Welcome to Volume 24, No. 4 of Enterprise and Society. There is a slight deviation from tradition for this issue this year. As is well-known, the final issue of the year typically carries both the Presidential Address, delivered at the annual meeting in the spring, as well as summaries by all Krooss Prize finalists. Those of you able to attend the annual meeting in Detroit in March 2023 will have been spellbound by Dan Wadhwani’s Presidential Address, which wove together strands of his rich historical entrepreneurship scholarship with threads of his own fascinating family story. Converting such a personal address, combined with the continuous uncovering of materials, has involved intricate ongoing work. Dan and I have agreed to hold his address back to give him the opportunity to write the piece he really wants to write. Personally, I cannot wait to read it.

However, we are glad to publish here this year’s Krooss Prize summaries. They are, in alphabetical order, “Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763-1868” by Liana DeMarco, “‘Speculators and Profiteers:’ The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China” by Adam Frost (in a piece entitled here “History from the Dustbins”), and “Building Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age of Disequilibrium,” by Rob Konkel. The 2023 Krooss Prize was awarded to Adam Frost. Congratulations to Adam and both of the other shortlisted candidates.

Alongside the Krooss Prize summaries we are proud to present a very full suite of regular research articles. Again, these articles showcase the breadth of depth of business history research today: from human resource formation in Africa (Nthenya and Donzé) to credit in nineteenth-century Sino-American trade (Maggard); from “Space Age” stock markets (Lotfi) to entrepreneurialism in Swedish schools (Rudberg), with many other stops in-between. I am sure all our readers will find something of interest here.

Finally, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to a number of people. There are, of course, our Associate Editors—Shane Hamilton, Ai Hisano, Andrea Lluch, and Sharon Murphy—, Reviews Editor Alex Beasley, as well as the full Editorial Board. I want to once more thank outgoing Associate Editor Per Hansen, as well as all outgoing members of the wider Editorial Board. As always, I am deeply in debt to Carol Lockman of the Hagley Library for editorial assistance, to Adam Albright, also of the Hagley Library, for his ever wonderful cover designs, and to Roger Horowitz and Vicki Howard as BHC Treasurer and Secretary respectively for their continuing support. I also wish to acknowledge the work of the Print Media Oversight Committee, which has this year comprised Victoria Barnes, Xavier Duran (current Chair), and Marc Levinson. I remain deeply appreciative of the colleagues we work with at Cambridge University Press, from whom we and our authors receive such wonderful support. I want to acknowledge the often hidden but invaluable and inestimable contribution made by our long-term copy editor Lila Stromer. Finally, last but far from least, our thanks to our authors, for submitting such stimulating work, to our readers, for their continuing appetite for the best new work, and to our reviewers for their unstinting labor. This Introduction closes by listing the names of those who have served as reviewers over the last twelve months.

Finally, as we wrap up Volume 24 of Enterprise and Society there comes a realization that next year marks the journal’s twenty-fifth anniversary: a quarter century of remarkable achievement. We are not planning any great celebrations, being focused on the ongoing work, but do look forward to publishing a series of short essays reflecting on our origins and the trajectory that has brought us to where we are today.

Neveen Abdelrehim

Stephen Adams

Elin Åström Rudberg

Matthew Bailey

Ralf Banken

Victoria Barnes

Nicholas Barreyre

Quentin Belot Couloumies

Akram Benjamin

Gavin Benke

Robert Bennett

Maxine Berg

Carolyn Biltoft

Veronica Binda

Kevin Birth

Richard Blakemore

Marten Boon

Blake Brown

Marcelo Bucheli

Emily Buchnea

Joyce Burnette

Andrew Busch

Catherine Casson

Upal Chakrabarti

Sally Clarke

Andrea Colli

Duncan Connors

Eli Cook

Ella Coon

Chris Corker

Abe De Jong

Paolo Di Martino

Alexa Dietrich

Colin Divall

Amy Edwards

Pierre Eichenberger

Susanna Fellman

Maria Fernandez-Moya

Juan Flores

David Foord

Neil Forbes

James Foreman-Peck

Nicola Fosdike

Rika Fujioka

Leigh Gardner

Boris Gehlen

Audrey Gerrard

Ewan Gibbs

Thibaud Giddey

Martin Giraudeau

Semih Gokatalay

Erik Green

Bahar Gürsel

David C. Hammack

John Handel

Bradley Hansen

Gregory Hargreaves

Richard Harris

Abigail Harrison Moore

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur

David Higgins

Richard Hirsh

Ai Hisano

Johs Hjellbrekke

Julian Hoppit

Peter Hudson

Jane Humphries

Owen Hyman

Ryo Izawa

Lisa Jacobson

Sonia Jaimes-Penaloza

Geoffrey Jones

Sophie Jones

Heather Joshi

Pantelis Kammas

Monica Kenely

Youn Ki

Arun Kumar

Joe Lane

Jonathan Levy

Donald MacKenzie

Niall MacKenzie

Mairi Maclean

Emily Masghati

David Mason

Saara Matala

Louise Miskell

Cyrus Mody

Duncan Money

Simon Mowatt

Craig Muldrew

Mary-Elizabeth Murphy

Lucy Newton

Rowen Olegario

Mary O’Sullivan

Jan Ottoson

Laura Panza

Diana Paton

Tawny Paul

Lawrence Peskin

Niels Petersson

Jason Petrulis

David Pinzur

Leon Prieto

Alfred Reckendrees

Alberto Rinaldi

Ethan Ris

Milagros Rodriquez

Janick Schaufelbuehl

Peter Scott

Jerome Sgard

Rui Shi

Reuben Silverman

John Singleton

Andrew Smith

Kenneth Snowden

Knut Sogner

Anna Soulsby

Joshua Specht

Christian Stutz

Lakshmi Subramanian

Timothy Taylor

Ulf Thoene

Pål Thonstad Sandvik

Nancy Tomes

Steve Toms

Geoffrey Traugh

Hannah Tucker

Chinmay Tumbe

Michelangelo Vasta

Chris Viebig

Simon Ville

Natalya Vinokurova

Benjamin Waterhouse

Jane Whittle

Hollian Wint

Nicholas Wong

Claire Wright