Research at Uppsala Centre for Business History
UCBH operates as an inter-disciplinary research environment, delving into the intricacies of business development and its impact on societal progress throughout history. This encompasses various facets of business and financial history, including the evolution of economic policies, technological advancements, environmental implications, and the broader societal effects of business activities.
Since its inception in 2008, UCBH's research initiatives have tackled diverse topics such as trade development, banking practices, insurance markets, and market structuring.
Presently, the center also explores issues pertaining to business growth within the context of climate change and environmental sustainability.
UCBH actively encourages fresh perspectives from diverse academic fields to foster ongoing innovation and intellectual stimulation in its research endeavors.
Our wide-ranging and interdisciplinary research environment is exemplified by several ongoing projects, which are detailed below:
Research projects
- A mutual commitment? The state, the K-companies and the Swedish economic defense 1962–2002
- A promised land? Drivers, challenges and opportunities related to the (green) industrialization of Northern Sweden
- Banking crises and crisis management in theory and practice in Sweden, 1900 – 1939
- Debating, defending and defining globalization: The international activism of Swedish business elites, ca 1960-2000
- Environmental adaptation and productivity growth in the Swedish pulp and paper industry, 1950-1989
- Fairs and economic decline. Marketplaces, economic regulations and social transformation in Sweden
- Finance-led growth? The role of the stock market in Swedish industrialization, 1863-1938
- Innovation and institutional change in Swedish retailing 1720-2020
- Intangible Assets and the Alchemy of Investment Law
- International business in global environmental governance between Stockholm and Kyoto
- Local level state capacity
- Malt, hops, yeast, water, and regulatory regimes: market structure, profitability, and firm survival in the Swedish beer industry, 1920–1990
- Tax Swiss - Swedish Tax Migration to Switzerland between 1950 and 1980
- The Allmänna savings banks and the crash of 1929
- The Defense of Consumption: Advertising, gender and citizenship in Sweden during World War II
- The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority’s enforcement style, 2005-2015
- The impact of monetary regimes on trade and capital flows during the first wave of globalization, 1850-1913
- The pattern of Swedish corporate finance in the 20th century
- Trust your fellow countryman only. Ethnic entrepreneurship within the US migrant industry, c1860-1920
Databases connected to UCBH research
Swedish Commercial Bank Database, 1866-1994, version 2.0
(Henric Häggqvist, Viktor Persarvet, Peter Hedberg, Lars Karlsson, Mats Larsson).