2009 Program

2009 Annual Meeting

Milan, Italy

June 11-13, 2009

"Fashions: Business Practices in Historical Perspective"

Joint with the European Business History Association

PROGRAM

Wednesday, June 10

8:30am-4:15pm

Oxford Journals Doctoral Colloquium

Via Röntgen, Rooms 3-C4-SR01 and 3-D3-SR01 (3d floor)

3:00-6:00pm

Registration

Piazza Sraffa 13

4:00-8:00pm

BHC Trustees Meeting

Via Röntgen 1, Room 3-B3-SR01 (3d floor)

Thursday, June 11

8:00am-6:00pm

Registration

Piazza Sraffa 13

Book Exhibit

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-9

Fashion Institute of Technology Exhibit

"Beauty, Brains, Bergdorf's, and Bytes: The Collective Memory of Art, Design, Business, and Technology in FIT's Department of Special Collections and Archives"

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-9

9:00-10:30am

Concurrent Sessions 1

1.A Social Outsiders, Separate Economies, Crossover Markets: Two Centuries of Cultural Expressions in American Fashion

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Roderick McDonald, Rider University

Discussant: Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles

Lilia Raquel D. Rosas, University of Texas at Austin

Fashions in the Sex Industry in the Long Nineteenth Century: From Street Hooker to Brothels

Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Texas at Austin

A Historiography of African American Business

[Abstract] [Paper]

Juliet E. K. Walker, University of Texas at Austin

African American Hip Hop Fashion Industry Entrepreneurs: Commodifying Black Culture, Building Joint Venture Conglomerates

1.B Federalism in Business History

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair and Discussant: William Becker, George Washington University

William R. Childs, The Ohio State University

Pragmatic Federalism and Regulation in the Twentieth Century

[Abstract]

David Brian Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

American Federalism: Design and Impact on Public Policy toward Business

Colleen Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin

Corporations and Chain Stores: Understanding the Nuances of Federalism in the United States and Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

William Hausman, College of William and Mary

John Kelly, American Public Power Association

John L. Neufeld, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

U.S. Electric Utility Rate Regulation and Competition at the Beginning of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

1.C Innovation in the Business of Fashion, 1900-1940

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Dilys Blum, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Discussant: Francesca Polese, Università Bocconi

Lourdes M. Font, Fashion Institute of Technology

International Couture: Expansion and Promotion in the Early Twentieth Century

[Abstract]

Lewis Orchard, Independent Scholar

Retailing Innovation: The Origins of Contemporary Merchandising in an Edwardian Couture House

[Abstract]

Rebecca Jumper Matheson, Independent Scholar

Making a Name for Themselves: Promotion and Self-Promotion of Designing Women

[Abstract]

Molly Sorkin, Fashion Institute of Technology

The Limits of Expansion: Contraction and Collapse in the Haute Couture, 1920-1940

[Abstract]

1.D From a Tool to a Marketplace: The Evolution of Company Benefit Fashions in Great Britain and the United States, 1802-1990s

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Jonathan Russ, University of Delaware

Discussant: Janice Traflet, Bucknell University

Stephanie Holyfield, University of Delaware

Something More: Loyalty and Efficiency at Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co., 1905-1933

Emily Martz, University of Delaware

The Mutual Fund Industry and the Rise of the 401(k) Plan

[Abstract]

Michael Smitka, Washington and Lee University

Labor's Love for Benefits Lost: The 1950s Battle Over Healthcare Provision in the US Auto Industry

Peter Wardley, University of the West of England

Co-operation à la Mode: Fashionability, Workers, and the Co-operative Movement in Britain

1.E Artifacts, Organizations and Institutions: Circulation, Preservation and Management of Embedded Corporate Resources

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Donald C. Jackson, Lafayette College

Discussant: Michelle Craig McDonald, Stockton College

Davide Ravasi, Università Bocconi

Violina Rindova, University of Texas at Austin

Ileana Stigliani, Università Bocconi

Corporate Museums and Organizational Institutionalization

Ralph Maurer, Louisiana State University

Designing a Genre: An Organizational Perspective on the Rise of Comic-Book Films

David Kirsch, University of Maryland

All That Was Solid: Learning the Lessons of Corporate Cadavers in Silicon Valley

Mary B. Rose, Lancaster University

Lorraine Johnston, Lancaster University

"To Design for the Future You Must Leaf Through the Past": Museums as Part of Systems of Innovation

[Abstract] [Paper]

1.F The Essence of Fashion

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Elisabetta Merlo, Università Bocconi

Discussant: Patricia A. Cunningham, The Ohio State University

Donna W. Reamy, Virginia Commonwealth University

The Economic Impact of the Catwalk: A Historical Perspective of the Fashion Show and Its Current Economic Value to Global Fashion Centers

[Abstract]

Ariel Beaujot, Laurentian University

Xavier Jouvin: Fashioning the Glove, Fashioning the Female Hand

[Abstract]

Elspeth H. Brown, University of Toronto

Modeling Blackness in Civil Rights America

[Abstract]

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

Piazza Sraffa 13, Ground Floor

11:00am-12:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 2

2.A Roundtable: Business History Job Market (Sponsored by the BHC Emerging Scholars Committee/Organizers)

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Anna Spadavecchia, University of Reading

Discussant: The Audience

Albert Carreras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Alexander Engel, University of Göttingen

Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center/Rutgers University

Kurt Jacobsen, Copenhagen Business School

Christopher McKenna, Oxford University

Francesca Polese, Università Bocconi

Dan Wadwhani, University of the Pacific

2.B Making an Impression

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Lesley Whitworth, Brighton University

Discussant: Emanuela Scarpellini, Università degli Studi di Milano

Andrew Popp, University of Liverpool

Michael French, University of Glasgow

"Practically the Uniform of the Tribe": Dress Codes among Commercial Travellers

[Abstract]

M. Lynn Barnes, West Virginia University

"Gee! I Wish I Were a Man": The Christy Girl Joins the Navy

[Abstract]

Howard Cox, University of Worcester

Simon Mowatt, University of Auckland

Creating Images of Fashion: Consumer Magazines and American Competition in Britain, 1910-1940

[Abstract] [Paper]

Jill Fields, California State University, Fresno

The Business of Fashion on Film

[Abstract]

2.C The Responsible Corporation: International Perspectives on the Business-Society Relationship

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Jeffrey Fear, University of Redlands

Discussant: Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College

Jenna Feltey Alden, Columbia University

The Humanistic Side of Enterprise: Postwar Management Theory and the Dream of Collective Self-Actualization

Geoffrey Tweedale, Manchester Metropolitan University

"What Happens When the Money Runs Out?" The Corporate Veil and Multinational Liability for Industrial Disease

[Abstract]

Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University

Charting the History of Corporate Social Responsibility in America

2.D From Manufacturing to Fashion: Textile and Shoemaking Clusters in Spain

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Franco Amatori, Università Bocconi

Discussant: John Wilson, University of Liverpool

Luis Alonso Álvarez, Universidad da Coruña

International Competitiveness and Technological Innovation in the Fashion Market: The Case of Inditex Holding, 1988-2007

[Abstract]

Montserrat Llonch, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Fashion and Competitiveness in the Catalan Knitting Districts, 1961-2004

[Abstract]

José Antonio Miranda, Universidad de Alicante

Competing in Fashion Goods: Firms and Industrial Districts in the Development of the Spanish Shoemaking Industry

[Abstract] [Paper]

Jordi Catalan, Universitat de Barcelona

Ramon Ramon-Muñoz, Universitat de Barcelona

The Origins of "Made in Spain" Fashion: Hub-Firm Clusters and Industrial Districts in Textiles, Clothing, and Shoemaking since the Golden Age

[Abstract]

2.E Fashion Marketing and Business Strategies

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Adrienne Sockwell, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Ingrid Giertz-Mårtenson, Centre for Business History, Stockholm

Jillian Taylor Lerner, University of British Columbia

Nineteenth-Century Fashion Illustration: A Genealogical Approach to the Marketing of Lifestyle

[Abstract]

Patricia A. Cunningham, The Ohio State University

Branding in the 1930s: The Case of B.V.D.

