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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In this a delightfully original essay Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler traces the emergence of that quintessential modern organisational function - facilities management - from the pioneering initiatives of the Herman Miller furniture company.
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“From Broomclosets to Boardrooms”: Herman Miller and the Origins of Facility Management | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
“From Broomclosets to Boardrooms”: Herman Miller and the Origins of Facility Management
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And finally, another of this year's Krooss Prize summaries, with Cody Patton's "Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of Modern American Brewing."
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Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of Modern American Brewing | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of Modern American Brewing
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next up, from Pablo Díaz-Morlán, Miguel Angel Sáez-García & Riccardo Semeraro, we have "From Machinery Manufacturers to Plantmakers: Tracing European Leadership in Steel Production Technologies, 1945–2000." Again, published Open Access.
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From Machinery Manufacturers to Plantmakers: Tracing European Leadership in Steel Production Technologies, 1945–2000 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
From Machinery Manufacturers to Plantmakers: Tracing European Leadership in Steel Production Technologies, 1945–2000
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hot off the press, three brand new articles. First up, from Dag Bennett, Michael Rowlinson, and Philip Stern, "The Importance of Light Buyers in Marketing History: Evidence From the Sales Ledgers of a Luxury Tailor, 1890–1899" opens up important new avenues of research in marketing history.
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The Importance of Light Buyers in Marketing History: Evidence From the Sales Ledgers of a Luxury Tailor, 1890–1899 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Importance of Light Buyers in Marketing History: Evidence From the Sales Ledgers of a Luxury Tailor, 1890–1899
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Also fresh out, "Creative Types: Inventive Women in Colonial and Federation-Era Australia," by Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett, and Simon Ville. Once more we are pleased to be able to present this work Open Access.
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Creative Types: Inventive Women in Colonial and Federation-Era Australia | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Creative Types: Inventive Women in Colonial and Federation-Era Australia
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It gives us very great pleasure to be able to publish Stephen Mihm's beautiful 2025 Business History Conference Presidential Address, "The Business of Labor." Stephen's wise words are available here, Open Access. @businesshistoryc.bsky.social
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The Business of Labor | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Business of Labor
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Make a date in your diaries.
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Next up is "Emancipation and the Business of Compensation in the Cape Colony" by Kate Ekama. Again, we are delighted to publish this Open Access, making cutting edge research available to the general public:
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Emancipation and the Business of Compensation in the Cape Colony | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Emancipation and the Business of Compensation in the Cape Colony - Volume 27 Issue 1
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
First up is Michael Bennett and Mike Anson's superb and important "The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46." Published Open Access and available to all:
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The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46 - Volume 26 Issue 4
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Given the Guardian's commitment to highlighting new research in the legacies of British involvement in the slave trade, it seems a good moment to highlight two recent contributions we were delighted to publish in @entandsoc.bsky.social, both focused on the business of compensation ...
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In 2024, Manuel Bautista González's dissertation was shortlisted for the Krooss Prize. Unfortunately, personal circumstances prevented Manuel from finalizing his summary for publication. It therefore gives us great pleasure to be able to publish it now - it is a fantastic, compelling piece.
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Following Monies: The New Orleans Specie Market, Merchant Finance, and the Historical Evolution of International Payment Infrastructures | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Following Monies: The New Orleans Specie Market, Merchant Finance, and the Historical Evolution of International Payment Infrastructures
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
(alas, we don't have access to T&C and so can't read any of the fascinating looking articles).
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We're not going to miss out on an opportunity to re-up Hallie Lieberman's classic article, "Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America."
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Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America - Volume 17 Issue 2
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"The “Company Man”: Hegemonic Masculinity and Executive Work in Mid-century Australia." Published Open Access and feely available to all here:
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The “Company Man”: Hegemonic Masculinity and Executive Work in Mid-century Australia | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The “Company Man”: Hegemonic Masculinity and Executive Work in Mid-century Australia
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Attention to gender in business history has tended to focus on reclaiming the neglected business historical role of women, with much less attention to men and masculinities (there are important exceptions, ofc), so we are delighted to publish Claire Wright's new essay on ...
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Next, we fast forward a couple of centuries for Lexy Remy's article on "Business Power in Fiscal and Economic Policymaking During Postwar Reconstruction in the Netherlands, 1945 to 1950." Again, we are delighted to publish this fine work Open Access.
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Business Power in Fiscal and Economic Policymaking During Postwar Reconstruction in the Netherlands, 1945 to 1950 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Business Power in Fiscal and Economic Policymaking During Postwar Reconstruction in the Netherlands, 1945 to 1950
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Bringing you two new, very different papers from the Netherlands. First, Ronny Reshev and coauthors bring us "Legitimacy of Communal Institutions in the Early Modern Times: The Ashkenazi Meat Hall of Amsterdam." Open Access and just a click or two away.
