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Dimitry Anastakis
The Last Automotive Entrepreneur? Lee Iacocca Saves Chrysler, 1978–1986

Evelyn Anderson
Nissan's Keiretsu, 1956-1970

Francesca Antolín
Global Strategies and National Performance: Explaining the Singularities of the Spanish Electricity Supply Industry

Anna M. Aubanell-Jubany
Cartel Stability in the Electricity Industry: The Case of Electricity Distribution in Madrid in the Inter-War Period

Barbara Austin
The State and Strategic Management of an Enterprise: A Life Cycle Analysis of a Symbiotic Relationship, 1873–1997

Insoo Baek
The Emergence of a Mass Market and the Dynamics of Retail Forms in Korea

Astrid Baker
The First Labour Government's New Start for Manufacturing, Employment, and Social Security in New Zealand, 1935–1949

Marie-Françoise Berneron-Couvenhes
French Mail Contracts with Private Steamship Companies, 1835–1914

Michael H. Best
Lowell’s Industrial Regeneration: Dynamic Technological Capabilities

Michael H. Best
Regional Specialization and Cluster Drivers: Medical Devices in Massachusetts

Michael Best, Albert Paquin, and Hao Xie
Discovering Regional Competitive Advantage: Massachusetts High-Tech

Mark Billings
The Corporate Treasury in International Business History

Mansel G. Blackford
Tourism, the Environment, and the Military: The Case of Guam, 1962–2002

Denis Bocquet
A Public Company as a Challenger to a Private Monopoly: Providing Water to the Eternal City, 1865–1964

Kees Boersma
Creating an Agricultural Research Network: Irradiation of Plants with Artificial Light at Philips Research in the 1930s

Hubert Bonin
"Blue Angels," "Venture Capital," and "Whales": Networks Financing the Takeoff of the Second Industrial Revolution in France, 1890s–1920s

Deborah Breen
The Individual in the Community: American Entrepreneurs in the Australian Colonies, 1850–1890

Youssef Cassis and Camilla Brautaset
The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century: A Pilot Study

Adriana Castagnoli
The Female Entrepreneurs' Point of View and the Italian Economy

Florence Brachet Champsaur
French Fashion during the First World War

Albert Churella
“The Company could not take complete advantage of its bigness”: Managerial Culture and the Pennsylvania Railroad’s 1955 Corporate Reorganization

Albert Churella
External and Internal Networks on the Pennsylvania Railroad: The Philadelphia Improvements

Albert Churella
Saving the Railroad Industry to Death: The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Rail-Truck Cooperation

Jim Cohen
How Financial Institutions Affect Economic Change: Evidence from the Transportation Sector, 1900–1939

Yves Cohen
Matter Matters to Authority: Some Aspects of Soviet Industrial Management in the 1930s from a Multi-Sited Perspective

Jonathan Coopersmith
When Worlds Collide: Government and Electrification, 1892–1939

Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Ana Cardoso de Matos
The Networked City: Power and Water Utilities in Portugal, 1850s-1920s

Mila Davids and Hans Schippers
Innovations in Dutch Shipbuilding: A Systems of Innovation Approach

Pascal Desabres
Decision Network: Who Decided What in the Building of the Paris Métropolitain, 1898–1920

Pascal Desabres
The Parisian Subway, 1880–1900: A Local or a National Interest Line? On the Concept of Globalization

Gunhild J. Ecklund
Cooperation, Conflict and Compromise: The IMF and Scandinavia, 1944–1960s

Anton Ehlers
Renier van Rooyen and Pep Stores, Limited: The Genesis of a South African Entrepreneur and Retail Empire

Sarah Elvins
Panacea or Dud? Retailers React to Scrip in the Great Depression

Mike Esbester
"No Good Reason for the Government to Interfere": Business, the State, and Railway Employee Safety in Britain, circa 1900–1939

Mike Esbester
Reinvention, Renewal, or Repetition? The Great Western Railway and Occupational Safety on Britain's Railways, c.1900–c.1920

Paloma Fernández-Pérez
Family Firms in the Age of Globalization: Cooperation and Competition in Spanish Metal Manufacturing, 1870s–1970s

Patrice Flichy
The Imaginary Internet: How Utopian Fantasy Shaped the Making of a New Information Infrastructure

Karen J. Freeze
Unlikely Partners and the Management of Innovation in Communist Europe: A Case Study from the Czechoslovak Textile Machine Industry

Gabriel Galvez-Behar
Technical Networks at Schneider

Mark W. Geiger
Sectional Loyalties and Institutional Transformation in Missouri's Banks, 1861–1870

Eric Godelier
"Do You Have a Garage?" Discussion of Some Myths about Entrepreneurship

Eric Godelier
Usinor and the French Steel Industry: From "Private" Monopoly to "Public" Competitor, 1948–2001

Éric Godelier and Muriel Le Roux
Did the 1970s Crisis Lead to Convergence or Divergence? Usinor vs. Pechiney: An Examination of Renewal in the Steel and Aluminum Industries

