2007 Program

2007 Annual Meeting Program

Cleveland, Ohio

May 31-June 2, 2007




"Entrepreneurial Communities"



THURSDAY, May 31

8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

BHC Newcomen Doctoral Colloquium



1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Registration



5:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Plenary I: Cleveland's Business History

John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University/Western Reserve Historical Society

Location, Vision, Product: Entrepreneurship in Northeastern Ohio

6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Reception


Wolstein Hall

(Made possible through the support of Grant Thornton LLP)



7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Trustees' Meeting



FRIDAY, JUNE 1

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Registration and Book Exhibit



8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast



FRIDAY, JUNE 1

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions A




1. Accounting's Impact on Entrepreneurship

Chair: Julia Grant, Case Western Reserve University

Jeffrey J. Archambault, Marshall University

Marie E. Archambault, Marshall University

Financial Reporting among Unregulated Industrial Companies in 1920

    [Abstract]



Mark Billings, University of Nottingham

Corporate Treasury in International Business History

    [Abstract]     [Paper]



Richard Vangermeersch, University of Rhode Island

The Marking of Stuart Chase as a "Red" Accountant—An Epic, 1917-1921

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Barbara Merino, University of North Texas



2. Washington Connections

Chair: Richard Greenwald, Drew University

Mark L. Goldstein, University of Maryland

Washington and the Networks of W. W. Corcoran

    [Abstract]     [Paper]



Daniel Scroop, University of Liverpool

A Faded Passion? Estes Kefauver and the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, 1957-1963

    [Abstract]       [Paper]



Dimitry Anastakis, Trent University

The Last Automotive Entrepreneur? Lee Iacocca Saves Chrysler, 1978-1986

    [Abstract]      [Paper]

Discussant: William H. Becker, George Washington University



3. Institutional Locus of Innovation

Chair: Glen R. Asner, NASA

Andrea Maestrejuan, University of California, Los Angeles

Contracting Invention: The Firm as Entrepreneurial Community

    [Abstract]



Karen J. Freeze, Technical University of Eindhoven

Unlikely Partners and the Management of Innovation in Communist Europe: A Case Study from the Czechoslovak Textile Machine Industry

    [Abstract]      [Paper]



Eric S. Hintz, University of Pennsylvania

Independent Inventors in an Era of Burgeoning R&D

    [Abstract]       [Paper]

Discussant: Kyle Bruce, Aston Business School



4. Local Entrepreneurial Communities

Chair: David Hammack, Case Western Reserve University

Judit Olah, University of Wyoming

Empowering through Entrepreneurship

    [Abstract]      [Paper]



David Stebenne, Ohio State University

Columbia, Maryland, at Forty

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Clifton Hood, Hobart and William Smith Colleges



5. Local Retailers

Chair: Jocelyn Wills, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Susan V. Spellman, Carnegie Mellon University

"I would not be without this machine": Cash Registers in the Corner Grocery Store, 1885-1910

    [Abstract]



Jennifer Malia McAndrew, University of Maryland, College Park

"But You Don't Look Like a Negro": African American Entrepreneurs in Female Beauty Culture during the Mid-Twentieth Century

    [Abstract]



Maria Stanfors, Lund University

Feminization and Professionalization of Pharmacies in Sweden

    [Abstract]       [Paper]

Discussant: Tracey Deutsch, University of Minnesota



10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Break



FRIDAY, June 1

10:30 a.m.

Campus Welcome



10:30 a.m.-noon

Plenary: Krooss Dissertation Session


Chair: Albert Churella, Southern Polytechnic State University

Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University

Making Tobacco Bright: Institutions, Information, and Industrialization in the Creation of an Agricultural Commodity, 1617-1937 (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006)



Christopher Magra, California State University at Northridge

The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution (University of Pittsburgh, 2006)



Aaron W. Marrs, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

The Iron Horse Turns South: A History of Antebellum Southern Railroads (University of South Carolina, 2006)



Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia

The Soul of the Service Economy: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise, 1929-1994 (Yale University, 2006)

Discussant: The Audience



Noon-1:30 p.m.

