The author of this paper intends to compare two industrial territories from western France: Chateau-Renault and Surgères. Chateau-Renault is a tanning center, and the city of Surgères houses a vast dairy. The industries of both areas deal with products of animal origins deriving from...

Artisans are usually considered as businessmen who don't advertise. The way the dvertising business organized itself at the beginning of the 20th century seems to relegate them out of his field. However, craftsmen do seem to use some kind of commercial communication. To exist in their territory,...

The 'sub-agentschap' of de Nederlandsche Bank did not figurate in the Bank Act 1863, but turned out to develop as a steppingstone between a correspondent and an agency of the Bank. This article considers the history of the office at Leyden, where between 1865 and 1969 a whole lifecycle of a...

This paper studies the origins of trademark registration in Spain and offers, for the first time, data across sectors and regions with a long-term perspective. In apparent contradiction to the slow path of industrialization and the economic backwardness of Spain between 1850 and the 1940s,...

Capital intensive industries in specialized niches of production have constituted solid ground for family firms in Spain, as evidenced by the experience of the iron and steel wire industries between 1870 and 2000. The embeddedness of these firms in their local and regional environments have...

Our objective here is to establish the proposition that creative entrepreneurship gives rise to a market order which is optimally adjusted to facilitate the introduction and the diffusion of innovations, particularly those that take the form of new markets, new organizational schemes, new...

Questo studio si propone di analizzare le caratteristiche del lavoro e dei rapporti di lavoro di lunga durata instaurati alla Sezione II-Ferroviaria della Società Italiana E. Breda per Costruzioni Meccaniche, durante la prima metà del Novecento. La ricerca si focalizza sulla forza lavoro...

Si les sciences de gestion sont plus « jeunes » que d’autres, le management des entreprises a pour autant une histoire déjà riche, dont l’étude éclaire singulièrement les mécanismes et pratiques aujourd’hui à l’œuvre. Découvrez au fil des deux derniers siècles l’évolution...