📚 Book Review The Ecological Crisis and Water Supply – The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context doi.org/10.1080/0007... Edited by Juan Manuel Matés-Barco and María Vázquez-Fariñas Reviewed by Irina Yányshev-Nésterova #bookreview #Bizhis @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Reframing business failure‼️ Between 1903 and 1996, nearly 200 publicly traded Dutch firms disappeared from the stock exchange. The authors of doi.org/10.1080/0007... show that it mostly had to do with shifting ideas about corporate purpose than with changes in law or policy.

The first rating agency: Lloyd’s Register’s first century📣 Peter Solar reconstructs the business history of Lloyd’s Register, the world’s first rating agency, from its founding in 1760 to around 1860 Read 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅? A century of evidence (96 🇳🇱 corporations that ceased to exist between 1903 and 1996) from the Netherlands gives us answers. #bizhis #corporations #dutchcorporations #quantitativemethods

Social entrepreneurship -- the Chilean case. Read more here: doi.org/10.1080/0007... Marieshka Barton, Jonathan Kimmitt, Carlos Poblete and Pablo Muñoz examine how Chile’s #socialentrepreneurship sector grew from a complex mix of #Catholic Social Teaching and #neoliberal thought. #Chile #bizhis

#Bailouts in history #bizhis doi.org/10.1080/0007... about the 1975 bailout of the Burmah Oil Company by the UK government, uncovering the informal mechanisms behind high-stakes corporate rescue. @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledaebuseco.bskv.social @dmu.ac.uk @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Between 1965 and 1999, a new #businessmodel emerged in Scotland through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State 👉 social enterprises 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0007... shows that these initiatives were built through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State. #Bizhis

Between 1965 and 1999, a new #businessmodel emerged in Scotland through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State 👉 social enterprises 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0007... shows that these initiatives were built through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State. #Bizhis

Did the joint-stock company really begin in 17th-century England or the Dutch Republic? New research doi.org/10.1080/0007... by David Le Bris, William N. Goetzmann, and Sébastien Pouget suggests otherwise ‼️ #bizhis #jointstockcompany #medievalbusiness @routledaebuseco.bskv.social

The BHC is coming to London!! Upcoming deadline -> Submit proposals by October 17th 2025 thebhc.org/2026-bhc-mee... March 26th - 28th, 2026 "Co-Creation" @entandsoc.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @gnvbusinesshistory.bsky.social @businesshistory.bsky.social

#bookreview #bizhis doi.org/10.1080/0007... Review by Matthew Hollow World Scientific Publishing @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledaebuseco.bskv.social

Drawing from population censuses + Chamber of Commerce records, the authors find that women made up 20–30% of independent workers #businesswomen in twentieth-century Italy. Giacomo Gabbuti + Stefania Licini doi.org/10.1080/0007... #BizHis @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @routledgebuseco.bsky.social

📄 👉 @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledaebuseco.bskv.social doi.org/10.1080/0007... combines microhistory with social entrepreneurship and shows how communities reclaim agency, reframe regeneration, and build resilient futures.

Why did Canada’s biggest oil company collapse? Not because of Arctic misadventures or bad luck with prices—but because of capital structure. 👀 Bruce Gilley analysis here: doi.org/10.1080/0007... 🏆 Petroleum History Society’s 2024 Article of the Year energyhist.bsky.social canhist.bsky.social

British colonial rule rested on domination, but even domination has limits. Full article explaning by @jeremyhgoh.bsky.social is available here doi.org/10.1080/0007... After the 1913 banking collapse, colonial authorities couldn’t simply impose regulation from above. They negotiated on the ground

🆕Business History, Volume 67, Issue 6 (2025) #specialissue #bizhis Historical Perspectives on Business Power and Influence www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/6... @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social @business-humanrights.org @routledgebuseco.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social @businesspowertools.bsky.social

A long-standing myth says 🇮🇪 cooperatives just weren’t up to the task. Eoin McLaughlin, Paul Sharp, Xanthi Tsoukli & Christian Vedel reveal that 🇮🇪 dairies were actually slightly more efficient on average than 🇩🇰 peers 🐄📉 📖 doi.org/10.1080/0007... @routledaebuseco.bskv.social #DairyHistory #BizHis

