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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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
Management thought and practice in 1920s China	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	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
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–1969	9
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work	9
The origins of organisation: A trans-methodological approach to the historical analysis of preindustrial organisations	7
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850–1936	7
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 1945	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
Compassionate capitalism: business and community in medieval England	6
Women directors in corporate India, c. 1920–2019	6
French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s	6
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India	6
Victory through conquest in 1960’s Brazil: Business interest associations, moral panic, and policymaking	5
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)	5
Banking and politics in the age of democratic revolutionBanking and politics in the age of democratic revolution, by Niccolò Valmori, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool, Liverp	5
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte [New Perspectives in Business History]	5
Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia	5
Strategizing on the riverbank: State-owned enterprises, paradoxes, and the success of Sberbank	4

Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds Invested: How three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds<	4
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	4
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920	4
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise	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
Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation	4
Managing in rugged environments: A case study of human resource management in Chinese banks, 1911 to 1945	4
Exploring business history of the Middle East and North Africa region	4
International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks	4
How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery	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
Tobias Straumann: 1931. Debt, crisis and the rise of Hitler	3
The decline of companies and voluntary organisations as infrastructure providers in nineteenth-century England	3
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Strategy and management of multinationals in a volatile environment	3
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath: The rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business in Alexandria	3
Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications *Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and monopoly in British Telecommunications*	3
Passengers, citizens, customers: London transport transformed 1977–1987	3
Manias, panics, & land: The property bubbles of the great Chinese crash of the 1880s	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	2
Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanese high-tech regions	2
Emotions at work: The emotional labour of professional diplomats in the early modern Venetian Republic	2
Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung	2
Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905	2
Family firms in post-war Britain and Germany. Competing approaches to business	2
Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire	2
“Explorer les archives et écrire l‘Histoire. Autour de Roger Nougaret”, Hubert BONIN, Laure QUENNOUËLLE-CORRE (Eds.)	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
When procedures and ideology replace strategy in corporate political activity: Industry associations in Interwar Finland	2
The pursuit of socioemotional wealth and the management of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1809–1863	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
Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the painted moment	2
The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga	2
Early modern lighting of a main European Sea route: From private initiative to public control	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
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)	2
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–2018	2
Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920	2
Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland	2
Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia	2
Tata: the global corporation that built Indian capitalism	1
Genoese entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700	1
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
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards	1
The rise and fall and reinvention of a global icon	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
The hotel industry in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, 1900–1959	1
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company: a constructive review of literature	1
Women in corporate networks: An introduction	1
Correction	1

Essential yet evasive: Theoretical and methodological insights into business power and influence	1
Counternarrating entrepreneurship	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
Job switching and knowledge transfer: The case of Norwegian mining and metallurgy, 1787–1940	1
Josiah Wedgwood, business history, and our modes of enquiry	1
Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China	1
Managerial Failure in early Victorian Britain: Network and capital expansion during the Railway Mania	1
Financing firms: Beyond the dichotomy between banks and markets	1
Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–1845	1
The institutional development of Islamic finance in the Middle East: A post-colonial comparative perspective	1
‘The very latest, modom’: The British Commercial Gas Association, the Gas Light and Coke Company and content marketing in interwar Britain	1
The 1950 transformation of the Turkish business system in terms of its basic dynamics: Expectations and results	1
Government, business and making China an educational powerhouse since the 1980s	1
The winners of the lost decade. The expansion of the Macri business group during the crisis of the 1980s in Argentina	1
Educating indigenous commercial executives. A business school in colonial context: The case of the Indochina Higher School of Commerce (1920–1932)	1
The contribution of an outsider’s complementary assets to ecosystem emergence: Aldus Manutius and the printing industry in Renaissance Italy	1
Rural merchants in the Early Modern Republic of Venice	1
Globalisation: A Key Idea for Business and Society	1
Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara	1
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s	1
Appearances can be deceiving – The Swedish Bank Act and actor influence in different regulatory regimes	1
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company	1
Closing ranks: The Publishers Association in Victorian Britain and its powerful place in institutional formation	1
ANTi-History: Theorisation, Application, Critique and Dispersion	1
The business of time: A global history of the watch industry. Studies in design & material culture	1
Reading Chinese Australian enterprise through insolvency and bankruptcy files, 1857–1926	1
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968–2022	1
Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco	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 great expansion: The exceptional spread of bank branches in interwar France	1