OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Enterprise & Society 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.)

Article	Citations
Industrial Policy and its Funding at the Frontier of European Integration: Lessons from the Past and Present Challenges	11
Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century	9
ESO volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	9
Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America	8
The Firm, the Bank and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War – CORRIGENDUM	8
Board Games: Antecedents of Australia’s Interlocking Directorates, 1910–2018	6
“Land Wickedness”: Technological Change, Institutions, and the Making of an Environmental Disaster in the Mining District of Cartagena-La Unión (Spain), 1840–1992	5
Futures of Europe: The City of London’s Commodity Exchanges, the European Economic Community, and the Global Regulation of Futures Trading (1960s–1980s)	5
Roundtable Review	5
Local Patriots: Dewar’s Scotch Whisky, Prosociality, Politics, and Place—1846–1930	4
Between State Control and Banking Power: Spanish Banking Supervision Under Franco (1940–1975)	4
Introduction	4
Explaining State Ownership in Listed Companies in Norway	4
The False Start: British Electrification, 1880–1888	4
Under the Influence of Commercial Values: Neoliberalized Business-Consumer Relations in the Swedish Certification Market, 1988–2018	3
Britain’s First Net Zero: Turning the Lights On and the Railways Off 1953–73	3
A World by Themselves: Protectionism and the Political Economy of Trade in the Ohio Valley, 1816–1828	3
Fighting for the soul of coal: Colliery closures and the moral economy of nationalization in Britain, 1947–1994	3
Marketing the Multinational in Shenbao, Shanghai, 1872–1889	3
The Creation of a Gendered Division of Labor in Mule Spinning: Evidence from Samuel Oldknow, 1788–1792	3
The American Legion Film Service and the “Obstinate, Indifferent and Cold-Blooded Exhibitor”: Independent Distribution and the Emergence of Silent-Era Hollywood	3
The Stock Market and the Space Age	3
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Unintended Cluster Emergence: Revisiting Francoist Industrial Policy in the Steelmaking Pole of Asturias (Spain), 1939–1985	3
The Great Leap Offshore: Sino-Norwegian Relations and Petro-Knowledge Transfers, 1976–1997	3

Capitalism Indivisible	2
“Killing Complaints with Courtesy”: The Role of Relationship Building in the Success of the Early U.S. Central Power Stations (1890–1938)	2
Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670–1720	2
Under the Eagle’s Wings: The Coca-Cola Company’s Trademark Protection and Its Dilemmas in China (1930–1949)	2
How to Define (or Not to Define) the New History of Capitalism	2
Vertical Integration Among Oil-producing Countries	2
The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War	2
Imperial Schemes: Empire and the Rise of the British Business-State, 1914–1939	2
The business of city-building. Long-term change and continuity in the construction sector (Brussels, 1830–1970)	2
Petrochemicals, Pollution, and the Moral Economy of Noxious Industry: Grangemouth, Scotland, from 1951 to 1989	2
Organizational Improvisation, Architectural “Piggybacking,” and Masonic Networking in the International Settlement, Shanghai: Building an Anglican Cathedral, 1864–1869	2
Nuclearization on the Iberian Peninsula: A Tale of Two Countries (c. 1947–1988)	2
Mary G. Roebling, Capitalist Feminism, and Marketing American Women’s Economic Rights	2
Private Lending in an Alpine Region during the Eighteenth Century: A Family of Merchant-Bankers and Their Credit Network	2
A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History	2
Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763–1868	1
A Historical Social Network Analysis of John Pinney’s Nevis–Bristol Network: Change over Time, the “Network Memory,” and Reading Against the Grain of Historical Sources	1
Introduction	1
Turning Students into Stock Market Investors: The Role of Civil Society and Public Schools in Swedish Financialization, c. 1985–2010	1
Feedlot Imprimatur: Public-Private Cooperation in the Advent of Government Beef Grading	1
Banking and Eurodollars in Italy in the 1950s	1
Banking on Women: The Shanghai Women’s Commercial and Savings Bank, 1924–1955	1
Expatriate Merchants and Partnership Formation 1840–1920: Danish Merchants in Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1
David M. Wight. Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 347 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-1572-3, $49.95 (cloth).	1
