Business History Volume 65 Issue 8 2023
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The list of articles and book reviews of Business History’s Volume 65 Issue 8 2023 is available here.
Marie-Laure Baron and Nathalie Aubourg, in “Arabica or Robusta? Accounting for Collective Strategies within the Coffee Trade Industry: The Case of Coffee Merchants in Le Havre (France) between 1920 and 1954” study how negotiations between the government and small coffee trading firms shaped what kinds of coffee arrived in Europe before 1954. Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1294–1312. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1825691.
Umut Dağıstan’s “The 1950 Transformation of the Turkish Business System in Terms of Its Basic Dynamics: Expectations and Results” studies the role of the transition to a multi-party regime in Turkey in structuring the country’s market and business systems. Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1275–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2220281.
How do brands and standards signify taste? Ai Hisano and Nathaniel G. Chapman examine this question and more in “The ‘Wine Revolution’ in the United States, 1960–1980: Narratives and Category Creation.” Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1313–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1862794.
Andrea Lucarelli, Cecilia Cassinger and Karin Ågren, in “Continuity and Discontinuity in the Historical Trajectory of the Commercialising of Cities: Storying Stockholm 1900–2020” look into how the Swedish capital was turned into a commercial product. Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1390–1416. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1979517 Open Access
Kristin Ranestad and Paul Sharp examine the history of coal-poor Denmark locating and accessing the fossil fuel since the 1700s. Read “Success through Failure? Four Centuries of Searching for Danish Coal.” Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1341–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1879053.
Peter Scott, in “When GM Met Austin: British and American Variants of Inter-War Automobile Mass Production,” explores the takeover bid of the US’ General Motors Company over Britain’s second largest car manufacturer, the Austin Motor Company by in the 1920s, and the potential impacts of it on productivity within the automobile industry. Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1417–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1979519 Open Access
Read Riccardo Semeraro and José Antonio Miranda’s “Surviving Peace: Resilience and Production Decentralization in the Italian Gun-Making District, 1945–1970” to gain insight into the firearms industry's adaptation from wartime to peacetime in the twentieth century. Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1438–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1987413.
In their study “Profiles of Entrepreneurial Success during Two Centuries: The Case of Sweden, with Comparisons to Italy,” Hans Sjögren and Fahmi Yusuf analyze 267 Swedish entrepreneurial biographies from the early 19th century to the present, to examine the key factors that have contributed to their success. Business History 65, no. 8 (November 17, 2023): 1366–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1979515. Open Access