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2008, Volume 50, Issue 3
- 310-327 The organisational structure of Spanish New Settlements in the eighteenth century
by Juan Banos Sanchez-Matamoros & Gloria Cuevas-Rodriguez - 328-350 Going 'to paradise by way of Kensal Green': A most unfit subject for trading profit?
by A. J. Arnold & J. M. Bidmead - 351-367 Tastes differ: Comparing company strategies, innovation trajectories and knowledge sources in Dutch soft drink production in the 1930s
by Eric Berkers - 368-385 The rise and fall of single-letter ticker symbols
by David Michayluk
2008, Volume 50, Issue 2
- 125-126 Fifty years of Business History
by John Wilson & Steven Toms - 127-146 Becoming fully functional: The conceptual struggle for a new structure for the giant corporation in the US and UK in the first half of the twentieth century
by John Quail - 147-162 The role of implicit contracts: Building public works in the 1840s in Portugal
by Maria Eugenia Mata - 163-184 A stable network as a source of entrepreneurial opportunities: The Rothschilds in Spain, 1835-1931
by Miguel Lopez-Morell & Jose O'Kean - 185-204 Reputation and export performance: Danish butter exports and the British market, c.1880-c.1914
by David Higgins & Mads Mordhorst - 205-225 Innovations in Dutch shipbuilding in the first half of the twentieth century
by Mila Davids & Hans Schippers - 251-252 British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of the self-service revolution
by Gareth Shaw & Andrew Alexander
2008, Volume 50, Issue 1
- 1-3 Tribute to Charles Harvey
by John Wilson & Steven Toms & Jon Press & Andrew Popp & Teresa da Silva Lopes - 4-25 Marketing mass home ownership and the creation of the modern working-class consumer in inter-war Britain
by Peter Scott - 26-39 Productivity and patriotism: The management narrative of New South Wales Rail Chief Commissioner James Fraser, 1917-1929
by Mark Hearn - 40-61 The foreign expansion of a service company: The case of ISS A/S
by Jesper Strandskov & Kurt Pedersen - 62-78 British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of the self-service revolution
by Gareth Shaw & Andrew Alexander - 79-98 Quality control: The origins of the Australian Consumers' Association
by Amanda McLeod
2007, Volume 49, Issue 6
- 763-779 The performance of British manufacturing in the Post-War long boom
by Derek Matthews - 780-801 Opaque Networks: Business and community in the Isle of Man, 1840-1900
by Tim Crumplin - 802-822 American boomers and the flotation of shares in the city of London in the late nineteenth century
by Richard Hawkins - 823-843 Business on trial: The tobacco securities trust and the 1935 pepper debacle
by Howard Cox - 844-867 Employee representation plans at the Minnequa Steelworks, Pueblo, Colorado, 1915-1942
by Greg Patmore - 868-885 Regulation, innovation and market structure in International Telecommunications: The case of the 1956 TAT1 submarine cable
by Jill Hills - 886-907 Why do successful companies fail? A case study of the decline of Dunlop
by Tom McGovern - 908-928 Network Rail - forward or backward? Not-for-profit in British transport
by Gerald Crompton & Robert Jupe
2007, Volume 49, Issue 5
- 573-594 Technological change and the governance of joint-stock enterprise in the early nineteenth century: The case of coastal shipping
by Mark Freeman & Robin Pearson & James Taylor - 595-624 Limits to Scale and Scope: The Failure of a Danish Slaughterhouse Merger in 1890/91
by Peter Sørensen & Kurt Pedersen - 625-645 Enterprises, incentives and networks: The formative years of the electrical network in Portugal, 1920-1947
by Nuno Luis Madureira - 647-667 Small firms and networks in capital intensive industries: The case of Spanish steel wire manufacturing
by Paloma Fernandez Perez - 669-694 Defence contractors and diversification into the civil sector: Rolls-Royce, 1945-2005
by David Smith - 695-716 The Role of Employer Unions in Hegemonic Struggle, Interest Representation and Promotion of Managerial Perspectives in Turkey
by Ufuk Cakmakcı & Beyza Oba - 717-735 The scientific management of the consumer interest
by Chris Nyland & Amanda McLeod - 737-743 Usinor-Arcelor: Du local au global …
by Mary O'Sullivan
2007, Volume 49, Issue 4
- 399-403 Introduction: Comparative perspectives on the managerial revolution
