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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Pages (from-to) | 1-29 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Enterprise and Society |
Early online date | 11 Apr 2023 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 11 Apr 2023 |