One of the classical topics of business history is the studies of business leaders and entrepreneurs. The approaches, the material and the goals of these studies have varied over time, due to contemporary scholarly debates and methodological 'fashions', but this topic has been on the agenda as...

In this article employee-employer relations with respect to upper-white-collar employees in Finnish large-scale companies are investigated. The period is from the 1920s to the 1980s. The article shows that the employee-employer relations were during the whole period based on mutual trust. In...