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James Derbyshire’s article “Cross-Fertilising Scenario Planning and Business History by Process-Tracing Historical Developments: Aiding Counterfactual Reasoning and Uncovering History to Come,” shows how the intersection of historical analysis and scenario planning offers valuable insights for work in strategic management. Read it in Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 479–501. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1844667.
Studying reinsurance, in “An Integrative Approach to Investigating Longstanding Organisational Phenomena; Opportunities for Practice Theorists and Historians,” Paula Jarzabkowskia, Rebecca Bednarek, Wendy Kilminster, and Paul Spee emphasize the importance of historical reflexivity and advocate for the integration of historical methods with organization theory and practice theory. Available in Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 414–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1906227.
In the article “Entrepreneurial Relationship Marketing in 19th Century India – The Case of Railway Contractor Joseph Stephens,” Stefan Lagrosen and Achinto Roy highlight the uniqueness of railway contractor Joseph Stephens’ diaries in thinking about historical and modern entrepreneurial practices. Read Business History 65, no. 3, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1821659.
Kiyotaka Maeda, in “Market-Based Financing for Small Corporations during Early Industrialisation: The Case of Salt Corporations in Japan, 1880s–1910s,” delves into the role and relevance of small corporations in Japanese industrialization. The research is available in Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 502–24, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1825689.
What are the main networks and pillars of those who insure the insurers? Robin Pearson studies the role of trust and personal relationships in the history of the reinsurance industry. The article “Normative Practices, Narrative Fallacies? International Reinsurance and Its History” is available in Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1808885.
In “Infant Company Protection in the German Semi-Synthetic Fibre Industry: Market Power, Technology, the Nazi Government and the Post-1945 World Market” Jonas Scherner and Mark Spoerer study how government intervention shaped the development and evolution of the man-made fiber industry in Germany from the 19th century to the post World War II period. Read it in Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1900118.
Cemil Ozan Soydemir and Mehmet Erçek, in “State and Transforming Institutional Logics: The Emergence and Demise of Ottoman Cooperatives as Hybrid Organizational Forms, 1861–1888,” provides the latest research on cooperatives in a setting, the 19th century Ottoman Empire, largely unexplored by business and economic historians. Read it in Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1802429.
In “Entrepreneurial Strategies in a Family Business: Growth and Capital Conversions in Historical Perspective,” Nicholas D. Wong and Tom McGovern delve into William Rushworth II’ strategies in transforming Rushworths Music House through the lens and theoretical framework of Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Read Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1807952.
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