemical brothers: Competition and the evolution of the board interlock network in the German chemical industry, 1950–20150
Postcolonial transition and global business history: British multinational companies in Ghana and Nigeria0
Women directors in Italy: 1913–20170
Merchant networks and profits on merchant capital in the Mediterranean (Majorca, 18th century)0
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–19590
Book review of historical organization studies: Theory and applications0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century AmericaBranding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Jennifer M. Black. Philadelphia: University 0
The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire0
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business0
Trade and nation: how companies and politics reshaped economic thought Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped economic Thought , by Emily Erikson, New Yor0
The contribution of the Stephenson Company, engine manufacturers to the genesis of the British railway industry c.1823-18400
Role of reinsurance in the world: case studies of eight countries Role of Reinsurance in the World: Case Studies of Eight Countries , edited by Leonardo Caruana de las C0
Greytown is No More! The 1854 Razing of a Central American Port, the U.S. Businesses Behind Its Demise, and the Lasting Foreign Policy Legacy Greytown is No More! The 1854 Razing of a C0
Infant company protection in the German semi-synthetic fibre industry: Market power, technology, the Nazi government and the post-1945 world market0
Risk management in prewar China: A study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Qing dynasty and Republican-era Shanxi province0
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks0
The politics of quantification: The General Confederation of Italian Industry and the cost-of-living index in the late 1920s0
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France0
Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews0
Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade0
Revise and resubmit? Or conditional accept?0
Invented market traditions: The marketing of Italian breakfast (1973–1996)0
The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China0
The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective0
Business practice in socialist Hungary. Volume 1 creating the theft economy, 1945–1957 Business practice in socialist Hungary. Volume 1 creating the theft economy, 1945–1957 0
Industrial Clusters: Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK0
Small worlds: Institutional isomorphism and Australia’s corporate elite, 1910–20180
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective0
National brands and global markets. An historical perspective0
Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade0
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia0
The management of international boycotts in historical perspective: Volkswagen and the Arab League boycott, 1960–19770
Shifting to trade for profit: The Andean Development Corporation’s strategy during the crisis of the 1980s0
Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain0
Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history0
Practices, merchants and mercantilisms. Jews and the cereal trade in Trieste between Eastern Europe, the Po and the Mediterranean (18th century)0
Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures0
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino NogaraAl servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara, by Angelo Caleca, Bologna, il Mulino, 2022, 408 pp. €30.000
Monopolist logic? Managing technology in the telecom sector during technological and regulatory change0
The English East India Company’s silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750–18500
Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System0
Canada, a working history0
The Impact of the First World War on International BusinessThe Impact of the First World War on International Business, edited by Andrew Smith, Simon Mollan and Kevin D. Tennent. Routledge, London, 200
Forging new meanings of Europe. The cross-ideological logic of Western Business Interest Associations (BIAs) promoting trade with Mao’s China0
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s0
Balancing efficiency and equity. Consumer cooperatives in Barcelona (Spain), 1898–1936: An economic and financial-ratio analysis0
State finance, merchant stake, and foreign interests: The certificate system in the Chinese salt administration, 1912–19490
Industrial path creation, a business case approach: Daniel Alonso Group from steelmaking to wind power0
Histoire de la Société générale. Tome III: 1914–1921. La Société générale dans la guerre et l’après-guerre,0
State-owned enterprises after the market turn: Hybridisation and the historical development of nested paradoxes in the case of Norway0
The meddlers: Sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance0
Becoming the World’s Biggest Brewer: Artois, Piedbouef and Interbrew (1880-2000)0
Mercantilism from below? Swedish consuls and merchant networks between Naples and Stockholm in the mid eighteenth century0
Northern grain and the Flemish nation in Genoa: the structural consequences of a famine (1585–1616)0
Counternarrating entrepreneurship0
History in management and organization studies: from margin to mainstream0
How women broke into the old boys’ corporate network in Switzerland0
Correction0
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 Politics0
The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events that Transformed the Olympic Games , by Step0
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)0
History-informed institutional change: Houghton Mifflin and the shifting dynamics of the US book publishing industry (1950–1970)0
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment0
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