📣 Planning a panel for BHC 2026 in London? Use our Session Organizer thebhc.org/session-orga... to connect and form panels 💡 #CFP thebhc.org/bhc-2026-cal... @historians.org @hagleycenter.bsky.social @businesshistory.bsky.social @repec-nep-his.bsky.social #BHC2026 #BizHis #CoCreation #Skystorians

Thinking about publishing in business history? Here’s a great place to start. 📺 youtu.be/0-wfTVMiud8 Big thanks to Nick Young for organizing and sincere appreciation 🙏 to the editors who participated @entandsoc.bsky.social ++ #BizHis #MeetTheEditors #AcademicPublishing #EBHA2025

Business History is attending the 20th World Economic History Congress (WEHC) (28 July to 1 August 2025 in Lund, Sweden) Presenting on 💡quantitative bus history, banking hist, financial hist, cooperative organisations, firm failure, patents and innovation, international business ❓

Check out the full video, now available: youtu.be/0-wfTVMiud8 #bizhis @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Business History is attending the 20th World Economic History Congress (WEHC) (28 July to 1 August 2025 in Lund, Sweden) Theme: “Equality and Sustainability Challenges” #WEHC2025 WEHC 2025 Conference Program

For your 🎓 #bizhis #specialissueproposal to be considered in the 2024-25 round, submit via email to the managing editor ([email protected]) no later than September 1st! More ℹ️ www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbs... @routledgebuseco.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Very happy to see the introduction to the special issue in @businesshistory.bsky.social I co-edited with John D. Wong and Jin-A Kang and Jin-A Kang titled "The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business" published Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/9

Business History 67, Issue 5, 2025 now in print! 👏 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/6... @historians.org @routledgebuseco.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

Counterfeiting Labor’s Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics by Mark A. Lause Reviewed by Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer doi.org/10.1080/0361... @historians.org‬ @lawcha.bsky.social‬ @oah.org‬ @businesshistory.bsky.social‬ #historybookreviews #newbooks #bookreviews

🍺 🏦 doi.org/10.1080/0007... This article uncovers the financial story behind America’s post-Prohibition beer boom cmichpress.bsky.social craftbeerchannel.bsky.social reevaluate-proiect.bskv.social routledgebuseco.bsky.social tandfresearch.bsky.social #BizHis #Beer

Thanks to the European Business History Association #EBHA2025 for providing the space, and a wonderful welcome to the eight journals that came together in what was the largest meeting of #bizhis journals so far! @routledgebuseco.bsky.social

Engineers switching jobs=knowledge flowing across industries 🛠️⚡ A new study of Norway’s mining sector (1787–1940) shows how mobility fueled innovation—and how the state played a role 📖 Read doi.org/10.1177/0022... #BizHis tandfresearch.bsky.social routledaebuseco.bskv.social #skystorians

Sincere thanks to Associate Editors @ccliochris.bsky.social‬ and Abe de Jong for organizing 💯 #PDW in 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 at #ABH2025 and to all the participants for your papers, discussions, and feedback. #bizhis 👀 lnkd.in/gvYvsGAw

Business History (Abe de Jong; Chris Colvin; Adam Nix ) will be attending the ABH Annual Conference ‘Business History Applied’ held in Belfast on June 20–21, 2025. If you’re interested in proposing a special issue, or discussing a submission idea, please reach out. #BizHis #ABH2025 #AppliedHistory

🚨 📅 The next deadline for submitting a Special Issue proposal is 1st September 2024. Read description and instructions >> www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbs... ‼️ Business History only accepts submissions for SI once a year. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Delighted that our article on technological innovation & institutions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with @dimitrapetrakaki.bsky.social appears as the most read article in the last 12 months! Thank you @businesshistory.bsky.social #BuzHis

Lingyu Kong, Wenxiao Wang, and Caiquan Bai 💡👇 reframe how we think about global vs. local hiring and offer insights into how resilient HR systems evolve. #BizHis #HRHistory #BusinessHistory #GlobalWorkforce ilowork.bsky.social aeonmag.bsky.social jacobinmag.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0007...

