OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Business History is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison	25
Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977–1990	15
Small, medium, large: How government made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse	13
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–1936	11
Management thought and practice in 1920s China	11
’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century	10
Running on coffee: Paradox persistence in the US coffee industry, 1910–2020	10
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, 1869–1969	9
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations	8
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work	7
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte [New Perspectives in Business History]	7
Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation	7
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present	7
Women’s roles in Turkish family businesses: Patterns and transformations from the 1960s to the 1990s	7
The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena	7
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 India	6
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–2019	6
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise	5
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking	5
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region	5
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks	5

Latin America in turbulent times: Business, finance, and democracy during the 1970s and 1980s	5
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank	5
Banking failure and regulatory reform on the periphery: The Kwong Yik Bank in the British Straits Settlements	5
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	5
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation	4
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 1881	4
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 1945	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.	4
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolution	4
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery	4
Social entrepreneurship from margin to centre: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s contributions in transforming society through practices of opening up	4
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment	4
Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds	4
The business of history: Tales and lessons from two centuries of British commerce	4
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920	4
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	4
Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee	4
Chasing sources at the ‘Grey Zone’: Archival leaks, archival crowdsourcing, and writing business history without business archives in Turkey	3
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands	3
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	3
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control	3
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s	3
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987	3
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 empire	3
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria	3
Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy field: A historiographical analysis of regulatory dynamics from 1855 to 1995	3
Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–19	3
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic	3
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920	3
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland	3
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company	2
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business	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
Vetro di Murano: Storie di Mestieri e di Fornaci	2
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland	2
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China	2
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia	2
The great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France	2
Convenience store retailing – The embedding of a new approach in the British retail landscape	2
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society	2
Global family capitalism. A business history perspective	2
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga	2
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905	2
From imposition to concession, from compliance to resistance: Creating a Harvard Business School clone in a Turkish university, 1954–1965	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
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes	2
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy	2

Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards	2
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700	2
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s	2
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina	2
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–1940	2
Board composition in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1970-2005: A prosopographic and theoretical analysis	2
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment	2
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–1863	2
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung	2
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania	2
A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870–1914 (Volume 1): Entry, Enterprise Formation, and Early Firm Growth	2
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco	2
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation	2
Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay	2