[Abstract]

Gayle Strege, The Ohio State University

Influences of Two Midwestern American Department Stores on Retailing Practices, 1883-1941

[Abstract] [Paper]

2.F Entrepreneurs and Fashion

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Lise Skov, Copenhagen Business School

Discussant: Valeria Pinchera, Università degli Studi di Pisa

Phyllis Dillon, Independent Scholar

German Jews as Nineteenth-Century Pioneers in the American Apparel Industry

[Abstract]

Rebecca Arnold, Royal College of Art

The Fashion Group: Women and Business in 1930s New York

[Abstract]

Yamauchi Yuki, Hitotsubashi University

The Fashion-Creation System in Japan, 1920-1930

[Abstract]

Sarah Scaturro, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Perfumes, Pragmatism, and Princesses: Lucien Lelong, President of Paris Fashion

[Abstract]

12:30-2:00pm

Lunch

Piazza Sraffa 13, Ground Floor

12:30-4:00pm

EBHA Council Meeting

Via Röntgen 1, Room 3-D3-SR01 (3d floor)

2:00-3:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 3

3.A L'Ideal et la Pensée: The Role of National Identity and "Thought" in Shaping French Multinational Enterprise Management and Practices

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Matthias Kipping, York University

Discussant: Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique Paris

Muriel LeRoux, CNRS

A Chemists' Community as a Forerunner in Management Change and Innovation in France during the Second Part of the Twentieth Century? The Case of the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, a CNRS Laboratory

[Abstract] [Paper]

Jacqueline McGlade, College of Saint Elizabeth

Advancing Camaraderie Through Chemistry: The Role of French Corporate Partnership in Du Pont's Development of Rayon

Caroline Piquet, Université Paris-Sorbonne

The Design of a Private Corporate Culture in a "Public Service" Activity: A Comparison of the French and British Approaches in the Suez Canal Company, 1869-1956

Pierre Jambard, université Paris-Sorbonne

Trends in the Building Industry: The Case of France after World War II

3.B Managing Intellectual Property in Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth Century

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow

Discussant: W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia

Kristine Bruland, University of Geneva

Keeping Secrets: Profiting from Innovation at Mustad & Son, 1830-1920

Richard John, University of Illinois at Chicago

Professor Morse's Lightning: The Political Econmy of Innovation in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Telegraph Business

Courtney Fullilove, Columbia University

A Wonderbook of Rubber: Anglo-American Claims to the Parã Rubber Tree

Anna Guagnini, Università di Bologna

Patenting Strategies in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Battle over the Electrical Transformer

3.C Business in Hitler's Europe, 1940-1944

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Hartmut Berghoff, German Historical Institute and University of Göttingen

Discussant: Stefan Schwarzkopf, Queen Mary University of London

Martin Horn, McMaster University

American Business and France, 1940-1941

[Abstract]

Pamela E. Swett, McMaster University

Keeping the Brand Alive: BMW's Advertising Department during the Second World War

Ben Wubs, Erasmus University

The Growth of Dutch Multinationals in Germany: The Case of Philips, 1920-1960

[Abstract]

3.D Can the Fashion Industry Sustain Ethical Fashion: Or Is It a Passing Trend?

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Francesco Morace, Future Concept Lab

Discussant: Mo Tomaney, Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design

Efrat Tseëlon, University of Leeds

In Search of the "Ethics" of Ethical Fashion

[Abstract]

Elisabeth Field, University of Leeds

Emma Hogg, University of Leeds

The Ethics of Promoting Skinny Fashion Models

[Abstract]

Sybil Goldfiner, CEO, Comme-il-faut

Comme-il-Faut: A Gold Standard for an Ethical Agenda

[Abstract]

Helen Lynn, Wildcard Research Communications

Toxic Beauty

[Abstract]

3.E Internationalism before World War II

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Mira Wilkins, Florida International University

Discussant: Peter Hertner, Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, University of Leicester, Birkbeck College, and National Audit Office (London)

The Organization of British Textile Exports to the River Plate and Chile: The Case of Hodgson & Robinson, an "autonomous free-standing house," c.1817-1843

[Abstract]

Kevin Tennent, London School of Economics

A Fashion for Investment or Management? Scottish Free-Standing Companies in the United States, 1880-1900

[Abstract]

Rowena Olegario, Vanderbilt University/Said Business School, Oxford University

American Businesses Assess Foreign Merchants, 1890-1940

[Abstract]

Christine Ruane, University of Tulsa

"A Spider's Web that Covered All of Russia": The Singer Sewing Machine Company and Imperial Russia's Economic War, 1914-1917

3.F Innovation, Fashion, and Modernity in the Management of Consumer Product Marketing in China

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Hazel Clark, Parsons, The New School of Design

Discussant: Simona Segre Reinach, IULM University, Milan, and IUAV University, Venice

Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California

Selling Knitting as Modernity: The Dongya Corporation in Tianjin, China, 1932-1937

[Abstract]

Ling-Ling Lien, Academia Sinica

"The Show Must Go On": Department Stores and the Making of Fashion in Shanghai during World War II

[Abstract]

Stephen L. Morgan, University of Nottingham

Selling Chinese Dreams: Fashion, Culture, and Discourse in Advertising in China between the Two World Wars

[Abstract]

Sabine Ichikawa, EHESS (Paris)

Licensing, Branding, and Cooperation in the Japanese and Chinese Fashion Industry

[Abstract]

3.G Using Sources

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Colin Divall, York University/National Railway Museum

Discussant: Laura Linard, Harvard Business School

Kim Hewitt, Empire State College

Mark Soderstrom, Empire State College

Dan Levinson Wilk, Fashion Institute of Technology

Teaching American History Through the Eye of the Needle

Ingrid Giertz-Mårtenson, Centre for Business History, Stockholm

H&M—Documenting the Story of the World's Largest Fashion Retailer

[Abstract]

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

Piazza Sraffa 13, Ground Floor

4:00-5:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 4

4.A Drink Up

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Michelle Craig McDonald, Stockton College

Discussant: Alfred Reckendrees, Center for Business History, Copenhagen Business School

Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Domesticating Drink: Refashioning Beer and Social Drinking in 1940s and 1950s America

[Abstract]

Graham D. Taylor, Trent University

Seagram Comes to Scotland: The Role of Local Players in the Overseas Expansion of a Canadian Multinational, 1949-1965

[Abstract] [Paper]

Valerio Varini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

A New Brand for a New Consumer: The Success of Campari between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century

[Abstract]

Gerald Crompton, University of Kent Business School

Changing Fashions in Drinks, Pubs, and Management in the UK Brewing Industry since 1960

4.B Whither Enron, Worldcom, and Sarbanes-Oxley: Fraud in Twenty-First-Century American Business

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Angel Kwolek-Folland, University of Florida

Discussant: Margaret B. W. Graham, McGill University

Virginia A. Maurer, University of Florida

The Criminal Sanction for Executive Fraud in the Post-Enron Period

[Abstract]

Cindy A. Schipani, University of Michigan

The Corporate Attorney-Client and Work Product Privileges: Things of the Past?

