Routledge Companion to Business History

John F. Wilson is Professor and Director of School at the Newcastle University Business School, UKSteven Toms is Professor and Chair in Accounting at the University of Leeds, UKAbe de Jong is Professor of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsEmily Buchnea is a Research Assistant at the Newcastle University Business School, UK

"This collection is an excellent starting point for understanding the field and finding areas where business history, management theory, and social science can intersect." Canadian Business History Newsletter, January 2019The contributions to this collection provide concise and insightful overviews of the development, current state and future research directions of key aspects of the field of business history. Taken together, they capture the methodological, thematic and geographic diversity of a vibrant scholarly discipline with roots in and links to the broader fields of history, economics, management studies and sociology.Ray Stokes, Professor of Business History, University of Glasgow, Director, Centre for Business History in Scotland, Executive Editor, Business HistoryAdventurously eclectic, authoritative and thought-provoking, this new handbook, organised in geographic and thematic chapters, is freshly up-to-date. It will be valued by specialist business historians wanting to catch up on missed recent work in related areas and social scientists aiming to deepen their researches by adding a business historical dimension.Leslie Hannah, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics.

• List of figures List of tables List of contributors PART I The discipline of business history 1 Introduction John F. Wilson, Steven Toms, Abe de Jong and Emily Buchnea2 Business history: Agendas, historiography and debates Steven Toms and John Wilson3 A revisionist historiography of business history: A richer past for a richer future 1Matthias Kipping, Takafumi Kurosawa and R. Daniel Wadhwani4 A citation analysis of business history and related disciplines Abe de Jong, David Higgins and Hugo van DrielPart II Business ownership 5 Personal capitalism Andrea Colli6 Managerial capitalism 2.0 John Quail7 The past, present and future of banking history Christopher L. Colvin8 Stock markets and financial capitalism Andrew Smith and Kevin D. Tennent9 The ‘third sector’: Co-operatives, mutual, charities and social enterprises Anthony WebsterPART III International varieties of capitalism 10 African business history Gareth Austin11 Australia: Settler capitalism sans doctrines Simon Ville and David Merrett12 Enterprise in the Soviet and Soviet-Type-Economies Martin Kragh13 The history of business in Latin America Rory M. Miller14 North American capitalism Mark R. Wilson15 International varieties of capitalism: The case of Western Europe Keetie Sluyterman and Gerarda WesterhuisPART IV Institutions 16 Pre-modern and early modern Catherine Casson and Mark Casson17 Networks and clusters in business history Emily Buchnea18 Business institutions and the state Robert Millward19 Evolution of UK corporate ownership and control: Codification,governance, transition and contextAnna Tilba20 GlobalisationPierre Gervais and Cheryl S. McWattersPART V Management and ethics21 The challenge of management professionalizationMitchell J. Larson22 Gender and business: Women in business or businesswomen? An assessment of the history of entrepreneurial women Helen Doe23 Fraud and financial scandals Steven Toms24 Changing approaches to business ethics Bernard MeesIndex