by Richard Whittington - 404-438 The 'Divorce' of ownership from control from 1900 onwards: Re-calibrating imagined global trends
by Leslie Hannah - 439-463 Testing the Chandler Thesis: Comparing middle management and administrative intensity in Dutch and US industries, 1900-1950
by Hugo van Driel & Ferry de Goey & Jacques van Gerwen - 464-482 Competing perspectives on the 'Managerial Revolution': From 'Managerialist' to 'Anti-Managerialist'
by Michael Rowlinson & Steven Toms & John F. Wilson - 483-505 Americanization in comparative perspective: The managerial revolution in France and Norway, 1940-1990
by Marie-Laure Djelic & Rolv Petter Amdam - 506-530 Towards a 'Managerial Revolution' in European Business? The transformation of Danish and Spanish Big Business, 1973-2003
by Veronica Binda & Martin Jes Iversen - 531-551 Managerialism and the Post-war evolution of the French national business system
by Mairi Maclean & Charles Harvey & Jon Press - 552-572 Working for themselves? Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism
by Peter Folkman & Julie Froud & Sukhdev Johal & Karel Williams
2007, Volume 49, Issue 3
- 271-292 British business history: A review of the periodical literature for 2005
by Neil Rollings - 293-320 Doors and boundaries: A recent history of the relationship between research and practice in UK organizational and management research
by Chris Caswill & Robin Wensley - 321-347 Building the market: John Shaw of Wolverhampton and commercial travelling in early nineteenth-century England
by Andrew Popp - 348-366 The first wave of the Soviet oil offensive: The Anglo-American Alliance and the flow of 'Red Oil' to Finland during the 1950s
by Niklas Jensen-Eriksen - 367-384 Cultural resistance and the gradual emergence of modern marketing and retailing practices in Spain, 1950-1975
by Jose Luis Garcia Ruiz
2007, Volume 49, Issue 2
- 139-162 Capital in British banking, 1920-1970
by Mark Billings & Forrest Capie - 163-185 British business and the telephone, 1878-1911
by Graeme Milne - 186-210 Manufacturing profits and strategies in Argentine industrial development, 1904-1930
by Yovanna Pineda - 211-234 Harmonious relations? Music at work in the Rowntree and Cadbury factories
by Emma Robertson & Marek Korczynski & Michael Pickering - 235-254 Business interests versus geopolitics: The case of the Siberian pipeline in the 1980s
by Hubert Bonin
2007, Volume 49, Issue 1
- 1-7 Redefining Business History: An editorial statement
by Charles Harvey & John Wilson - 8-28 Acquisitions and firm growth: Creating Unilever's ice cream and tea business
by Geoffrey Jones & Peter Miskell - 29-51 Early retailing: London's shopping exchanges, 1550-1700
by William Baer - 52-74 Making a little go further: Capital and the New Zealand entrepreneur
by Ian Hunter - 75-97 The adaptive strategies of Spanish cotton industry companies, 1939-1970
by Francisco Javier Fernandez Roca - 98-105 'A new paradigm of British business history': A critique of Toms and Wilson
by Roger Lloyd-Jones & M. J. Lewis - 106-111 Scale, scope and accountability: A response to Lloyd-Jones and Lewis
by Steven Toms & John Wilson
2006, Volume 48, Issue 4
- 453-478 Financial institutions and corporate strategy: David Alliance and the transformation of British textiles, c.1950-c.1990
by David Higgins & Steven Toms - 479-500 Business and government in electricity network integration in Western Europe, c.1900-1950
by Robert Millward - 501-528 The development of British accountancy in the nineteenth century: A technological determinist approach
by Derek Matthews - 529-550 In the service of the society: The labour management practices of an Australian life Insurer to 1940
by M. J. Keneley - 551-579 The growth, development and management of J. & P. Coats Ltd, c.1890-1960: An analysis of strategy and structure
by Kirsten Kininmonth
2006, Volume 48, Issue 3
- 311-331 Technology, science and American innovation
by Philip Scranton - 332-353 'Though it is but a promise': Business probity in Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns
by Andrew Popp - 354-375 In search of a new industry: Giovanni Battista Pirelli and his educational journey through Europe, 1870-1871
by Francesca Polese - 376-398 Trust, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. and the foundation of a modern pharmaceutical industry in Britain, 1880-1914
