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  • Introduction
  • Philip Scranton

This issue of Enterprise & Society brings Volume 12 to a close. Next year's issues will be larger than in the past, as Oxford University Press has agreed to expand our "page budget" to 1,000 pages per year. This will add room for more book reviews and perhaps an extra article or two, reducing the waiting time for publication on both fronts.

We are also pleased to announce that we have filled the fourth Assistant Editor position, as Professor Per Hansen of the Copenhagen Business School has accepted our invitation to join Enterprise & Society, beginning in January 2012.

Normally, the December number includes the presidential address from our annual conference, reframed as an article. Due to the press of work, Richard John has asked that we provide him a bit more time for revisions, so this essay will appear in March 2012. We do have the three dissertation summaries, however, from the finalists in our annual Business History Conference competition: Dan Bouk, Eric Hintz, and Kara Swanson. Four articles follow. Sean Adams brings us back to the antebellum era of regulated urban markets in the United States and analyzes the complexities of choice under uncertainty amid an economic panic. Next, Christopher Jones provides a historical perspective on how carbon fuels became central to the operation of American homes, noting wider examples and implications, before Neveen Abdulrehim and colleagues analyze the uneven corporate social responsibility efforts of Anglo-Iranian oil. This issue's research articles close with Stuart Leslie's careful unpacking of U.S. corporate architecture as medium and message alike. A sizable section of book reviews closes the issue, as we are now working to eliminate a backlog of reviews that quietly accumulated. Last, it is unusual for Enterprise & Society to have most of an issue's essays located in U.S. history, but do rest assured that we will return to our customary diversity promptly.

Each year, we feel it is important to acknowledge those colleagues who have taken time and committed energy to refereeing essays submitted to Enterprise & Society for possible publication. Their thoughtful, detailed, and analytical/critical assessments have consistently elevated the quality of our published articles. As ever, we remain in their debt. For the period from September 2010 to August 2011, our thanks to: [End Page 715]

  • Stephen Adams

  • Mark Aldrich

  • Steen Andersen

  • Peter Bang

  • Gerald Berk

  • Eldon Bernstein

  • Kevin Borg

  • Gordon Boyce

  • Marcelo Bucheli

  • Albert Churella

  • Peter Cochlanis

  • Jim Cohen

  • Howard Cox

  • Leigh Ann Craig

  • Ken Cruikshank

  • Teresa da Silva Lopes

  • Jennifer Delton

  • Karel Dibbets

  • Ranit Dighe

  • Paolo DiMartino

  • Pierre-Yves Donzé

  • Paul Duguid

  • Colleen Dunlavy

  • Clive Edwards

  • Ernie Englander

  • Paloma Fernandez

  • Javier Fernandez-Roca

  • Wendy Gamber

  • Margaret Graham

  • Shane Hamilton

  • Simon Hardy

  • William Hausman

  • David Hollander

  • Vicki Howard

  • Kris Inwood

  • Martin Iversen

  • Sanford Jacoby

  • Richard John

  • Christopher Jones

  • Wolfram Kaiser

  • Ann Durbin Keating

  • Brian King

  • Christopher Kobrak

  • Pamela Laird

  • Claire Lemercier

  • Kenneth Lipartito

  • Christina Lubinski

  • Stephen Mihm

  • Peter Miskell

  • Marina Moskowitz

  • Sharon Murphy

  • Thomas O'Brien

  • Rowena Olegario

  • Javier Vidal Olivares

  • Alan Olmstead

  • Julia Ott

  • Robin Pearson

  • Harold Platt

  • Daniel Pope

  • Andrew Popp

  • Nuria Puig

  • Dan Raff

  • Erika Rappaport

  • Mary Rose

  • Joan Ramon Roses

  • Walter Scheidel

  • Gerhard Schnyder

  • Steven Sheehan

  • Keetie Sluyterman

  • Bert Spector

  • Howard Stanger

  • David Stebenne

  • Richard Sylla

  • John Tang

  • Christopher Tassava

  • Chris Taylor

  • Judith Thissen

  • Ed Todd

  • Pier Angelo Toninelli

  • Gail Triner

  • Adrian Tschoegl

  • Aristotle Tympas

  • Aashish Velkar

  • David Vogel

  • Peter von Staden

  • Mira Wilkins

  • Wendy Woloson

  • Larry Zacharias [End Page 716]

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