Abstract
We contribute to the argument for a “new” business history employing a quantitative approach. We illustrate opportunities for new perspectives from this approach using a novel microlevel longitudinal database comprising 131 variables for 1,419 cooperative creameries in Denmark for the period 1898–1945, which we also document and make available to the scholarly community. We present a number of applications of the data, including investigating regional productivity differences, expenditure on fire insurance, and survivorship and reporting biases.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Enterprise and Society |
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Publication status | Published - 25 Apr 2023 |
Keywords
- Dairying
- Denmark
- New business history
- Longitudinal data
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
- History