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Call for Papers Special Issue journal Business History – deadline abstracts 31 May 2024
The editors of the Special Issue of the academic Taylor & Francis journal Business History on ‘Globalisation, varieties of economic nationalism and big business: innovation, opportunities and long-term strategy, 1870-2022’ call for papers to be included in this special issue, scheduled to appear in the final months of 2025.
This Special Issue intends investigating how trade restrictions and economic nationalism affected business and international business strategy. It looks at the experience of big enterprises and multinational firms based or operating in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States during the mentioned epochs of slower globalisation. Particular attention will inevitably be granted to the inter-war era because it was the period when the most extreme varieties of economic nationalism, and with it, trade and financial restrictions took place. The special issue intends however to cover a longer time span and to consider other periods in which slower integration did not result in deglobalisation as in the 1930s and economic as well as industrial growth continued to be marked by forms of economic nationalism.
The Special Issue will address the following questions:
- Which strategies could firms adopt to mitigate and/or circumvent restrictions in the field of global technological and commercial cooperation brought about by economic nationalism and trade restrictions?
- To what extent, and if so in what ways, did the closing up of the domestic market make an impact on productivity and technological progress?
- Are comparisons between Latin American firms and those in Europe, in Japan and China possible, and if so to what extent?
- For how long after WW II did the new policy framework and the new constraints influencing business strategy persist?
Authors who want to contribute to this special issue are asked to send an abstract as paper proposal. Specifications and instructions on how to submit this abstract are to be found in the full call, downloadable as pdf via the button below. Abstracts should be received ultimately 31 May 2024.
