2016 Program
The Program Committee for the 2016 meeting consisted of Rowena Olegario (chair), University of Oxford; Margaret Graham (BHC president), McGill University; Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and Julia Yongue, Hosei University.
“Reinterpretation”
Thursday, March 31
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. BHC Doctoral Colloquium
Portland State University
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Professional Development Workshop
Roy Yates
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibit Setup
Mezzanine
1:30-3:15 p.m.: BHC Workshop 1: Promoting Business History, Promoting Ourselves: Mastering the Techniques of Media Relations
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Rowena Olegario, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Albert Churella, Kennesaw State University; Per Hansen, Copenhagen Business School; Richard Sylla, New York University and Chairman, Museum of American Finance; Natalya Vinokurova, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
3:30-5:00 p.m.: BHC Workshop 2: "What They Didn¹t Tell Us In Graduate School: Navigating To Tenure or to a Permanent Contract in Europe and the U.S."
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Steve Usselman, Georgia Tech
Stephanie Dyer, Sonoma State University; Anne-Kristen Bergquist, Umeå University; Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique; Pamela W. Laird, University of Colorado Denver
4:00-7:00 p.m. BHC Trustee Meeting
Gevurtz Ceremonial Room
7:15-8:30 p.m.: Opening Plenary
Colonel Lindberg Ballroom
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, "Making Business History Matter"
8:30-10:00 p.m.: Reception
Queen Marie Ballroom
Sponsored by Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
Friday, April 1
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
Mezzanine
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea
Mezzanine
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Exhibits
Mezzanine
8:30-10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 1
1.A Sinews of Connection: Capitalism and Technology Transfer within and to East Asia
Sam Hill
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Discussant: Julia Yongue, Hosei University
David G. Wittner, Utica College
When It Comes to Being Modern, Size Matters: Technology Transfer and Modernity in Meiji JapanJeffer Daykin, Portland Community College
The Adoption – and Adaptation – of International Expositions by Japan and ChinaElizabeth Ingleson, University of Sydney
Cold War Development: American Technology Sales to China During Rapprochement
1.B Reinterpreting American Money and Finance from the Revolutionary War to the 1920s: International, Transnational, and Global Perspectives
Gevurtz Ceremonial Room
Chair: David Weiman, Barnard College
Discussant: Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago
Manuel Alejandro Bautista Gonzalez, Columbia University
The Circulation of Mexican Pesos in Antebellum America, 1792-1860: Some Empirical Evidence from Both Sides of the BorderAndrew Edwards, Princeton University
Sovereignty v. Commonwealth: Money and Empire from British North AmericaEdward Fertik, Yale University
Banking Competition, Foreign Policy, and Contested Sovereignties: Dillon, Read & Co. and American Money around the World in the 1920s
1.C Regions and Networks
Roy Yates
Chair: Eric Hintz, National Museum of American History
Discussant: Maggie Levenstein, University of Michigan
Anna Spadavecchia, Henley Business School, and Maksim Belitsky, Henley Business School
Externalities and Innovation in British Regions, 1998-2008Andrea Lluch, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (Argentina) and Los Andes University (Colombia), and Erica Salvaj, Universidad del Desarrollo
Reinterpreting Corporate Change in Latin America from a Social Network Perspective, 1901-2010
1.D Privatizing Public Goods
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia
Mark Billings, University of Exeter Business School, and John Wilson, Newcastle University Business School
Ferranti and the Pre-History of Privatization, 1979-80
Gregory Ferguson-Cradler, Princeton University
Soviet For-Profit Science: State Funding and Privatization of Scientific Institutions in Russia, 1980-2000Demian Larry, Temple University
From Municipal to International: Modernizing Philadelphia’s Airport, 1940-1953
1.E Proto-technologies
Chief Poker Jim
Chair: David Suisman, University of Delaware
Discussant: Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Justin Douglas, University of Toronto
Rethinking the Credit Card: Cold War Discourse and the Technological Hatching of Visa Inc.
D.G. Brian Jones, Quinnipiac University, and Alan Richardson, University of Windsor
A Reinterpretation of the Rise and Demise of Cyclecars
Orville Butler, Dragon Eagle LLC
Reinterpreting the Washing Machine Industry in Nineteenth-Century America
1.F Retail Matters
Eric Hauser
Chair: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Vicki Howard, Hartwick College
Mitchell J. Larson, University of Central Lancashire, and John Wilson, Newcastle University Business School
Big Banking in Britain, 1973-2010Thomas Buckley, Henley Business School
Weighting the Scale: Store Size and the Performance of Retail Organisations in the United States and Britain, 1950-1973
1.G Business and the Rise of Environmental Regulation
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
Chair: Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology
Discussant: Paul Sabin, Yale University
Erik M. Erlandson, University of Virginia
Regulatory Reform Reconsidered: Business, Inflation, and the Emergence of Anti-Statist State Building in the 1970s
Charles Halvorson, Columbia University
Pricing Human Health: EPA’s Ozone Standard in the Era of Regulatory Review
Jonathon Free, Duke University
Making Coal Mining ‘Safe’: Business Response to the 1969 Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
10:00-10:15 a.m. Coffee Break
10:15 a.m.-11:45am Concurrent Sessions 2 (Mini-Plenaries)
2.A What and For Whom Are We Researching, Thinking, and Writing?
Sam Hill
Per Hansen, Copenhagen Business School
What Should Business Historians Do?George David Smith, New York University
Inform, Instruct, Inspire: The Role of History in the FirmNatalya Vinokurova, The Wharton School
Lessons Not Learned: The Cost of Forgetting AnalogiesRichard Hobbs, The Winthrop Group
Reinterpreting Corporate Identity: History and Innovation at Pendleton Woolen Mills
2.B Reinterpreting Postwar Businesses Outside of the Developed West
Fireside Room
Chair: Nicolaas Strydom, University of Johannesburg
Discussant: Gerry Berk, University of Oregon
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
Managing Communist Enterprises: Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1970
Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
What Did Postwar Japanese Enterprises Actually Do?Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reinterpreting the Dichotomy Between the Private Sector and the State: The Coffee Exporters Association and Columbia’s Economic Policy
2.C New Takes on Entrepreneurship
Colonel Lindberg Ballroom
Chair: Sabine Rau, King’s College London
Discussant: Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Casson, University of Reading, Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York, and Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
International Business Theory and Expatriate Entrepreneurship: Why Explaining the Unconventional MattersHenderson Carter, University of the West Indies
Resisting Hegemony: Black Entrepreneurship in Colonial Barbados
Miriam Kaminishi, Macau University of Science and Technology, and Andrew D. Smith, University of Liverpool
A Postcolonial Reading of Western Representations of Chinese Entrepreneurship in the Treaty Port Period, 1841-1911
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch
Queen Marie Ballroom
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Business Historians at Business Schools Lunch
Gevurtz Ceremonial Ballroom
1:15 – 2:00 p.m. Presidential Address: Margaret Graham, McGill University, "When the Corporation Almost Displaced the Entrepreneur"
Colonel Lindberg Ballroom
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Digital Business History Plenary
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 3
3.A Around the Pacific Rim
Sam Hill
Chair: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida
Discussant: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mila Davids, Technical University Eindhoven
The Impact of Multinational Enterprises on Taiwan, 1960s-2010Bill Kelson, University of Georgia
The Imperial Origins of Reform: American Postal Savings, 1871-1913Oscar Granados, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Business Dynamics in the Amazon Basin, 1890-1919: Banking, Diplomacy, and RegulationRaul Bringas-Nostti, Universidad de las Americas Puebla
A Forgotten Pioneer in the Pacific Rim Trade: Mexico’s Efforts to ‘Open’ Japan (1876-1910)
3.B The Rothschild House as a Window on Connecting Global Commodities and Finance
Gevurtz Ceremonial Room
Chair: Melanie Aspey, N.M. Rothschild and Sons
Discussant: Susie Pak, St. John’s University
Gail D. Triner, Rutgers University
Paying for Independence, Brazil 1822-1850: Family Squabbles, Sovereign Debt, and CommoditiesMichele Blagg, King’s College London
N M Rothschild & Sons: The Royal Mint Refinery, A Golden OpportunityAlma Parra Campos, National Institute of Anthropology and History (Mexico)
The Rothschild Network of Quicksilver and the Mexican Market
3.C Drugs and Disease
