Business History Review
Harvard, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Bimestrale; dal 1949 trimestrale
ISSN: 0007-6805
Conservata in: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali
Punto di servizio: Economia, Riv. Str. 338
Consistenza: a. 10, 1936, 1-
Lacune: v. 75, 2001, 3;
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Robert Fitzgerald, Markets, Management, and Merger: John
Mackintosh & Sons, 1890 – 1969, p. 555
Barry E. C. Boothrnan, High Finance/Low Strategy: Corporate
Collapse in the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, 1919 – 1932, p. 611
Rex Pope, A Consumer Service in Interwar Britain: The Hotel
Trade, 1924 – 1938, p. 657
RESEARCH NOTE
Margaret E. Hale, The Nineteenth-Century American Trade Card, p. 683
Announcements, p. 689
Book reviews, p. 695
Bradley Hansen, The People’s Welfare and the Origins of
Corporate Reorganization: The Wabash Receivership Reconsidered, p. 377
Howard R. Stanger, From Factory to Family: The Creation of
a Corporate Culture in the Larkin Company of Buffalo, New York, p. 407
Martin Stack, Local and Regional Breweries in America’s Brewing
Industry, 1865 to 1920, p. 435
RESEARCH NOTE
Laura Cochrane, From the Archives: Women’s History in Baker
Library’s Business Manuscripts Collection, p. 465
Announcements, p. 477
Book reviews, p. 479
Wyatt Wells, Certificates and Computers: The Remaking of
Wall Street, 1967 to 1971, p. 193
Sébastien Guex, The Origins of the Swiss Banking Secrecy
Law and Its Repercussions for Swiss Federal Policy, p. 237
Jesús Ma Valdaliso, The Rise of Specialist Firms in
Spanish Shipping and Their Strategies of Growth, 1860 to 1930, p. 267
Announcements, p. 301
Book reviews, p. 307
Thomas R. Eisenmann, The U.S. Cable Television Industry,
1948 – 1995: Managerial Capitalism in Eclipse, p. 1
Juan C. Santamarina, The Cuba Company and the Expansion of
American Business in Cuba, 1898 – 1915: Building a New Cuba Through
Business Networks, p. 41
Martin Horn, A Private Bank at War: J. P. Morgan & Co.
and France, 1914 – 1918, p. 85
RESEARCH NOTE
Daniel Wren, The J. and W. Seligman Archives at the Harry
W Bass Collection, p. 113
Announcements, p. 119
REVIEW ESSAY
Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier, Reviewed by George
David Smith, p. 121
Book reviews, p. 127
INTRODUCTION
Christine Meisner Rosen, Christopher C. Sellers, The Nature
of the Firm: towards an Ecocultural History of Business, p. 577
ARTICLES
Hugh S. Gorman, Efficiency, Environmental Quality, and Oil
Field Brines: The Success and Failure of Pollution Control by
Self-Regulation, p. 601
Frank Uekoetter, Divergent Responses to Identical Problems:
Businessmen and the Smoke Nuisance in Germany and the United
States, 1880 – 1917, p. 641
David Stradling, Joel A. Tarr, Environmental Activism, Locomotive
Smoke and Corporate Response: The Case of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and Chicago Smoke Control, p. 677
Christian Warren, Toxic Purity: The Progressive Era Origins
of America’s Lead Paint Poisoning Epidemic, p. 705
Announcements, p. 737
Book reviews, p. 743
Nancy F. Koehn, Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late
Nineteenth Century, p. 349
Andrew G. Godley, Pioneering Foreign Direct Investment in
British Manufacturing, p. 394
Donald N. Sull, The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone
Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution, p. 430
Jeff Merron, Putting Foreign Consumers on the Map: J. Walter
Thompson’s Struggle with General Motors’ International Advertising
Account in the 1920s, p. 465
Announcements, p. 505
Book reviews, p. 517
Rowena Olegario, “That Mysterious People”: Jewish
Merchants, Transparency, and Community in Mid-Nineteenth Century
America, p. 161
Matthias Kipping, American Management Consulting Companies
in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990: Products, Reputation, and Relationships, p. 190
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Creating a Favorable Business Climate:
Corporations and Radio Broadcasting. 1934 to 1954, p. 221
RESEARCH NOTE
Simon Ville, Grant Fleming, Locating Australian Corporate
