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Business History Review is a quarterly publication of original research by historians, economists, sociologists, and scholars of business administration. BHR's ongoing mission, from its 1926 inception as the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, is to encourage and aid the study of the evolution of business in all periods and all countries.

The 2007 winter issue of Business History Review contains four articles. The first two explore the use of history to analyze business strategy. In "Entrepreneurship and the Development of Global Brands," Teresa da Silva Lopes and Mark Casson describe the methods used by European companies to sustain successful brand images over long periods of time. In their article, "Path Dependence in Ports," Hugo van Driel and Greta Devos use the historical example of Dutch and Belgian dockworkers to analyze the concept of path dependency. The two final articles explore recent phenomena in the high-tech industries. Knut Sogner analyzes the surprising rebirth of the Norwegian IT sector from 1970 to the present, while Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz survey the evolution of the software industry in the years after the introduction of the Internet.
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Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas. Reviewed by Robert W. Rydell.
When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. By Edwin Amenta. Reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee.
Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948–1961. By James H. Baughman, Reviewed by Daniel Horowitz.
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