Roy Yates
Chair: Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford
Discussant: Arafaat Valiani, University of Oregon
Julia Yongue, Hosei University
Business Models without Borders: French Connections to the Japanese Vaccine IndustryAna Maria Otero-Cleves, Universidad de los Andes
‘Pioneers of the Latin American Trade’: Selling Pills, Toiletries, and Foreign Patent Medicines to the Colombian Market (1880-1920)Lauren Klaffke, University of Minnesota
Market Makers: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Nigeria, 1957-1962Elizabeth Ann Semler, University of Minnesota
Distortions of Science in Advertising? The American Egg Industry and the Roots of the Diet-Heart Disease Controversy
3.D Communal Capitalism
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Ellen Korsager, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Pamela W. Laird, University of Colorado Denver
Joseph Slaughter, University of Maryland
Communal Capitalism in Early America: George Rapp’s Harmony SocietyRahima Schwenkbeck, George Washington University
Doubly Green: Communal Businesses and EnvironmentalismWilliam Goldsmith, Duke University
Failures of Cooperative Capitalism in the North Carolina Black Belt, 1983-1989
3.E TIL Death Do Us Part: Contested Histories of Consumer Credit Regulation
Chief Poker Jim
Chair: Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Walter Licht
Sean Vanatta, Princeton University
Prices are Political: Credit Card Interest in the Age of Inflation, 1968-1980Anne Fleming, Georgetown University Law Center
Before APR: The Long History of Mandatory DisclosureEduardo Canedo, University of Connecticut
The End of Usury: The Truth-in-Lending Act and the Campaign to Abolish Interest-Rate Ceilings
3.F Slavery, Capitalism, and Business History
Colonel Lindberg Ballroom
Chair: Nancy Davis, National Museum of American History
Discussant: David Carlton, Vanderbilt University
John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara
Slavery and Schumpeterian CapitalismCaitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Accounting for Mastery: Slavery, Quantitative Business Practices, and American CapitalismCalvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University
American Slavery’s Financial Chains and the “New” History of Capitalism
3.G Reckoning with the Environment
Eric Hauser
Chair: Charles Halvorson, Columbia University
Discussant: William Childs, Ohio State University
David Bennett Cohen, Brandeis University
Accounting for Externalities: Great Northern Paper Company and the Crisis of Maine’s RiversJon Corey Hazlett, Case Western Reserve University
Transmutation of the ‘Urban Ore’: The Business of Recycling, 1970-1995
[Abstract]Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Umea University, and Mattias Nasman, Umea University
Safe Before Green: Environmental Strategies in Volvo Car Corporation and the Importance of the U.S. market, 1970s-1990s
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 4
4.A Non-Scientific Management in a Turbulent World, 1960-1990
Sam Hill
Chair: Chris McKenna, University of Oxford
Discussant: Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School
Kira Lussier, University of Toronto
Managing IntuitionSamuel Franklin, Brown University
Dependable Creativity: Synectics, Inc. and the Innovation Imperative, 1960-1980Matthew Hoffarth, University of Pennsylvania
The Making of Burnout: Self-Help and Self-Assessment in American ManagementBretton Fosbrook, York University
Evolution through Heterarchical Organization in 1980s Strategic Management
4.B New Directions in Gendering Business History
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
Chair: Ellen Hartigan O’Connor, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Susan Spellman, Miami University
Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York at New Paltz
Agents, Victims, or Survivors? Interpreting Female Microentrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth Century American CitiesAlisha Cromwell, University of Georgia
Complicating the Patriarchy: Elite and Enslaved Business Women in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic WorldLisa Furchtgott, Yale University
Women and Work in the United States Strategic Bombing Survey
4.C Measuring Nature: Commodities and Standards
Gevurtz Ceremonial Room
Chair and Discussant: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
David Roth Singerman, Harvard Business School
Local Laboratories and Global Standards in the Sugar Trade, 1907-1930Michael (Mookie) Kideckel, Columbia University
Nature’s Endorsement of Breakfast Cereal: The Value of the Natural World at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyNadia Berenstein, University of Pennsylvania
Pure and Modern Flavors: Making Flavor Standards in the Progressive EraElizabeth Heath, Baruch College-CUNY
Standardizing French Wine in an Age of Global Competition
4.D Reinterpreting Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Financial Markets
