BEH Online

Welcome to Business and Economic History On-Line, a selection of papers presented at the Business History Conference's annual meeting. Authors from each annual meeting are encouraged to submit their papers for inclusion in BEH On-Line; please read the Submission Guidelines for more details about the process.



Annual Meeting Author(s) ed
2006 BHC Meeting Susan Clark Muntean Resurrection of the Robber Barons: Reassessing the Theory of the Firm
2008 BHC Meeting Michael Møller and Niels-Henrik Topp Carl Frederik Tietgen and Privatbanken in Copenhagen, 1857-1896
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting H. V. Nelles Financing the Development of Foreign-Owned Electrical Systems in the Americas, 1890-1929: First Steps in Comparing European and North American Techniques
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Monica Neve Advertising and the Middle-Class Female Consumer in Munich, c. 1900-1914
2012 BHC Meeting Shigehiro Nishimura Patenting in the United Kingdom and Japan: Subsystems That Determined MNEs' Patent Policy
2011 BHC Meeting Shigehiro Nishimura International Patent Control and Transfer of Knowledge: The United States and Japan before World War II
2004 BHC Meeting Sara Nocentini Building the Network: Raw Materials Shortages and the Western Bloc at the Beginning of the Cold War, 1948-1951
2012 BHC Meeting Dael Norwood A Great Thoroughfare for All Mankind: Asian Trade and the Antebellum Business Case for Building a Transcontinental Railroad
2008 BHC Meeting Hiroyuki Okamuro Survival of New Firms in an Industry Agglomeration: An Empirical Analysis Using Tokyo Telephone Directories from the 1980s
2004 BHC Meeting Hiroyuki Okamuro Evolution of the Supplier Network in the German Automotive Industry from the Prewar to the Postwar Period: A Comparative Perspective with the Japanese Experience
2007 BHC Meeting Judit Olah Empowering through Entrepreneurship: The Maverick Springs Oil Field and the Wind River Reservation
2016 BHC Meeting Fary Akmal Osman State-Owned Enterprise (SOE): The Role of SOE Entrepreneurship in Nation-Building Efforts, 1970-2014
2010 BHC Meeting Frida Östman A Residential Mortgage Market in Crisis: Something to Learn from the Swedish Case
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Frida Östman Regulatory Regime Change in the Swedish Residential Mortgage Market
2004 BHC Meeting Julia Ott The 'Free and Open' 'People's Market': Public Relations at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913-1929
2014 BHC Meeting Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill State and Innovative Enterprises: The Case of the Cuban Biopharmaceutical Industry
2010 BHC Meeting Tommaso Pardi Do State and Politics Matter? The Case of Nissan's Direct Investment in Great Britain and Its Implications for British Leyland
2016 BHC Meeting Alma Parra The Rothschild Network of Commodities: Quicksilver and the Mexican Silver Market
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Mike Parsons and Mary B. Rose Lead-User Innovation and the U.K. Outdoor Trade since 1850
2014 BHC Meeting Francesco Petrini Public Interest, Private Profits: Multinationals, Governments, and the Coming of the First Oil Crisis
2010 BHC Meeting William H. Phillips The Democratization of Invention in the American South: Antebellum and Postbellum Technology Markets in the United States
2011 BHC Meeting Laura D. Phillips The Economics and Ideology of American Fair Trade: Louis Brandeis and Open Price Associations, 1911-1919
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Yovanna Pineda Analysis of Manufacturing Strategies and Profits: Industrial Development in Argentina, 1904-1930
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Caroline Piquet The Suez Company's Concession, 1854-1956: Making Modern Infrastructure, Destroying the Potential of the Local Economy
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Eline Poelmans The Mixed Economy and the Concentration of the Coal Companies in the European Coal and Steel Community between 1952 and 1967
2017 BHC Meeting Andrew Popp What is a Business Civilization
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Daniele Pozzi Techno-Managerial Competences in Enrico Mattei's AGIP: A Prolonged Accumulation Process in an International Relationship Network, 1935-1965
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Núria Puig and Adoración Álvaro International Aid and National Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis of Pro-American Business Networks in Southern Europe, 1950-1975
2006 BHC Meeting Núria Puig and Rafael Castro Changing and Persisting Patterns of International Investment: French and German Capital in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain
2017 BHC Meeting David Raley The Philips vs. Wisconsin Decision and the Decline of Regulatory Effectiveness
2008 BHC Meeting David Raley The Origins of a Corporate Giant: Tennessee Gas and Transmission's Wartime Pipeline
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting David Raley Losing the Tractor Wars: The Role of J.I. Case in the Decline of Tenneco, 1978-1994
2007 BHC Meeting Scott A. Redenius Regional Economic Development and Variation in Postbellum National Bank Profit Rates
2011 BHC Meeting Lydia Redman Knowledge Is Power? Victorian and Edwardian Employers and the Rhetoric of Expertise
2008 BHC Meeting Jonathan Rees The Natural Price of Natural Ice in America, 1880-1910
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Simona Segre Reinach Fashion and National Identity: Interactions between Italians and Chinese in the Global Fashion Industry
2010 BHC Meeting Marta Rey and Nuria Puig Understanding the Organized Philanthropic Activities of Entrepreneurial Families
2004 BHC Meeting Sebastien Richez From the Transport to the Delivery of Mail: The Transformation of the French Postal Network in the Nineteenth Century
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Alberto Rinaldi and Michelangelo Vasta State-Owned Enterprises in the Italian Corporate Network, 1972-1983
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Mary B. Rose and Lorraine Johnston To Design for the Future You Must Leaf Through the Past: Museums as Part of Systems of Innovation
2010 BHC Meeting J. Andrew Ross Trust and Antitrust: The Failure of the First National Hockey League Players' Association, 1957-1958
2005 BHC Meeting J. Andrew Ross Hockey Capital: Approaches to the Study of Sports Industry
2017 BHC Meeting Daniel L. Rust Landscapes of Suspicion: The Transformation of American Commercial Airports
2011 BHC Meeting Daniel L. Rust Lambert-St. Louis International Airport's Alternative W-lW: A Case Study
2004 BHC Meeting Elizabeth Sage Disciplinary Practice and the Practice of Discipline, or Political Economy and Paternalism in Nineteenth-Century France
2010 BHC Meeting Fredrik Sandgren A New Quest for Efficiency: The Postwar Program of the Federation of Swedish Wholesalers
2006 BHC Meeting Joseph Santos Going against the Grain: Why Did Wheat Marketing in the United States and Canada Evolve So Differently?
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Mohamed Sassi The Emergence of the French Oil Industry between the Two Wars
2006 BHC Meeting Mohamed Sassi Compagnie Française des Pétroles and Its Contribution to the Re-establishment of France's Position among the Oil Countries after the Second World War
2004 BHC Meeting Mohamed Sassi Evolution of the Structure of the French Oil Economy between the Wars: Toward a French Holding Company