In this 2002 textbook, Andrea Colli gives a historical and comparative perspective on family
business, examining through time the different relationships within family businesses and …

This paper deals with the relationship between risk, uncertainty and family firms. After more
than two decades of research on family capitalism, the strengths and the weaknesses of …

Purpose–This paper seeks to provide a brief overview of what is business history as an
academic discipline, with some reflection about its evolutionary patterns and heuristic value …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Americanization of European
advertising in the post‐war years as a phenomenon of cultural transfer and it aims to explore …

In the summer of 2001, a housing exposition was held in the Western Harbor area of Malmo,
a city of some 250,000 inhabitants located in southern Sweden, just across the Oresund …

Retailers are often regarded as 'intermediaries', whereas in fact they are actors in their own
right. They influence, and are influenced by, their local and national 'ecosystems', together …

Throughout the Twentieth Century, big business has been a basic institution. Large
corporations have provided a fundamental contribution to the wealth of nations and, at the …

Whoever arrives inNewYork and walks up “Old Broadway” will immediately find himself
blinded by the royal splendour of an endless row of neon signs that silently speak of an …

Abstract Department stores, new giants of commercial distribution, make their appearance in
the last decades of the nineteenth century. Fixed price, free entry and display of goods were …

The article traces the course of the contests for retail space in Italy between 1915 and 1960,
concentrating on the ways in which the forms of competition between retailers were framed …