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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 - 33-53 'Fit for Management': Premium Apprenticeships and the English Brewing Industry, 1870-1914
by J. Reinarz - 54-78 The Post-war Productivity Failure: Insights from Oxford (Cowley)
by S. Bowden & J. Foreman-Peck & T. Richardson - 79-104 The International Expansion of the Norwegian Banks
by M. Boldt-Christmas & S. F. Jacobsen & A. Tschoegl - 105-118 Debate - The Ranking of Firms, the Counting of Employees, and the Classification of Data: A Cautionary Not
by D. Jeremy & D. Farnie - 119-134 Debate - On the Ranking of Firms: A Response to Jeremy and Farnie
by P. Wardley - 135-176 Book reviews
by M. Rose - 177-182 Books Received & End Matter
by M. Rose
2001, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 1-18 Survey article - British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 1999
by J. Wale - 19-50 Networks and Markets in Clyde Shipping: The Donaldsons and the Hogarths, 1870-1939
by Forbes Munro & Tony Slaven - 51-72 A Turning Point in China's Comprador System: Kma's Changing Marketing Structure in the Lower Yangzi Region, 1912-25
by K. Y. Chan - 73-98 Industrial Estates and British Industrial Development, 1897-1939
by P. Scott - 99-124 From Betriebswirtschaftslehre to Human Relations: Turkish Management Literature before and after the Second World War
by B. Usdiken & D. Cetin - 125-177 Book reviews & books received
by M. Rose
2001, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-24 The Balancing Act of German Universal Banks and English Deposit Banks, 1880-1913
by Caroline Fohlin - 25-42 Interlocking Directorates of Banks and Industrial Companies in Hungary at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
by B. Tomka - 43-68 Bank Regulation in Denmark from 1880 to World War Two: Public Interests and Private Interests
by P. Hansen - 69-96 The Emergence of New Competitor Nations in the European Steel Industry: Italy and the Netherlands, 1945-65
by M. Kipping & R. Ranieri & J. Dankers - 97-118 Competition and Innovation in 1950s Britain
by S. Broadberry & N. Crafts - 119-126 Review article - Engendering Enterprise
by K. Honeyman - 127-175 Book reviews & books received
by M. Rose
2000, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 1-26 Corporate Strategy or Individual Priority? Land Management, Income and Tenure on Oxbridge Agricultural Land in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
by Michael Turner - 27-66 Free-Standing Companies in the Oil Sector in Romania and Poland Before 1948: Typologies and Competencies
by Laura Stanciu - 67-90 The Decline and Fall of the North British Locomotive Company, 1940-62: Technological and Financial Mismanagement or Institutional Failure?
by A. I. M. Fleming & S. McKinstry & K. Wallace - 91-116 Reluctant Europeans? The Federation of British Industries and European Integration, 1945-63
by Alan McKinlay & Helen Mercer & Neil Rollings - 117-136 The United States Technical Assistance Programme in Japan, 1955-62
by Nick Tiratsoo - 137-184 The Development of an Organisational Innovation: Management Buy-Outs in the UK, 1980-97
by Mike Wright & Ken Robbie & Brian Chiplin & Mark Albrighton - 185-186 Book Reviews
by Gillian Cookson - 186-187 Book Reviews
by Megan Smitley - 187-188 Book Reviews
by Geoff Timmins - 188-188 Book Reviews
by Geoff Timmins - 189-189 Book Reviews
by John Wilson - 190-191 Book Reviews
by Michael Sanderson - 191-192 Book Reviews
by Martin Chick - 192-193 Book Reviews
by B. W. E. Alford - 193-194 Book Reviews
by Michael Winstanley - 194-195 Book Reviews
by Sylvie Schweitzer - 195-196 Book Reviews
by Paloma Fernandez Perez - 196-197 Book Reviews
by Peter Gatrell - 197-198 Book Reviews
by T. Balderston - 198-199 Book Reviews
by R. J. Overy - 199-200 Book Reviews
by Michael Smith - 200-202 Book Reviews
by John Gledhill - 202-203 Book Reviews
by Geoffrey Channon - 203-204 Book Reviews
by Katrina Honeyman - 204-205 Book Reviews
by Margaret Walsh - 205-207 Book Reviews
by Naomi Lamoreaux - 208-208 Book Reviews
by Martin Campbell-Kelly - 209-209 Book Reviews
by Augustus Veenendaal - 209-210 Book Reviews
by Matthew Hilton - 210-211 Book Reviews
by Simon Katzenellenbogen - 212-213 Book Reviews
by Nimi Wariboko - 213-214 Book Reviews
by Patricia Barton - 214-215 Book Reviews
by Pierre Van Der Eng - 215-217 Book Reviews
by Peter Coclanis - 217-218 Book Reviews
by Mansel Blackford - 218-219 Book Reviews
by Roger Lloyd-Jones - 219-220 Book Reviews
by Howard Cox - 220-221 Book Reviews
by John Wilson - 222-223 Book Reviews
by Gerben Bakker - 223-224 Book Reviews
by Jonathan Brown - 224-225 Book Reviews
by Andrew Marrison - 225-226 Book Reviews
by Geoffrey Bowker - 226-228 Book Reviews
by Michael Rowlinson
2000, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 1-12 Business Institutions and Behaviour in Australia: A New Perspective
by D. T. Merrett - 13-46 The Development of Large Scale Enterprise in Australia, 1910-64
by Simon Ville & D. T. Merrett - 47-70 Collusion and Price Wars in the Australian Coal Industry during the Late Nineteenth Century
by Grant Fleming - 71-88 Opportunism and Long-Term Contracting: Transactions in Broken Hill Zinc Concentrates in the 1930s
by Peter Burn - 89-108 Technology Acquisition, Firm Capability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Case Study of Australian Glass Manufacturers Ltd, 1915-39
by Helen Fountain