🔈 🗣️ #EBHA2026 Meet-the-Editors session ‼️ W/ Business History, entandsoc.bsky.social‬, Management and Organizational History, Entreprises et Histoire, Japanese Research in Business History, Business History Review, Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business & Industrial History Review.

In the late 19th century, the UK’s financial sector faced one of its earliest global shocks: the Baring crisis. doi.org/10.1080/0007... Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Daniele Torihis financialtimes.com‬ boeresearch.bsky.social#FinancialHistoryr#Bizhisis

📚 New Review Out Now! 𝑇𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑠: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 By Kyle Edward Williams | W. W. Norton & Company, 2024 Reviewed by 🙏 Andrew Smith @historians.org routledgebuseco.bsky.social tandfresearch.bsky.social

Business History (Abe de Jong; Chris Colvin; Adam Nix ) will be attending the ABH Annual Conference ‘Business History Applied’ held in Belfast on June 20–21, 2025. If you’re interested in proposing a special issue, or discussing a submission idea, please reach out. #BizHis #ABH2025 #AppliedHistory

Now available 🔥 ‼️ the 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 of 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 (Vol. 67, Issue 4) www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbs... #Bizhis #journalcontent

Rediscover this 2023 journal article on Swedish consuls and merchant networks between Naples and Stockholm in the mid eighteenth century via @businesshistory.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social.

While Argentina battled debt & inflation in the 1980s, Grupo Macri quietly became an industrial giant. New research by Bruno Perez Almansi & Alejandro Gaggero shows how they leveraged policy, instability & global hesitation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0007... #BizHis #Argentina #GrupoMacri #BusinessHistory

🚨 New issue out now! Business History, Volume 67, Issue 3 (2025) 📰 Browse the full TOC: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/6... #BizHis #BusinessHistory #HistoryOfCapitalism #EconomicHistory #OralHistory 👥 repec-nep-his.bsky.social‬ routledgebuseco.bsky.social‬ Dtandfresearch.bsky.social

“The Macri group did not merely take advantage of privatization—it helped create the rules of the game.” New research reveals how Argentina’s business elite shaped, survived, and steered late 20th-century economic change. 📘 Read doi.org/10.1080/0007...

𝑀𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎’𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒-𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 -> Bruno Perez Almansi & Alejandro Gaggero article traces the real power networks of 1980s–90s Argentina doi.org/10.1080/0007... #BizHis #BusinessGroups #MultinationalCompanies

‼️ Latest Business History volume is now out! Volume 67 Issue 2 2025 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/6... Subscribe to www.tandfonline.com/feed/rss/fbs... to get the latest volume delivered to your inbox 📥 #BizHis #Research

🧐 What happens when foreign corporations write your country’s history? In Poland, multinationals use 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 not just to sell—but to belong. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0007... 👇 #bizhis #poland #usesofthepast #memory #corporatehistory #memorypolitics #postSocialism

Collection of articles in new @businesshistory.bsky.social focused on the Middle East and North Africa – with papers on business, finance, and #Sudan in the British empire; Greek and Turkish businesses in Alexandria; and Islamic finance in post-colonial perspective. 🗃️ #MENA #SWANA #Egypt

The experience of Venetian 🛶 trading companies during the Ottoman War (1463–79) and War of Ferrara (1482–84) offer historical lessons for current global trade faces conflict-driven disruptions, such as the Russia-Ukraine war. doi.org/10.1080/0007... @routledgebuseco.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org

New #bookreview in Business History @routledgebuseco.bsky.social Colleen A. Dunlavy , 𝑆𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑚, 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒, Polity Press Reviewed by Leslie Hannah 🙏 @utokyoofficial.bsky.social Read more doi.org/10.1080/0007...

Bringing this post from @linkedin.com Would you trust your country’s nuclear future to a banking-electricity cartel? Franco’s Spain did. Worth reading the article doi.org/10.1080/0007... for #skyhistorians www.linkedin.com/posts/busine...