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Mackie, Robin (2022). Succession and inheritance in Scottish business families, c.1875-1935. Business History, 64(1) pp. 55–74.

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Mackie, Robin (2021). [Book review] Müller (ed.), Scotland and Arbroath 1320–2020. 700 years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence. The Scottish Historical Review, 100(1) pp. 152–155.

Mackie, Robin and Roberts, Gerrylynn (2020). Consultancy as a Career in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Britain. Ambix, 67(3) pp. 214–233.

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Mackie, Robin (2012). Bearing ‘the burden and heat of the day’: the experience of business failure in Douglas and Grant Ltd. Business History, 54(5) pp. 689–712.

Mackie, Robin and Roberts, Gerrylynn (2008). Chemical Careers in Postwar Britain: Centrifugal Discipline / Centripetal Profession? In: Bertomeu-Sánchez, José Ramón; Burns, Duncan Thorburn and Van Tiggelen, Brigitte eds. Neighbours and Territories: The Evolving Identity of Chemistry. Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium: Mémosciences asbl, pp. 565–573.

Mackie, Robin (2008). 'To provide for the settlement of my affairs': inheritance and ownership in family firms during the transition to limited liability. In: Fellman, Susanna; Vaara, Eero and Kuusterèa, Antti eds. Historical Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Reflections on Ownership Participation and Different Modes of Organizing. Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium (72). Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Society of Science and Letters, pp. 157–171.

Mackie, Robin (2008). Chemical societies and the demarcation of the British chemical community, 1870-1914. In: Kildebaek Nielsen, A and Strbanova, S eds. Creating Networks in Chemistry. The Founding and Early History of Chemical Societies in Europe. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 140–161.

Mackie, Robin (2007). Counting chemists: the distribution of chemical expertise in Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 27(1) pp. 48–74.

Mackie, Robin L. and Roberts, Gerrylynn K. (2006). Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970. 2nd edition. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Mackie, Robin and Roberts, Gerrylynn K. (2004). Career patterns in the British chemical profession in the twentieth century. In: Mitch, David; Brown, John and Van Leeuwen, Marco H. D. eds. Origins of the modern career. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 317–336.

Mackie, Robin and Roberts, Gerrylynn (2003). La professionalizzazione della chimica. In: Petruccioli, Sandro ed. La Scienza dell '800. Storia della Scienza, vol. VII (sez E). Rome, Italy: Istituto dell Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, pp. 520–526.

Mackie, Robin (2002). The Educational paths and career choices of chemists in Britain, 1918-1943. In: Despy-Meyer, A ed. Institutions and Societies for Teaching, Research and Popularisation: Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997) Vol. XIX, Volume 19. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, pp. 125–134.

Mackie, R. (2001). Family ownership and business survival: Kirkcaldy, 1870-1970. Business History, 43(3) pp. 1–32.

Mackie, Robin (2001). 'Best for the family': researching families and business. Family and Community History, 4(1) pp. 31–44.

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Mackie, Robin and Roberts, Gerrylynn K. (2001). Un secteur à part? Les chimistes industriels et la Society of Chemical Industry dans le contexte de la communauté chimique britannique. In: Fell, Ulrike ed. Chimie et Industrie en Europe: L’apport des sociétés savantes industrielles du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Paris, France: Editions des archives contemporaines, pp. 127–147.

Mackie, Robin (2000). 'But What is a Chemical Engineer?': Profiling the Membership of the British Institution of Chemical Engineers, 1922-1956. Minerva, XXXVIII(2) pp. 171–199.

Mackie, R. L. (1998). Industry in Kirkcaldy: Mapping the Structure of Business in Twentieth-Century Scotland. Scottish Economic and Social History, 18(1) pp. 61–84.