| Business History Review | |
| Discipline: | Business history |
| Former Names: | Bulletin of the Business Historical Society |
| Abbreviation: | Bus. Hist. Rev. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press for Harvard Business School |
| Country: | United States |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| History: | 1926–present |
| Impact: | 1.2 |
| Impact-Year: | 2022 |
| Website: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=BHR&tab=currentissue |
| Oclc: | 863044746 |
| Issn: | 0007-6805 |
The Business History Review is a scholarly quarterly published by Cambridge University Press for Harvard Business School. Business History Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of business history. It was established in 1954 by Harvard University Press as the continuation of the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society.[1]
The journal is one of the leading scholarly journals in the field of business history alongside Enterprise & Society and Business History.
The Business History Review traces its origins to 1926 with the publication of Harvard's Bulletin of the Business Historical Society. The Bulletin aimed "to encourage and aid the study of the evolution of business in all periods and in all countries" and devoted much space to describing the growing archival collections of Harvard's Baker Library. Henrietta Larson,[2] whose Guide to Business History (1948)[3] also documented the scope of available research materials, was editor from 1938 to 1953.
In 1954, the Bulletin changed its name to Business History Review and took its current format of publishing peer-reviewed research articles and book reviews. In these years, the intellectual framework of the field of business history was defined by the work of Alfred D. Chandler Jr., who published 11 research articles in the journal. One of the most popular (with 212 Google Scholar cites) was his 1959 piece "The Beginnings of 'Big Business' in American Industry", which explored the question of why large, vertically integrated corporations were formed in the late nineteenth-century and why they took the structure they did. Another highly cited article (240 Google Scholar cites) from 1970 was "