[Abstract]

Terry Morehead Dworkin, Indiana University

Whistleblowing and SOX: A Failure to Heed History

Chizu Nakajima, City University London

Corporate Scandals: A UK Perspective

4.C IT in Shaping Business Practices and Organizations

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Kurt Jacobsen, Copenhagen Business School

Discussant: Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School

Paul Thomes, RWTH Aachen University

Push and Pull: IT, Cashless Wage Payments, and Business Practices: The Case of the German Savings Banks and Mutual Banks in the 1950s and 1960s

Gustav Sjöblom, Chalmers University of Technology

Computers in Business:The Swedish Way?

Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, University of Leicester

J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Universidad de Coruña

Managing Technological Change by Committee: Origins and Deployment of Data Processing Networks in Spanish and British Savings Banks, c. 1960-1988

[Abstract]

4.D Collective Trademarks in Transnational Perspective, from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Patrick Fridenson, EHESS (Paris)

Discussant:Philip B. Scranton, Rutgers University/Hagley Museum and Library

Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio

Fashioning French Food: Marketing Terroir and Twentieth-Century Food Culture

Alessandro Stanziani, CNRS and EHESS (Paris)

French Collective Wine Branding in Comparative Perspective, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries

[Abstract]

Karl Gerth, Merton College, Oxford University

Appearing Patriotic: The Application of Nationality to Chinese Men's Fashions

[Abstract]

Corine Maitte, Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée

Labels, Brands, and Market Integration in the Modern Era

[Abstract] [Paper]

4.E Entrepreneurship

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Margaret Walsh, University of Nottingham

Discussant: Andrew Godley, University of Reading

R. Daniel Wadwhani, University of the Pacific

The Demise of Thomas W. Dyott: Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Panic in Nineteenth-Century America

Tiffany Gill, University of Texas at Austin

Fashioning Black Cosmopolitanism: Freddye Henderson and the Creation of the Postwar African American Travel Industry

Villa Vilaithong, Chulalongkorn University

Fashioning Thai Silk: Queen Sirikit, Jim Thompson, and the Silk Business in Thailand, 1950s-1960s

[Abstract]

4.F Internationalization in the Twentieth Century

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Takeshi Ohtowa, Hiroshima City University

Discussant: Carlo Brambilla, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

Maria Fernández Moya, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Old Empire's Revenues? The Internationalization of the Spanish Publishing Sector in Latin America

Rafael Castro Balaguer, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

The "Vending Machines": French Hypermarkets in Spain since the 1960s

[Abstract]

4.G Fashion Cities

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Michele Ruffat, CNRS

Discussant: Lou Taylor, Brighton University

Michelle Jones, University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, UK

The Evolution of London as a Fashion Center: Case Study of the Early Career of Victor Stiebel

[Abstract]

Anne Peirson-Smith, City University of Hong Kong

Going to the Fair? A History of Fashion Fairs and Fashion Week Events in Hong Kong

Shauna Brail, University of Toronto

Deborah Leslie, University of Toronto

Fashioning an Antidote to Fast Fashion: Can Toronto's Fashion Designers Compete?

[Abstract]

4.H Rags to Riches: Entrepreneurs and the Survival of Family Business in the Fabric, Clothing, and Fashion Industry

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-8

Chair: Kersti Ullenhag, Uppsala University

Discussant: Margrit Müller, University of Zurich

Hanlie dos Santos, University of Johannesburg

Fashion and Family Entrepreneurs: The Case of Jaff and Company on the Witwatersrand, 1930-1980

[Abstract]

Grietjie Verhoef, University of Johannesburg

Entrepreneur, Social Capital, and the Survival of Poor Whites on the Witwatersrand, 1930-2000: The Case of Burgers Brothers Clothing Enterprise

[Abstract]

Leandie Maritz, University of Johannesburg

Ingrid Thorius, University of Johannesburg

"Your Satisfaction, not mere profit is our aim": Colonial English Enterprise and the Textile Industry: Arthur Bales and Son, since 1902

[Abstract]

Alper Kayhan, University of Sheffield

Fashions in Doing the Business of Fashion: Insights from Family Firms in Turkish Textile and Clothing Industries

[Abstract]

5:45-7:00

Concurrent Sessions 5

5.A Fashioning Transportation: Creating and Challenging Gender Norms on Roads and Railroads in Britain and the United States

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Mathieu Flonneau, Université Paris-I

Discussant: The Audience

Colin Divall, York University/National Railway Museum

"You see, my husband's so partial to a mantel-shelf": The Railways' Gendered Construction of Britain's Passenger Trains, 1920-1939

[Abstract]

Albert Churella, Southern Polytechnic State University

The Clothes Make the Women: Skirts, Pants, and Railway Labor during World War II

[Abstract]

Margaret Walsh, University of Nottingham

Women and the American Automobile Industry: Changing the Gendered Landscape of Car Consumption after 1945

[Abstract]

5.B Culture, Institutions, and Overseas Investment: British Investment in the Dominions in the Age of High Imperialism

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Harilaos Kitsikopoulos, New York University

Discussant: Duncan Ross, University of Glasgow

Andrew Smith, Laurentian University

The Dollars and Cents of British Imperialism: The Political Economy of the Investment in Canada, 1867-1914

[Abstract]

Andrew Richard Dilley, University of Aberdeen

Empire and Risk: Edwardian Financiers, Australia, and Canada, c.1899-1914

[Abstract] [Paper]

Gary Magee, La Trobe University, Bundoora

Investors, Information, and the British World, 1860-1913

[Abstract]

5.C Individuals Who Influenced the Business of Fashion

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant: Paul Schmitz, Boston University

Judy K. Miler, Florida State University

Early Female Managers at Two Leading American Department Stores

[Abstract]

Lisa Hayes, Drexel University

Changing Business Practices in Fashion: Liz Claiborne, An American Innovator: A New Era of American Design

[Abstract] [Paper]

Cynthia Golembuski, Drexel University

Illustration in Fashion Publications and Retail Store Advertising in America: The Artist Behind the Look and the Resurrection of the Fashion Illustrator

[Abstract] [Paper]

5.D Unfashionable Topics in Business and Business History: Gender and Failure Studies Meet Ordinary Workers, Micro-Business Owners, and Business Historians

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair and Commentator: Pamela Walker Laird, University of Colorado at Denver

Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York, New Paltz

"Plodding Along as Usual": Microentrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century America

[Abstract]

Jocelyn Wills, Brooklyn College, CUNY

"By June the Affair Was a Hopeless Tangle"; and Other Tales in the Failure of Personal and Business Relationships

Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles

"The Personal is the Professional, or Is It?" Families, Friends, and Feminists at Harvard Business School, 1929-2000

5.E Black Men, White Women, and the Dark-Skinned Other: Fashioning Race and Business in Modern Japan

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Steven Zdatny, University of Vermont

Discussant: Juliet E. K. Walker, University of Texas at Austin

Christienne L. Hinz, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Situation the Dark-Skinned Other: Self-Colonization and Japanese Industrial Modernity in the Twentieth Century

J. Malia McAndrew, John Carroll University

Feminized Diplomacy: Japanese Fashion Magazines and U.S. Censorship in Occupied Japan

[Abstract]