Stavert, Zigomala & Co.: A Transnational History of the Anglo-Cuban Textile Trade During 1860s–1914	1
A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History – ERRATUM	1
Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1937–2023	1
More than Just a Business: Recasting Literary Publishing in Postwar Germany, 1945–1949	1
Swedish Copper, Spanish Hulls: Hans Jacob Gahn, a Global Arms Race, and Consuls’ Economic Impact (1780–1784)	1
Introduction: Enterprise and Society at Twenty-Five	1
Unfulfilled Promises and Desires: The British South Africa Company (BSAC), Settler Politics and the Development of Southern Rhodesia’s Fiscal System, 1890–1922	1
Up and to the Right: The Development, Diffusion, and Impact of the Casey Life Cycle Model on Venture Capital Policy and Practice	1
Spillovers from Oil Firms to U.S. Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing: Smudging State–Industry Distinctions and Retelling Conventional Narratives	1
Bricolage and Innovation in the Emergence and Development of the Spanish Tourism Industry	1
Emancipation and the Business of Compensation in the Cape Colony	1
Introduction	1
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Canned Speech: Selling Democracy in the Phonographic Age	1
Trade Acceptances, Financial Reform, and the Culture of Commercial Credit in the United States, 1915–1920	1
Goodbye to a Historical Exclusion? The Journey of the Female Corporate Elite over a Century in Spain (1917–2017)	1
The Trees of the Forest: Uncovering Small-Scale Producers in an Industrial District, 1781–1851	1
Christian Wolmar. British Rail: A New History. London: Penguin Michael Joseph, 2022. 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-24145-620-0 $34.00 (cloth).	1
A Brief History of the History of Capitalism, and a New American Variety	1
The Other Side of Class Struggle. Business Interest Associations in Liberal Italy (1861-1914)	0
The Role of Forecasts in Planning for Energy Infrastructure: A Historical Look at Past Futures in Postwar Quebec	0
Exogenous Shocks and Cluster Change in the Howrah Foundries: Dynamics of Conflict and Fragmentation	0
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Evolution of Mining Company Responses to Civil Society Mobilization in South Africa	0
Wartime segmentation: Class, gender, and nation in the marketing of consumers, Sweden 1939–1945	0
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From New Left to Social Enterprise: A Conceptual History of the Industrial Common Ownership Movement, 1971–2001	0
Introduction	0
The Interconnected Nature of Family Indebtedness: The Halliday Family of Frome, Somerset (1733–1752)	0
Down a Slippery Slope: Lack of Trust, Coercive Threats and Business Tax Resistance in Greece, 1955–1988	0
Introduction	0
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Embracing Complexity and Diversity in Business History: A Latin American Perspective	0
Globalization or Empire? Revolution, the State, and the Geopolitics of Chinese Debt, 1895–1914	0
Fixing Blue Mondays with the Sunny Monday Machine: Rural Midwestern Farm Companies’ Offseason Gas-Powered Washing Machine Production, 1907–1929	0
From the Margins to the Core of Haute Couture: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Coco Chanel	0
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Part-Time Employment in the Breadwinner Era: Dutch Employers’ Initiatives to Control Female Labor Force Participation, 1945–1970	0
“An Exercise in the Art of the Possible”: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace	0
Writing and Reading New Markets: Insurance in Quebec, 1931–1960	0
Paper Steaks: Live Cattle Futures Markets and the Financial Revolution of 1964	0
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“Travel Inter-City like the men do”: Marketing British Rail’s Inter-City in Britain 1964–1979	0
From Marxist Venture to Venture Capitalists: The Swedish Wage-Earner Funds and the Market Turn, 1983–1994	0
Under the Influence of Commercial Values: Neoliberalized Business-Consumer Relations in the Swedish Certification Market, 1988–2018—ERRATUM	0
Dealing in Debt: The Role of Credit in Early Sino–U.S. Trade	0
Underwriting Empire: Marine Insurance and Female Agency in the French Atlantic World	0
A Response to the Comments on Martial Capitalism	0
With Statoil as a Prism: Revisiting Key Features and Concerns in Western Oil Companies’ Evolving Human Rights Awareness, From the Mid-1990s to the 2000s	0