by Roy Church - 399-427 International investment and Nazi politics: The cloaking of German assets abroad, 1936-1945
by Christopher Kobrak & Jana Wustenhagen
2006, Volume 48, Issue 2
- 153-170 Why smart executives fail: Four case histories of how people learn the wrong lessons from history
by Sydney Finkelstein - 171-192 The structure of the Philadelphia trading community on the transition from colony to state
by Sheryllynne Haggerty - 193-219 Entrepreneurial enterprise and 'image' in the nineteenth-century trading firm: Shaping the legal environment for business
by Carol Matheson Connell - 220-253 'She possessed her own fortune': Women investors from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century
by Josephine Maltby & Janette Rutterford - 254-271 British business and the politics of trade with the USSR during the New Economic Policy (NEP)
by Roger Munting - 272-280 Mira Wilkins: An interim assessment
by T. A. B. Corley
2006, Volume 48, Issue 1
- 1-19 Public houses as multiple retailing: Peter Walker & Son, 1846-1914
by Alistair Mutch - 20-42 Path dependence, fragmented property rights and the slow diffusion of high throughput technologies in inter-war British coal mining
by Peter Scott - 43-68 Technological networks and industrial research in Britain: The London, Midland & Scottish Railway, 1926-47
by Colin Divall - 69-89 'Fair play for the small man': Perspectives on the contribution of the independent shopkeeper 1930-c.1945
by Andrew Alexander & Simon Phillips - 90-118 The fable of the birth of the Japanese automobile industry: A reconsideration of the Toyoda-Platt agreement of 1929
by Kazuo Wada - 119-126 Revisiting the mature economy: Britain, 1860-1939
by Tim Rooth
2005, Volume 47, Issue 4
- 493-510 Magnus Alexander, the Economists and the Issue of Labour Turnover
by Kyle Bruce - 511-531 Products, Firms and Consumption: Cadbury and the Development of Marketing, 1900-1939
by Robert Fitzgerald - 532-552 Why did Collusion Fail? The Indian Jute Industry in the Inter-War Years
by Bishnupriya Gupta - 553-568 Management Consultancies in the Dutch Banking Sector, 1960s and 1970s
by Doreen Arnoldus & Joost Dankers - 569-593 Financing Industrial Districts in Italy, 1971-91: A Private Venture?
by Anna Spadavecchia - 594-599 Cotton: 'The Most Studied of all Manufactures'
by Eric Jones
2005, Volume 47, Issue 3
- 331-336 The Business of Dependency: An Introduction
by Matthias Kipping & Lina Galvez Munoz - 337-351 UK Government Regulation of Medicinal Drugs, 1890-2000
by TAB Corley - 352-366 Price Controls or Control through Prices? Regulating the Cost and Consumption of Prescription Pharmaceuticals in the UK, 1948-67
by Judy Slinn - 367-382 Too Little Regulation? The British Market for Sherry, 1840-90
by James Simpson - 383-400 In the Shadow of Prohibition: Domestic American Alcohol Policy since 1933
by Pamela Pennock & K Austin Kerr - 401-420 Regulating an Addictive Product: The Spanish Government, Brand Advertising and Tobacco Business (1880s to 1930s)
by Lina Galvez Munoz - 421-433 'Carry on Smoking': Public Relations and Advertising Strategies of American and British Tobacco Companies since 1950
by David Courtwright - 433-448 Seduced by the Silver Screen: Film Addicts, Critics and Cinema Regulation in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s
by Peter Miskell - 449-465 Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption: Government and Management Consultancy in Britain
by Matthias Kipping & Denis Saint-Martin
2005, Volume 47, Issue 2
- 159-173 British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 2003
by David Higgins - 174-189 The Genesis of Corporate Governance: Nineteenth-Century Irish Joint-Stock Banks
by Charles Hickson & John Turner - 190-218 New Manufacturing Plant Formation, Clustering and Locational Externalities in 1930s Britain
by Peter Scott & Peter Walsh - 219-243 The Privatisation and Liberalisation of Dutch Telecommunications in the 1980s
by Mila Davids - 244-266 The Emilian Model Revisited: Twenty Years After
by Alberto Rinaldi - 267-295 Divergence and Convergence within Anglo-American Corporate Governance Systems: Evidence from the US and UK, 1950-2000
by Steven Toms & Mike Wright - 296-301 Industrialisation: What Distinguished Britain?