Lunch
(with ticket)



Trustees' Lunch



FRIDAY, June 1

1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions B




1. Local Networks of Information and Finance in the Second Industrial Revolution: How Important and Durable Were They?

Chair: Virginia P. Dawson, History Enterprises, Inc.

Shih-tse Lo, Concordia University

Dhanoos Sutthiphisal, McGill University

Knowledge Diffusion and Cross-over Inventions: Evidence from the Electric Industries, 1890-1910

    [Abstract]



Naomi R. Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles

Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan

Kenneth Sokoloff, University of California, Los Angeles

Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons from Cleveland's Experience in the 1920s

    [Abstract]       [Paper]

 

Discussant: Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University



2. Information, Institutions, and Entrepreneurial Communities in Accounting and Finance

Chair: Larry Parker, Case Western Reserve University

Gary John Previts, Case Western Reserve University

Dale L. Flesher, University of Mississippi

Donaldson Brown (1885-1965): Twentieth-Century Financial Management Entrepreneur: The Power of an Idea over Time

    [Abstract]



Caroline Fohlin, Johns Hopkins University

Creating Modern Venture Capital: Institutional Design and Performance in the Early Years

    [Abstract]



Phillip G. Bradford, University of Alabama

Paul J. Miranti, Rutgers University

Technology, Associationalism, and the Transformation of Entrepreneurial Endeavor: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 1956-1976

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford



3. Who Needs the Real Thing?

Chair: Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University

Cai Guise-Richardson, Iowa State University

Art and Artifice: The Introduction and Adoption of Machine-Made Lace, 1760-1880

    [Abstract]



Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Independent Scholar

Are Synthetics "Test-Tube-Y and Unnatural"? Dorothy Liebes, Interior Designers, and DuPont Fibers in Postwar America

    [Abstract]



Robert Kanigel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated": The Corfam Debacle

    [Abstract]

Discussant: David Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University



4. Transnational Entrepreneurial Communities

Chair: Peter Miskell, University of Reading

Joshua D. MacFadyen, University of Guelph

Threads in a Web of Trade: Reciprocity and Flax in the United States and Canada

    [Abstract]



Andrew D. Smith, University of London

Scale and Soap: Lever Brothers in Canada, 1889-1914

    [Abstract]



J. Andrew Ross, University of Western Ontario

Hockeyists, Horsemen, Pugilists, and Promoters: Interwar Sports Entrepreneurs in the United States and Canada

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Robert MacDougall, University of Western Ontario



5. Industry Emergence and the Commercialization of the Internet, 1993-2004

Chair: Sheldon Hochheiser, Independent Scholar

Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University

Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States

    [Abstract]



David Kirsch, University of Maryland, College Park

Brent Goldfarb, University of Maryland, College Park

Small Ideas, Big Ideas, Bad Ideas, Good Ideas: Characterizing Dot Com Venture Creation



Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

The Web's Missing Links: The Search Engine and Portal Industry

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Leslie Berlin, Stanford University



6. Business and the Welfare State: New European Perspectives

Chair: Franco Amatori, Bocconi University

Matthieu Leimgruber, Swiss National Science Foundation/IHR

Contested Boundaries: British and Swiss Life Insurers and the Challenge of Postwar Pension Provision, 1945-1980s

    [Abstract]



Dennie Oude Nijhuis, University of Leiden

Bringing Labor Back In: Worker Solidarity, Employer Opposition, and the Development of Old Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom     [Abstract]



Jussi Vauhkonen, University of Helsinki

A Cross-Class Alliance in the Making: Finnish Employers and the Emerging Welfare State in 1950s and 1960s

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Per H. Hansen, Copenhagen Business School



3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Refreshments




FRIDAY, June 1

3:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions C




1. Creating Social Networks

Chair: Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University

Gordon Boyce, Queensland University of Technology

Language, Family, Diversions, and Socially Constructed Reality in the Merchant-Shipowning Community: The Bates of Liverpool, 1870-1945

    [Abstract]



Deborah Breen, Boston University

The Individual in the Community: American Entrepreneurial Cohorts in the Australian Colonies, 1850-1890

    [Abstract]    



Louise Guenther, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Embedded, yet Separate: British Cultural Strategies of Legitimation in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

    [Abstract]