Memory, p. 256
Announcements, p. 265
Book reviews, p. 275
A. Glenn Crothers, Banks and Economic Development in Post
Revolutionary Northern Virginia, 1790 – 1812, p. 1
Robert E. Wright, Bank Ownership and Lending Patterns in New
York and Pennsylvania, 1781 – 1831, p. 40
Michael Zakim, A Ready – Made Business: The Birth of the Clothing
Industry in America, p. 61
Andrew Lohmeier, Bürgerliche Gesellschaft and Consumer
Interests: The Berlin Public Market Hall Reform, 1867 – 1891, p. 91
Announcements, p. 114
Book reviews, p. 117
Dong-Woon Kim, The British Multinational Enterprise in
the United States before 1914: The Case of J. & P. Coats, p. 523
Walter A. Friedman, John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy
of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922, p. 552
Priscilla Roberts, “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?” The Federal Reserve System’s Founding Fathers and Allied Finances
in the First World War, p. 585
Announcements, p. 621
Book reviews, p. 627
Geoffrey Jones, Judith Wale, Merchants as Business Groups:
British Trading Companies in Asia before 1945, p. 367
Dean J. Kotlowski, Black Power – Nixon Style: The Nixon Administration
and Minority Business Enterprise, p. 409
James D. Rose, The Struggle over Management Rights at US Steel,
1946 – 1960: A Reassessment of Section 2 – B of the Collective
Bargaining Contract, p. 446
Announcements, p. 478
Book reviews, p. 483
SPECIAL SECTION: GENDER AND BUSINESS
Philip Scranton, Introduction, p. 185
Wendy Gamber, A Gendered Enterprise: Placing Nineteenth Century
Businesswomen in History, p. 188
Kathy Peiss, “Vital Industry” and Women’s Ventures:
Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History, p. 219
Joan W Scott, Conceptualizing Gender in American History, p. 242
ARTICLES
Louis Galambos, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Pharmaceutical Firms
and the Transition to Biotechnology: A Study in Strategic Innovation, p. 250
Andrew A. Workman, Manufacturing Power: The Organizational
Revival of the National Association of Manufacturers, 1941 –
1945, p. 279
Announcements, p. 318
Book reviews, p. 326
Karen Schnietz, The 1916 Tariff Commission: Illustrating
the Consumer Costs of Protectionism, p. 1
Michael Smith, Putting France in the Chandlerian Framework:
France’s 100 Largest Industrial Firms in 1913, p. 46
Bradley Hansen, Commercial Associations and the Creation of
a National Economy: The Demand for Federal Bankruptcy, p. 86
REVIEW ESSAYS
Richard S. Tedlow, Remembering Roland Marchand, 1933 – 1997, p. 114
W Mark Fruin, To Compare or Not to Compare: Two Books That
Look at Capitalist Systems Across Centuries, Countries &
Industries, p. 123
Announcements, p. 137
Book reviews, p. 144
Howard Bodenhorn, Private Banking in Antebellum Virginia:
Thomas Branch & Sons of Petersburg, p. 513
Pamela Pennock, The National Recovery Administration and the
Rubber Tire Industry, 1933 – 1935, p. 543
J. Ronald Shearer, The Reichskuratorium für Wirtschaftlichkeit:
Fordism and Organized Capitalism in Germany, 1918 – 1945, p. 569
Announcements, p. 603
Book reviews, p. 607
Antje Hagen, German FDI in the British Chemical Industry
before 1914, p. 351
Margaret C. Rung, Paternalism and Pink Collars: Gender and
Federal Employee Relations, 1941 – 50, p. 381
Robert Bussel, “Business without a Boss”: The Columbia
Conserve Company and Workers’ Control, 1917 – 43, p. 417
Gloria Vollmers, A History of the Industrial Home Work of
the Dennison Manufacturing Company of Framingham, Massachusetts, p. 444
Announcements, p. 471
Book reviews, p. 474
Richard R. John, Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred
D. Chandler, Jr.’s, “The Visible Hand” after Twenty
Years, p. 151
Kevin Whitston, The Reception of Scientific Management by
British Engineers 1890 – 1914, p. 207
Gary B. Magee, Competence or Omniscience: Assessing Entrepreneurship
in the Victorian and Edwardian British Paper Industry, p. 230
Peter Botticelli, The British Engineering Press during the
Second Industrial Revolution: Responses to Corporate Capitalism, p. 260
ESSAYS
