Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2343864
Antonio Iodice
{"title":"The ‘Palladium of prosperity’: Lobbying between Marseilles and Paris from the revolution to the restoration (1789-1817)","authors":"Antonio Iodice","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2343864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2343864","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the multifaceted lobbying activities carried out by the Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles (CoC) from the French Revolution to the Restoration periods (ca. 1789-1817). Part...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140935023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2329603
Andrew Perchard, Niall G. MacKenzie, Duncan P. Connors
{"title":"Industry dynamics and trade association power: The shifting nature of business influence in UK aluminium","authors":"Andrew Perchard, Niall G. MacKenzie, Duncan P. Connors","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2329603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2329603","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines industry dynamics and their influence on business-government relations through a study of the UK aluminium industry, focusing on the changing role of its leading trade associ...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140586152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2319717
Andrew Popp
{"title":"Peer-to-peer, or peer pressure?","authors":"Andrew Popp","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2319717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2319717","url":null,"abstract":"In this response to the editorial, I consider the challenges currently faced by the peer review system. These challenges include both the state of the history profession, especially as it interacts...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2325608
Claire E. F. Wright, Benjamin Wilkie
{"title":"Small worlds: Institutional isomorphism and Australia’s corporate elite, 1910–2018","authors":"Claire E. F. Wright, Benjamin Wilkie","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2325608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2325608","url":null,"abstract":"The study of corporate elites is crucial for understanding power in society. This article uses prosopography to examine the gender, race, class and social composition of Australia’s top interlocked...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2319341
Lewis Charles Smith
{"title":"‘Like aid given by a mother to her young’: The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and the marketing of economic development 1948–1965","authors":"Lewis Charles Smith","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2319341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2319341","url":null,"abstract":"This paper locates Britain’s nationalised airline, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), in the political discourse of colonial development. Between 1939 and 1974 BOAC connected Britain ...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2321918
Philip Garnett, Simon Mollan, Benjamin Richards
{"title":"Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco","authors":"Philip Garnett, Simon Mollan, Benjamin Richards","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2321918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2321918","url":null,"abstract":"Hillards was a retail supermarket firm based in Yorkshire in the North of England between 1885 and 1987, when it was subject to a hostile takeover from Tesco. Using archival and interview data this...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2318468
Giovanni Favero, Oscar Gaspari
{"title":"The politics of quantification: The General Confederation of Italian Industry and the cost-of-living index in the late 1920s","authors":"Giovanni Favero, Oscar Gaspari","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2318468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2318468","url":null,"abstract":"Business interests can indirectly affect political decisions through the definition of statistical procedures to produce the quantitative indexes used to assess policy choices. This observatory cap...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2317940
Therese Nordlund Edvinsson
{"title":"Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons","authors":"Therese Nordlund Edvinsson","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2317940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2317940","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how self-employed migrant women, particularly Swedish Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, established beauty salons in Stockholm upon their return ...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2326170
Peter E. Hamilton
{"title":"Management thought and practice in 1920s China","authors":"Peter E. Hamilton","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2326170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2326170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2324877
Anders Ravn Sørensen
{"title":"Make peer review great (again?)","authors":"Anders Ravn Sørensen","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2024.2324877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2324877","url":null,"abstract":"In this reply I comment on the editorial by Lubinski, Decker, and MacKenzie. I applaud the editors’ initiative to raise a discussion on peer-review, and point to the need for a new valuation of the...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}