Routledge International Studies in Business History
About the Book Series
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]).
Security Strategies in International Business History: German Companies in Asia in the 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Huber, Shakila Yacob, Christian Kleinschmidt
November 07, 2025
This edited volume explores how German companies managed security challenges in Asia from the late 19th to late 20th century. Through case studies in Japan, China, India, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia, it examines how firms in sectors like pharmaceuticals, electronics, banking, and trade adapted to ...
Environmental Regulation and the History of Capitalism: The Role of Business from Stockholm 1972 to the Climate Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Bott, Sabine Pitteloud, Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
April 27, 2025
This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, this book unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in regulating environmental pollution. With ...
Global Family Capitalism: A Business History Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Paloma Fernández Pérez
December 23, 2024
Emphasizing the diversity of regional and national models, this book explores the history of transformation of family businesses around the world during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Expert contributors explore place-based family capitalism and the local embeddedness of family ...
A Business History of Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve Zanatti, Marcelo Bucheli
November 14, 2024
This edited volume constitutes the first available comprehensive business history of Latin America available in English. It offers a unique synthesis of the development of capitalism in Latin America that takes into consideration the complexities of each country, while simultaneously understanding ...
A Business History of Soy: Japan’s Modernization and the Rise of Soy as a Global Commodity
1st Edition
By Midori Hiraga
November 11, 2024
This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests created a role for soy as a versatile raw material and global commodity beginning in the 19th century, even before the Western world recognized this “oilseed....
A Business History of Retail: From Trading Post to E-commerce in America and Canada
1st Edition
By Bettina Liverant
September 05, 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...
A History of the Aviation Industry in Latin America: Nationalism, Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Chile
1st Edition
By Diego Barría Traverso
August 30, 2024
This book analyzes both the Chilean state policies on commercial aviation and the corporate history of the state-owned airline 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 ...
The Rise of Digital Management: From Industrial Mobilization to Platform Capitalism
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
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
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
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 ...