Douglas Bristol, University of Southern Mississippi

Japanese Soul Brothers? The Afro Meets the U.S. Military in Japan, 1970

5.F Data for Business

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Paul J. Miranti, Rutgers University Business School

Discussant: Luca Zan, Bologna University

Riccardo Cella, University of Verona

Accounting in Pre-Industrial Venice: Balance Sheets, Law Suits, and Managerial Tools

Giovanni Favero, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Business Attitudes toward Official Statistical Investigation: An Italian Wool Industrialist from Reticence to Influence, 1861-1895

[Abstract]

Thierry Maillet, EHESS (Paris)

Fred Carlin: The Unknown Founder of the Oldest French Prediction Company

5.G What's New? Charitable Fashions in Business

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Marsha Lynn Shapiro Rose, Florida Atlantic University

Discussant: Ellen Hartigan O'Connor, University of California, Davis

Amanda Moniz, Yale University

Fashions in Philanthropy, or International Trends as a Challenge for Charities' Managers in the Early National United States

[Abstract]

Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College

Making Charity Fashionable: Female Reformers and the Prevention of Pauperism in Antebellum America

Inga Barbara Nuhn, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Current Fashion?

[Abstract]

7:00-8:00pm

Grand Opening

Aula Magna, Via Gobbi 5

Guido Tabellini, Rector, Università Bocconi

Alessandro Benetton, Deputy Executive Chairman, Benetton Group

Franco Amatori, Director, Institute of Economic History, Università Bocconi

Francesca Polese, Chair of Program Committee, Università Bocconi

Regina Blaszczyk, Co-Chair of Program Committee, University of Pennsylvania/Hagley Museum and Library

Reception Sponsored by Campari

Friday, June 12

8:00am-6:00pm

Registration

Piazza Sraffa 13

Book Exhibit

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-9

8:30-10:30am

Concurrent Sessions 6

6.A Business, Technology, and Infrastructure

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Joost Dankers, University of Utrecht

Discussant: Takeshi Yuzawa, Gakushuin University

Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine

John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara

Two Roads to the Transportation Revolution: Early Corporations in the U.K. and the United States

[Abstract]

Camilla Brautaset, University of Bergen

Stig Tenold, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

Lost in Calculation? Norwegian Merchant Shipping in Asia, 1870-1914

[Abstract]

Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics

The Global Supply of Lighting in 1900

[Abstract]

Kurt Jacobsen, Copenhagen Business School

Institutional Change and Path Dependency in Danish Telecom Development

6.B Family Firms: Comparative Perspectives on Management and Governance Styles

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Harold James, Princeton University

Discussant: Guido Corbetta, Università Bocconi

Andrea Colli, Università Bocconi

Ownership, Governance, and Strategies in Large Italian Family Firms

Paloma Fernández Pérez, Universitat de Barcelona

Nuria Puig, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Entrepreneurial Dynasties and the Competitive Advantage of Regions: The Case of Catalonia in a Long-Run Perspective

[Abstract]

Hans Sjögren, Linköping University

Dan Johannson, The Ratio Institute

Carl Magnus Bjuggren, The Ratio Institute

Family Business, Employment, and GDP

[Abstract]

Margrit Müller, University of Zurich

Family Firms in Switzerland: Continuity and Change in the Context of Globalization

[Abstract]

Abe de Jong, Rotterdam School of Management

Gerarda Westerhuis, Universiteit Utrecht

Governance Transitions in Family Firms: A Meta-Analysis

6.C Textile Fashions in Pre-Industrial Times: Products and Market

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Paola Lanaro, University of Venice Ca' Foscari

Discussant: Miki Sugiura, Tokyo International University

Francesco Ammannati, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Florentine Woollen Manufacture in the Sixteenth Century: Crisis and New Entrepreneurial Strategies

[Abstract] [Paper]

Edoardo Demo, Verona University

Wool and Silk: New Products and New Manufacture in the Venetian Mainland (15th and 16th Centuries)

Christof Jeggle, University of Bamberg

The Manufacture of Linen in Early Modern Westphalia: Fashions of Products, Fashions of Organizing Production

[Abstract]

Daryl M. Hafter, Eastern Michigan University

Silk and Sales in Eighteenth-Century France

Sara Piccolo Paci, Fashion Institute of Technology, Florence

Dressing for God, Dressing for Men: Liturgical Vestments in the Christian Church as a Sign of Spiritual Richness and Political Strength

[Abstract]

6.D Profits without Ethics

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow

Discussant: Christopher Kobrak, ESCP-EAP

Jochen Streb, University of Hohenheim

Directing German Firms by Investment and Procurement Contracts in the Third Reich

Joachim Lund, Copenhagen Business School

Building Hitler's Europe: Forced Labor at Danish Cement Factories and Building Contractors in Germany and German-Occupied Territories, 1939-1945

[Abstract]

Marcel Boldorf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

The Profits of Entrepreneurs in Occupied France, 1940-1944

Jonas Scherner, German Historical Institute

Profits and Ethics in Nazi Autarky

Neil Forbes, University of Coventry

Capitalism and the Fascist Challenge: British and American Multinational Enterprise in the 1930s

[Abstract]

Steen Andersen, Copenhagen Business School

Between Imperative and Risk: The Case of Christiani & Nielsen's Market Entry in Norway, 1941-1945

[Abstract]

6.E Regulating Business

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University

Discussant: William R. Childs, The Ohio State University

Christy Chapin, University of Virginia

Meeting the 1950s Consumer Ideal in Health Care

[Abstract] [Paper]

Roman Koester, University of Glasgow

Stephen Sambrook, University of Glasgow

Learning to Cope with Consumerism: The Management of Domestic Waste in Britain and West Germany, 1945 to the mid-1970s

Eline Poelmans, Catholic University of Leuven

The Mixed Economy and the Concentration of the Coal Companies in the European Coal and Steel Community between 1952 and 1967

[Abstract] [Paper]

Robert Denning, The Ohio State University

Water Pollution in the Creative Society: Industry and Environmental Regulation under California Governor Ronald Reagan

Marine Moguen-Toursel, Centre of Historical Research, EHESS

The Emergence of Safety Issues: Risk, Road Safety, and Expertise

6.F Corporate Governance

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, Athens University of Economics and Business

Discussant: Hubert Bonin, Science Po Bordeaux

Janette Rutterford, Open University Business School

The Shareholder Voice: British and American Accents, 1890 to 1965

[Abstract]

Mary O'Sullivan, The Wharton School

Merchants and Moguls on the US Securities Markets, 1885-1930

Muriel Petit-Konczyk, University of Lille 2

Multiple Voting Shares in France during the Interwar Period

[Abstract]

Anton Ehlers, University of Stellenbosch

South African Trust Companies and Boards of Executors and the Bank Act, 1942: From Self-Regulating "Financial Aristocrats" to Statutorily Controlled Deposit-Receiving Institutions

[Abstract]

Teresa A. Koncick, Florida State University

Mother Merrill: The Corporate Culture of Inclusion at Merrill Lynch & Co.

