Abstract As the main East-West trade routes in ancient history, the Silk Roads significantly
influenced Chinese relations with Egypt, an important country in the Middle East and North …

In this article we develop and analyse novel datasets to retrace the persistence and scale of
underground market activity in Maoist China. We show that, contrary to received wisdom …

This article introduces the special issue 'Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the
GDR and Yugoslavia'. It starts with a review of the growing literature on the history of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical historical analysis of the business
(mis) behaviors and influencing factors that discourage enduring cooperation between …

How far did the indigenous accounting of China's historically successful economy parallel
Western double-entry bookkeeping (DEB)? We propose a scheme for classifying stages of …

This article analyzes the accounting treatment of sales and purchasing at the Fengshengtai
Company (丰盛泰号), a salt trader from Shanxi Province. We find evidence of “dualled entry” …

This dissertation explores the dynamic interplay between entrepreneurship and change in
socialist China (1958--1978) by retracing the persistence of private entrepreneurial activity …

The history of Industrogradnja between 1966 and 1980, although only a short, in medias res,
segment in its biography, provides a complete overview of phases that Yugoslav companies …

In this essay, I reflect on the growing political obstacles to doing business history in China
and how, in my doctoral dissertation research, I attempted to overcome them. More …

We study the process by which an organisation creates a historical narrative about itself as a
strategy to legitimise the role it plays in a particular society. By using the concept of 'public …