Business History Review Editors’ Pick Article Collection
18 May 2018
Last update: 18/05/18 16:09
The Editors of Business History Review, Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, have selected 10 papers for a new Editors’ Pick Article Collection. The collection will be free to access until 1st July 2018.
Articles in the collection:
- Evolving Ideas about Business Strategy, Pankaj Ghemawat
- Contractual Freedom and Corporate Governance in Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Timothy W. Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux
- Rogue Trading at Lloyds Bank International, 1974: Operational Risk in Volatile Markets, Catherine Schenk
- Ellen Fitzpatrick, The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency, Mary A. Yeager
- Samuel W. Buell, Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America’s Corporate Age, Edward Balleisen
- Change and Continuity at IBM: Key Themes in Histories of IBM, James W. Cortada
- Capital as Process and the History of Capitalism, Jonathan Levy
- The Origins of American International Retailing: Tiffany of New York in London and Paris, 1837–1914, Nicholas Alexander, Anne Marie Doherty
- Keynes and Wall Street, David Chambers, Ali Kabiri
Business History Review Editors: Walter A. Friedman Harvard Business School, USA and Geoffrey Jones Harvard Business School, USA
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