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Fuel, Fear, and Fault: Mass Media and Cartel Criticism During the German Coal Crisis of 1900	0
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Business Against Drunk Driving: The Neoliberal State, Labatt Brewery, and the Creation of the “Responsible Drinker”	0
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Lessons from Environmental and Economic Crises	0
Globalization from Below: Labor Inequality in the German Shipbuilding Industry, 1960–2000	0
The AFL-CIO, the U.S. Balance of Payments, and the End of the Post–World War II Liberal Order, 1965–1973	0
Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica	0
Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in Alabama and the Nation	0
Benjamin Holtzman. The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiii + 331 pp. ISBN 9780190843700, $34.95 (cloth).	0
History from the Dustbins	0
The Business of Abortion: Referral Services, Cross-Border Consumption, and Canadian Women’s Access to Abortion in New York State, 1970–1972	0
Making Swadeshi Managers: The Antecedents of Professional Management Education in India, 1860s–1950s	0
Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in Alabama and the Nation – ERRATUM	0
Private Empires: The Development of Offshore Commercial and Financial Services in Tax Havens, 1955–1979	0
Better than No Beer at All: Legal Roles for 3.2 Beer in the Post-Prohibition Era United States	0
National Interests as Positive Externalities: Headquarters Retainment as Justification for Hybrid State-owned Enterprises in Norway (2000–2021)	0
Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation and the Role of State Firms in Economic Development	0
The Origins of “Big Tobacco” Cigarette Manufacturing and the Prevalence of Smoking in Colonial Cyprus, 1920-1960	0
When Fligstein Meets Chandler: The Chandlerian Origins of Corporate Financialization: The Case of Peugeot’s Financial Restructuring in the 1960s	0
Lost in the Transition: Czech Businesses Pivoting from the Centrally Planned Economy to Capitalism	0
The Dawn of Shareholder Value: The Normalization of the Hostile Takeover in the UK 1952–1954	0
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Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles	0
Crafting a Postcolonial (Inter)national Identity: Malaysian Pewter Company Royal Selangor’s Branding Strategies (1970–1992)	0
The Other Kitchen Debate: Gender, Microwave Safety, and Household Labor in Late Cold War America	0
Allyson P. Brantley. Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-61	0
The Peruvian Amazon Company: An Accounting Perspective	0
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From “Pin Money” to Careers: Britain’s Late Move to Equal Pay, Its Consequences, and Broader Implications	0
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From Railways to Aircraft: Officine Meccaniche Reggiane’s Successful Product Transition in the 1930s	0
Corporate Networks and Business Groups in Egypt, 1924–1948: Economic Necessity or Entrepreneurial Dynamism	0
Japanese Postwar Success: The Impact of Moral Re-Armament	0
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Beyond the Elite: Corporate Directors and Their Networks in Britain, ca. 1880s–1910s	0
A New Approach to Book Reviews	0
Indigenization and the Long-Term Formation of Human Capital in Africa: The Airline Industry in East Africa Since 1946	0
Working Like Goldfish: Emotional Labor and the Creation of Modern Consumer Culture in Japan, 1900s–1930s	0
In the Patented Bag: Peanuts, Packaging, and Intellectual Property in the United States, 1906–1932	0
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Knowledge upgrade in the Chinese apparel industry, 1980–2020	0
Building Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age of Disequilibrium	0
Market Failure, Information Asymmetries, and Monopoly Profits: The Barranquilla Railway and Pier Company in Colombia, 1888–1933	0
Global Capitalist Assemblages: A Historiographical Appraisal of Multinational Enterprise in the Global South	0
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“Making the Peaks Higher”: Foundations of Stanford University’s Growth, 1910–1960	0
“Flying Sikhs” in Africa: Global Automobility and the Safari Rally	0
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The Evolution of the Irish 12.5 Percent Corporate Tax Rate: An Oral History	0
Knowledge Flows and Industrial Clusters: Assessing the Sources of Competitive Advantage in Two English Regions	0

Doing Business in the Public Interest	0
