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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]).

54 Series Titles


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 ...

Gendered Capitalism Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940

1st Edition

By Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
May 06, 2021

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery, being gender-specific, shaped the US-headquartered ...

Foundations of Scenario Planning The Story of Pierre Wack

Foundations of Scenario Planning: The Story of Pierre Wack

1st Edition

By Thomas Chermack
August 23, 2018

Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years. He died in 1997. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning – an alternative and complement to strategic planning. Scenarios explore a variety of possible futures for examining...

Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise A Comparison of the UK and Italy

Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy

1st Edition

Edited By Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, Pier Angelo Toninelli
August 23, 2018

After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise deals with a topic often undervalued in the past decade ...

The Organization of Transport A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy

The Organization of Transport: A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy

1st Edition

Edited By Massimo Moraglio, Christopher Kopper
August 07, 2018

Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns. These investigations criticize the concept of mobility itself, suggesting the need to merge transport and communication research, and to approach the topic with novel instruments and...

The Power of Corporate Networks A Comparative and Historical Perspective

The Power of Corporate Networks: A Comparative and Historical Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Thomas David, Gerarda Westerhuis
August 07, 2018

Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country’s economic organization and its corporate governance system. Most research on corporate networks focuses on individual countries or particular time periods, however, making fruitful comparisons over ...

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry

1st Edition

By Marina Nicoli
August 07, 2018

Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world. But by the end of the 1980s, the Italian film industry was all but dead. The Rise and Fall of the ...

Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000 A History of

Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of "the Devil's Metal"

1st Edition

Edited By Mats Ingulstad, Andrew Perchard, Espen Storli
August 07, 2018

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban ...

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