Francesca Carnevali, University of Birmingham

Andrew Popp, University of London

Communities of Interest: Cooperation and Trust in Three Industrial Communities: Providence, Birmingham, and the Black Country

    [Abstract]

Discussant: David Mason, Georgia Perimeter College



2. Nationalism and Marketing: Multinational Companies in Latin America and Africa in the Twentieth Century

Chair: William J. Hausman, College of William and Mary

Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Nationalist Conflicts around Oil Marketing in the Southern Cone: Standard Oil of New Jersey and Royal-Dutch Shell in Argentina and Chile, 1922-1955

    [Abstract]



Stephanie Decker, University of Liverpool

Guarding Corporate Image: Advertising as a Countervailing Measure to Host-Country Nationalism in West Africa

    [Abstract]



Andrea Lluch, Harvard Business School

Investment and Marketing Strategies of American Companies in Argentina during the Rise of Economic Nationalism in the 1930s

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Mira Wilkins, Florida International University



3. Challenging Myths of Entrepreneurship

Chair: Nicola Lacetera, Case Western Reserve University

Brian Phelan, University of Maryland, College Park

The Chrysanthemum and the Factory: Ruth Benedict, James Abegglen, and American Interpretations of the Japanese Economy, 1946-1960

    [Abstract]



Heli Valtonen, University of Jyväskylä

Does Culture Matter? Entrepreneurial Attitudes among Twentieth-Century Business Leaders in Finland and the United States

    [Abstract]      [Paper]



Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique

"Do you have a garage?" Discussion of Some Myths about Entrepreneurship

    [Abstract]      [Paper]



David B. Sicilia, University of Maryland, College Park

Toward a Dynamic Model of American Entrepreneurship

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Ken Lipartito, Florida International University



4. Along the Tracks: Railroads, Communities, Communications, and Entrepreneurship

Chair: Jack Brown, University of Virginia

Aaron W. Marrs, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

Railroads and the Antebellum South: Southern Exceptionalism?

    [Abstract]



Benjamin Schwantes, University of Delaware

Disinterest and Distrust: The Ambivalent Relationship between Railroad Managers and Telegraph Entrepreneurs in Antebellum America

    [Abstract]



Thomas C. Jepsen, Independent Scholar

"A Look into the Future": Images of Women Railroad Telegraphers and Station Agents in Pennsylvania, 1855-1960

    [Abstract]



Andrea Giuntini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Relationships and Linkages between Railways and Telegraphy in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Networks, Technology, and Management

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Albert Churella, Southern Polytechnic State University



5. The Impact of the Cold War on Entrepreneurship

Chair: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University

Dominique A. Tobbell, University of Pennsylvania

Who's Winning the Human Race? Cold War as Pharmaceutical Political Strategy

    [Abstract]



Hugh R. Slotten, University of Otago

Satellite Communications, Organizational Arrangements, and the Global Context of Entrepreneurial Activity

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Glenn Bugos, Moment LLC



6. Shifts in Financial Institutions

Chair: George Smith, New York University

Chris Kingston, Amherst College

Marine Insurance in Philadelphia during the Quasi-War with France, 1795-1801

    [Abstract]



John Murray, University of Toledo

Actuarial Science in the Rise of Group Health Insurance

    [Abstract]



Christopher Kobrak, European School of Management

The Rise and Fall of International Family Banking: Private Banks, Capital Markets, and the Democratization of Finance

    [Abstract]



Christopher Marquis, Harvard Business School

Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta School of Business

Historical Conflict and New Bank Foundings in U.S. Communities in the 1990s

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Dalit Baranoff. Independent Scholar



FRIDAY, June 1

5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Membership Meeting



6:15 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Reception


Kelvin Smith Library

(Made possible through the support of the Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University)



SATURDAY June 2

7:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Breakfast Meeting: Business Historians at Business Schools


Speaker: Jerry Trapnell, Executive Vice President and Chief Accreditation Officer, AACSB International



8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Registration and Book Exhibit



8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast



SATURDAY June 2

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions D


1. Small Businesses around the Globe

Chair: Mansel Blackford, Ohio State University

Adriana Castagnoli, University of Turin

The Female Entrepreneurs' Point of View and the Italian Economy

    [Abstract]      [Paper]



