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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison25
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–199015
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse13
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–193611
Management thought and practice in 1920s China11
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century10
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–202010
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)10
The introduction of financial services regulation in Britain in 1870: Cui bono?10
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–19699
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations8
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work7
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte [New Perspectives in Business History]7
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation7
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present7
Women’s roles in Turkish family businesses: Patterns and transformations from the 1960s to the 1990s7
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena7
Venezia tra storia sviluppo e sostenibilità [Venice: Between History, Development and Sustainability]7
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)7
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India6
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–20196
Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements5
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 Politics5
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise5
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking5
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region5
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks5
Latin America in turbulent times: Business, finance, and democracy during the 1970s and 1980s5
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank5
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship4
Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee4
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation4
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 18814
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 19454
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism , by Geoffrey M. Hodgson.4
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolution4
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery4
Social entrepreneurship from margin to centre: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s contributions in transforming society through practices of opening up4
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment4
Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds4
The business of history: Tales and lessons from two centuries of British commerce4
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–19204
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland3
Chasing sources at the ‘Grey Zone’: Archival leaks, archival crowdsourcing, and writing business history without business archives in Turkey3
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands3
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, 23
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control3
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s3
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–19873
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications 3
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)3
“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.)3
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire3
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria3
Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy field: A historiographical analysis of regulatory dynamics from 1855 to 19953
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–193
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic3
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–19203
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco2
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation2
Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay2
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company2
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business2
La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur animal et la fabrique de la modernité [The beasts’ round. The animal motor and the factory of modernity]2
Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci2
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland2
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China2
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France2
Convenience store retailing – The embedding of a new approach in the British retail landscape2
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society2
Global family capitalism. A business history perspective2
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga2
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–19052
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia2
From imposition to concession, from compliance to resistance: Creating a Harvard Business School clone in a Turkish university, 1954–19652
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
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes2
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy2
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards2
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-17002
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s2
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina2
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–19402
Board composition in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1970-2005: A prosopographic and theoretical analysis2
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment2
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–18632
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung2
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania2
A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870–1914 (Volume 1): Entry, Enterprise Formation, and Early Firm Growth2
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture1
Mining the informal empire: Sino-Japanese relations and ironmaking in Manchuria, 1909–19311
History-informed institutional change: Houghton Mifflin and the shifting dynamics of the US book publishing industry (1950–1970)1
Chinese hinterland capitalism and shanxi piaohao: Banking, state, and family, 1720-19101
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature1
