Drawing on a new database, this article presents a near-comprehensive list of foreign firms active in British retailing from 1850 to 1979. Used in conjunction with other readily available sources, this data enables us to estimate the total stock of foreign entrants in British retailing from 1850...

<title>Abstract</title>This article reviews the thesis presented by Edmund Phelps, <roman>Mass Flourishing. How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge and Change</roman> (Princeton University Press, 2013) that modern economic growth is an indirect outcome of human creativity, and that the object of enlightened policy...

Nicholas Alexander's (2011. British overseas retailing, 1900--60: International firm characteristics, market selections and entry modes. <italic>Business History</italic>, <italic>53</italic>, 530--556) survey of British overseas retailers from 1900 to 1960 provides pathbreaking new evidence of international retailing activity...

This paper compares the development of the poultry industry in Italy with the UK. Earlier research has suggested that the UK poultry industry developed a symbiotic relationship with the emerging supermarket retailers. Italy had a retarded supermarket sector. Its distribution system favoured...

This paper approaches the question of why entrepreneurial firms exist from a broad business historical perspective. It observes that the original development of the modern business enterprise was very strongly associated with entrepreneurial innovation rather than an extension of managerial...

British overseas investment was one of the most powerful forces contributing to rapid global integration before World War 1. Approaching half of this total was in the form of foreign direct investment, as British entrepreneurs increasingly located their activities away from the mature domestic...

In 1950 poultry was a rare luxury in Britain, only one per cent of the total meat consumption. But over the next thirty years chicken consumption grew at the remarkable (compound) rate of 10 per cent per annum, while the overall consumption of meat remained stagnant from the 1950s to the 1980s....

This paper uses original research on the roles played by two sets of foreign entrants into Chinese retailing since the 1850s - the overseas Chinese entrants and western entrants - to explore the psychic distance paradox over the long run. It explains how the advantages of psychic closeness in...

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This paper uses original research on the roles played by two sets of foreign entrants into Chinese retailing since the 1850s - the overseas Chinese entrants and western entrants - to explore the psychic distance paradox over the long run. It explains how the advantages of psychic closeness in...