Mark L. Goldstein
Washington and the Networks of W. W. Corcoran

Terry Gourvish
The Political Economy of the Channel Tunnel: An International Business-Government Perspective

Debra Foster Greene
"Just Enough of Everything": The St.Louis Argus—An African American Newspaper and Publishing Company in Its First Decade

Robert Dalton Harris, Jr.
The Three Postal Networks of the United States in the 1930s

Robert Dalton Harris and Diane DeBlois
The Business of the Atomic Secret: Discerning the Cultural Dimension in the Strategic Economy of the Cold War

Robert Dalton Harris and Diane DeBlois
Geographic Integration of Industry on the Wynants Kill, 1816–1911

William J. Hausman and John L. Neufeld
The Economics of Electricity Networks and the Evolution of the U.S. Electric Utility Industry, 1882–1935

Susanne Hilger
Pacemakers of Globalization in German Industry: Corporate Strategies at Siemens, Daimler-Benz, and Henkel, 1945–1975

Eric S. Hintz
Independent Inventors in an Era of Burgeoning Research & Development

Riitta Hjerppe
The Significance of Foreign Direct Investment in a Small Industrialising Economy: The Case of Finland in the Interwar Period

Charles David Jacobson
Expecting the Unexpected: Networks, Markets, and the Failure of Electric Utility Restructuring in California

Bruno Jégou
Free Trade and Protectionism in a French Region at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization

Tobias Karlsson
Downsizing, State Ownership, and Modern Labor Management: Severance Pay at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915–1928

K. Austin Kerr
The Rebirth of Brewing and Distilling in the United States in 1933: Government Policy and Industry Structure

Duol Kim
The Next Best Thing to Getting Married: Partnerships among Jewelry Manufacturers in the Providence-Attleboro Area during the Nineteenth Century

David Koistinen
The Political Economy of Regional Redevelopment: Business and Area Government in the Regeneration of the New England Economy

David Koistinen
Public Relations as Redevelopment Tool: Accentuating the Positive in Deindustrializing New England

Beth Kreydatus
“Enriching Women's Lives”: The Mary Kay Approach to Beauty, Business, and Feminism

Naomi Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth Sokoloff
Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons from Cleveland's Experience in the 1920s

Richard N. Langlois
Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History

Mitchell J. Larson
Practically Academic: Forming British Business Schools in the 1960s

Fabio Lavista
Local Cultures and International Influences among an Italian Group of Management Practitioners after the Second World War

William Lazonick
Evolution of the “New Economy” Business Model

Andrea Lluch
From Local to Global Markets: Notes on the Role and Function of Commercial Networks in the Export Boom of Argentina, 1890–1930

Santiago López
The Role of Telefonica: The Internationalization of Telecommunications in Spain, 1970–2000

Robert MacDougall
Long Lines: AT&T, Long Distance Telephony, and Corporate Control

Robert MacDougall
The People’s Telephone: The Political Culture of Independent Telephony, 1894–1913

Robert MacDougall
The Telephone on Main Street: Utility Regulation in the United States and Canada before 1900

Niall G. MacKenzie
"Chucking Buns across the Fence"? Government-Sponsored Industry Development in the Scottish Highlands, 1945–1982

Fionn MacKillop
The Influence of the Los Angeles "Oligarchy" on the Governance of the Municipal Water Department, 1902–1930: A Business Like Any Other or a Public Service?

David L. Mason
The Ties That Bind: Mutual Buildings and Loans and the Problem of Agency, 1880–1920

Maria McGrath
"That's Capitalism, Not a Co-op": Countercultural Idealism and Business Realism in 1970s U.S. Food Co-ops

Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou and Stavros Ioannides
Market-Embedded Clans in Theory and History: Greek Diaspora Trading Companies in the Nineteenth Century

Jesús Mirás-Araujo and Carlos Piñeiro-Sánchez
Tensions between Public and Private: Water Supply in a Northwestern Spanish City under the Franco Dictatorship

Hideaki Miyajima, Yusuke Omi, and Nao Saito
Corporate Governance and Performance in Twentieth-Century Japan

Marine Moguen-Toursel
Emergence and Transfer of Vehicle Safety Standards: Why We Still Do Not Have Global Standards

Marine Moguen-Toursel
Strategies of European Automobile Manufacturers Facing Community Environmental Standards

Stephen L. Morgan
China's Encounter with Scientific Management in the 1920s–1930s

Stephen L. Morgan
Professional Associations and the Diffusion of New Management Ideas in Shanghai, 1920–1930s: A Research Agenda

Eric J. Morser
Grassroots Rebels: Municipal Power and Railroad Regulation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1883–1900

Susan Clark Muntean
Resurrection of the Robber Barons: Reassessing the Theory of the Firm

H. V. Nelles
Financing the Development of Foreign-Owned Electrical Systems in the Americas, 1890–1929: First Steps in Comparing European and North American Techniques