David Edgerton, The Decline of Declinism, p. 201
Louis Galambos, Four Paths into the Third Industrial Revolution, p. 287
Geoffrey Jones, Some British Paradoxes, p. 291
Etsuo Abe, The Development of Modern Business in Japan, p. 299
Franco Amatori, Reflections on Global Business and Modern Italian
Enterprise by a Stubborn “Chandlerian”, p. 309
Announcements, p. 319
Book reviews, p. 323
Peter Tufano, Business Failure, Judicial Intervention,
and Financial Innovation: Restructuring U.S. Railroads in the
Nineteenth Century, p. 1
Nick Tiratsoo, Jim Tomlinson, Exporting the “Gospel of
Productivity”: United States Technical Assistance and British
Industry 1945 – 1960, p. 41
Sebastian Ritchie, The Price of Air Power: Technological Change,
Industrial Policy, and Military Aircraft Contracts in the Era
of British Rearmament, 1935 – 39, p. 82
Editor’s Corner, p. 112
Book reviews, p. 116
Stuart W. Leslie, Robert H. Kargon, Selling Silicon Valley:
Frederick Terman’s Model for Regional Advantage, p. 435
Edward J. Balleisen, Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America:
The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial
Distress, p. 473
Daniel Barbezat, Comptoir Sidérurgique de France, 1930
– 1939, p. 517
Charles W. Wootton, Barbara E. Kemmerer, The Changing Genderization
of Bookkeeping in the United States, 1870 – 1930, p. 541
Editor’s Corner, p. 587
Book reviews, p. 590
Karen Miller, “Air Power is Peace Power” The
Aircraft Industry’s : Campaign for Public and Political Support,
1943 – 1949, p. 297
Clark Davis, “You are the Company”: The Demands
of Employment in the Emerging Corporate Culture, Los Angeles,
1900 – 1930, p. 328
George Bittlingmayer, Antitrust and Business Activity: The
First Quarter Century, p. 363
Editor’s Corner, p. 402
Book reviews, p. 405
Wellington K. K. Chan, Personal Styles, Cultural Values
and Management: The Sincere and Wing On Companies in Shanghai
and Hong Kong, 1900 – 1941, p. 141
Francesca Fauri, The Role of Fiat in the Development of Italy’s
Car Industry in the 1950s, p. 167
Geoffrey Jones, Frances Bostock, U.S. Multinationals in British
Manufacturing before 1962, p. 207
Editor’s Corner, p. 257
Book reviews, p. 260
Elizabeth MacIver Neiva, Chain Building: The Consolidation
of the American Newspaper Industry, 1953 – 1980, p. 1
Stuart Coupe, Testing for Aptitude and Motivation in South
African Industry: The Work of the National Institute for Personnel
Research, 1946 – 1973, p. 43
Harris Corporation, Founding Dates of the 1994 Fortune 500
U.S. Companies, p. 69
Cynthia J. Little, Business History Holdings at the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, p. 91
Editor’s Corner, p. 108
Book reviews, p. 111
Dong-Woon Kim, J. & P. Coats in Tsarist Russia, 1889
– 1917, p. 465
David Fairris, From Exit to Voice in Shopfloor Governance:
The Case of Company Unions, p. 494
Glen Gendzel, Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost the
Braves, p. 530
Editor’s Corner, p. 567
Book reviews, p. 571
Steven Tolliday, Enterprise and State in the West German
Wirtschaftswunder: Volkswagen and the Automobile Industry, 1939
– 1962, p. 273
Christine Meisner Rosen, Businessmen Against Pollution in
Late Nineteenth Century Chicago, p. 351
Craig Young, Financing the Micro-Scale Enterprise: Rural Craft
Producers in Scotland, 1840 – 1914, p. 398
Editor’s Corner, p. 422
Book reviews, p. 425
H. Vincent Moses, G. Harold Powell and the Corporate Consolidation
of the Modern Citrus Enterprise, 1904 – 1922, p. 119
Louis Galambos, David Milobsky, Organizing and Reorganizing
the World Bank, 1946 – 1972, p. 156
Albert Churella, Corporate Culture and Marketing in the American
Railway Locomotive Industry: American Locomotive and Electro-Motive
Despond to Dieselization, p. 191
Editor’s Corner, p. 230
Book reviews, p. 234
Mark Clark, Henry Nielsen, Crossed Wires and Missing Connections:
Valdemar Poulsen, the American Telegraphone Company, and the
Failure to Commercialize Magnetic Recording, p. 1
Annette C. Wright, Strategy and Structure in the Textile Industry:
Spencer Love and Burlington Mills, 1923 – 1962, p. 42
Editor’s Corner, p. 80
Book reviews, p. 83
