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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson, Gill Newton, Linda Perriton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Should a Genome Be Protected? Ethical, Legal, and Security Challenges in the Protection of Genomic Data. [PDF]

Biology (Basel)
Szalata M, Danielewski M, Wielgus K, Słomski R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of formal proceedings and out-of-court reorganisation: results from a survey among turnaround professionals in Austria. [PDF]

Eur J Law Econ, 2023
Mayr S, Duller C, Baschinger M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom, Abe de Jong, Joost Jonker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Company scaling and its deviations: New indicators for enterprise evaluation and bankruptcy prediction. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Xu J, Chen X, Wen L, Zhang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
wiley   +1 more source

Inconsistency in legal liability in Article 9G of law number 1 of 2025 concerning state-owned enterprises. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Nasution M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Free to choose: Bank capital in Britain, 1878–1939

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Government regulation of the banking sector is pervasive, making it difficult to empirically analyse when banks would voluntarily choose to issue equity if there were no minimum requirements on capital adequacy. A unique historical setting occurred in the late nineteenth‐century United Kingdom when joint‐stock banks were free to choose their ...
Gareth Campbell, Lyndon Moore, John D. Turner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When genomics companies act as biobanks: governance challenges in an era of genomic assetization. [PDF]

Front Genet
Walker A.
europepmc   +1 more source