6.G Reassessing Americanization

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Jacqueline McGlade, College of Saint Elizabeth

Discussant: Luciano Segreto, Università di Firenze

Jason Petrulis, Columbia University

Marketing the American Way: The Failed Campaign to Sell the American Economic System, 1946-1950

Michele Alacevich, Università degli Studi di Palermo

The Rise and Fall of the World Bank's Economic Department: Economic Research at the World Bank in the Early 1950s

[Abstract]

Dominique Barjot, Université Paris-Sorbonne

The Americanization of the European Cement Industry: LaFarge in Comparative Perspective, from Fashion to a Structural Change

[Abstract]

Simone Selva, Università di Bologna

Industrial Modernization and Transatlantic Relations: Technological Drift and Resistance in the Case of the U.S. Military Assistance to Italy in the Early Cold War Years

Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow

The Internationalization of Production and the Balance of Payments in the 1960s: An Anglo-American Comparison

[Abstract]

6.H Selling Beauty

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-8

Chair: Per Boje, University of Southern Denmark

Discussant: Sabine Ichikawa, EHESS (Paris)

Emanuela Scarpellini, Università degli Studi di Milano

Selling Fashion and Beauty: Avon International

[Abstract]

Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

Going Green: The Growth of Natural Beauty

[Abstract]

Shakila Yacob, University of Malaya

Branding Beauty: Indigenous Knowledge to the Forefront

[Abstract]

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

Foyer, Via Gobbi 5

Sponsored by Imprese e Storia

Fashion Institute of Technology Exhibit

"Beauty, Brains, Bergdorf's, and Bytes: The Collective Memory of Art, Design, Business, and Technology in FIT's Department of Special Collections and Archives"

11:00am-12:30pm

Krooss Prize Dissertation Session

Aula Magna, Via Gobbi 5

Chair: David Hancock, University of Michigan

Discussant: The audience

Michael Easterly, University of California, Los Angeles

Your Job is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885-1920 (UCLA)

Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology

"Industrial Legislatures": Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions (Johns Hopkins University)

Dominique Tobbell, University of Minnesota

Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945-1980 (University of Pennsylvania)

12:30-2:00pm

Lunch

Piazza Sraffa 13, Ground Floor

Business Historians at Business Schools Lunch

Via Röntgen 1, Floor -2

2:00-3:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 7

7.A From Vionnet to Dior: Strategies of Exclusivity and Dissemination of Paris Haute Couture

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School

Discussant: Dilys Blum, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Veronique Pouillard, Harvard Business School

Paris-New York: The Problem of Copyright and the Dissemination of Haute Couture, 1925-1955

Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum

Christian Dior: Forging a Global Network in Postwar France

[Abstract]

Florence Brachet Champsaur, EHESS (Paris)

Aux Galeries Lafayette and the Couture Industry, 1893-1952

[Abstract]

Caroline Evans, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

The Mathematics of Fashion: Jean Patou's "Américainisme"

7.B Fashions in Management

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Steve Tolliday, University of Leeds

Discusssant: Matthias Kipping, York University

Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York

Is There Such Thing as Fashions in Branding?

Ludovic Cailluet, University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management

Fashion, Institutions, and Management Practices: Evidence from Strategic Planning at Air France from the 1960s to the 1990s

Anne Pezet, Université Paris-Dauphine

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a Deeply Rooted Fashion? The Aluminium of Cameroon Company Case, 1954-2005

[Abstract]

John Wilson, University of Liverpool

Simon Bishop, University of Nottingham

Management Fashions and Management Consultants: The Case of Trebor 1907-1989

7.C Intangible Assets in Capital-Intensive Industries

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

Discussant: Maria Inés Barbero, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires

Guillermo Guajardo, UNAM, Mexico

Human Capital in Hostile Environments: The Process of Slow Creation and Quick Loss of Talented Individuals in the Industrial Labor Markets of Mexico and Chile, 1850-1930—The Case of the Railways

[Abstract]

Eugenio Torres, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Creation and Development of Intangible Assets in Large Spanish Construction Firms during Twentieth Century

Jesùs M. Valdaliso, Universidad del País Vasco

Santiago López, Universidad de Salamanca

Aitziber Elola, Orkestra—Basque Institute of Competitiveness

Mari Jose Aranguren, Orkestra—Basque Institute of Competitiveness

Social Capital, Competitiveness, and Internationalization: The Electronics and ICT Cluster of the Basque Country

[Abstract]

Javier Vidal, Universidad de Alicante

Transport and Intangibles: The Spanish Airlines Sector, 1960-2008

[Abstract]

7.D Banking Models

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Tsuneo Sakamoto, Meiji University

Discussant: Youssef Cassis, University of Geneva

Hubert Bonin, Science Po Bordeaux

Fashion Trends in Banking Business Models, since the 1850s

[Abstract] [Paper]

Lars Fredrik Øksendal, Norwegian School of Economics and Business

Great Expectations: Dividend Policy and Financial Fragility in Norwegian Banking before 1914

[Abstract]

Giandomenico Piluso, University of Siena and Bocconi

Is a More Regulated Investment Banking Sector More Efficient? Tendencies in Regulatory Policies and the Italian Case, 1936-1993

[Abstract]

Christine Zumello, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3

Starting a Fashion in the 1960s: First National City Bank, the "Everything Card," and the Consumer Movement in the United States

7.E Science and Business

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant: Knut Sogner, Norwegian School of Management

Maki Umemura, Cardiff Business School

Medical Fashions: The Traditional Medicines Industry in Modern Japan, 1868-2005

[Abstract]

Vera Hierholzer, Goethe-Universität

Michael Schneider, Goethe-Universität

Science within Industry: A Fashionable Enterprise?

Roberto Mazzoleni, Hofstra University

Before Bayh-Dole: Interactions between NIH Grantees and Pharmaceutical Firms from 1945 to 1962

[Abstract]

7.F Reinventing Tradition

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum

Discussant: Sara Piccolo Paci, Fashion Institute of Technology, Florence

Monika Værholm, Nowegian School of Economics and Business Administration

The Norwegian Selbu Mitten Industry

Benedita Câmara, University of Madeira

The Institutional Control of Innovation: The Case of Embroidery in Madeira

[Abstract]

Janneken Smucker, University of Delaware

Crafting Fashion: The Niche Market for Amish Quilts

[Abstract]

Fatma Ozturk, Gazi University

Esen Coruh, Gazi University

Usability of Our Historical Heritage: Buldan Woven Fabric in the Fashion Industry

7.G Refashioning Business Communities through Economic Regime Transitions: Entrepreneurs, Firms, and the Marketplace

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair and Discussant: Parks Coble, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Elisabeth Köll, Harvard Business School

From Colonial Enterprise to Socialist Work Unit: Railroad Companies and the Transformation of Chinese Society and Economy

[Abstract]

Regina Abrami, Harvard Business School

Get Some Class! Socialist Transformations of Commerce in Chengdu City, 1949-1960

Sergey A. Kizima, Academy of Public Administration, Belarus

Mary A. Kizima, Belarusian State University

The Development of Business Styles in Post-Soviet Russia and Belarus

[Abstract] [Paper]

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

Foyer, Via Gobbi 5

Sponsored by Imprese e Storia

Fashion Institute of Technology Exhibit

"Beauty, Brains, Bergdorf's, and Bytes: The Collective Memory of Art, Design, Business, and Technology in FIT's Department of Special Collections and Archives"

4:00-5:30

EBHA Plenary: Fashion and Fashions between Business and Creativity

Aula Magna, Via Gobbi 5

Chair: Guido Corbetta, Bocconi University

Maurizio Borletti, Chairman of La Rinascente srl and Upim srl

Giancarlo Iliprandi, Iliprandi Associati

Carlo Rivetti, Sportswear Company SpA

5:45-7:00pm

Concurrent Sessions 8

8.A Automobile Industries and Auto Industry Historiography in Comparative Perspective

