OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Business History 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Management thought and practice in 1920s China	15
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–1990	15
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison	13
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century	12
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse	11
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020	10
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work	9
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 1945	8
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–1969	8
An antitrust case in the diamond industry: The United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)	7
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations	7
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena	7
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation	7
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present	6
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–1936	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
Women’s roles in Turkish family businesses: Patterns and transformations from the 1960s to the 1990s	6
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)	5
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region	5
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking	5
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise	5
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–2019	5
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte [New Perspectives in Business History]	5
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks	4

Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation	4
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920	4
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank	4
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 1945	4
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery	4
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 Politics	4
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolution	4
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 1881	4
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism , by Geoffrey M. Hodgson.	3
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s	3
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–1863	3
Tobias Straumann: 1931. Debt, crisis and the rise of Hitler	3
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria	3
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)	3
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications *Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications*	3
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands	3
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	3
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987	3
Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee	3
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland	3
Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds	3
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment	3
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905	2
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire	2
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control	2
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
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company	2
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland	2
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga	2
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung	2
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920	2
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic	2
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, 2	2
“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.)	2
From imposition to concession, from compliance to resistance: Creating a Harvard Business School clone in a Turkish university, 1954–1965	2
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China	2
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania	2
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business	2
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	2
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 Pre	2
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–19	2
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment	2
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards	2
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia	2
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–1940	2
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, 1870-1919	1
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco	1
Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900-1933 Hunters, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 190	1
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation	1
Caffeinated memories: The creation of historical narratives as public goods in the Colombian coffee industry	1

The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina	1
‘The very latest, modom’: The British Commercial Gas Association, the Gas Light and Coke Company and content marketing in interwar Britain	1
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700	1
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature	1
Global family capitalism. A business history perspective	1
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–1926	1
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France	1
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)	1
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 Watchmaking	1
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
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–1959	1
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–1845	1
Counternarrating entrepreneurship	1
Quakers in the British Atlantic World, 1660-1800	1
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective	1
Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence	1
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes	1
Women in corporate networks: An introduction	1
Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism	1
Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s	1
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice	1
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–2022	1
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results	1
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion	1
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara	1
Correction	1
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry	1
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy	1
China bound. John Swire & Sons and its world, 1816-1980	1
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society	1
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture	1
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s	1
Chinese hinterland capitalism and shanxi piaohao: Banking, state, and family, 1720-1910	1
Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay	1
Mining elites in developing economies: Big Bad Wolf or Ugly Duckling? The Bolivian case, c. 1850–1950	1
Mining the informal empire: Sino-Japanese relations and ironmaking in Manchuria, 1909–1931	1