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Three Journal CFP: Business History

The journal Business History is planning a number of special issues; there are currently three calls for manuscript submissions:

1. Bank-Industry versus Stock Market-Industry Relationships: A Business History Approach (submission deadline: March 31, 2018) Guest editors are José L. García-Ruiz and Michelangelo Vasta. The articles initially selected for this special issue will be presented in a workshop that will take place in Madrid in June 2018; the final selection of papers will be the result of this workshop.

2. Business-Government relations and national economic models: how do varieties of capitalism emerge and develop over time? (submission deadline: April 30, 2018) The guest editors are Niall MacKenzie, Andrew Perchard, Neil Forbes, and Christopher Miller.

3. Noblemen-Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth Century: Investments, Innovation, Management and Networks (submission deadline: May 31, 2018) The guest editors are Silvia A. Conca Messina and Takeshi Abe.

Each of these calls (linked above) includes a full explanation, pertinent bibliography, and submission instructions. Readers can find the overall editorial rationale for special issues here.



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