Milan Balabán

Biographic Data

ID4418982
NAMEMilan Balabán
GIVEN NAMESMilan
FAMILY NAMEBalabán
SIGNATUREBALABAN M
AFFILIATIONSTomas Bata University in Zlin
ORCID0000-0002-6637-8036
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Survival through globalisation

    Open AccessMilan Balabán, Mária Hidvégi et al.ARTICLEBusiness History2025References: 50

    We present a comparative case study of two richly documented manufacturing firms in Central Europe to examine how economic nationalism and rising trade barriers shaped their global business strategies in the interwar period and how they managed to re-establish their global presence after 1945. From a provincial shoemaker in Moravia, Bata grew into the world’s largest footwear exporter by the 1930s with a global production and sales network that c…

  • The Bata Company's eastern Mediterranean business operations 1918–1938

    Milan Balabán, Jan Herman et al.ARTICLEContemporary Levant2025References: 2

  • The Social Welfare System in Bata Company Towns (1920s–1950s)

    Open AccessMilan Balabán, Lukáš Perutka et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Social…2022References: 1

    In the early twentieth century, the Bata company became one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the world, and an emblematic icon of family capitalism. This paper presents an overview of the social welfare system developed by the firm, first in its hometown of Zlín (Moravia) and then in more than thirty company towns founded in Czechoslovakia, Europe, and other continents from the 1920s to the 1950s. It shows how the initial model provided by th…

  • The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India

    Open AccessMilan Balabán, Jan Herman et al.ARTICLEThe Indian Economic & Social…2021References: 8

    The study presents a historical and sociological interpretation of the events that marked the gradual integration of the Bata Company into the Indian economy and society from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s. Within this context, in addition to the general economic, political and cultural developments, particular attention has been devoted to the everyday life of Indian and Czech workers in the Bata company town of Batanagar. The study is based o…

  • The Presence of the Bat’a Shoe Company in Central America and the Caribbean in the Interwar Period (1920-1930)

    Open AccessLukáš Perutka, Jan Herman et al.ARTICLEAmérica Latina en la Historia…2018Cited by: 1

    This article addresses the presence of the famous Czechoslovak shoe company Bat’a in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean during the 1920s and 1930s. It is a topic that has not yet been properly researched by historians; therefore this work can shed some light on the activity of Czechoslovak companies in Latin America. The objective is to compare Bat’a’s influence in the countries of the respective region and study where it was successful a…