by Eric Jones
2005, Volume 47, Issue 1
- 1-22 Nodes in the Global Webs of Japanese Shipping
by William Wray - 23-43 Approaching Disaster: Personal Bankruptcy Legislation in Italy and England, c.1880-1939
by Paolo Di Martino - 44-58 American Advertising Agencies in Europe: J. Walter Thompson's Belgian Business in the Inter-War Years
by Veronique Pouillard - 59-85 House Building in the Machine Age, 1920s-1970s: Realities and Perceptions of Modernisation in North America and Australia
by Richard Harris & Michael Buzzelli - 86-101 Unions and Management in Engineering: A Case Study, 1964-79
by Kenneth Brown - 102-121 Spot-Welding Technology and the Development of Robotics at Fiat, 1972-87: A Case of Managerial Discontinuity?
by Giuliano Maielli - 122-127 Fording the Atlantic: Ford and Fordism in Europe
by Len Holden
2004, Volume 46, Issue 4
- 503-524 Shareholders and Shareholding: The Case of the Football Company in Late Victorian England
by Pamela Dixon & Neal Garnham & Andrew Jackson - 525-543 Executive Remuneration and Firm Performance: The Case of Large German Banks, 1854-1910
by Carsten Burhop - 544-567 A Pipe Dream Come True: The International Expansion of the Hume Pipe Company in the 1920s
by Richard Emerson-Elliott - 568-582 Selling Self-Service and the Supermarket: The Americanisation of Food Retailing in Britain, 1945-60
by Gareth Shaw & Louise Curth & Andrew Alexander - 583-608 Finance of Industry in Hong Kong 1950-70: A Case of Market Failure?
by Catherine Schenk - 609-639 Communities of Knowledge: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Networks in the British Outdoor Trade, 1960-90
by Mike Parsons & Mary Rose - 640-644 New Frame - Same Picture?
by BWE Alford - 645-651 Business in South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and Realities
by Tilak Doshi
2004, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 321-330 Introduction: History in Organisation Studies
by Behlul Usdi-super-˙ken & Alfred Kieser - 331-352 The Treatment of History in Organisation Studies: Towards an 'Historic Turn'?
by Peter Clark & Michael Rowlinson - 353-380 The Birth, Transformation and Regeneration of Business Incubators as New Organisational Forms: Understanding the Interplay between Organisational History and Organisational Theory
by Huseyin Leblebici & Nina Shah - 381-406 Academy, Economy and Polity: Betriebswirtschaftslehre in Germany, Denmark and Turkey before 1945
by Behlul Usdi-super-˙ken & Alfred Kieser & Peter Kjaer - 407-438 Innovations and Value Creation in Major League Baseball, 1860-2000
by Aya Chacar & William Hesterly - 439-460 Changes in Work Organisation in French Top-Quality Restaurants
by Hans-Dieter Ganter - 461-473 W(h)ither Economic History, or Economic History is what Economic Historians Do?
