Business HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2296070
Aleksandra Komornicka
{"title":"Stable support, scant initiative: European business associations and Economic and Monetary Union, 1946–1992","authors":"Aleksandra Komornicka","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2296070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2296070","url":null,"abstract":"The article investigates the views of European business associations on the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) project between 1946 and 1992. In doing so, it places the campaign for EMU organised by...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139415650","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 : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2220653
Simon Mollan, Chris Corker
{"title":"Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire","authors":"Simon Mollan, Chris Corker","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2220653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2220653","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the relationship between Sudan and Egypt during the colonial period to explore how control over international business and finance integrated Sudan within the British empire. ...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138823765","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 : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2279126
Rui Shi
{"title":"Domestic retailing, supply chain management, and the rise of fresh food supermarkets in China","authors":"Rui Shi","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2279126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2279126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007444","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 : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2279128
Kubra Uygur, Cagri Yalkin, Selcuk Uygur
{"title":"Market-making strategies in Tanzimat era Istanbul: The quest for an elusive cosmopolitanism","authors":"Kubra Uygur, Cagri Yalkin, Selcuk Uygur","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2279128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2279128","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on a pivotal period of the Ottoman Empire, we illustrate how advertising tactics act as market-making tools for local and non-local businesses during the Tanzimat (1839–1876) (Re-organizat...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"243 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506671","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 : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2279730
Susana Martínez-Rodríguez, Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo
{"title":"Gender and bankarization in Spain, 1949–1970","authors":"Susana Martínez-Rodríguez, Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2279730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2279730","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes an unexplored register of Spanish banks’ marketing material to document the access of women to the retail banking sector. In 1949 the Franco dictatorship deployed a Censorship...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"551 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506704","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 : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2276774
Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett, Simon Ville
{"title":"Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia","authors":"Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett, Simon Ville","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2276774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2276774","url":null,"abstract":"The no liability company – where investors are not liable for uncalled parts of their shares – is unique to Australasia. Deploying a large dataset, we provide the first empirical examination of the...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"3 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506696","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 : 2023-11-24DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2276776
Daniela Pirani, Christina Lubinski
{"title":"Country-of-origin and competitive market dynamics: Italian biscuits and German cutlery, 1870–1920","authors":"Daniela Pirani, Christina Lubinski","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2276776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2276776","url":null,"abstract":"Business historians have for long described the marketing value of country-of-origin (COO), often foregrounding the advantages of goods from a particular region. We argue that to fully understand C...","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"237 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506672","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 : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2281114
Giuseppe Telesca
{"title":"Al servizio dell’Italia e del Papa. Le tante vite di Bernardino Nogara","authors":"Giuseppe Telesca","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2281114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2281114","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Business History (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":"7 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506695","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 : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2087634
Ángel Calvo
{"title":"Corporate restructuring in the telecommunications equipment industry: The case of Spain in the late twentieth century","authors":"Ángel Calvo","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2022.2087634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2087634","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractA new technological paradigm coupled with a powerful wave of deregulation and liberalisation that was unleashed worldwide from the 1980s onwards acted as a catalyst for profound transformation in the telecommunications equipment industry, which was dominated at the time by large multinational corporations. These developments, in turn, led to worldwide restructuring in the sector. The present paper hypothesises that the sector’s oligopolistic structure remained, but that it did so under the leadership of new global players that sought to impose their strategies in response to the prevailing conditions. The paper also aims to explain the reasons for the global restructuring in the sector by looking at the strategies, choices, and decisions of the involved multinationals from the viewpoint of the nation-state. Based on the assumption that a separate analysis of one national unit can help to understand the process as a whole, the paper draws on primary sources to describe and analyse the adjustment path within Standard Eléctrica, a Spanish subsidiary first of IT&T and then of Alcatel.Keywords: IT&TAlcatelStandard EléctricaAmerican telephone and telegraph Cotelecommunications equipment industryrestructuringoligopolies Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 European Commission (Citation1997), p. 39; Crandall and Flamm, eds. (Citation1989); Feldstein (Citation2007), p. 420. Heated debates preceded the AT&T break-up: Agnew and Romeo (Citation1981), pp. 273–288. In their influential report to President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Nora and Minc (Citation1978) coined a new word – “télématique” (télécommunication + informatique) – and proposed as a cornerstone the strategy of “marrying” computers and communication technologies. Some years later, Spanish President Felipe González commissioned the prestigious sociologist Castells (Citation1986) to undertake a similar study, which inspired the Socialist attitude of putting pressure on multinationals to negotiate industrial restructuring.2 IT&T had technological problems, was oversized from the legal and financial point of view, and had an inadequate technical and commercial structure: Suard (Citation2002); Zanfei (Citation1992), pp. 83–105. The multinational openly regarded SEL as a German firm because of its manufacturing capacity and independence research (Ziegler, Citation1997, p. 84).3 The ERI, created in mid-1983 in Amsterdam, consisted of half a hundred of European entrepreneurs working at both national and European level to strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy, which was then lacking in dynamism and innovation compared to those of Japan and the United States.4 Quatrepoint (Citation1986), p. 8.5 Batt and Darbishire (Citation1997), pp. 59–79; Baskoy (Citation2008); Thatcher (1999), p. 199. The chronology matters to some extent: Spain joined late processes such as the Italian; for the Italian firms, see also Colli and Vasta (Citatio","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":" 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242310","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 : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2264215
Steven Toms, Chieh Lin
{"title":"Economic freedom, financial development and the determinants of fraud and scandal: The United Kingdom, 1900–2010","authors":"Steven Toms, Chieh Lin","doi":"10.1080/00076791.2023.2264215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2264215","url":null,"abstract":"The paper argues that the incidence of financial fraud and scandals has systemic macro-economic determinants. While not denying organisation specific causes, short-run triggering events, and key players’ motivations, it shows that the extent of fraud and the number of financial scandals depend on the opportunities created by the financial system’s evolution. Using archival and quantitative evidence from the United Kingdom, it specifies aggregate changes in the incidence of fraud and scandal between 1900 and 2010. The evidence shows that economic freedom, including the degree of financial development, the availability of credit, the relative importance of the financial sector, international capital mobility and secrecy, and banking stability, contribute to the prevalence of fraud and scandal. Financial repression explains a generalised reduction in a 25-year period after the Second World War. Conversely, economic liberalisation from 1979 onwards has increased the incidence of fraud and financial scandal.","PeriodicalId":47531,"journal":{"name":"Business History","volume":" 39","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242256","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}