Roy Yates
Chair: Edward Fertik, Yale University
Discussant: David Weiman, Barnard College
Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics
Reinterpreting Corporate Finance: Did the U.S. Really Lag Europe Before 1914?Mary O’Sullivan, Université de Genève
A Failed Revolution: The U.S. Securities Markets, the Call Market, and the Federal Reserve ActEric Hilt, Wellesley College, and Carola Frydman, Kellogg School of Management
Investment Banks as Corporate Monitors in the Early Twentieth Century
4.E Emerging National Business Histories
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
Discussant: Joseph Bohling, Portland State University
Nicolaas Strydom, University of Johannesburg
About Africa or from Africa? A New Look at Business History in an African ContextAnna Pikos, Kozminski University, and Tomasz Olejniczak, Kozminski University
In Search of Identity: Reinterpretations of Polish Business History
4.F Reinterpreting the Business of Civil War
Chief Poker Jim
Chair: Manuel Alejandro Bautista Gonzalez, Columbia University
Discussant: Kathryn Boodry, University of Oregon
Franklin Noll, Noll Historical Consulting, LLC
The Business of Making Money: Technology, Competition, and the Transformation of the Civil War Currency SystemMichael T. Caires, University of Virginia
Greenbacks and the Transformation of Exchange in Nineteenth Century AmericaSharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
Banks, Slavery, and the Civil War
4.G Private Benefits and Public Goods
Eric Hauser
Chair and Discussant: Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina
Michael Adamson, FTI Consulting
Commercial Real Estate Development During the Great Depression: The Experience of Southern California Oilman Ralph B. LloydChenxiao Xia, Kyoto University
Electrifying Kyoto: Business and Politics of Lighting, 1889-1915Akmal Osman, Kyoto University
Reinterpretation of State-Owned Enterprise: Transformation of SOE in MalaysiaAaron R. Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Public Hands: Internal Improvement and State Slavery in the Antebellum South
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Presidential Reception
Queen Marie Ballroom
Sponsored by the Canadian Business History Association
9:30 - 11:30 p.m. Emerging Scholars Reception and Digital Showcase
Queen Marie Ballroom
Sponsored by the Hagley Library; Chemical Heritage Foundation; Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution; Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Saturday, April 2
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Membership Meeting
Fireside
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea
Mezzanine
8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibits
Mezzanine
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration
Mezzanine
8:30-10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 5
5.A Service Industries and Small-Scale Capitalism
Fireside Room
Chair and Discussant: Douglas Bristol, University of Southern Mississippi
Daniel Levinson Wilk, Fashion Institute of Technology
RestaurantsWendy Gamber, Indiana University
BoardinghousesQuincy Mills, Vassar College
Barber ShopsReiko Hillyer, Lewis and Clark College
Tourism: Serving Jim Crow
5.B New Perspectives on Canadian Business History
Sam Hill
Chair: Matthias Kipping, York University
Discussant: Andrew Smith, University of Liverpool
Laurence B. Mussio, McMaster University
The Canadian Banking Ascendancy: Power, Authority and Reputation in Canadian Banking, 1895-1929Thomas Foth, University of Ottawa, and Cheryl S. McWatters, University of Ottawa
Making the Case for Investment in Mental Health in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Scientific Administration of the Canadian Mental HospitalMatthew J. Bellamy, Carleton University
From ‘Pilsener’ to ‘Blue’: The Rebranding of Labatt’s Lager, 1962-1970
5.C Early Industrialization Reinterpreted
Roy Yates
Chair: Christopher Magra, University of Tennesee
Discussant: The Audience
Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
Reinterpreting the GuildsLindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
Managing New Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Rise of American Industrial CapitalismShaun S. Nichols, Harvard University
Economies in Motion: Rethinking the ‘Industrial Revolution’ in Massachusetts, 1813-1873
5.D The Cold War Business Order
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia
Discussant: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Sebastian Huempfer, University of Oxford
Mind the Dollar Gap: A Business History of U.S. Trade Policy, 1940-1952Ben Zdencanovic, Yale University
European Welfare States and American Free Enterprise: Towards a Transnational Reframing of Postwar U.S. Business Conservatism
Steven Bank, UCLA School of Law, Brian Cheffins, University of Cambridge, and Harwell Wells, Temple University School of Law
Executive Compensation: What Worked?