Sara Nocentini
Building the Network: Raw Materials Shortages and the Western Bloc at the Beginning of the Cold War, 1948-1951

Hiroyuki Okamuro
Evolution of the Supplier Network in the German Automotive Industry from the Prewar to the Postwar Period: A Comparative Perspective with the Japanese Experience

Judit Olah
Empowering through Entrepreneurship: The Maverick Springs Oil Field and the Wind River Reservation

Julia Ott
The "Free and Open" "People's Market": Public Relations at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913-1929

Juanjuan Peng
Cooperation versus Competition: The Daxing and Yuhua Cotton Mills in Crisis, 1931–1937

Yovanna Pineda
Analysis of Manufacturing Strategies and Profits: Industrial Development in Argentina, 1904–1930

Caroline Piquet
The Suez Company’s Concession, 1854–1956: Making Modern Infrastructure, Destroying the Potential of the Local Economy

Daniele Pozzi
Techno-Managerial Competences in Enrico Mattei’s AGIP: A Prolonged Accumulation Process in an International Relationship Network, 1935–1965

Núria Puig and Adoración Álvaro
International Aid and National Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis of Pro-American Business Networks in Southern Europe, 1950–1975

Núria Puig and Rafael Castro
Changing and Persisting Patterns of International Investment: French and German Capital in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain

Scott A. Redenius
Regional Economic Development and Variation in Postbellum National Bank Profit Rates

Sébastien Richez
From the Transport to the Delivery of Mail: The Transformation of the French Postal Network in the Nineteenth Century

J. Andrew Ross
Hockey Capital: Approaches to the Study of Sports Industry

Elizabeth Sage
Disciplinary Practice and the Practice of Discipline, or Political Economy and Paternalism in Nineteenth-Century France

Joseph Santos
Going against the Grain: Why Did Wheat Marketing in the United States and Canada Evolve So Differently?

Mohamed Sassi
Compagnie Française des Pétroles and Its Contribution to the Re-establishment of France's Position among the Oil Countries after the Second World War

Mohamed Sassi
The Emergence of the French Oil Industry between the Two Wars

Mohamed Sassi
Evolution of the Structure of the French Oil Economy between the Wars: Toward a French Holding Company

Marlis Schweitzer
Uplifting Makeup: Actresses’ Testimonials and the Cosmetics Industry, 1910–1918

Daniel Scroop
A Faded Passion? Estes Kefauver and the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, 1957–1963

Simone Selva
The Economic Implications of Early Military Assistance to Western Europe under the Truman Administration, 1949–1951

Simone Selva
State and Economy in Italy before the Economic Miracle: Economic Policy and International Constraints from the Reconstruction through the Pre-Boom Years

Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite
Members or Clients? Employer Associations, the Decentralization of Bargaining, and the Reorientation of Service Provision: Evidence from Europe and Australia

Edith Sparks
Terms of Endearment: Informal Borrowing Networks among Northern California Businesswomen, 1870–1920

Maria Stanfors
Feminization and Professionalization of Pharmacies in Sweden

Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright
Networks and History's Generalizations: Comparing the Financial Systems of Germany, Japan, Great Britain, and the United States

Graham D. Taylor
"From Shirtsleeves to Shirtless": The Bronfman Dynasty and the Seagram Empire

Gregory L. Thompson
How Portland’s Power Brokers Accommodated the Anti-Highway Movement of the Early 1970s: The Decision to Build Light Rail

Ross Thomson
From the Old to the New: The Social Basis of Innovation in the Antebellum United States

Janice Traflet
"Own Your Share of American Business": Public Relations at the NYSE during the Cold War

Gail D. Triner
Property Rights, Kinship Groups, and Business Partnerships in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil: The Case of the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, 1834–1960

C. H. Tzeng
Understanding Economic Development in Modern China: The Interplay among the State, the Market, and the Social Sector

Maki Umemura
The Interplay between Entrepreneurial Initiative and Government Policy: The Shaping of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry since 1945

Heli Valtonen
Does Culture Matter? Entrepreneurial Attitudes in the Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Business Leaders in Finland and the United States

Pierre Vernus
Regulating the Activity of a Business Community: Employers' Organizations in the Lyon Silk Industry, 1860s–1939

Catherine Vuillermot
The Schneider Network during the Presidency of Charles Schneider, 1942–1960

Robert E. Weems, Jr.
The 1961 National Conference on Black Business: The “Negro Market,” the Cold War, and the Future of Black Business in America

Carl Weinberg
Big Dixie Chicken Goes Global: Exports and the Rise of the North Georgia Poultry Industry

Lesley Whitworth
Inscribing Design on the Nation: The Creators of the British Council of Industrial Design

Shakila Yacob
Beyond Borders: Ford in Malaya, 1926–1957

Takashi Yamamoto
East Meets the West in an Entrepreneurial Farming Village in Japan: Endogenous Development Theories and Economic Gardening Practices

JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy
From Setting National Standards to Coordinating International Standards: The Formation of the ISO


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