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Legitimacy of Communal Institutions in the Early Modern Times: The Ashkenazi Meat Hall of Amsterdam | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Legitimacy of Communal Institutions in the Early Modern Times: The Ashkenazi Meat Hall of Amsterdam
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Next, from Mattia Ravano, "An Evitable Privatization? The Case of Italian Telecommunications," challenging challenges the assumption that ownership change was functional to securing efficiency and competitiveness in the late twentieth-century telecommunications industry. Both articles published OA.
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An Evitable Privatization? The Case of Italian Telecommunications | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
An Evitable Privatization? The Case of Italian Telecommunications
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Here at @entandsoc.bsky.social we are delighted to bring our readers two fine new articles. First up, from Juan A. Rubio-Mondéjar and coauthors, "The Renewal of the Corporate Elite in Spain (1920–2020)," using social network analysis and prosopography to explore renewal of Spanish corporate elites.
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The Renewal of the Corporate Elite in Spain (1920–2020) | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Renewal of the Corporate Elite in Spain (1920–2020)
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Co-authors are Rachel Theodóre and Osvaldo Blanco.
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
How do Chilean business elites remember the Unidad Popular government (1970–1973) & how do these memories shape their current political culture? Find answers in Memory and Political Culture Across Generations of Chilean Economic Elites, a great new OA essay from Alejandro Osorio-Rauld & co-authors
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Memory and Political Culture Across Generations of Chilean Economic Elites | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Memory and Political Culture Across Generations of Chilean Economic Elites
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Further, also announced today, the death of Alan Greenspan, head of the Federal Reserve (1987 to 2006), at age 100
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Alan Greenspan obituary
American economist and long-serving head of the Federal Reserve widely praised for the US boom whose reputation was re-evaluated in the wake of the 2008 crash
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
When it comes to the music business, they didn't come much bigger than Clive Davis. His death at the age of 94 has been announced today.
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Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94
Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he ‘never’ tired of the music business
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That should be "Capitalism's Wild Ride."
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Finally, as just a little extra treat, in "Capitalism's Wild Rise," Ken Lipartito reviews Sven Beckert's "Capitalism: A Global History." Once more, we are delighted to bring this essay to you Open Access.
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Next, Rasmus Salén & Grace Ballor with "Business Forums and Industrial Policy: Toward a New High-Tech Economy in Late Twentieth-Century Europe," examining efforts to remake the European economy in the late twentieth century through innovations in organized business & industrial policy. Also OA!
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Business Forums and Industrial Policy: Toward a New High-Tech Economy in Late Twentieth-Century Europe | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Business Forums and Industrial Policy: Toward a New High-Tech Economy in Late Twentieth-Century Europe
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We have a brace of very contrasting but equally fascinating new articles for you today. First, John D'Amico with "Business Organization in Early Modern Japan," exploring how merchants in early modern Japan created large-scale enterprises in the absence of formal legal institutions. Open Access here
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Business Organization in Early Modern Japan | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Business Organization in Early Modern Japan
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Get the latest! "Micropolitics & Economic Power: Corporate Relocation in the Twilight of the British Empire" by Kondwani Ngoma, exploring corporate relocations as politically charged processes embedded in imperial decline & the reconfiguration of ... global capital. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Micropolitics and Economic Power: Corporate Relocation in the Twilight of the British Empire | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Micropolitics and Economic Power: Corporate Relocation in the Twilight of the British Empire
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A fascinating and important call from our friends at @businesshistory.bsky.social
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Now tagging @renaudbecot.bsky.social, who we didn't realise was on here.
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We really, really don't have favourites. But we are very, very excited about publishing this fantastic essay, "In the Silence of the Smokestack. Post-Disaster Public Relations in the French Oil Industry (1964–1971)" - from Renaud Bécot. #envhist #envirohist #bizhist www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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In the Silence of the Smokestack. Post-Disaster Public Relations in the French Oil Industry (1964–1971) | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
In the Silence of the Smokestack. Post-Disaster Public Relations in the French Oil Industry (1964–1971)
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
And finally, for now, "Business Groups, Business Interest Associations and Co-operatives: Peak National Co-operative Associations in Australia 1920–2023," by Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave. Again, it is our pleasure to publish this work as Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Business Groups, Business Interest Associations and Co-operatives: Peak National Co-operative Associations in Australia 1920–2023 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Business Groups, Business Interest Associations and Co-operatives: Peak National Co-operative Associations in Australia 1920–2023
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Next, from Adoración Álvaro-Moya and Enrique Llopis Agelán, we bring you "Management and Branding of Spiritual Services: The Monastery and Shrine of Guadalupe (1389–1562)." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Management and Branding of Spiritual Services: The Monastery and Shrine of Guadalupe (1389–1562) | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Management and Branding of Spiritual Services: The Monastery and Shrine of Guadalupe (1389–1562)
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century" from Elisabeth Heijmans. We are delighted to publish this work Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Don't say you've nothing to read this fine Saturday! Here's another triple decker of fantastic new business research, from France, to Spain, Australia, from the medieval to the modern. Truly something for everyone. First up is ...