5.E Managing Risk and Uncertainty in the Agricultural Marketplace
Chief Poker Jim
Chair: Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Discussant: Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
Shane Hamilton, University of York
Precisely How Risky is Agriculture? The Fall and Rise of Crop InsuranceRasheed Saleuddin, University of Cambridge
Did Grain Futures Benefit Grain Farmers? A Historical Perspective on the Hedging Motive for the Existence of Agricultural Futures Markets, 1920-1930Benjamin Davison, University of Virginia
The Chicken of Tomorrow: The Poultry Industry Conquers Nature, 1950-1980
5.F Business, Honor, and Morality
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
Chair: Gavin Benke, Boston University
Discussant: Ed Balleisen, Duke University
Daniel Wadhwani, University of the Pacific
Moral Economy in Business History: The Question of Value and the Evolution of Firms and MarketsAmanda Mushal, The Citadel
Scamps, Scoundrels, and Chivalrous Retailers: The Rhetoric of Honor in Antebellum Southern Commercialization
Ishva Minefee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Legitimizing Corporate Resistance to Anti-Apartheid Divestment Pressure: The Role of Home GovernmentsLin Liqiang, Fujian Normal University, and Lei Huang, Fujian Normal University
The Impact of Christianity on Enterprise Spirit During the Republican Period of China: The Case of Tianjin Dongya
5.G The Diversified and Multi-Dimensional Introduction of a Bank and Banking System to East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Eric Hauser
Chair: Janet Hunter, London School of Economics
Discussant: Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin
Masato Kimura, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation
The Banking System in East Asia in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Establishment of the National Bank in JapanMyungsoo Kim, Keimyung University
A Study of the Transfer Process of the Western Banking System to Korea via Japan: Hansung Bank and Daiichi BankChen Yu, Yokohama National University
Zhang Jian’s Business Management from the Perspective of Shibusawa Eiichi’s Gapponshugi
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon: Concurrent Sessions 6
6.A Varieties of Corporate Governance
Fireside
Chair: William Hausman, College of William & Mary
Discussant: Chris Kobrak, Rotman School of Management
Sakari Siltala, University of Helsinki
Spheres of Influence: The Finnish Forest Industries Association and the Birth of Pillarisation in Finnish Society at the Beginning of the Twentieth CenturyNandini Chandar, Rider University, Paul Miranti, Rutgers Business School, and Deirdre Collier, Fairrleigh Dickinson University
Finance, Organization, and Democracy at the Bell System: The Case of Bell Telephone Securities, 1921-1935Andrew Smith, University of Liverpool, Jason Russell, SUNY – Empire State College, and Kevin Tennent, University of York
Rediscovering the Radical Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance of Berle and Means
6.B Speculation Institutionalized
Sam Hill
Chair: Rasheed Saleuddin, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Bryan Turo, Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá
The Waddingham Affair: International Speculation and the Local Business of Land Grants in New Mexico, 1870-1910Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Making Markets: From Listed Prices to Spot Markets in International Commodity Markets in the 1970sRoni Hirsch, University of California, Los Angeles
Regulation or Speculation: Clearing the Market for RiskNathan Delaney, Case Western Reserve University
Rethinking the Role of the Speculator: Metal Traders and the London Metal Exchange Before World War I
6.C Slavery in the Atlantic World
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
Chair: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: James Campbell, Stanford University
Christopher Magra, University of Tennessee
Caleb Davis’s Chocolate Mill: Reinterpreting Early American ManufacturingSerika Nagasawa, Doshisha University
Was London the Center of Finance for the Transatlantic Slave Trade?Matthew David Mitchell, Sewanee: The University of the South
Managing Risk in the Deregulated British Slave Trade: The Early Ventures of Humphrey Morice, 1705-1712
6.D Business Practices in the Age of Fracture
Roy Yates
Chair: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Louis Hyman, Cornell University
Martha Poon, Data & Society Research Institute
What Can Business History Tell Us About the Roots of Big Data?Dan Bouk, Colgate University
In Search of Neoliberalism: How Business Practices Supported State Expansion Before Dismantling ItGreta Krippner, University of Michigan, and Daniel Hirschman, University of Michigan
Undoing Difference: Risk Classification and Gender Discrimination in Consumer Financial Markets
6.E When Advertising Works -- and When It Doesn’t
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Stephanie Kolberg, Boston University
Discussant: Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shannan Clark, Montclair State University
Media Without Advertising? Reinterpreting the History of the Advertising-Based Business Model in the Modern United States: Two Cases from the 1940sStephanie Dyer, Sonoma State University
From ‘Village in a Vineyard’ to Beautiful Wine Country: The Rise and Fall of Italian Swiss Colony in California Wine TourismSam Duncan, Case Western Reserve University
The Business of Bottled Water, 1973-1995Mary Schramm, Quinnipiac University, and Erika Paulson, Quinnipiac University
Better Living through Electricity: How Electric Appliance Advertising Leveraged Social Trends in Early Twentieth-Century America
6.F Reinterpreting the Railroad in Politics
Chief Poker Jim
Chair: Steven Usselman, Georgia Tech
Discussant: David L. Carlton, Vanderbilt University
R. Scott Huffard, Lees-McRae College
Anti-Monopolism in the New South: The Southern Railway and the 1898 White Supremacy CampaignScott E. Randolph, University of Redlands
Accounting for Regulation: Unearthing and Understanding the Origins of the Federal Valuation Act of 1913Katherine Rye Jewell, Fitchburg State University
Freight Rates and Free Enterprise: Southern Industry’s Campaign Against Cheaper Rates, 1937-1947
6.G Educating Managers and Entrepreneurs
Eric Hauser
Chair: Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford
Discussant: Rowena Olegario
Leon Prieto, Clayton State University, and Simone Phipps, Middle Georgia State University
Integrating Black Business History into the Curriculum: A Critical Pedagogical Approach to Management and Entrepreneurship EducationRolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
Reinterpretation of Business Schools’ Role in the Formation of the Professional Manager: The Birth of the Executive Education Programs at Harvard Business School
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Queen Marie Ballroom
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Women in Business History Lunch
Gevurz Ceremonial Room
1:30-3:00 p.m. Krooss Dissertation Prize Plenary Session
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
Chair: Douglas Bristol, University of Southern Mississippi
Michael Aldous, Queens University Belfast
“Avoiding 'negligence and profusion': The ownership and oranization of Anglo-Indian trading firms, 1813 to 1870”
(London School of Economics and Political Science, 2015: chair: Gerben Bakker)Jessica Burch, Harvard Business School
“Soap and Hope: Direct Sales and the Culture of Work and Capitalism in Postwar America”
(Vanderbilt University, 2015: chair: Sara Igo)Anne Fleming, Georgetown Law
“City of Debtors: Law, Loan Sharks, and the Shadow Economy of Urban Poverty, 1900-1970”
(University of Pennsylvania, 2014: chair: Sarah Barringer Gordon)Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
“Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry 1790-1840”
(Brown University, 2015: chair: Seth Rockman)
3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 7 (Mini-Plenaries)
7.A Uses of History in Family Business
Eric Hauser
Chair: Mads Mordhorst, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Andrew Popp, University of Liverpool
Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
The Material Foundations of Continuity in Family Businesses: A Uses of History StudyPeter Jaskiewicz, Concordia University, and Sabine Rau, King’s College London
Can Family Business History Nurture the Next Generation’s Entrepreneurial Behavior?Ida Lunde Jørgensen, Copenhagen Business School, and Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria
Strategic and Institutional uses of the Past by Family Philanthropic Foundations
7.B Patent Pending: The Strange Career of Intellectual Property Rights in Twentieth-Century America
Fireside Room
Chair and Discussant: Daniel Kevles, Yale University
Richard R. John, Columbia University
Patents and ‘Free Enterprise’: The TNEC ReconsideredKathryn Steen, Drexel University
Inventing Policy: RCA’s Patenting and Licensing in the Interwar YearsGerardo Con Diaz, Yale University
The Gospel of Software Patenting, 1964-1970Shigehiro Nishimura, Kansai University
Measuring Innovation: What Do Patent Statistics Represent?