Reviving China’s global footprint along the Silk Roads and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: Chinese overseas industrial park in Egypt1
Mining elites in developing economies: Big Bad Wolf or Ugly Duckling? The Bolivian case, c. 1850–19501
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 Watchmaking1
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion1
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900-19331
The international expansion of Navimor International: Leveraging resources and capabilities remaining from the era of red globalization1
Chandlerian growth in a ‘taboo market’? The American deathcare industry since the early 20th century1
From local notables to global players: Law firms in a tax haven (Luxembourg, 1960s to 2020s)1
Caffeinated memories: The creation of historical narratives as public goods in the Colombian coffee industry1
The professionalisation of the art trade in early nineteenth century London: Exploring the business model of Christie’s auction house1
Quakers in the British Atlantic World, 1660-18001
Women in corporate networks: An introduction1
Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s1
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–20221
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)1
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–18451
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective1
Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence1
Management and social order in ancient India1
Women in the Factory, 1880–1930: Class and Gender1
Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–19981
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–19261
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results1
‘Progressive conservatism’: The evolution of paternalism as a means of management control at Michelin1
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, 1870-19191
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry1
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:1
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara1
Counternarrating entrepreneurship1
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice1
Business history: a research overview, Business History: A Research Overview , by John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Ste0
Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London0
The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China0
Milk in Spain and the history of diet change: The political economy of dairy consumption since 19500
Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War0
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 Brita0
Business history as institutional history0
Reassessing the historical dynamics of European business associations: The genesis of UNICE, late 1940s to 1970s0
From charity to markets: The evolving narratives of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship in Brazil0
The politics of quantification: The General Confederation of Italian Industry and the cost-of-living index in the late 1920s0
Navigating nationalism in global enterprise: A century of Indo-German Business relations0
Hong Kong takes flight: Commercial aviation and the making of a global hub, 1930s-19980
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective0
Social entrepreneurship and the social economy of Victorian and Edwardian Britain0
Organising through time: Paradox and history0
The Bank of England and the ‘prehistory’ of corporate governance0
Crisis, criticisms, and damaged credibility: A case study of organisational trust repair by a Victorian joint-stock bank0
Revise and resubmit? Peer reviewing business historical research0
Survival through globalisation: Innovation, internationalisation, and the endurance of big business in Central Europe0
Mercantilism from below? Swedish consuls and merchant networks between Naples and Stockholm in the mid eighteenth century0
The British aircraft industry and American-led globalisation, 1943–1982 The British aircraft industry and American-led globalisation, 1943-1982 0
Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–20100
The evolution of genre: Systematic review of Polish corporate histories0
Multinational banking in Egypt: A case-study of the Ionian Bank, 1907–19390
Gender and bankarization in Spain, 1949–19700
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
Business groups and the ‘big push’ concept: Rethinking the dynamics of zaibatsu growth in Japan0
The age of global economic crises, 1929–20220
Deeply Responsible Business0
Business practice in socialist Hungary. Volume 1 creating the theft economy, 1945–19570
Double marginality: Women in the Finnish scrap recycling business since the 1960s0
Access to bank loans in economic transition: An oral history approach0
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
Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing0
How stickiness to low-end markets leads to innovation: Co-evolution between Brother Industry Ltd. and Brother International Corp. USA, 1908–20000
Interinstitutional shaping of retail innovation: The nineteenth century retail arcade0
Peer-to-peer, or peer pressure?0
Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England0
Industrial districts in medieval England: Examining the significance of the ‘elementary localisation of industry’0
Foreign direct investment policy, multinationals, and subsidiary entrepreneurship success and failure in post-war Scotland0
Being unbusinesslike. Financing strategy at the Great Exhibition0
Insights into the nature and dynamics of business power: The case of Credit Unions in 1960s Argentina0
The Consumer Co-operative Sector: International Perspectives on Strategic Renewal0
Grain trade in Early modern Mantua and Venice: The role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews0
Dealing with jokers in the pack: Social enterprise and the State in Scotland, 1965–19990
The making of a status symbol: A business history of Rolex0
Business schools and museum learning in historical perspective: Lessons from the forgotten history of commercial school museums0
Beyond revolutions: Mao-era China’s market entry strategies in Latin America0
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
Colonial capitalisation and business investment in the Federated Malay States in the interwar years0
The ‘Palladium of prosperity’: Lobbying between Marseilles and Paris from the revolution to the restoration (1789-1817)0
British business-government relationships: A case study of the Burmah Oil Company, 1974–19750
The Business of Emotions in Modern History0
Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures0
An entrepreneurial turf war: Travel agencies, ICEM, and the migration industry since the 1950s0
Engineer capitalism in the Danish business system0
Minding the gaps: Triangulation strategies for colonial and postcolonial archives0
Green entrepreneurship in UK foods and the emergence of the alternative meat sector: Quorn 1965–20060
An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s–1990s)0
Market-making strategies in Tanzimat era Istanbul: The quest for an elusive cosmopolitanism0
The dressmakers: Women and entrepreneurship in Cape Town 1900–19390
The Ecological Crisis and Water Supply – The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context | Brill0
Urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship: A microhistorical study of a Community Land Trust0
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 17560
Connecting the dots: Business history research on social entrepreneurship in the Global South0
Beers in stock: Financing legal beer’s return at the nadir of the Great Depression0
Shifting to trade for profit: The Andean Development Corporation’s strategy during the crisis of the 1980s0
Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School0
From globalisation to autarky. business strategies, governmental policies and international interests in the Italian aluminium industry (1928–1943)0
The management of international boycotts in historical perspective: Volkswagen and the Arab League boycott, 1960–19770
Swedish business as a social movement? Mobilising the masses against wage-earner funds, 1975–19910
Globalisation of a state-owned enterprise: A history of Japan Tobacco (1985–2014)0
International Business in Australia Before World War One0
Systems of Deceit: Financial Fraud and Scandal in the United Kingdom, 1700–20100
Nationalism and colonialism: Sino-Japanese rivalry in the condiment industry, 1908–410
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
Freedom of contract and company freedom. Corporate governance in Norway, 1890–19300
The role of projects in shaping businesses capabilities and structure since the 1960s0
Unbundling the brand: Differentiation and the law in the Brazilian South American tea industry0
The grain trade and minorities in the early modern Italian Peninsula and beyond: An introduction0
Governance structure, organizational form, and business performance: A study of the Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s–1930s0
Merchant networks and profits on merchant capital in the Mediterranean (Majorca, 18th century)0
Invented market traditions: The marketing of Italian breakfast (1973–1996)0
Women leaders in industry in nineteenth-century France: The case of Amélie de Dietrich0
Bargaining for investment funds during the ‘economic boom’ in communist Poland (1971–1974): A comparative analysis of provincial apparatchiks’ engagement0
Business, ethics and institutions: the evolution of Turkish capitalism in global perspectives Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectiv0
Crossing Continents. A History of Standard Chartered Bank,0
Against entrepreneurship: a critical examination0
Moulding clay, making gold. Credit, labour and demand in ceramic businesses in late medieval Barcelona0
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)0
The wings of Daedalus: The business and politics of the linen trade in late seventeenth-century England0
A dissimulated trade. Northern European timber merchants in Seville (1574–1598)0
Balancing efficiency and equity. Consumer cooperatives in Barcelona (Spain), 1898–1936: An economic and financial-ratio analysis0
Is peer review ripe for a revise and resubmit? – Academics might be less the party answering that question0
Stability in search of explanations: Quantifying Italian businesswomen in the twentieth century0
Structural change as the primary driver of water pollution reductions: Re-evaluating the role of command and control in the Swedish pulp and paper industry (1969–1989)0
Wine, Networks and Scales. Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine,0
Women directors in Italy: 1913–20170
The experience of free banking, second edition The Experience of Free Banking, second edition , edited by Kevin Dowd, London, The Inst0
Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–19990
Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons0
Navigating stigma while balancing between the social and the commercial: An account of Clarity & Co0
Hidden in plain sight: QWERTY, the search for optimality and IP complementarity0
The contribution of the Stephenson Company, engine manufacturers to the genesis of the British railway industry c.1823-18400
Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther: rediscovering the moral economy , by Ivan Light and0
In the shadow of Americanisation: The origins and evolution of management education and training in Argentina (1940s–1960s)0
Working behind the scenes: The Scotch Whisky Association and the US liquor market c1950–c19700
Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in0
Shipbuilding and early forms of modern management. Six months to rebuild the Ottoman fleet after the defeat at Lepanto0
The evolution of the Wellcome Trust and market-based philanthropy in the UK0
Beyond convergence: Uncovering the recruitment patterns of white-collar employees in a peripheral economy0
The entrepreneurial response to beer legalisation in 1933 prior to the end of Prohibition0
No Birds of Passage. A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–19750
The establishment of banking supervision in Italy: an assessment (1926–1936)0
Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–18280
We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda0
An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technological diffusion0
Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age0
Bourdieusian capital conversion during crises of socio-political legitimacy: Sponsorship of the arts by Barclays Bank, 1972 to 19870
National brands and global markets. An historical perspective0
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire , by Edmond Smith, Woodbridge, Yale Unive0
Canada, a working history0
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, gold and dynasty0
The rise of Hong Kong’s textile industry, 1945–1974: The role of the Hong Kong Spinners Association (HKSA)0
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. C0
‘Popular sources’ in Chinese business history: New perspectives on Chinese enterprise0
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