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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · Jul 22
@entandsoc.bsky.social is delighted to announce that Prof. Ai Hisano has been chosen as incoming Editor-in-Chief. This is a truly exciting appointment that promises a bright new phase in the journal's history. More about Ai and her fascinating work can be found here:
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Ai Hisano | Historian
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A great theme for a call!
businesshistory.bsky.social Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 2d
Call for Papers – Special Issue: Business and Cities in the Global Economy

Editors 🗣️
Valeria Giacomin (Bocconi)
Youssef Cassis (EUI)
Jan Logemann (Göttingen)
Chinmay Tumbe (IIM Ahmedabad)

Share with colleagues working on cities, capitalism, global networks, and urban economic history 🙏 #bizhis
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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And last but very much not least, we bring you the third and final of this year's Krooss Prize summaries, Mattie Webb's "Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, US Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity." OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, US Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, US Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity
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November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The death has been announced of Gopichand Hinduja, a titan of Indo-British business and, at the time of his death, the richest man in Britain. Guardian obituary here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Gopichand Hinduja obituary
Billionaire businessman who as head of his family’s vast conglomerate topped the UK rich lists
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November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Thanks to @entandsoc.bsky.social for publishing a summary of my dissertation, which earlier this year won the Krooss Prize from the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it and keep an eye out for the book (although it might take a while).
entandsoc.bsky.social Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 4d
The next of this year's Krooss Prize summaries is now available for your perusal & pleasure. Indeed, Pablo Pryluka was the 2025 winner for his dissertation "Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America." Congratulations Pablo! OA here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America
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November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The next of this year's Krooss Prize summaries is now available for your perusal & pleasure. Indeed, Pablo Pryluka was the 2025 winner for his dissertation "Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America." Congratulations Pablo! OA here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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This looks very interesting.
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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We are delighted to bring you the first of this year's three Krooss Prize summaries, with Joshua Lappen's Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles." Available now, Open Access.
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Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles
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November 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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As an historical aside, Bryan also went on to be a pioneer of the "canned speech" - phonographic recordings of speeches for distribution during presidential campaigns, as explored in this delightful paper from Susan Spellman & John Forren; www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Wait up! Not one, but two new articles. First up, Andrew Johnston reveals "The Dawn of Shareholder Value: The Normalization of the Hostile Takeover in the UK 1952–1954", a significant reappraisal of financialization in Britain. Open Access, here with 1 click:
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The Dawn of Shareholder Value: The Normalization of the Hostile Takeover in the UK 1952–1954 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Dawn of Shareholder Value: The Normalization of the Hostile Takeover in the UK 1952–1954
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November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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We are deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. Shakila Jacob. Prof. Jacob was a pioneer in international business history, bringing vital and much needed postcolonial perspectives to the discipline. She will be very sorely missed by many.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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@entandsoc.bsky.social was delighted to recently publish @riyokoshibe.bsky.social fascinating work on Grangemouth. The work can be found here and is published Open Access:
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October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hot off the press! In "The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War" Rikard Westerbeg shines a light on secret collaboration between the Wallenbergs and Sweden's Cold War intelligence establishment. OA of course! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Firm, the Bank, and the Family: Military Intelligence and the Wallenbergs in Sweden’s Cold War
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October 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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"How has caste influenced entrepreneurship in India in the past and how does it do so in the present?" Amrita Roy sets out to answer this vital question with a fantastic new paper in @entandsoc.bsky.social. Get it Open Access here, one click away.
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Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India
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October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Next, Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboyama & Masatoshi Fujiwara lead us through the tangled pathways of "Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1937–2023." We are delighted to publish this essay OA.
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Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1937–2023 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1937–2023
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September 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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We have not one, but two wonderful new papers for you today! First, Zen Wang, in a rich and detailed study, takes us "Under the Eagle’s Wings: The Coca-Cola Company’s Trademark Protection & Its Dilemmas in China (1930–1949)."
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Under the Eagle’s Wings: The Coca-Cola Company’s Trademark Protection and Its Dilemmas in China (1930–1949) | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Under the Eagle’s Wings: The Coca-Cola Company’s Trademark Protection and Its Dilemmas in China (1930–1949)
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September 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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"The House of Guiness" is trying to make business history dark, dramatic, and sexy! Does it work? Is it good television? Is it good history (probably not)?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
House of Guinness review – James Norton’s pheromones positively sizzle off the screen
With smarts, heart and serious sex appeal, this fine drama from Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight is an irresistible romp – like Succession, only over a booze empire. Knight has never made a better show t...
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September 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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We're delighted to bring you this is a bold intervention from Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen & Søren Ivarsson: "Global Capitalist Assemblages: A Historiographical Appraisal of Multinational Enterprise in the Global South." Abstract here, link in the next post. We hope it finds a wide readership.
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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This looks really good!
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Giorgio Armani was a creative genius. But he was also uniquely successful in business, fiercely defending independence in a sector dominated by massive groups, retaining sole ownership*. Now in his will he proposes a startling divestment/succession process. Such a great history to be written one day
September 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Many congratulations to @entandsoc.bsky.social authors Sarah Elvins and Katherine Barkin, very worthy winners of CBHA 2025 best article prize. We are proud to have published this fascinating paper on "The Business of Abortion":
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September 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Fresh on FirstView, Joaquim Cuevas and Maria A. Pons guide us through the intricacies to be found "Between State Control and Banking Power: Spanish Banking Supervision Under Franco (1940–1975)." Available now, Open Access:
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Between State Control and Banking Power: Spanish Banking Supervision Under Franco (1940–1975) | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Between State Control and Banking Power: Spanish Banking Supervision Under Franco (1940–1975)
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September 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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The BHC is coming to London!!
Upcoming deadline -> Submit proposals by October 17th 2025
thebhc.org/2026-bhc-mee...
March 26th - 28th, 2026 "Co-Creation"

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BHC 2026
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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We have just read this fascinating obituary of pioneering British computing entrepreneur Stephanie Shirley. It is a truly incredible story, in many ways, and we are somewhat ashamed to admit to not having heard of her before. '
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
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August 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Great to see these short author promos coming out. Catch the latest here!
August 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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We love this image of work and production. "Filandón" by Luis Álvarez Catala (1872), Museo de Bellas Artes, Oviedo.
August 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM