Welcome to Volume 25, No. 4 of Enterprise & Society. By tradition, this issue carries the presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference. Sharon Murphy delivered a compelling talk on the topic “Doing Business in the Public Interest,” intermixing sharp reflections with personal family history. We are delighted to present Sharon’s fine essay here. Also, by tradition, this issue carries summaries of the dissertations shortlisted for the Krooss Prize at the annual meeting in the spring. This year four finalists presented their work to the conference. The four finalists were Manuel Bautista-González, Liane Hewitt, Jordan Howell, and Ellen Nye. This year’s winner of the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History was Ellen Nye. Unfortunately, personal circumstances have prevented Dr. Bautista-González from completing his summary in time for this issue, but we look forward to publishing his contribution as soon as possible.
Alongside these regular features, this issue carries no fewer than twelve full research articles! This veritable cornucopia of work takes you from South Africa to Denmark; from Egypt to China; and from the Americas (North and South) to India, Sweden, Norway, and Wales. It also ranges across centuries and themes, taking in corporate networks, colonial real estate markets, state-owned enterprises, knowledge management, corporate futurism, neoliberalism in schools, hipster marketing, regional industrial policy, labor politics, and much more. It will be hard to know just where to begin!
As ever, as the year ends, I wish to express my gratitude to the many people who make this endeavour possible. Not least among them are Associate Editors Shane Hamilton, Ai Hisano, Andrea Lluch, and Sharon Murphy; Associate Editor for Reviews Alex Beasley; and the wider Editorial Board. My deepest debt is always to Carol Lockman of the Hagley Museum and Library for editorial assistance. I am deeply appreciative to Adam Albright, also of the Hagley Museum and Library, for his fabulous cover designs. Likewise, I could not do without the unerring support of Roger Horowitz and Vicki Howard as Business History Conference Treasurer and Secretary, respectively. I also wish to acknowledge the work of the Print Media Oversight Committee, which has this year comprised Victoria Barnes, Xaq Frohlich, and Marc Levinson (current chair). I remain deeply appreciative of the colleagues we work with at Cambridge University Press, from whom we and our authors receive such wonderful support. Finally, though far from least, my thanks go to our authors, to our readers, and to our reviewers for their unstinting labor. This introduction closes by listing the names of those who have served as reviewers over the past twelve months. We thank them.
Neveen Abdelrehim
Stephen Adams
William Adler
Michael Aldous
Adoracion Alvaro-Moya
Cécile Armand
Grace Ballor
Stefano Battilossi
Adrian Bell
Gavin Benke
Maxine Berg
Ann-Kristin Bergquist
Kendra Boyd
Douglas Bristol
Graham Brownlow
Ludovic Cailluet
Guadalupe Carrasco-Gonzaléz
Martin Chick
Albert Churella
David Clampin
Damian Clavel
Duncan Connors
Mandy Cooper
Lucia Coppolaro
Chris Corker
Sarah Crabtree
Robert Crawford
Teresa da Silva Lopes
Malin Dahlstrom
Stephanie Decker
Andrew Denning
Christopher Deutsch
Paolo Di Martino
Colin Divall
Baomin Dong
Thomas DuBois
Xavier Duran
Bartow Elmore
Bronwen Everill
Jeff Fear
Lorenzo Feltrin
Paloma Fernandez
Robert Fitzgerald
David Foord
Robert Friedel
Rika Fujioka
Wendy Gamber
Leigh Gardner
Pierre Gervais
Ewan Gibbs
Stéphanie Ginalski
Richard Goddard
Andrew Godley
Leon Gooberman
Graeme Gooday
Barbara Hahn
Shane Hamilton
John Handel
Leslie Hannah
Per Hansen
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur
Alfonso Herranz
Justene Hill Edwards
Keith Hollingsworth
Marie Huber
Sukriti Issar
Ryo Izawa
Lisa Jacobson
Sophie Jones
Paul Kosmetatos
Timur Kuran
Joe Lane
Josh Lauer
Eugenia Lean
Christophe Lécuyer
Alan Lester
Marc Levinson
Jonathan Levy
Manuel Llorca-Jaña
Andrea Lluch
Jan Logemann
Maria-Aparecida Lopes
Cinzia Lorandini
Joachim Lund
Niall MacKenzie
Lachlan MacKinnon
Keith Mcclelland
Tom McGovern
Matteo Millan
Rory Miller
Ghassan Moazzin
Simon Mollan
Bernardo Mueller
Chelsi Mueller
Mattias Näsman
Pasi Nevalainen
Kondwani Ngoma
Tom Nicholas
Shigehiro Nishimura
Keith Orejel
Tim Paulson
Jim Phillips
Jeffrey Pilcher
David Pinzur
Pablo Pryluka
Nicholas Radburn
Alka Raman
Kristin Ranestad
Alfred Reckendrees
Lindsay Regele
Keith Revell
Frank Ridzi
Alberto Rinaldi
Neil Rollings
Mark Rose
Tirthankar Roy
Erica Salvaj
Peter Scott
Margarita Serje
Jerome Sgard
Martin Shanahan
Fekri Ali Shawtari
David Silva
John Singleton
Martin Stack
Anand Swamy
Siobhan Talbott
Kevin Tennent
Francesca Trivellato
Hannah Tucker
John Turner
Chibuike Uche
Maki Umemura
Shawn Van Ausdal
Aidan Vining
Lee Vinsel
Benjamin Waterhouse
Margaret Weber
Julie Willett
John Wilson
John Wong
Ville Yliaska