by Roger Middleton
2004, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 155-170 British Business History: Review of the Periodical Literature for 2002
by Andrew Popp - 171-194 Retailing Revolution in the Eighteenth Century? Evidence from North-West England
by Jon Stobart & Andrew Hann - 195-218 American Machinery and European Footwear: Technology Transfer and International Trade, 1860-1939
by Jose Antonio Miranda - 219-255 European Family Firms in International Business: British and Greek Tramp-Shipping Firms
by Gelina Harlaftis & John Theotokas - 256-284 Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control: The British Experience
by Brian Cheffins
2004, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 1-22 Defence and the decline of UK mechanical engineering: the case of Vickers at Barrow
by Maggie Mort & Graham Spinardi - 11-13 Tribute to Geoffrey Jones
by Charles Harvey - 23-56 Strategic alliances and competitive edge: insights from Spanish and UK banking histories
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo - 57-78 Government intervention in the British gas industry, 1948 to 1970
by Andrew Jenkins - 79-99 Knowledge and training in family firms of the European periphery: Spain in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries
by Paloma Fernandez Perez & Nuria Puig - 100-122 Corporate venturing: the origins of Unilever's pregnancy test
by Geoffrey Jones & Alison Kraft
2003, Volume 45, Issue 4
- 1-23 Scale, scope and accountability: towards a new paradigm of British business history
by Steven Toms & John Wilson - 24-52 Chandlerian image or mirror image? managerial and accounting control in the chemical industry: the case of Albright & Wilson, c.1892 to c.1923
by Mark Matthews & Trevor Boyns & John Richard Edwards - 53-72 Materials handling in British industry, 1945-c1975: the anatomy of a manufacturing fundamental
by Nick Tiratsoo - 73-88 Synthetic fuels in Spain, 1942-66: the failure of Franco's autarkic dream
by Elena San Roman & Carles Sudria - 89-113 Statistical portraits of American business elites: a review essay
by Walter Friedman & Richard Tedlow - 114-118 The selected essays of John H. Dunning
by Mira Wilkins
2003, Volume 45, Issue 3
- 1-21 The Role of Internal Labour Markets and Social Networks in the Recruitment of Top Managers in Finnish Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1975
by Susanna Fellman - 22-51 From Cartel Regulation to Monopolistic Control? The Founding of the German 'Steel Trust' in 1926 and its Effect on Market Regulation
by Alfred Reckendrees - 52-71 British Manufacturing Financial Performance, 1950-79: Implications for the Productivity Debate and the Post-War Consensus
by David Higgins - 72-89 Brand Building and Structural Change in the Scotch Whisky Industry since 1975
by S. R. H. Jones - 90-118 The Search for Identity: Spanish Perfume in the International Market
by Nuria Puig - 119-124 Review article - The East Asian Miracle
by Eric Jones - 125-154 Book reviews
by Peter Scott - 155-155 Books Received
by Peter Scott
2003, Volume 45, Issue 2
- 1-14 Survey article - British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 2001
by Mansel Blackford - 15-34 Compradors, Firm Architecture and the 'Reinvention' of British Trading Companies: John Swire & Sons' Operations in Early Twentieth-Century China
by Howard Cox & Huang Biao & Stuart Metcalfe - 35-51 Riding the Tiger: Merchant-State Alliance in a Coalmine Modernisation Scheme
by Jeff Hornibrook - 52-76 Network Knowledge and Network Routines: Negotiating Activities between Shipowners and Shipbuilders
by Gordon Boyce - 77-101 The Role of Middlemen in the International Coffee Trade since 1870: The Dutch Case
by Hugo van Driel - 102-140 Book reviews and books received
by Peter Scott
2003, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 1-5 The Emergence Of Modern Marketing: Internation Dimensions
by Roy Church & Andrew Godley - 6-22 Madame Tussaud and the Business of Wax: Marketing to the Middle Classes
by Pamela Pilbeam - 23-59 Purposive Strategy or Serendipity? Development and Diversification in Three Consumer Product Companies, 1918-39: J. & J. Colman, Reckitt & Sons, and Lever Bros./Unilever
