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Routledge International Studies in Business History


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Recent years have seen an explosion of research in business history. Business history is now seen variously as a key to understanding a vital aspect of the past, a source of parallels and insights into modern business practice, and a way of understanding the evolution of modern business practice. This series is not limited to any single approach, and explores a wide range of issues and industries.

Authors wishing to submit proposals for publication consideration in the Routledge International Studies in Business History series can contact series editors Heidi Tworek ([email protected]) and Ai Hisano ([email protected]).

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A History of the Aviation Industry in Latin America Nationalism, Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Chile

A History of the Aviation Industry in Latin America: Nationalism, Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Chile

1st Edition

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By Diego Barría Traverso
July 12, 2024

This book analyzes both the Chilean state policies on commercial aviation and the corporate history of the state-owned ailrine Línea Aérea Nacional (LAN) between 1929 and 1989. The book covers a transition from the early adoption of policies that were nationalist, from both the national security ...

A Business History of Retail From Trading Post to E-commerce in America and Canada

A Business History of Retail: From Trading Post to E-commerce in America and Canada

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Bettina Liverant
July 09, 2024

Although transformations in retailing are of tremendous current interest, there is no single broad-ranging account of the evolution of retailing formats. A Business History of Retail fills this gap, providing a chronological presentation of changes in retail businesses and shopping experiences from...

The Rise of Digital Management From Industrial Mobilization to Platform Capitalism

The Rise of Digital Management: From Industrial Mobilization to Platform Capitalism

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By François-Xavier de Vaujany
June 03, 2024

This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusing on the years of industrial mobilization in the United States (from 1937 to 1945) and their extension into the Cold War, it shows particularly how "...

Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History: British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

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Forthcoming

By Stephanie Decker
May 27, 2024

British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European colonial empires were dismantled and institutional transformations changed colonial relationships in Africa and other parts of the world. This book ...

A History of Business Cartels International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour

A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour

1st Edition

Edited By Martin Shanahan, Susanna Fellman
January 29, 2024

International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known. This book presents 15 historical case studies of international cartels that include agricultural and mineral commodities, the machinery industry, telephone equipment, whiskey and cement....

Industrial Clusters Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK

Industrial Clusters: Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK

1st Edition

Edited By John F. Wilson, Chris Corker, Joe Lane
January 29, 2024

Industrial Clusters shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, bringing together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon. This set of original essays by a group of leading business and industrial historians ...

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation A Gramscian Analysis

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation: A Gramscian Analysis

1st Edition

By Edoardo Mollona, Luca Pareschi
January 29, 2024

The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the ...

Internationalisation and Strategic Control An Industrial History

Internationalisation and Strategic Control: An Industrial History

1st Edition

By Morten Pedersen
May 31, 2023

This book is a study of the emergence of international business. It immerses itself in the topic of how companies can control income-generating assets in foreign countries, the key element often used to define a multinational enterprise, and propounds the notion that control of crucial dispositions...

Leading the Economic Risorgimento Lombardy in the 19th Century

Leading the Economic Risorgimento: Lombardy in the 19th Century

1st Edition

Edited By Silvia A. Conca Messina
May 31, 2023

Lombardy, with about 10 million inhabitants, is today the most populated and prosperous region of Italy, and Milan is a renowned capital of art, fashion and design. During the 19th century until WWI, the region gradually became the leader in Italy’s economic development and distinguished itself in ...

Pervasive Powers The Politics of Corporate Authority

Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority

1st Edition

Edited By Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, Nathalie Jas, Emmanuel Henry, Valentin Thomas
May 31, 2023

In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the ...

The Emergence of Corporate Governance People, Power and Performance

The Emergence of Corporate Governance: People, Power and Performance

1st Edition

Edited By Knut Sogner, Andrea Colli
December 19, 2022

Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions. Corporate governance is also about persons of power seeking performance, and they do so in ways that transcend structures and pre-conceived notions of the structural ...

Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation

Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire: Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation

1st Edition

By Sarah Dietz
August 01, 2022

Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a watershed period for commercial ...

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