A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History

Paul Sharp; Sofia Henriques; Eoin McLaughlin; Xanthi Tsoukli; Christian Vedel

doi:10.1017/eso.2023.5

A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History

Paul Sharp, Sofia Henriques, Eoin McLaughlin, Xanthi Tsoukli, Christian Vedel

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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
Pages (from-to)	669-697
Number of pages	29
Journal	Enterprise and Society
Volume	25
Issue number	3
Early online date	11 Apr 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.5
Publication status	Published - Sept 2024

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Dairying
Denmark
New business history
longitudinal data

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Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
History

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