Philip Scranton Best Article Prize
This prize recognizes the author or authors of an article published in Enterprise & Society judged to be the best of those that have appeared in the volume previous to the year of the BHC annual meeting. It is named in recognition of Philip Scranton's deep contributions to Enterprise & Society and is generously funded by Cambridge University Press. The Philip Scranton Best Article Prize Committee shall consist of three members, one of whom will be the 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 committee shall preside over the entire process.
Note: from 2009 to 2014, the Best Article Prize was sponsored by the Journals Division of Oxford University Press. From 1992 through 1999, the Newcomen Society of the United States began sponsoring an award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference. The winner received a plaque and $1,000. From 1992 through 1999, the Newcomen Prize–winning paper was published in Business and Economic History. Beginning in 2001, the prize was awarded for an an Enterprise & Society article published in the previous year.
How Mortgage-Backed Securities Became Bonds: The Emergence, Evolution, and Acceptance of Mortgage-Backed Securities in the United States, 1960-1987
Enterprise & Society
September 2018
Honorable Mention
The Anywhere, Anytime Market: The 800-Number, Direct Marketing, and the New Networks of Consumption
Enterprise & Society
September 2018
Co-recipient
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights: International Intangible Assets in Spain over the Long Term
Enterprise & Society
December 2017
Co-recipient
’Spinning a yarn’: Institutions, Law, and Standards, c. 1880-1914
Enterprise & Society
September 2017
Co-recipient
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights: International Intangible Assets in Spain over the Long Term
Enterprise & Society
December 2017
Co-recipient
’Spinning a yarn’: Institutions, Law, and Standards, c. 1880-1914
Enterprise & Society
September 2017
IBM Rebuilds Europe: The Curious Case of the Transnational Typewriter
Enterprise & Society
June 2016
IBM Rebuilds Europe: The Curious Case of the Transnational Typewriter
Enterprise & Society
June 2016
The Red Cap's Gift: How Tipping Tempers the Rational Power of Money
Enterprise & Society
March 2015
The Untold History of Transparency: Mercantile Agencies, the Law, and the Lawyers (1851-1916)
Enterprise & Society
June 2014
The Untold History of Transparency: Mercantile Agencies, the Law, and the Lawyers (1851-1916)
Enterprise & Society
June 2014
Pianos for the People: From Producer to Consumer in Britain, 1851-1914
Enterprise & Society
March 2013
Pianos for the People: From Producer to Consumer in Britain, 1851-1914
Enterprise & Society
March 2013
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
Enterprise & Society
March 2012
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
Enterprise & Society
March 2012
Honorable Mention
The Carbon-Consuming Home: Residential Markets and Energy Transitions
Enterprise & Society
December 2011
Honorable Mention
'The Devil We Know': Gold Coast Consumers, Local Employees, and the United Africa Company, 1940-1960
Enterprise & Society
June 2011
Cola in the German Democratic Republic: East German Fantasies on Western Consumption
Enterprise & Society
September 2011
Labeling the Good: Alternative Visions and Organic Branding in Sweden in the Late Twentieth Century
Enterprise & Society
December 2010
'Making Connections': Insights into Relationship Marketing from the Australasian Stock and Station Agent Industry
Enterprise & Society
September 2009
Strategies and Boundaries: Subcontracting and the London Trades in the Long Eighteenth Century
Enterprise & Society
June 2008
Organizational Culture and Organizational Change: The Transformation of Savings Banks in Denmark, 1965-1990
Enterprise & Society
December 2007
Pyramids of Trust: Social Embeddedness and Political Culture in Two Italian Gold Jewelry Districts
Enterprise & Society
March 2006
An Early Global Business in a Colonial Context: The Strategies, Management, and Failure of John Palmer and Company of Calcutta, 1780-1830
Enterprise & Society
March 2005
Shopping American-Style: The Arrival of the Supermarket in Postwar Italy
Enterprise & Society
December 2004
The Culture of Credit in Eighteenth-Century Commerce: The English Textile Industry
Enterprise & Society
June 2003
The Sino-Japanese War and the Formation of the State Enterprise System in China: A Case Study of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, 1938-1945
Enterprise & Society
March 2002
Honorable Mention
'Rosie the Realtor' and the Re-Gendering of Real Estate Brokerage, 1930-1960
Enterprise & Society
June 2002
Women in the Underground Business of Eighteenth-Century Lyon
Enterprise & Society
March 2001
Reconciling Automation and Flexibility? Technology and Production in the Postwar British Motor Vehicle Industry
Enterprise & Society
March 2000
Newcomen Prize
Dilettantes at the Gate: Fortune Magazine and the Cultural Politics of Business Journalism in the 1930s
Business and Economic History
Winter 1999
Newcomen Prize
Different Charters, Different Paths: Corporations and Coal in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia
Business and Economic History
Fall 1998
Newcomen Prize
Rethinking the Paternalist Paradigm in Japanese Industrial Management
Business and Economic History
Winter 1997
Newcomen Prize
From Textiles to Automobiles: Mechanical and Organizational Innovation in the Toyoda Enterprises, 1895-1933
Business and Economic History
Winter 1996
Newcomen Prize
From Textiles to Automobiles: Mechanical and Organizational Innovation in the Toyoda Enterprises, 1895-1933
Business and Economic History
Winter 1996
Newcomen Prize
Culture and the Practice of Business History
Business and Economic History
Winter 1995
Newcomen Prize
The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital
Business and Economic History
Winter 1994
Newcomen Prize
IBM and Its Imitators: Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry
Business and Economic History
Winter 1993
Newcomen Prize
'Innovation' in U.S. Agriculture: A Role for New Deal Regulation
Business and Economic History
Winter 1992