Therese Nordlund Edvinsson

Selected Publications

My latest article, Transnational pioneers: Swedish-American returnee migrants and the shaping of the late 19th-century Swedish beauty salons, Business History 2024. See

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Abstract

This article explores how self-employed migrant women, particularly Swedish Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, established beauty salons in Stockholm upon their return from the United States. It highlights their often overlooked contributions to cross-border business and their skillful application of international business experience to the beauty industry. Using a microhistorical approach and qualitative sources, the study sheds light on the opportunities and challenges these women faced as they reshaped the Swedish beauty market. Influenced by their American experiences, they introduced innovative beauty treatments and products. This article highlights the dynamic nature of transnational entrepreneurship and its enduring impact on local and global economies, illustrating the transformative narrative these women initiated in Stockholm. Their efforts introduced international aesthetics and hygienic treatments to the city’s salons, appealing to a diverse clientele and showcasing the lasting appeal of such transnational enterprises.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00076791.2024.2317940?src=exp-la

Monographs

Dynastins kvinnor: Företagarfamiljen Ekman under tidigt 1900-tal, Lund 2017: Nordic Academic Press.
En osynlig företagshistoria: Direktörshustruns inflytande i svenskt näringsliv 1880-1960 (Lund 2012) Sekel bokförlag.
Broderskap i näringslivet: en studie om homosocialitet i Kung Orres Jaktklubb 1890-1960, Lund: 2010, Sekel Bokförlag.
Att leda storföretag: en studie om social kompetens och entreprenörskap i näringslivet med fokus på Axel Ax:son Johnson och J. Sigfrid Edström, 1900-1950, (doktorsavhandling) Stockholm 2005: Almqvist & Wiksell.

Articles in journals

The game/s that men play: Male bonding in the Swedish business elite 1890–1960, Business History 2021.

I företagets utkant: om dotterns fostran i företagarhemmet: Historisk Tidskrift för Finland tillsammans med Stina Malmén.

“Standing in the Shadow of the Corporation: Women’s Contribution to Swedish family business in the early twentieth century”. Business history, 2016. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00076791.2015.1105219

"Before the Sunshine: Organising and Promoting the Olympic Games in Stockholm 1912", The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 31, Issue 5, 2014.

”En direktörshustrus resa till Sydafrika 1946-1947”, Personhistorisk Tidskrift, 0031-5699. ; 2012(108):1.

Tillsammans med professor Johan Söderberg,”Servants and Bourgeois Life in Urban Sweden in the Early Twentieth Century”, Scandinavian Journal of History 35: 4. 2010.