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#BusinessHistory is an international #journal concerned with how businesses, #organizations, and their environment develop over time. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbsh20 #bizhis
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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Jan 22
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✨ 🎓 #bizhis #journalflyer 👇
🖌️ the Business History team ✨
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Business History info sheet
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Jan Logemann @uni-goettingen.de explains why small independent firms dominated the U.S. #FuneralIndustry until the 1980s. Cultural sensitivities, regulation, and consumer advocacy all shaped this unique #TabooMarket

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November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Call for Applications: 2026 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History
📍 London, UK, on March 26, 2026
Application deadline ‼️ December 8, 2025 thebhc.org/doctoral-col...

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October 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Thinking of submitting to top #bizhis journals?? This video brings together editors from the leading journals in our field, recorded at the EBHA 2025 meeting.
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Thinking of submitting to top #bizhis journals?? This video brings together editors from the leading journals in our field, recorded at the European Business History Association (EBHA) meeting.…
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October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Colonial capitalisation and business investment in the Federated Malay States in the interwar years by Mohd Shazwan Mokhtar doi.org/10.1080/0007...

#BusinessHistory #Bizhis #ColonialEconomy

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Colonial capitalisation and business investment in the Federated Malay States
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy field ... from 1855 to 1995 🆕 in Business History by Luigi Servadio & Jacob Östberg

Full article doi.org/10.1080/0007...
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Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy #videoabstract #bizhis
Emergence, stability and transformation of the Swedish alcohol policy field: A historiographical analysis of regulatory dynamics from 1855 to 1995 by Luigi Servadio (Stockholm University) & Jacob…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Follow Business History @tandfresearch.bsky.social on #ResearchGate to stay up to date with new articles and research highlights in the field.

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October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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📚 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

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October 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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.
September 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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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....
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July 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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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
September 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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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
Ideological evolution of social entrepreneurship: Insights from Chile 1960–2020
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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#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.

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British business-government relationships: A case study of the Burmah Oil Company, 1974–1975
September 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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.

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September 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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
September 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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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

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August 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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"

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BHC 2026
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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#bookreview #bizhis doi.org/10.1080/0007...

Review by Matthew Hollow

World Scientific Publishing @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledaebuseco.bskv.social
August 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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...

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August 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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📄 👉 @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.
Urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship: A microhistorical study of a Community Land Trust
August 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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

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Capital structure and business failure
August 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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
August 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🆕Business History, Volume 67, Issue 6 (2025)
#specialissue #bizhis
Historical Perspectives on Business Power and Influence

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/6...

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August 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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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 🐄📉
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July 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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📣 Planning a panel for BHC 2026 in London?

Use our Session Organizer thebhc.org/session-orga... to connect and form panels 💡
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July 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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
July 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM