Purpose: Develop a method for an extended "fore-and-aft" use of business models. The method will turn them also into potent business history tools, in addition to being valuable forward planning instruments. Approach: Business models can be used to understand organizations by studying them as...

Bubbles have become ubiquitous. This ubiquity has stimulated research over the past three decades into bubbles in history. In this article, we provide a systematic overview of research into historical bubbles. Our analysis reveals that there is no coherent approach to the study of bubbles and...

The Milieudefensie et al v Royal Dutch Shell plc. landmark ruling establishes for the first time direct environmental liabilities linked to local damages caused by global emissions and deems a single company partially responsible for climate change, opening corporations to new legal jeopardy...

The Indian banking industry is dominated by public sector banks. The poor financial inclusion is a challenge for the banking industry. The private sector banks were given licenses by RBI. These banks have also focused on the urban areas and ignored financial inclusion. RBI recently awarded in...

Modern technology allows people to communicate directly using voice and video calls, emails, instant messages traveling from one device to another. Communication is done by maintaining trust in each other without a third party, no matter how far away they are. But when in a communication between...

We sketch a new synthesis of American business history to replace (and subsume) that put forward by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., most famously in his book The Visible Hand (1977). We see the broader subject as the history of the institutions of coordination in the economy, with the management of...

The focal theme of the current research is to conduct comparative assessment of two firms in light of financial metrics will identify the strength and weaknesses of the respective firms. The comparative overview will allow one to understand the standards and practices that a firm can emulate to...

The article focuses on the British banking sector in the late twentieth century. It explores the approach of the managers of Barclays Bank, who in contrast to their competitors, decided to use female staff at the forefront of their strategy to increase business and to improve customer...

Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in...

On June 27, 2017, the European Commission imposed a record fine of 2.4 billion EUR on Google for violating EU competition law. More specifically, the Commission issued a decision finding that Google had infringed Article 102 TFEU by abusing its dominant position on the market for online general...