Steven Tolliday, University of Leeds

Micro-Businesses and Entrepreneurial Communities in the Japanese Ceramics Industry in the Twentieth Century

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Mansel Blackford, Ohio State University



2. The Challenge of Reaching Consumers

Chair: Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School

Teresa da Silva Lopes, Queen Mary, University of London

Mark Casson, University of Reading

Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Big Business in Branded Consumer Goods

    [Abstract]



James L. Baughman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Uneasy Underwriters: Advertisers and American Television, 1946-1956

    [Abstract]



Daniel Raff, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Shirley Teresa Wajda, Kent State University



3. Scale and Productivity in Services: Comparing the United States and Europe, 1900-2000

Chair: Leslie Hannah, University of Tokyo

Stephen Broadberry, University of Warwick

Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: Britain, the United States, and Germany

    [Abstract]



Peter Wardley, University of the West of England

Modern Economic Growth and the Rise of Big Business: From Services to Industry and Back Again?

    [Abstract]



Tim Leunig, London School of Economics

Nicholas Crafts, London School of Economics

Abay Mulatu, London School of Economics

Which Was the Best-Managed Railroad in Britain a Century Ago?

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Colleen Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin, Madison



4. Entrepreneurship and Technological Change

Chair: Mark D. Bowles, Tech Pro, Inc.

Mark A. Eddy, Case Western Reserve University

Technologists Talking Back: Charles Brush and the Voice of Inventor-Entrepreneurs in Academic Research Science

    [Abstract]



Kim McQuaid, Lake Erie College

NASA as an Entrepreneurial Community: Building the Space Age at the Grass Roots in Cleveland, Ohio, 1958-1990

    [Abstract]



David J. Whalen, IOT Systems LLC

Aerosat, A Case Study of Failure: Technology, Politics, and Markets

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Donald C. Jackson, Lafayette College



5. Location and Change in Entrepreneurial Communities

Chair: Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Richard Coopey, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Enterprise on the River Severn, 1750-1950: A Linear Entrepreneurial Community?

    [Abstract]



Joshua A. T. Salzmann, University of Illinois, Chicago

The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor, 1889-1906

    [Abstract]



Joaquim Cuevas, University of Alicante

Lina Gálvez-Muñoz, University of Pablo de Olavide

Lluís Torró, University of Alicante

Integration or Cooperation: The Impact of Institutional Change and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) on the Network Structure of Alcoi Textile Firms

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University



10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Break




SATURDAY June 2

10:30 a.m.-noon



Concurrent Sessions E


1. Standardization

Chair: Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University

Margaret Graham, McGill University

Henry Phelps Gage: Standardizing Entrepreneur at Corning Glass Works, 1911-1947

    [Abstract]



JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Craig Murphy, Wellesley College

Charles le Maistre: Entrepreneur in International Standardization

    [Abstract]



Andrew L. Russell, Johns Hopkins University

Dot-Org Entrepreneurship: Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Marine Moguen-Toursel, Centre de Recherches historiques, EHESS



2. Retail Entrepreneurs in Their Communities

Chair: Rowena Olegario, Vanderbilt University

Anton Ehlers, University of Stellenbosch

Renier van Rooyen and Pep Stores Limited: The Genesis of a South African Entrepreneur and Retail Empire

    [Abstract]      [Paper]



Hani Bawardi, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Why Do Arabs Own So Many Grocery Stores? Clan Affiliation in Business Ownership in Flint, Michigan

    [Abstract]



Vicki Howard, Hartwick College

"The Biggest Small-Town Store in America": Department Stores and the Rise of Consumer Society

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Andrew Godley, University of Reading



3. Professionalizing and Modernizing Management

Chair: Melissa Fisher, Georgetown University

Susanna Fellman, University of Helsinki

A Manager and His Professionals: Planning and Constructing the Modern Firm in Finland, 1920s-1940s

    [Abstract]



Takashi Hirao, Tokyo University of Science, Suwa

Diversification and Labor Strategy of Nippon Rayon Co., Ltd., after World War II: A Case Study of the Introduction of Skill-Based Management in the Japanese Textile Industry

    [Abstract]



Daniel A. Clark, Indiana State University

"Should Your Boy Go to College?" Mass Magazines, the Middle-Class, and the Re-Conceptualization of College for a Corporate Age, 1890-1915

