ABSTRACT
In the nineteenth century a number of publishing houses, which later on would become significant for business and management publishing, were established as small family businesses taking the names of their often rather young founders. Another feature of the period was that universities started their own presses. This development had its origins in the United Kingdom in the sixteenth century through the foundations of Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. On the FT45 list there are five titles all appearing in the United States that were first published during the early period: the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. In addition to the above mentioned five journals that are now on the FT45 list there were also a number of other foundings of business-related academic journals during the early period outside the Anglo-Saxon context.
