Journal Details

Business History

Business History


Published By: Routledge
Volume Number: 52
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Print ISSN: 0007-6791
Online ISSN: 1743-7938

Aims & Scope

 2008 Impact Factor: 0.250
Ranking: 73/77 (Business)
Ranking: 14/21 (History of Social Sciences)
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Business History is classified as 4* (out of 4) in the Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Quality Guide
 
 
Fifty Years of Business History: Click here to read a special article by John Wilson

Business History is an international journal concerned with the long-run evolution and contemporary operation of business systems and enterprises. Its primary purpose is to make available the findings of advanced research, empirical and conceptual, into matters of global significance, such as corporate organization and growth, multinational enterprise, business efficiency, entrepreneurship, technological change, finance, marketing, human resource management, professionalization and business culture.
The journal has won a reputation for academic excellence and has a wide readership amongst management specialists, economists and other social scientists and economic, social, labour and business historians.
 
Business History: The emerging agenda
The core strategy of Business History is to promote business history as a sui generis scholarly discipline, engaging on an equal footing with mainstream history and the wider social sciences. To achieve this, the journal will continue to be international, comparative, thematic and theoretically informed. In the post-Chandler world, the agenda for business history is to extend its scale and scope specifically to :
  • widen its international scope: business activities in underrepresented regions, for example Latin America, Africa and Asia
  • go back beyond the 19th and 20th centuries to include ancient, medieval and early modern eras
  • inform the policy agenda; historical examples of regulatory success and faliure, nationalisations and privatisations
  • engage with the business and management agendas; entrepreneurship, competitive advantage, corporate governance
  • theoretical development; independent theory or theories of business history

Peer Review Policy
All research articles in this journal are rigorously peer reviewed, based on initial editor screening and anonymized reviewing by at least two referees.

Change in Editorship
We are pleased to announce that Steven Toms (University of York, UK) has taken over as Joint Editor of Business History working alongside John Wilson.