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Richard John, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussant: Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez, , Università Bocconi and Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve

Patrick Fridenson, EHESS (Paris)

Internalizing Finance in Industry: The Case of Simca, 1956-1962

[Abstract]

Giuliano Maielli, Queen Mary University of London

Killing an Icon in the Name of Speed: Production Managers and the Decline of Lancia in the 1970s

[Abstract]

8.B A Long-Run Approach to Intangible Assets Creation through Branding

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Mary B. Rose, Lancaster University

Discussant: Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York

Andrea Lluch, Harvard Business School

U.S. Companies in Argentina: Marketing Strategies and Trademark Protection, 1900-1930

[Abstract]

Marìa Inés Barbero, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires

Intangible Assets in the Long Run: The Experience of the Grimoldi Brand in Argentina, 1895-2005

Patricio Sáiz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Paloma Fernández Pérez, Universitat de Barcelona

Intangible Assets and Competitiveness in Spain: An Approach through Trademark Registration Data in Catalonia, 1850-1946

[Abstract]

John Uggen, Willamette University

Decoding Cultural Values in Alcoholic Beverage Advertising: A Semiotic Analysis of a Century of Beer Advertising by the National Beer Company of Ecuador

[Abstract]

8.C East-Asian Shopping: The Fashions of Buying and Scholarly Fashions

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: James Watson, Harvard University

Discussant: Hazel Clark, Parsons, The New School for Design

Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Everything Also I Want: Another Look at Consumer Culture in Contemporary Singapore

[Abstract] [Paper]

Bryant Simon, Temple University

Up Close in the Flat World: Learning about the Global at a Local Starbucks in Singapore

[Abstract] [Paper]

Tomoko Okawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Awareness and Penetration of European Luxury Goods in Japan, Especially in the Context of Postwar Mass Consumption

[Abstract]

Chin-tao Wu, Academia Sinica

Hermès in Asia: Haute Couture, High Art, and the Marketplace

[Abstract]

8.D Political Economy

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University

Discussant: Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow

Laura D. Phillips, University of Virginia

A Crisis in Economic Thought and the Rise of the Fair Trade Controversy: Changing Business Fashions, 1880-1940

Anna Spadavecchia, University of Reading

John Cantwell, Rutgers University

Innovation and British Regions in the Interwar Period: A Preliminary Discussion

[Abstract]

Leah M. Wright, Princeton University

The Black Cabinet: Black Republicans, the Nixon Administration, and the Development of an Economic Civil Rights Movement

[Abstract]

8.E Roundtable: Teaching Styles in Business History Cases: Problems, Experiences, and Perspectives

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Richard Sylla, Stern School of Business, New York University

Discussant: Markus Venzin, Università Bocconi

Andrea Colli, Università Bocconi

Ludovic Cailluet, University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management

Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School

Matthias Kipping, York University

Jeffrey Fear, University of Redlands

David Kirsch, University of Maryland

8.F European Fashions and Manufacturing Strategies in Pre-Industrial Times

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Paola Lanaro, University of Venice Ca' Foscari

Discussant: Miki Sugiura, Tokyo International University

Barbara Bettoni, Brescia University

Fashionable Accessories: Tradition and Innovation in Button Manufacturing in Northern Italy, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century

[Abstract] [Paper]

Giovanni Favero, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

After Foreign Fashions: Ceramics Import Substitution and Privileged Manufactuers in the Venetian Republic, 17th-18th Centuries

[Abstract]

Marion M.A. Huibrechts, Leuven University

Liége-Made Sport and Hunting Guns and Their Decoration, 17th-18th Centuries

[Abstract]

Andrea Caracausi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Following the Fashions: Old Styles, New Styles in Textile Manufactures (North-Eastern Italy, 17th-18th Century)

8.G Fashionable Corporate Networks in Periods of Continuity and Change

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Giandomenico Piluso, University of Siena and Bocconi

Discussant: Joep Schenk, Universiteit Utrecht

Gerarda Westerhuis, Universiteit Utrecht

Abe de Jong, Erasmus University

The Individual Manager and the Transfer of "Corporate Fashions": Measuring the Effects of the Dutch Corporate Network, 1948-2003

Thomas David, University of Lausanne

Martin Lüpold, University of Zurich

Gerhard Schnyder, Cambridge University

The Construction of the Fortress of the Alps: Business Networks in Switzerland, 1900-1938

Alberto Rinaldi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Michelangelo Vasta, University of Siena

State-Owned Enterprises in the Italian Corporate Network, 1972-1983

[Abstract] [Paper]

Paul Windolf, University of Trier

The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1900-1933

7:30-9:00pm

Emerging Scholars Reception

Restaurant "Volo," Viale Beatrice d'Este, 40

Sponsored by the Fashion Institute of Technology

Saturday, June 13

8:00am-3:00pm

Registration

Piazza Sraffa 13

Book Exhibit

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-9

8.30-10.30

Concurrent Sessions 9

9.A Transportation in the United States and France: Structural Factors in Railway Transport

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Richard Vahrenkamp, University of Kassel

Discussant: André Straus, CHEFF

Jim Cohen, John Jay College, CUNY

Ownership of Railway Stock in France and the United States, 1840-1940: The Mystery of Missing Data and Why That Matters

[Abstract] [Paper]

Benjamin Schwantes, Widener University

Regulating the Telegraph: Train Dispatching, Telephony, and the 1907 Hours of Service Act

[Abstract]

Michèle Merger, CNRS

High-Speed Rail in France and in Italy in Comparative Perspective

Stéphanie Sauget, Université Rennes 2

Parisian Railway Stations as Place of Social Regulation

Maria Eugénia Mata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Fashionable Pricing Systems for Railroad Services in Europe in the 1880s

[Abstract]

9.B All in the Family

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Daniela Felisini, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Discussant: Paloma Fernández Pérez, Universitat de Barcelona

Fermín Allende, University of the Basque Country

Poor Thomas Buddenbrook! Family Business in Literature

[Abstract] [Paper]

Juha Kansikas, University of Jyväskylä

Tuomas Kuhmonen, University of Jyväskylä

Anne Laakkonen

Preparing for Family Business Succession: Evolutionary Selection and Variation in American and Finnish Family Firms

[Abstract]

Eldon Bernstein, Lynn University

Fred Carstensen, University of Connecticut

An American Success Story—Keep It Simple: The Wiffle Ball®, Inc.

[Abstract] [Paper]

Christina Lubinski, University of Göttingen

Family, Inc.—Fashions in Family Business Management and Corporate Culture, Germany ca. 1960 to 2005

[Abstract]

9.C Exploring "the European Enterprise": Strategy, Structure, and Market Integration

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: John Wilson, University of Liverpool

Discussant: Harm Schröter, University of Bergen

Andrea Colli, Università Bocconi

Business Groups and Family Enterprises: Italy and the Strategy-Structure Responses to the Economic Integration Process, 1980-2005

Veronica Binda, Università Bocconi

The Transition from European Periphery to Mediterranean Core: The Largest Spanish Corporations and the Responses to Economic Integration, 1980-2005

[Abstract]

Abe de Jong, Erasmus University

Strategic and Structural Responses to International Dynamics in the Open Dutch Economy, 1957-2007

Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School

Gerarda Westerhuis, Utrecht University

Explaining the Transformation of the Banking Sector: An Analytical Model of Corporate Responses to European Integration

9.D Organizational Change

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Renato Giannetti, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Discussant: Susanna Fellman, University of Helsinki

Marina Nicoli, Università Bocconi

Transplanting Trendy Organizational Forms: Does It Always Work?

Pierre E. Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS

Service Bureau: From "Local Processing" to Outsourcing, 1930s-1970s

Hugo van Driel, Rotterdam School of Management

Jeroen Kuilman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Fashions in Business Names: The Demise of an Organizational Form in Dutch Warehousing, 1871-2007

[Abstract]

Laura M. Milanes-Reyes, State University of New York, Albany

Media Influence in Corporate Organizational Processes: Business History Contributions to the Debate?

[Abstract]

9.E Managing Big Business

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Francesca Fauri, University of Bologna

Discussant: Adoración Álvaro Moya, University of Barcelona

Jan-Otmar Hesse, University of Göttingen

Studying the Absence of a Fashion: Entrepreneurship in Germany during the 1970s

Christian Reuber, Goethe-Universität

Management Development in Germany's Big Business

[Abstract]

Benjamin Waterhouse, Harvard University

Making Business Fashionable: American Corporate Leaders and Their Discontents in the 1970s

[Abstract]

Mary Quek, University of Hertfordshire

Growth of Four UK Hotel Companies with the Use of Merger and Acquisition Activities, 1979-2004

[Abstract]

9.F Advertising

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Paul Schmitz, Boston University

Discussant: Veronique Pouillard, Harvard Business School

Stefan Schwarzkopf, Queen Mary University of London

What Was Advertising? The Invention, Rise, Demise, and Disappearance of Advertising Concepts in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe and America

[Abstract] [Paper]

Damayanthie Eluwawalage, State University of New York, Oneonta

The Function and Mission of Advertising in the Nineteenth Century

[Abstract]

Monica Neve, University of Constance

Advertising and the Middle-Class Female Consumer in Munich, c. 1900-1914

[Abstract] [Paper]

Peter Scott, University of Reading

James Walker, University of Reading

Marketing to the Masses: The Weekly Cycle of Working-Class Expenditure and the Growth of Mass Marketing Strategies in 1930s Britain

Sule Civitci, Gazi University

Basak Bogday Saygili, Gazi University

Advertisements Used in Fashion Products and Customer Perceptions Concerning Advertisements

[Abstract]

9.G Synthetics

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Andrew Popp, University of Liverpool

Discussant: Regina Blaszczyk, University of Pennsylvania/Hagley Museum and Library

Mary Rose, Lancaster University

Mike Parsons, Lancaster University

Lead-User Innovation and the UK Outdoor Trade since 1850

[Abstract] [Paper]

Maria Bonadio, SENAC College

Synthetic Fibers and the "Clothing Revolution": Art, "Haute-Couture," and Popular Culture in Fashion Advertising in Brazil in the 1960s

[Abstract]

Soojeong Kang, London School of Economics

Managing Technology to Achieve Industrialization: The Korean Nylon Chaebols in the 1960s-1970s

Alexander Engel, University of Göttingen

Coloring Markets: The Industrial Transformation of the Dyestuff Business Revisited

[Abstract]

9.H Fashion, Production and Place

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-8

Chair: Norma Rantisi, Concordia University

Discussant: The Audience

Leonard N. Rosenband, Utah State University

Taste, Technique, and the Mechanization of Papermaking in Britain and France

[Abstract]

Silvia Conca Messina, Università degli Studi di Milano

Manufacturing, Trade, Consumption. Firms and Goods in Lombardy between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Monika Poettinger, Università Bocconi

Fashionable Productions: Cotton and the Industrialization of Milan

[Abstract]

Francesca Carnevali, University of Birmingham

Lucy Newton, University of Reading

"Made in England": The Manufacturing and Marketing of English Household Goods, 1851-1914

Tomoko Hashino, Kobe University

Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University

Competition and Cooperation for the Fashion Market: The Development of a Textile District in Japan Supported by the Functions of a Trade Association

[Abstract]

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

Piazza Sraffa 13, Ground Floor

Sponsored by Routledge

11:00am-12:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 10

10.A Made in Italy

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Louise Wallenberg, Stockholm University

Discussant: Lise Skov, Copenhagen Business School

Paola Varacca Capello, Università Bocconi

Davide Ravasi, Università Bocconi

The Variety and the Evolution of Business Models and Organizational Forms in the Italian Fashion Industry

[Abstract] [Paper]

Valeria Pinchera, Università di Pisa

The Export Performance of the Italian Fashion System in the EU Context, Post-World War II Years

[Abstract]

Michela Barbot, Università Bocconi

Gilding the Italian Design: The Compasso d'Oro Award as Institutional Support to the Design System, 1954-2008

[Abstract]

John Potvin, University of Guelph

Emerging Markets: Giorgio Armani and the Designs of Expansion

[Abstract]

10.B Nationalism and Development around the World

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Pierangelo Toninelli, Bicocca University

Discussant: Stig Tenold, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Adminstration

Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Multinational Corporations, Business Groups, and Economic Nationalism: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Royal Dutch-Shell, and Energy Politics in Chile, 1913-2005

[Abstract]

Neveen Abdelrehim, York Management School

Josephine Maltby, York Management School

Steven Toms, York Management School

Oil Nationalization and Managerial Response: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 1951

[Abstract]

Stephanie Decker, University of Liverpool

Kaiser, Nkrumah, and the Cold War: Negotiating an Integrated Development Project in Newly Independent Ghana, 1959-1966

10.C Striking a Bargain: State and Labor

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Marc J. Stern, Bentley College

Discussant: Barbara Hahn, Texas Technological University

Bruce E. Baker, Royal Holloway, University of London

Supplying the Cheap Labor for the South's Postwar Textile Industry: A Case Study of Greenville County, South Carolina, 1860-1885

Morten Lind Larsen, Copenhagen Business School

The Confederation of Danish Industry and the Shaping of the Welfare State, 1945-1961

[Abstract]

Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow

Ralf Banken, University of Frankfurt

"No Steel, No TV, and No Burgers": How Industrial Action in a Single Company Threatened to Bring the British Economy to a Standstill

[Abstract]

Joseph Arena, The Ohio State University

The Little Car That Did Nothing Right: The 1972 Lordstown Assemble Strike, the Chevrolet Vega, and the Unraveling of Growth Economics

10.D Networking and News

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: Margaret B. W. Graham, McGill University

Discussant: Andrea Giuntini, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Gerben Bakker, London School of Economics

Trading Facts: Arrow's Fundamental Paradox and the Emergence of Global News Networks, 1750-1900

[Abstract]

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, University of Oxford

Business, Politics, Technology, and the International Supply of News, 1850-1945

Christoffer Rydland, Stockholm School of Economics

Networking and Corporate Governance in the Regional Swedish Daily Newspaper Industry

[Abstract]

10.E Merchants, Markets, and Stores

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Ellen Hartigan O'Connor, University of California, Davis

Discussant: Andrea Caracausi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Isabella Cecchini, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

The Role of Mercers in Early Modern Venice

Elizabeth Currie, Victoria & Albert Museum

Taking on the Fashion Business: The Rising Fortunes of the Mercer in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Florence

[Abstract]

Katalin Medvedev, University of Georgia

Trading Places: Women Offer a Different Take on Downtown St. Paul Business in 1939

[Abstract] [Paper]

10.F Cooperation and Cartels

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Dominique Barjot, Université Paris-Sorbonne

Discussant: Margaret C. Levenstein, University of Michigan

Bram Bouwens, Universiteit Utrecht

Joost Dankers, Universiteit Utrecht

Competition on the Catwalk: Coordination and Concentration in Dutch Business: The Sequence of Collusive Practices, 1900-2000

[Abstract]

Marco Bertilorenzi, Università degli Studi di Firenze

The "Aluminium-Rush": International Cartels and the Birth of the Japanese Aluminium Industry, 1926-1939

[Abstract]

Michael Funke, Uppsala University

Swedish Business Associations and the Self-Regulation of Advertising, 1950-1971

[Abstract]

10.G Piracy and Fraud

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Corine Maitte, Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée

Discussant: Alessandro Stanziani, CNRS and EHESS (Paris)

Marianne Dahlén, Uppsala University

A Nice Pair? Fashion and Piracy from a Legal and Business History Perspective

[Abstract]

Christopher McKenna, Oxford University

Edward Balleisen, Duke University

Dodgy Business, After a Fashion: A Historical Framework for Understanding Fraud and White Collar Crime

Jean L. Parsons, Iowa State University

Sara B. Marcketti, Iowa State University

The Fashionable Business of Design Piracy in the Apparel Industry: The Historical Perspective

[Abstract]

10.H Urban Business Politics

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-8

Chair: Stefania Licini, University of Bergamo

Discussant: Bryant Simon, Temple University

Frida Östman, Uppsala University

Regulatory Regime Change in the Swedish Residential Mortgage Market

[Abstract] [Paper]

Loubna Bouamane, Université Paris VII and Louisiana State University

Ralph Maurer, Louisiana State University

Un-Learning Institutions: Louisiana Contractors' Response to the Post-Katrina Relaxation of Set-Aside Programs

[Abstract]

12:30-2:00pm

Lunch

Piazza Sraffa 13, Ground Floor

Women in Business History Lunch

Via Röntgen 1, Floor -2

2:00-3:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 11

11.A Nordic Design

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

Chair: Louise Wallenberg, Stockholm University

Comment: Dirk Gindt, Stockholm University

Jaakko Autio, University of Helsinki

Finnish Design, Functionality, and Ease: Brand Management in the Finnish Household Product Industry from the 1960s to the 1980s

[Abstract]

Kristoffer Jensen, University of Southern Denmark

Business Fashion and Change of Business Fashion in the Danish Fashion Industry

[Abstract]

Birgit Lyngbye Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School

In the Wake of Scandianavian Modern: A Study of Danish Fashion Promotion, 1960s to 2008

11.B Women at Work

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

Chair: Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York, New Paltz

Discussant: Lina Galvez Munoz, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Kim Todt, Cornell University

An Early Modern Supply Chain: The Roles of Women in the Beaver Trade from Procurers to Consumers

[Abstract]

Heinrich Hartmann, Free University of Berlin

When the Salesgirl Sniffs Perfume: Interference of Bourgeois and Corporate Culture in European Department Stores around 1900

Olga Vainshtein, Russian State University for the Humanities

Invisible Business: Private Dressmaking in Soviet Russia

[Abstract]

Kajsa Holmberg, Lund University

Maria Stanfors, Lund University

Setting a Trend: Feminization of the Commercial Bank Sector in Sweden, 1864-1975

[Abstract] [Paper]

11.C Fast Cars

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-3

Chair: Jonathan Russ, University of Delaware

Discussant: Mathieu Flonneau, Université Paris-I

Alan Guido Mantoan, Università Bocconi

Motor Racing Competitions as Fashion: The Influence on Alfa Romeo's Image, 1924-1951

[Abstract]

Ingo Köhler, Göttingen University

Car Design under a Marketing Paradigm: The German Automobile Industry and the Challenges of the Energy Price Crisis in the 1970s

[Abstract]

11.D Brands and Trademarks: Views from the Periphery

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-4

Chair: John Wilson, University of Liverpool

Discussant: Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio

David Hancock, University of Michigan

The Emergence of Brand: Transatlantic Markets for Wine, 1750-1820

Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley

Service Marks and Union Labels

Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo, Universidad de Murcia

New Trends in World Wine Consumption and Their Impact on Spanish Wineries during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

[Abstract]

David M. Higgins, University of York

Who's Kidding Who? British Business and Merchandise Marks during the Interwar Years

[Abstract]

11.E That's Entertainment!

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-5

Chair: Seiichiro Yonekura, Hitotsubashi University

Discussant: Gerben Bakker, London School of Economics

Andrew D. A. Bozanic, University of Delaware

Fashioning the Sounds of Hawaii: Roy Smeck and the Business of Hawaiian-Style Guitars

[Abstract]

Peter Miskell, University of Reading

Global Firms and Local Tastes: U.S. Film Multinationals in Their Largest Foreign Market in the 1930s and 1940s

Richard Coopey, Aberystwyth University

Terry Gourvish, London School of Economics

Controlling Fashion: Enterprise and the Popular Music Industry in Britain, 1950-1980

Norma M. Rantisi, Concordia University

Deborah Leslie, University of Toronto

Creativity and Place in the Evolution of a Cultural Industry: The Case of Cirque du Soleil

[Abstract]

11.F Reflections on Business History

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-6

Chair: Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant: Franco Amatori, Università Bocconi

Dalit Baranoff, Johns Hopkins University

The Rediscovery of the Heroic Entrepreneur

Sigfrido Ramirez, European University Institute

Business History and European Integration: From Fashion to a New Research Agenda

Christopher Kobrak, ESCP-EAP

Business History and Economic Value Creation: A Discussion of the Problems and Opportunities

[Abstract]

11.G Applying "Science"

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-7

Chair: Harm Schröter, University of Bergen

Discussant: Fabio Lavista, Università Bocconi

Jørgen Burchardt, National Museum of Science and Technology, Denmark

Introduction of New Management Concepts: When Scientific Management Came to Europe

[Abstract]

Kyle Bruce, Aston Business School

Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations

[Abstract]

Francesca Tesi, UniversitéParis IV-Sorbonne

The Application of Taylorism in France: The Role of the Michelin Family in the Rationalization of French Work

[Abstract] [Paper]

Paul J. Miranti, Rutgers University Business School

Industrial Design and Organizational Learning: The Development of the Hand-Set Telephone at the Bell System in the 1920s

11.H Fashion Spread

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-8

Chair: Sarah Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant: Diana Crane, University of Pennsylvania

Sheila Gies, Manchester Metropolitan University

In Europe and Abroad: Fashion Diffusion Theories in Differing Cultural Contexts

[Abstract]

William Scott, University of Delaware

Fashion Spread: The Diffusion of California Men's Leisure Styles, 1930-1970

Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School

Defining Fashion: The Role of Media in Constructing the Meaning of the Fashion Industry in India

Simona Segre Reinach, IULM University, Milan, and IUAV University, Venice

Fashion and National Identity: Interactions between Italians and Chinese in the Global Fashion Industry

[Abstract] [Paper]

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

Piazza Sraffa 13, Ground Floor

4:00-4:30pm

Book Auction

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-9

4:30-5:30pm

BHC General Meeting

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-1

4:30-5:30

EBHA General Meeting

Piazza Sraffa 13, Room N.1-2

5:30-6:15pm

BHC Presidential Address

Via Röntgen 1, Aula Magna

Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University

The Politics of Rescuing Financial Institutions, 2008-2009

6:30-7:45pm

Chandler Reception (BHC Award Ceremony)

Via Röntgen 1, Foyer

8:00pm

Gala Dinner

Via Röntgen 1, Foyer