Business History articles

Recent articles from Business History

British business history: a review of the periodical literature for 2002.
April 1, 2004... Past authors of this review of the periodical literature in British business history have adopted a range of approaches to structuring their surveys, but the most common has been to segment along broad sectoral lines. However, given a number of recent developments in business history, it is...

Retailing revolution in the eighteenth century? Evidence from North-West England.
April 1, 2004... The changing spaces and practices of retailing have received an increasing amount of attention in recent years. (1) Reflecting broader analyses of production and consumption, much of this work has emphasised the transformation of retailing from traditionally organised, local and primitive, to...

American machinery and European footwear: technology transfer and international trade, 1860-1939.(footwear industry)
April 1, 2004... The footwear industry underwent a tremendous growth in the United States during the nineteenth century. The increase in production was noted mainly on the home market but was also accompanied, as from around 1880, by a heightened presence of American footwear in foreign markets. Consequently,...

European family firms in international business: British and Greek tramp-shipping firms.
April 1, 2004... Then there is the tramp, the never-tiring tramp, which continually scours the Seven Seas in search of charters, loading from one port to another, and never knowing where she may have to sail for next, picking up a cargo here and running light there, figuring frequently in the overdue list,...

Mergers and the evolution of patterns of corporate ownership and control: the British experience.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Throughout the twentieth century, the United Kingdom experienced a series of 'merger waves' which helped to foster what Leslie Hannah characterised in his 1976 book as 'The Rise of the Corporate Economy'.(1) Hannah, in this book and in other work he published in the 1970s, (2) examined...