This prize, established in 2009 in recognition of the path-breaking scholarship of Mira Wilkins, is awarded to the author of the best article published annually in Enterprise & Society pertaining to international and comparative business history. Formally known as "The Mira Wilkins Prize for the best article on international business history," it comprises an award of $250 and a memento presented at the Business History Conference annual meeting. The Wilkins Prize Committee consists of three members, one of whom serves as chair. Each member serves a three-year term, rotating onto the committee as junior member, then becoming chair, and then exiting after serving a final year as senior member. The chair of the Wilkins Prize Committee presides over the entire process.
Mira Wilkins Prize
2024 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Alicia Maggard
Postdoctoral Fellow, Williams College
Postdoctoral Fellow, Williams College
"Dealing in Debt: The Role of Credit in Early Sino–U.S. Trade," Enterprise & Society
(December 2023)
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2023 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
David Baillargeon
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington
"“Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930," Enterprise & Society
(June 2022)
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Honorable Mention:
DEL HIERRO, Pablo and Espen STORLI, (2022). Poisoned Partnership: The International Mercury Cartel and Spanish–Italian Relations, 1945–1954. Enterprise & Society, 23(3), 825-856.
2022 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Damian Clavel
SNF Ambizione Fellow
SNF Ambizione Fellow
"What’s in a Fraud? The Many Worlds of Gregor MacGregor, 1817–1824," Enterprise & Society
(December 2021)
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Honorable Mention:
PETRULIS, Jason. (2021). “A Country of Hair”: A Global Story of South Korean Wigs, Korean American Entrepreneurs, African American Hairstyles, and Cold War Industrialization. Enterprise & Society, 22(2), 368-408.
TENOLD, S., KANG, J., KIM, S., &; MURPHY, H. (2021). International Transfer of Tacit Knowledge: The Transmission of Shipbuilding Skills from Scotland to South Korea in the Early 1970s. Enterprise & Society, 22(2), 335-367.
2021 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Paolo Di Martino
Associate Professor in Economic History, University of Turin, Italy
Associate Professor in Economic History, University of Turin, Italy
Michelangelo Vasta
Professor of Economic history, University of Siena
Professor of Economic history, University of Siena
Mark Latham
Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK
Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK
"Bankruptcy Laws around Europe (1850-2015): Institutional Change and Institutional Features," Enterprise & Society
(December 2020)
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Honorable Mention:
Emily Buchnea, “Bridges and Bonds: The Role of British Merchant Bank Intermediaries in Latin American Trade and Finance Networks, 1825-1850,” Enterprise & Society, 21: 2 (June 2020).
Jessica Ann Levy, “Black Power in the Boardroom: Corporate America, the Sullivan Principles, and Anti-Apartheid,” Enterprise & Society 21: 1 (March 2020).
2020 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Nikolas Glover
Uppsala University
Uppsala University
"Between Order and Justice: Investments in Africa and Corporate International Responsibility in Swedish Media in the 1960s," Enterprise & Society
(June 2019)
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2018 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Patricio Sáiz
Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid
Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid
Rafael Castro
Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid
Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid
""Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights: International Intangible Assets in Spain over the Long Term"," Enterprise & Society
(December 2017)
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2017 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Thomas Haigh
The Haigh Group
The Haigh Group
""IBM Rebuilds Europe: The Curious Case of the Transnational Typewriter"," Enterprise & Society
(June 2016)
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2016 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Michael Aldous
Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast
""Avoiding Negligence and Profusion: The Failure of the Joint-Stock Form in the Anglo-Indian Tea Trade, 1840-1870"," Enterprise & Society
(September 2015)
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2015 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Paula de la Cruz-Fernández
Digital editor and Assoc. Director, Inquire Capitalism Program, University of Florida
Digital editor and Assoc. Director, Inquire Capitalism Program, University of Florida
""Marketing the Hearth: Ornamental Embroidery and the Building of the Multinational Singer Sewing Machine Company" ," Enterprise & Society
(September 2014)
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2014 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Brenna Greer
Wellesley College
Wellesley College
""Selling Liberia: Moss H. Kendrix, the Liberian Centennial Commission, and the Post-World War II Trade in Black Progress"," Enterprise & Society
(June 2013)
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2013 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Tore Olsson
University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee
""Peeling Back the Layers: Vidalia Onions and the Making of a Global Agribusiness"," Enterprise & Society
(December 2012)
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2012 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Neil Rollings
University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
""Multinational Enterprise and Government Controls on Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s"," Enterprise & Society
(June 2011)
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2011 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Marcelo Bucheli
Gies College of Business and Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gies College of Business and Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
""Multinational Corporations, Business Groups, and Economic Nationalism: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Royal Dutch-Shell, and Energy Politics in Chile, 1913-2005"," Enterprise & Society
(June 2010)
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2010 Mira Wilkins Prize Recipient
Paul Duguid
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
""French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century" ," Enterprise & Society
(March 2009)
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