Mites, Mildew and Anheuser-Busch: How Pests, Big Beer, and Hops Shaped the Craft Brewing Industry	0
Preinsolvency Proceedings and Court Dynamics in Antwerp (ca. 1880–1914)	0
Corporate Responses to Racial Unrest Editors’ Introduction	0
Ghassan Moazzin. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-1-31651-703-1, $99.99 (cloth).	0
Engineers & Corporate Management, ca 1870–1930: The Invisible HandRedux	0
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Strike Insurance: The Labor Question and the Limits of Insurance	0
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From South America to the United States: Guayakí and the Transformation of Yerba Mate	0
Have Faith in Business: Nestlé, Religious Shareholders, and the Politicization of the Church in the Long 1970s	0
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The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Aftermath: CSR in Action and Woke-washing	0
Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957	0
Smuggler States: Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Contraband Trade Across the Soviet Frontier, 1919–1924	0
The Internationalization of the Newspaper Industry 1989–2002: Three Scandinavian Cases	0
Introduction	0
Exogenous Shocks and Cluster Change in the Howrah Foundries: Dynamics of Conflict and Fragmentation – ERRATUM	0
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“Numberless Little Risks”: ‘Tropical Exposure’ in Globalizing Actuarial Discourse, 1852–1947	0
Doing Business in the Schools of the Welfare State: Competing “Entrepreneurial Selves” and the Roots of Entrepreneurship Education in 1980s Sweden	0
Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, US Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity	0
Introduction	0
Dividends, Efficiency, or Safety? Governance Choices at Corn Products Refining	0
Imperial Crucible: Alcoa and the Transimperial History of American Capitalism, 1888–1953	0
Turbulent Takeoff—Hard Landing: State-Airline Relations and the Challenges of Early Commercial Aviation in Iran, 1923–1932	0
Developing The World By Teaching Domestic Consumption: Swiss Supermarkets And The Emergence Of Development Aid Policies In The Early Postwar Period	0
Masters of the Market: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic, 1680–1774	0
The Emergence of Regional Industrial Policy in Britain: The Case of Wales, 1939 to 1947	0
Entrepreneurial Imaginaries: Finding the Fortune in Futures	0
Capital Markets and Medical Care: How Wall Street Invented Physician Management Companies in the 1990s	0
Completing the Picture of the Depression Housing Crisis	0
Deconsecration: Symbolic Sanctions, “Courts of Honour,” and the Cleansing of Denmark’s Who’s Who After the German Occupation, 1940–1945	0
Concealing Martial Violence	0
Satisfaction Guaranteed: Your Choice and the Transnational Distribution of Hardcore Pornography Between the Netherlands and Britain	0
Pro-Social Policies and Impression Management: The American Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), 1932–1974	0
Capturing Regulation Under Imperial Rule: The Regulation of Palestine’s Banking Sector	0
Marcia Chatelain. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 2020. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-63149-394-2 $28.95 (cloth).	0
Profit and Statecraft in Nineteenth-Century China	0
“The Vital Link”: British Print Media Export to Australia, 1853–1980	0
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“The Fatal Blemish”: Purity, Consistency, and Chemical Engineers at the Origin of a New Visual Order, 1890–1930	0
Historicizing Real Estate: The East India Company in Early Colonial Bombay	0
Electric Pioneers: Nationalist Lobbying, Technology Transfer, and the Origins of the Chinese Electric Lamp Industry, 1921–1937	0
“Witch-hunt in Washington”: Ronald Prain, Robert F. Kennedy, the McClellan Committee, and the Investigation of International Business in the Cold War	0
Pedagogies of Development, Conceptions of Efficiency: Modern Managerialism in Industrial Ahmedabad, 1950s–1960s	0
The Other Container Revolution: How Businesses Influenced Environmental Politics and Thus the Recycling of Beverage Containers	0
“Domestic in Every Place, Foreign in None”: Corporate Futurism, Multinational Corporations, and the Politics of International Trade in the Early 1970s	0
Imperial Origins of the Large Corporation: How the Department of War Helped Build the First US Railroads	0
Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India	0
The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46	0