EXPERTS, WAR, AND THE STATE
William J. Breen, Foundations, Statistics, and State-Building:
Leonard P. Ayres, the Russell Sage Foundation, and U.S. Government
Statistics in the First World War, p. 451
Alan Derickson, Physiological Science and Scientific Management
in the Progressive Era: Frederic S. Lee and the Committee on
Industrial Fatigue, p. 483
Larry Owens, The Counterproductive Management of Science in
the Second World War: Vannevar Bush and the Office of Scientific
Research and Development, p. 515
Editor’s Corner, p. 577
Book reviews, p. 582
J. Lodge Gillespie Jr., Rhetoric and Reality: Corporate
America’s Perceptions of Southeast Asia, 1950 – 1961, p. 325
Roger Lloyd-Jones, Myrddin J. Lewis, Personal Capitalism and
British Industrial Decline: The Personally Managed Firm and Business
Strategy in Sheffield, 1880 – 1920, p. 364
Editor’s Corner, p. 412
Book reviews, p. 418
George A. Selgin, Lawrence H. White, Monetary Reform and
the Redemption of National Bank Notes, 1863- 1913, p. 205
David A. Moss, Kindling a Flame under Federalism: Progressive
Reformers, Corporate Elites, and the Phosphorous Match Campaign
of 1909 – 1912, p. 244
Editor’s Corner, p. 276
Book reviews, p. 283
COMPETITIVENESS AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT: THE RESTRUCTURING
OF U.S. INDUSTRY, 1960 – 1990
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Introduction, p. IX
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., The Competitive Performance of
U.S. Industrial Enterprises since the Second World War, p. 1
Carliss Y. Baldwin, Kim B. Clark, Capital-Budgeting Systems
and Capabilities Investments in U. S. Companies after the Second
World War, p. 73
Bronwyn H. Hall, Corporate Restructuring and Investment Horizons
in the United States. 1976 – 1987, p. 110
Editor’s Corner, p. 144
Book reviews, p. 147
Clayton M. Christensen, The Rigid Disk Drive Industry:
A History of Commercial and Technological Turbulence, p. 531
David L. Morton, “The Rusty Ribbon”: John Herbert
Orr and the Making of the Magnetic Recording Industry, 1945 –
1960, p. 589
SURVEYS AND DEBATES
William N. Parker, A “New” Business History? A Commentary
on the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics, p. 623
Editor’s Corner, p. 637
Book reviews, p. 641
GERMAN BUSINESS HISTORY
Harm G. Schröter, The German Question, the Unification
of Europe, and the European Market Strategies of Germany’s Chemical
and Electrical Industries, 1900 – 1992, p. 369
Alfred C. Mierzejewski, The German National Railway Company,
1924 – 1932: Between Private and Public Enterprise, p. 406
REVIEW ESSAYS
Hans Medick, The Unique Industrial Development of Württemberg:
A Review Essay, p. 439
Rolf H. Dumke, Knut Borchardt: A Critical Appreciation, p. 448
Editor’s Corner, p. 459
Book reviews, p. 462
Edward Peter Fitzgerald, Business Diplomacy: Walter Teagle,
Jersey Standard. and the Anglo-French Pipeline Conflict in the
Middle East. 1930 – 1931, p. 207
Michael French, Structure, Personality, and Business Strategy
in the U . S. Tire Industry: The Seiberling Rubber Company, 1922
– 1964, p. 246
REVIEW ESSAY
H. S. Ferns, Ezequiel Gallo, Melville Watkins, Carl Solberg’s “The Prairies and the Pampas”: A Review Colloquium, p. 279
Editor’s Corner, p. 300
Book reviews, p. 302
JoAnne Yates, Co-evolution of Information-Processing Technology
and Use: Interaction between the Life Insurance and Tabulating
Industries, p. 1
Allen Kaufman, Ernest J. Englander, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
& Co. and the Restructuring of American Capitalism, p. 52
Janet T. Knoedler, Market Structure, Industrial Research,
and Consumers of Innovation: Forging Backward Linkages to Research
in the Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Steel Industry, p. 98
Editor’s Corner, p. 140
Book reviews, p. 144
Margaret Walsh, Flush Endeavors: An Analysis of the Modern
American Soft-toy Industry, p. 637
Henry C. Klassen, T. C. Power & Bro.: The Rise of a Small
Western Department Store, 1870 – 1902, p. 671
Martin Brown, Jens Christiansen, Peter Philips, The Decline
of Child Labor in the U. S. Fruit and Vegetable Canning Industry:
Law or Economics?, p. 723
Editor’s Corner, p. 771
Book reviews, p. 774
Mark Mason, The Origins and Evolution of Japanese Direct
Investment in Europe, p. 435
Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, Kellogg’s Six-Hour Day: A Capitalist
Vision of Liberation through Managed Work Reduction, p. 475
Allen Kaufman, Lawrence Zacharias, From Trust to Contract:
The Legal Language of Managerial Ideology, 1920 – 1980, p. 523
Editor’s Corner, p. 573
Book reviews, p. 576
Steven W. Usselman, From Novelty to Utility: George Westinghouse
and the Business of Innovation during the Age of Edison, p. 251
Leonard S. Reich, Lighting the Path to Profit: GE’s Control
of the Electric Lamp Industry, 1892 – 1941, p. 305
Stephen H. Haber, Business Enterprise and the Great Depression
in Brazil: A Study of Profits and Losses in Textile Manufacturing, p. 335
Editor’s Corner, p. 364
Book reviews, p. 367
HIGH-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES
Introduction, p. IX
Richard N. Langlois, External Economies and Economic Progress:
The Case of the Microcomputer Industry, p. 1
Michael A. Cusumano, Yiorgos Mylonadis, Richard S. Rosenbloom,
Strategic Manuevering and Mass-Market Dynamics: The Triumph
of VHS over Beta, p. 51
Louis Galambos, Theodore N. Vail and the Role of Innovation
in the Modern Bell System, p. 95
Glenn E. Bugos, Intellectual Property Protection in the American
Chicken-Breeding Industry, p. 127
Editor’s Corner, p. 169
Book reviews, p. 171
THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
Introduction, p. IX
Daniel M. G. Raff, Making Cars and Making Money in the
Interwar Automobile Industry: Economies of Scale and Scope and
the Manufacturing behind the Marketing, p. 721
Yves Cohen, The Modernization of Production in the French
Automobile Industry between the Wars: A Photographic Essay, p. 754
Susan Helper, Strategy and Irreversibility in Supplier Relations:
The Case of the U.S. Automobile Industry, p. 781
Roland Marchand, The Corporation Nobody Knew: Bruce Barton,
Alfred Sloan, and the Founding of the General Motors “Family”, p. 825
Helen Shapiro, Determinants of Firm Entry into the Brazilian
Automobile Manufacturing Industry, 1956 – 1968, p. 876
Editor’s Corner, p. 948
Book reviews, p. 953
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Introduction, p. IX
Jennifer I. Kermode, Money and Credit in the Fifteenth
Century some Lessons from Yorkshire, p. 475
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Christopher Glaisek, Vehicles of Privilege
or Mobility? Banks in Providence, Rhode Island, during the Age
of Jackson, p. 502
Philip L. Merkel, Going National: The Life Insurance Industry’s
Campaign for Federal Regulation after the Civil War, p. 528
Theo Balderston, German Banking between the Wars: The Crisis
of the Credit Banks, p. 554
SURVEYS AND DEBATES
Larry Schweikart, U.S. Commercial Banking: A Historiographical
Survey, p. 606
Editor’s Corner, p. 662
Book reviews, p. 665
A. M. McGahan, The Emergence of the National Brewing Oligopoly:
Competition in the American Market, 1933 – 1958, p. 229
William R. Childs, The Transformation of the Railroad Commission
of Texas, 1917-1940: Business-Government Relations and the Importance
of Personality, Agency Culture, and Regional Differences, p. 285
Michael Huberman, Industrial Relations and the Industrial
Revolution: Evidence from M’Connel and Kennedy, 1810 – 1840, p. 345
Robin Pearson, Collective Diversification: Manchester Cotton
Merchants and the Insurance Business in the Early Nineteenth
Century, p. 379
Editor’s Corner, p. 415
Book reviews, p. 417
SMALL BUSINESS AND ITS RIVALS
Introduction, p. VII
SURVEYS AND DEBATES
Mansel G. Blackford, Small Business in America: A Historiographic
Survey, p. 1
ARTICLES
Philip Scranton, Diversity in Diversity: Flexible Production
and American Industrialization, 1880 – 1930, p. 27
Bernard Smith, Market Development, Industrial Development:
The Case of the American Corset Trade, 1860 – 1920, p. 91
Alan R. Raucher, Dime Store Chains: The Making of Organization
Men, 1880 – 1940, p. 130
Editor’s Corner, p. 164
Book reviews, p. 166