Business History Vol. 65 No. 5, annotated
Volume 65 Issue 6 → https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/65/6
Research on the business and organizational history of sugar in India shows a delayed adoption of modern technologies in the region. To find out more read Karolina Hutková’s article “West Indies Technologies in the East Indies: Imperial Preference and Sugar Business in Bihar, 1800–1850s” in Business History 65, no. 6, 1072–98, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1907345.
Adam Nix and Stephanie Decker review and discuss how digital technologies and research around digital sources have fundamentally shaped historical research. Read the article “Using Digital Sources: The Future of Business History?” in Business History 65, no. 6 (August 18, 2023): 1048–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1909572.
To understand the origins of the modern site selection and location consulting sector Nicholas A. Phelps and Andrew M. Wood study the the strategies and evolution of the Fantus Company. See the article “Market Maker? The Fantus Company and the Making of a Market for Location in the United States.” Business History 65, no. 6 (August 18, 2023): 1029–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1907346.
By looking at business records and oral history interviews, Unni Pillai explores how (i) market magnitude, (ii) diversity in firm proficiencies, and (iii) geographical closeness to manufacturing hubs impacted the rise of these semiconductor tool suppliers industry. The research findings are available in “The Origins of the Tools Suppliers in the Semiconductor Industry.” Business History 65, no. 6 (August 18, 2023): 959–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1844666.
In “British Overseas Railway Investment and Economic Development: The Colombian National Railway Company and Its Impact on the Colombian Interior” Andrew Primmer looks into the influence and impact that British investment exerted in Colombia’s railways and economic development at the turn and early twentieth century. Read Business History 65, no. 6 (August 18, 2023): 935–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1844665.
Can archival research and the business history of disaster management and rescue efforts contribute to enhancing current policy and safety protocols? John Singleton, “Origins of Disaster Management: The British Mine Rescue System, c. 1900 to c. 1930,” in Business History 65, no. 6 (August 18, 2023), provides some important clues from the beginnings of this field in the UK coalfields https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1856078.
In “The Decline of Companies and Voluntary Organisations as Infrastructure Providers in Nineteenth-Century England” Ian Webster examines the rise of local authorities as main providers of utilities, schools and hospitals by 1900. Business History 65, no. 6 (August 18, 2023): 1099–1117. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1926990.
Irina Yányshev-Nésterova “Soviet Big Business: The Rise and Fall of the State Corporation Sovrybflot, 1965-1991” uncovers the state-led economic policies that took the Soviet maritime and fishing fleet and presence to bankruptcy. Business History 65, no. 6 (August 18, 2023): 1005–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1856079.