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This article discusses work and industry in the northern Midwest portion of the United States. The article discusses books belonging to the Whitefish Bay Merchant and Traders Bank, which included information regarding business in rural America, the acquisition of Wisconsin-based paper mills by the American Sun newspaper consortium, and the acquisition of a Minnesota-based timber company called the Little Elk Timber Cooperative.

Writers on American prints generally have ignored the speculative and entrepreneurial aspects of printing and publishing, and business histories are difficult to reconstruct because so little primary evidence remains. This article stitches together information from a variety of sources about workshop practices and staffing, coloring, costs, distribution and advertising, and the importance of job printing in the production of American lithographs from the late 1820s through the Civil War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses antitrust law and business history in America as of March 2012, focusing on monopolies and predatory practices in the U.S., as well as information on competition in relation to the Standard Oil company. The International Competition Network, anti-cartel policies, and the merger movement of the 1890s are addressed. Business historians and philosopher Adam Smith are mentioned, as well as business history professor Alfred Chandler, decentralization, and the U.S. businesses. The U.S. Office of Financial Research is assessed.

The article presents research which explores the business networks in the U.S. Chinese diaspora. It introduces the concept of ethnic business networks. It outlines the historical background on the Chinese diaspora and the role of Chinese business networks to the global market. It discusses the effects of these networks and suggests a research agenda. Its results suggest the evolution of a different type of business networking pattern in the U.S. context which is less reliant on the traditional pillars of language, family, and culture.

Abstract: By contrast with the U.S., where oral history is valued by corporate bodies and where oral historians actively engage with business history, British oral historians continue to regard elite oral history with deep suspicion. And for their part, U.K. business historians and archivists remain skeptical about the value of oral testimony. Few British oral historians venture beyond a well-worn focus on working-class experience, the marginalized and the voiceless. While advocacy-led oral history should remain a key focus for oral historians, so must we also use our methodology to document our society more widely and to step outside our comfort zones and engage with interview subjects which challenge our radical credentials. This paper explores reasons for the marked contrast of attitude to elite oral history between Britain and the U.S., arguing that it is rooted in the rather different origins of oral history in the two countries. It draws on corporate oral history project work at the British Library—such as oral histories of the British publishing industry, the Tesco supermarket chain, Royal Mail, branding consultancy Wolff Olins, and the financial center of the City of London including Barings Bank—to argue the case for oral history's contribution to the public understanding of business history and corporate culture. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article is concerned with the effects of globalisation on the organisation of family philanthropy. It aims to assess whether the increased visibility and social and economic relevance of foundations connected to entrepreneurial families and family firms, has also involved the adoption of similar organisational models internationally over the last three decades. The article examines the interplay between family philanthropy and its institutional framework in the US, Germany and Spain by identifying two basic models of relationship between the entrepreneurial family, the family foundation, and the family firm: the non-controlling model, which continues to characterise most US foundations; and the controlling model, characteristic of most German foundations. In Spain, where large family foundations have traditionally adopted the controlling model, newer foundations have tended to adopt the non-controlling model. This reveals the mixed effects of globalisation and national cultural and institutional patterns on the organisational structure adopted by family philanthropy across Western countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the history of education in Columbus, Georgia, with a particular focus on industrial education and the ways in which the city's textile industry affected its educational system during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Details on the city's primary and secondary industrial schools and on the relationship between public and private education are presented. It is suggested that although the vocational schools were praised for their efficacy and innovation, they reinforced the city's social stratification. Other topics include racial segregation, working conditions in the textile mills, child labor, and gender.

The article looks at 19th-century magazine illustrations demonstrating industrial production processes for periodicals, with a particular focus on their relationship to managerial capitalism. Emphasis is given to the production of the periodicals "Harper's Weekly," "Harper's Monthly," "Scientific American," and "Scribner's Monthly." According to the author, these illustrations portrayed periodical literature as an important commodity produced with advanced and efficient technology. It is suggested that the images were meant to demonstrate periodical literature's contribution to the corporate sphere. Topics discussed include the U.S. printing industry, visuality, and 19th-century management practices.

The article outlines a U.S. history lesson concerning the impact of large corporations and advertising on the lives of American people. The lesson focuses on advertisements from the 1880s into the 1920s. The author talks about businesses in America during this time. One of the lesson's objectives is to guide students toward understanding that advertisements reveal more about their creators than they tell us about their target audiences. The rise of large corporations in the U.S. is detailed. The article also details the procedures for the lesson's two days.

The essay discusses the history of American manufacturing from 1850 to 1930 in the context of business history. The article explores how and why businesses with new types of organizational structures and layers of managers partially replaced firms that were smaller and less structured. The author states that during this time, big businesses and large cities grew greatly in significance and small towns and businesses became less important. The use of business history to understand changes in political systems, societies, and cultures is examined. The article also addresses contemporary trends in globalization.

The article reports on the diversity of business history and related periodical literature in Great Britain from 2005 to 2007. The author focuses on the international banking and financial business sectors of business. Contributing factors, including corporate governance, industrial relations, and trade, are examined. Europeanization is discussed. Studies related to corporate social responsibility, occupational safety, as well as a study comparing the business history of the U.S. to that of Great Britain are also mentioned.

The purpose of this article is to investigate the management of one of Britain's most important multinational companies, J. & P. Coats Ltd, in the period 1890-1960, a topic which has not hitherto been examined in detail. In particular, the article examines the system of committees that the enterprise used to control and direct its disparate empire over the time period concerned. As a theoretical focus, the study compares what is found in the writings of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., who held that, in general, British family capital and management inhibited business growth and development, especially when compared with firms in the USA. The article concludes that Coats did not fit this interpretation. It provides the first in-depth study of the management of one of Britain's largest and most successful multinational companies, clarifying the relationships between organizational structure and financial arrangements, concluding that Coats' approach to management, although in some ways unique, was appropriate to its aims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers for consideration four propositions about business, government, and innovation in the post-World War Two United States, points which may have a wider resonance as well. They concern the long term role of continuous innovation, technology–science relationships, state-led problem setting for innovation, and the ‘permanent uncertainties’ that arise from Cold War-era technological advance. Each of these has implications for the practice of business history, for conceptualizing innovation, and for our understanding of post-war science–technology trajectories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the nature and role of aluminium in twentieth-century furniture making. The connection between aluminium as a modern material and the representation of modernity is examined to establish how 'new' materials can rise from being a novelty to mainstream usage. The efforts of the aluminium industry, both in America and Europe, in developing furniture as an end-user marker for its products are also explored. The promotion of the material often meant that non-tradition makers entered the furniture market. The issues that are concerned with materials and their relation to design, especially in matters of imitation, are considered here. Aluminium was used to represent modernity, on he one hand, but in other cases was hidden within another style. Therefore in the course of this article I draw together business history, technology and design history to explore some of the interactions that are focused around materials use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about the book "The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan." It is a revised undergraduate textbook in comparative business history that examines the history of the business firm and its management, comparing historical developments in Great Britain, the United States, Japan and to a lesser extent, Germany. The book covers preindustrial business; the many paths to industrialization; British business during industrialization; big and small business in the United States.

Presents an article which appraises and compares nine books on business history in Great Britain and the United States. Statement that the article is an essay in the approach to and methodology of business history; "Winchester: The Gun that Won the West," by Harold F. Williamson; "Designed for Digging: The First 75 Years of Bucyrus-Erie Company," by Harold F. Williamson and Kenneth H. Myers; "Northwestern Mutual Life: A Century of Trusteeship," by Harold F. Williamson and Orange A. Smalley; "The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899," by Harold F. Williamson and Arnold R. Daum; Others.