Business History Review

Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman. Business Historians and the Challenge of Innovation: A Literature Review focusing on The Challenge of Remaining Innovative: Insights from Twentieth-Century American Business.

Reviewed by Richard R. John

William Lazonick. Review Essay of Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States.

Reviewed by Michael A. Bernstein

Kurt Beyer. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age.

Reviewed by Margaret B. W. Graham

Alain Cortat. Un cartel parfait: Réseaux, R&D et profits dans l’industrie suisse des cables [A Perfect Cartel: Networks, R&D, and Profits in the Swiss Cable Industry].

Reviewed by Sébastien Guex

Jonathan Di John. From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present.

Reviewed by Marcelo Bucheli

Catherine Fisk. Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800–1930.

Reviewed by Paul Duguid

Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen. Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie.

Reviewed by Sarah Elvins

Lars Heide. Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945.

Reviewed by Pierre-E. Mounier-Kuhn

Aldo Musacchio. Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882–1950.

Reviewed by Christopher Kobrak

Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and André Straus. Financer les entreprises face aux mutations économiques du XXe siècle [Financing Businesses in an Era of Economic Change].

Reviewed by Clotilde Druelle-Korn

Richard J. Salvucci. Politics, Markets and Mexico’s “London Debt,” 1823–1887.

Reviewed by Juan Flores

Mark E. Spicka. Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany 1949–1957.

Reviewed by Bernhard Löffler

David Witwer. Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

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