by Roy Church & Christine Clark - 60-79 Closing the Deal: Gm's Marketing Dilemma and its Franchised Dealers, 1921-41
by Sally Clarke - 80-100 Foreign Multinationals and Innovation in British Retailing, 1850-1962
by Andrew Godley - 101-127 Building Knowledge about the Consumer: The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry
by Gerben Bakker - 128-147 'Times Change and We Change with Them': The German Advertising Industry in the Third Reich - Between Professional Self-Interest and Political Repression
by Hartmut Berghoff - 151-184 Review article - The Economic Development of Modern Japan
by Janet Hunter
2002, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 1-28 Mutuality Tested: The Rise and Fall of Mutual Fire Insurance Offices in Eighteenth-Century London
by Robin Pearson - 29-54 The Internationalisation of Ownership of the Spanish Railway Companies, 1858-1936
by J. V. Olivares & P. P. Ortunez - 55-84 Henri Deterding, Royal Dutch/Shell and the Dutch Market for Petrol, 1902-46
by F. de Goey - 85-120 Assessing Information Quality Theories: The USS Joint Venture with William Holyman & Sons and Huddart Parker Ltd, 1904-35
by G. Boyce & L. Lepper - 121-140 British Engineering and the New Zealand Market, 1945-60
by J. Singleton - 141-145 Review article - The Economic Development of Modern Japan
by A. Booth - 146-176 Book reviews
by P. Scott
2002, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 1-30 Brands and the Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages
by Teresa da Silva Lopes - 31-62 Ownership Responsibilities and Corporate Governance: The Crisis at Rolls Royce, 1968-71
by Sue Bowden - 63-90 Innovation and Integration in Mineral Bulk Handling in the Port of Rotterdam, 1886-1923
by Hugo van Driel - 91-124 Corporate Governance, Strategy and Structure in British Business History, 1950-2000
by Steve Toms & Mike Wright - 125-161 Book reviews
by Peter Scott - 162-166 Books Received
by Peter Scott
2002, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 1-18 Survey article - British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 2000
by S. Toms - 19-39 Barriers to Innovation in Marketing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Merchant-Manufacturer Relationships
by Andrew Popp - 40-64 Between Informal Networks and Formal Contracts: International Investment in Greece during the 1920s
by I. Minoglou - 65-87 Australian Firms Abroad before 1970: Why So Few, Why Those, and Why There?
by D. Merrett - 88-111 Financial Fragility, Growth Strategies and Banking Failures: The Major Norwegian Banks and the Banking Crisis, 1987-92
by S. Knutsen & E. Lie - 112-163 Book reviews
by P. Scott - 164-164 Books Received
by P. Scott
2002, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 1-20 Balancing Debt in the Absence of Money: Documentary Credit in New South Wales, 1817-20
by John Booker & Russell Craig - 21-46 Inheritance and the Life-Cycle of Family Firms in the Early Industrial Revolution
by A. Owens - 47-60 Coalowners, Coalminers and Compulsion: Pit Clubs in England, 1860-80
by J. Benson - 61-94 Banking Growth and Industry Financing in Spain during the Nineteenth Century
by J. Cuevas - 95-98 Review article - The History of Insurance
by O. Westall - 99-145 Book reviews
by P. Scott - 146-148 Book Received and Notes for Contributors
by J. Atkin
2001, Volume 43, Issue 4
- 1-28 Sectoral Differences in English Bank Asset Structures and the Impact of Mergers, 1860-1913
by Michael Collins & Mae Baker - 29-47 Mortgage Banking Strategies in Egypt, 1880-1914: Credit Foncier Egyptien Investment and Local Borrowing
by B. Cannon - 48-67 The Transfer of Technology to Latecomer Economies in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Minas Gerais, Brazil
by S. de Oliveira Birchal - 68-86 The Early Years of a German Institution: The Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau in the 1950s
by A. Grunbacher - 87-118 History and the Global Corporate Governance Revolution: The UK Perspective
by B. Cheffins - 119-165 Book reviews
by M. Rose - 166-168 Books Received
by M. Rose
2001, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 1-32 Family Ownership and Business Survival: Kirkcaldy, 1870-1970
by Robin Mackie