Purpose: This paper aims to introduce economic history as a new stream of international business (IB) research. It … economic history to develop eight key propositions regarding the interface between the politics and economics of foreign direct …

, technological innovation, and business networks. The research spans the medieval, early modern and modern periods. Research methods … doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in business, economic and social history. The case studies will also appeal to …

. Edward Elgar, 2002. -- Casson, Mark (1991) Economics of Business Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press. -- Casson, Mark …-1914', Business History, 38 (3), 101-16 -- Jacob M. Price (1986), 'The Great Quaker Business Families of Eighteenth-Century London … in Action: William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight Before 1914', Business History, 33 (1), 58-81 -- Hazel Petrie (2006 …