    [Abstract]



Tobias Karlsson, Lund University

Downsizing, State Ownership, and Modern Labor Management: Severance Pay at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1928

    [Abstract]      [Paper]

Discussant: Eric Neilsen, Case Western Reserve University



4. The Importance of Internal Corporate Strategy

Chair: Kazuo Wada, University of Tokyo

Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, University of Leicester

A Business and Technological History of the ATM in the United Kingdom, 1965-2005

    [Abstract]



David Hochfelder, State University of New York at Albany

"Trying to Turn an Elephant around in a Bathtub": Managing Western Union's Post-World War II Decline

    [Abstract]



Gerben Bakker, London School of Economics

The Emergence of High Sunk Costs Industries: Market Structure, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change in Services, 1750-2000

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University



5. What Do Financial Institutions Do?

Chair: Daniel Holt, University of Virginia

Leslie Hannah, University of Tokyo

What Did Morgan's Men Really Do?

    [Abstract]



John D. Turner, Queen's University, Belfast

Protecting Outside Investors in a Laissez-Faire Legal Environment: Corporate Governance in Victorian Britain

    [Abstract]



Lucy Newton, University of Reading

Peter Scott, University of Reading

"Jealous Monopolists"? British Banks and Responses to the Macmillan Gap during the 1930s

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Larry Neal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign



6. Theoretical Perspectives on Global Entrepreneurship

Chair: David Hancock, University of Michigan

Takashi Yamamoto, Akita International University

East Meets the West in an Entrepreneurial Farming Village in Japan: Endogenous Development Theories and Economic Gardening Practices

    [Abstract]       [Paper]



R. Daniel Wadhwani, University of the Pacific

Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization

    [Abstract]     [Paper]



John Wilson, University of Central Lancashire

British Business Community and Europe: Strategy, Structure, and Investment Trends since the 1950s

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Jacqueline McGlade, Pennsylvania State University Shenango



Noon-1:30 p.m. Women in Business History Lunch (with ticket)



Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch (with ticket)



SATURDAY, June 2

1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.



Concurrent Sessions F



1. Political Economy of Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century America


Chair: Edwin Perkins, University of Southern California

Richard R. John, University of Illinois, Chicago

The New York Telegraph Act of 1848 and the Culture of Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Telegraph Industry

    [Abstract]



Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, University of New Mexico

Financing the Palaces of the People: Hotel Entrepreneurs, Commercial Capital, and Internal Improvements in Jacksonian America

    [Abstract]



Joshua Wolff, Columbia University

The Telegraph Act of 1866: An "Entering Wedge" against the Western Union Monopoly

    [Abstract]

Discussant: W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia



2. Entrepreneurial Strategies for Global Competition

Chair: Matthias Kipping, York University

Peter Miskell, University of Reading

Movies and Multinationals: How did U.S. Film Companies Operate in Foreign Markets during the "Studio Era"?

    [Abstract]



Evelyn Anderson, Australian Catholic University

Nissan's Keiretsu, 1956-1970

    [Abstract]     [Paper]



Véronique Pouillard, Columbia University

Federating the Couture Business? Exchanges between French, Belgian, and American Couturiers during the 1930s

Discussant: Matthias Kipping, York University



3. Entrepreneurial Communities in African-American Business

Chair: Juliet Walker, University of Texas, Austin

Robert C. Kenzer, University of Richmond

African-American Businessmen in the Postwar South

    [Abstract]



Yuri Campbell, University of Texas, Austin

The Brothers Johnson: The Lincoln Film Company and the Role of Black Business in Creating Black Modernity, Culture, and Identity

    [Abstract]



Douglas Bristol, Jr., University of Southern Mississippi

The Bush Doctor Cometh: Putting the Soul into the "Soul" Market

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Robert E. Weems, Jr., University of Missouri, Columbia



4. Emergence of Standards as a Collective Process within and beyond the Firm

Chair: Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Marine Moguen-Toursel, Centre de Recherches historiques, EHESS

Emergence and Transfer of Vehicle Safety Standards: Why We Still Do Not Have Global Standards

    [Abstract]     [Paper]



Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School

Facilitating Technology Service: Welding Standards and the Shaping of a Danish Technology Service Provider, 1939-2005

    [Abstract]



Stève Bernardin, Harvard University/University of Paris I—Rives

Harrison Grafos, University of Pittsburgh

A "Science" of Sovereignty? Domestic and Transnational Concerns in Automobile Safety

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Craig Murphy, Wellesley College



5. The Impact of Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Chair: Ernie Englander, George Washington University

Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College

Executives, Experts, and Activists: The Entrepreneurial Community of Workplace Integration, 1945-1964

    [Abstract]



Laura Singleton, Boston College

Out of Many, One: The Divergent Social Vision of William Norris in the Minneapolis Business Community, 1967-1986

    [Abstract]



Yasuhiro Shimizu, Kobe University

Mayumi Inoue, Kobe University

Satoshi Fujimura, Kobe University

Initial Intent and the Development of an Employee Ownership Plan: A Case of a Japanese Trading Company in the Early Twentieth Century

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Jennifer Armiger, University of Delaware



6. What Stimulates Innovation?

Chair: William Childs, Ohio State University

Tom Nicholas, Harvard Business School

Spatial Diversity in Invention: Evidence from the Early R&D Labs

    [Abstract]



Stephen B. Adams, Salisbury University

Domestic Direct Investment and Entrepreneurship in American Second Mover High-Tech Regions

    [Abstract]



Maki Umemura, London School of Economics

The Interplay between Entrepreneurial Initiative and Government Policy: The Shaping of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry since 1945

    [Abstract]       [Paper]

Discussant: Lisa Cook, Michigan State University



3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Break




SATURDAY, June 2

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.



Concurrent Sessions G



1. Entrepreneurs of a Different Sort: Women and Creative Adaptation in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America


Chair: Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, San José State University

Cleaning Up or Scraping By? Women in the Early Atlantic Service Economy

    [Abstract]



Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University

Social Activism as Self-Sufficiency: Woman Suffrage, Earning, and Entrepreneurialism

Discussant: Angel Kwolek-Folland, University of Florida



2. Public-Private Regulation and Bank Entry in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Chair: Sharon Murphy, Providence College

Jane Knodell, University of Vermont

Private Banking Networks and the Development of the Domestic Capital Market in the United States, 1840-1880

    [Abstract]



Scott A. Redenius, Bryn Mawr College

Regional Economic Development and Variation in Postbellum National Bank Profit Rates

    [Abstract]       [Paper]



David F. Weiman, Barnard College

John A. James, University of Virginia

The National Banking Acts and the Transformation of New York Banking after the Civil War

    [Abstract]

Discussant: Kenneth A. Snowden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro



3. Communities of Entrepreneurs

Chair: William Mass, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Joseph H. Wycoff, University of Washington

Exhibiting Innovation: U.S. Mechanic and Manufacturer Associations as Entrepreneurial Communities, 1820-1840

    [Abstract]



Janet Greenlees, Glasgow Caledonian University

The New England Cotton Textile Manufacturing Community and Workers' Health, c. 1870-1939: Relationships between Investment, Concern, and Profits

    [Abstract]



Alexia M. Yates, University of Chicago

"A profession for those who have none": Business Agents and Professional Communities in Turn-of-the-Century Paris

    [Abstract]

Discussant: William Mass, University of Massachusetts Lowell



4. Cooperation

Chair: H. V. Nelles, McMaster University

Karl Gratzer, Södertörn University College

The Agents of Change: Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Financiers in the Early Swedish Fast Food Industry



Claudia Riani, European University Institute

Cartel versus Monopoly: The German Nitrogen Industry in the Interwar Years

    [Abstract]



Juanjuan Peng, Johns Hopkins University

Cooperation versus Competiton: The Daxing and Yuhua Cotton Mills in Crisis, 1931-1937

    [Abstract]    

Discussant: Jeff Fear, Harvard Business School



5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Book Auction



5:45 p.m.-6:15 p.m.

Recognition of the Life of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

Mira Wilkins, Florida International University

Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University

6:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Presidential Address

William J. Hausman, College of William and Mary

The Accidental Business Historian

7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m.

Reception



7:45 p.m.-9:45 p.m.

Banquet and Awards Ceremony