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And last, but very much not least, James Fowler, Kevin Tennent, Andrew Smith & Ian Jones lead us on an exploration of "The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Followed by, "Who Should Own the Land? The Peasants Land Bank and the Politics of Access in the Late Russian Empire" by Arina Fedorova. It's particularly pleasing to publish this article as Imperial Russia is rare territory for us: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Who Should Own the Land? The Peasants Land Bank and the Politics of Access in the Late Russian Empire | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Who Should Own the Land? The Peasants Land Bank and the Politics of Access in the Late Russian Empire
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Next up, from Yen Nie Yong, "Rebranding Cheapness for Colonial Consumption: The Strategies of Tan Kah Kee and Lee Kong Chian in Marketing British Malayan Canned Pineapples." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Rebranding Cheapness for Colonial Consumption: The Strategies of Tan Kah Kee and Lee Kong Chian in Marketing British Malayan Canned Pineapples | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Rebranding Cheapness for Colonial Consumption: The Strategies of Tan Kah Kee and Lee Kong Chian in Marketing British Malayan Canned Pineapples
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
First up, from Matthew Bellamy, "Cool Capitalism in the Brewhouse: Craft, Authenticity, and the Aestheticization of Dissent in Post-Fordist Canada." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cool Capitalism in the Brewhouse: Craft, Authenticity, and the Aestheticization of Dissent in Post-Fordist Canada | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Cool Capitalism in the Brewhouse: Craft, Authenticity, and the Aestheticization of Dissent in Post-Fordist Canada
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We have a true cornucopia of the finest business historical research for you today at @entandsoc.bsky.social: from the cool capitalism of Canadian craft brewing to land reform in Tsarist Russia, from canning Malayan pineapples to funding London Underground projects through the C20th! More below
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
But we really don't have favourites, and "Offshore Creations: The Invention of International Ship Registries in the 1980s" by Jesper Lund Jørstian is another brilliant new paper. Get it here with a single click! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Offshore Creations: The Invention of International Ship Registries in the 1980s | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Offshore Creations: The Invention of International Ship Registries in the 1980s
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This article examines what happened when, in 1963 Columbia Records, Roulette Records, & the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) joined forces to produce and release a jazz record titled "A Jazz Salute to Freedom," a unique historical example of corporate allyship within the struggle for civil rights.
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
As an editor, I feel like I shouldn't have favourites, but I loved working with Dr. Nicholas Gaffney on his article "A Jazz Salute to Freedom: Amplifying Civil Rights Activism through Corporate Allyship during the early 1960s." More details in the next post. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Jazz Salute to Freedom: Amplifying Civil Rights Activism through Corporate Allyship during the early 1960s | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
A Jazz Salute to Freedom: Amplifying Civil Rights Activism through Corporate Allyship during the early 1960s
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We hope you enjoy it - it's a great paper!
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Michael Borsk's fascinating new article, "Accounting for Partridge: Food and Value in the Eighteenth-Century Hudson’s Bay Company," recounts the strange entanglement of partridge and accounting at the Hudson Bay Company. Only to be found in @entandsoc.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Accounting for Partridge: Food and Value in the Eighteenth-Century Hudson’s Bay Company | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Accounting for Partridge: Food and Value in the Eighteenth-Century Hudson’s Bay Company
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Indeed! Very many congratulations to Sarah and Katherine!
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We love this article!
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
At #BHC2026 it's time for the Krooss Prize plenary session, with three fascinating dissertations from Lillian Tsay, Yuanxie Shi, and Cody Patton - @businesshistoryc.bsky.social
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#BHC2026 is underway. We are waiting in lively anticipation for Session 1k: Doing Business with Animals: Livestock, Commodities and Capitalist Innovations." with Oscar Broughton, Nathan Norris, Olivia Paschal and Narusa Yamato,, chaired by @shamilto.bsky.social
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Here we go! Up early for our flight to London for @businesshistoryc.bsky.social 2026! See you there.
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