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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 1d

Follow Business History @tandfresearch.bsky.social on #ResearchGate to stay up to date with new articles and research highlights in the field.

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 7d

📚 Book Review
The Ecological Crisis and Water Supply – The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context doi.org/10.1080/0007...
Edited by Juan Manuel Matés-Barco and María Vázquez-Fariñas
Reviewed by Irina Yányshev-Nésterova

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 14d

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 14d

Reframing business failure‼️
Between 1903 and 1996, nearly 200 publicly traded Dutch firms disappeared from the stock exchange. The authors of doi.org/10.1080/0007... show that it mostly had to do with shifting ideas about corporate purpose than with changes in law or policy.

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Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre @lrfheritage.bsky.social · Jul 28

The first rating agency: Lloyd’s Register’s first century📣

Peter Solar reconstructs the business history of Lloyd’s Register, the world’s first rating agency, from its founding in 1760 to around 1860

Read 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 21d

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 21d

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Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands: Video Abstract

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 21d

Read and download for free @routledgebuseco.bsky.social Business History's article doi.org/10.1080/0007... by @cliochris.bsky.social, Abe de Jong, Philip Fliers, and Florian Madertoner

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 21d

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅?

A century of evidence (96 🇳🇱 corporations that ceased to exist between 1903 and 1996) from the Netherlands gives us answers.

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 23d

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 23d

Social entrepreneurship -- the Chilean case.
Read more here: doi.org/10.1080/0007...

Marieshka Barton, Jonathan Kimmitt, Carlos Poblete and Pablo Muñoz examine how Chile’s #socialentrepreneurship sector grew from a complex mix of #Catholic Social Teaching and #neoliberal thought.

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Ideological evolution of social entrepreneurship: Insights
from Chile 1960–2020

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 28d

#Bailouts in history #bizhis
doi.org/10.1080/0007... about the 1975 bailout of the Burmah Oil Company by the UK government, uncovering the informal mechanisms behind high-stakes corporate rescue.

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British business-government relationships: A case study of the Burmah Oil Company, 1974–1975

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Sep 5

Between 1965 and 1999, a new #businessmodel emerged in Scotland through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State 👉 social enterprises

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0007... shows that these initiatives were built through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State.

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

Between 1965 and 1999, a new #businessmodel emerged in Scotland through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State 👉 social enterprises

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0007... shows that these initiatives were built through a collaborative effort between local activists and the State.

#Bizhis

Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 28

Did the joint-stock company really begin in 17th-century England or the Dutch Republic?

New research doi.org/10.1080/0007... by David Le Bris, William N. Goetzmann, and Sébastien Pouget suggests otherwise ‼️

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · Aug 26

The BHC is coming to London!!
Upcoming deadline -> Submit proposals by October 17th 2025
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March 26th - 28th, 2026 "Co-Creation"

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 22

#bookreview #bizhis doi.org/10.1080/0007...

Review by Matthew Hollow

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 21

Drawing from population censuses + Chamber of Commerce records, the authors find that women made up 20–30% of independent workers #businesswomen in twentieth-century Italy.
Giacomo Gabbuti + Stefania Licini doi.org/10.1080/0007...

#BizHis @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @routledgebuseco.bsky.social

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 14

Download the #openaccess article by Thomas Davis, James Scott Vandeventer, Gary Warnaby & Michael Bull

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 14

📄 👉 @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledaebuseco.bskv.social doi.org/10.1080/0007... combines microhistory with social entrepreneurship and shows how communities reclaim agency, reframe regeneration, and build resilient futures.

Urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship:
A microhistorical study of a Community Land Trust

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 7

Why did Canada’s biggest oil company collapse?
Not because of Arctic misadventures or bad luck with prices—but because of capital structure.

👀 Bruce Gilley analysis here: doi.org/10.1080/0007...
🏆 Petroleum History Society’s 2024 Article of the Year

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 6

British colonial rule rested on domination, but even domination has limits.

Full article explaning by @jeremyhgoh.bsky.social is available here doi.org/10.1080/0007...

After the 1913 banking collapse, colonial authorities couldn’t simply impose regulation from above. They negotiated on the ground

Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Aug 5

🆕Business History, Volume 67, Issue 6 (2025)
#specialissue #bizhis
Historical Perspectives on Business Power and Influence

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/6...

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · Jul 30

A long-standing myth says 🇮🇪 cooperatives just weren’t up to the task. Eoin McLaughlin, Paul Sharp, Xanthi Tsoukli & Christian Vedel reveal that 🇮🇪 dairies were actually slightly more efficient on average than 🇩🇰 peers 🐄📉
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0007... @routledaebuseco.bskv.social
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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Use our Session Organizer thebhc.org/session-orga... to connect and form panels 💡
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