7.C Business History as Public History
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
Chair: Jennifer Black, Misericordia University
Discussant: The audience
Peter Liebhold, National Museum of American History
Business History: A Layered ApproachNancy Davis, National Museum of American History
The Business of Slavery in the ‘American Enterprise’ ExhibitionEric Hintz, National Museum of American History
Places of Invention: Regional Clusters on Display at the National Museum of American History
7.D Reinterpreting the Post-New Deal Order: Competition, Collaboration, and Governance in the United States
Roy Yates
Chair and Discussant: Dominique Tobbell, University of Minnesota
Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology
From Global Competitiveness to Negative Externalities: Changing Conceptions and Roles of Research Consortia in the U.S. Auto Industry, 1978-2010David A. Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University, Hassan Khan, Carnegie Mellon University, and Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University
Meeting the Challenge (or Not): The Dynamics of Cooperative Research in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, 1975-2015Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology
The Entrepreneurs Take Command: Commercial Foundations of Computer Networking, 1968-1988
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 8
8.A Money, Credit and Standards in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China
Fireside Room
Chair: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
Discussant: Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California
Austin Dean, Ohio State University
The Shanghai Mint, the Elimination of the Tael, and the Financial Politics of 1920s ChinaRobert Cole, New York University
‘Making Immovable Wealth Movable’: Land Finance and Rural Money in 1930s ShanxiWeiwei Luo, Columbia University
The Social Problem of Money: Accounting for Collective Funds in Nineteenth-Century ChinaZhijian Qiao, Stanford University
‘The Pivot of All Industries’: The Rise of the Bankers’ Guild in Qing Hohhot
8.B The Value of Outsiders
Sam Hill
Chair: Lisa Furchtgott, Yale University
Discussant: The Audience
Ashley Johnson, Binghamton University
Automobiles Across the Border: Reinterpreting Free Trade on America’s Northern Border Before World War IIDaniel Simeone, McGill University
Debt Imprisonment in a Liberal Economy: Commercial Trust, Communities of Credit, and the Law in Nineteenth-Century CanadaNicole Greer Golda, University of Michigan
‘Mr. Ford’s Business is the Making of Men’: The Gendered Dimensions of American Automobiles in Early Twentieth Century Detroit
8.C The Business of Ideals
Roy Yates
Chair: William Goldsmith, Duke University
Discussant: Ken Lipartito, Florida International University
Kristoffer Jensen, Danish Museum of Industry, and Ellen M. Korsager, Copenhagen Business School
A Market for Doing Good: Narratives of the Market in the History of a Danish Consumer Cooperative, 1866 to the PresentAnders Ravn Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School
A Brand Entwined in National History: Brand Heritage Between Asset and Liability
8.D Business and the State
Marshall Joffre
Chair: Tom Scheiding, University of Hawaii
Discussant: Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University
Joel E. Black, School of Law, University of Oregon
The Small State: Poverty and Authority in Chicago, 1870-1930Jesse T. Tarbert, Case Western Reserve University
Corporate Elites and the Interwar Anti-Lynching Movement: Reinterpreting the Role of Big Business in American Political DevelopmentAndrew Perchard, Coventry University
This Thing Called Goodwill: Corporate Political Strategy and Business-Politics Networks in U.S. MetalsYoun Ki, Miami University
The Origins of the Rise of Finance in the United States
8.E Business History in Theory
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
Chair: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Matthias Kipping, York University
Eric Godelier, Ecole Polytechnique
Reinterpreting and Revisiting the ‘Use’ of Business History: An Interdisciplinary DebatePeter Conti-Brown, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
The New Institutional Synthesis: Organizations, Rules, and HistoryDaniel Raff, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Business History Among the Social SciencesTakafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University
Reinterpretation of the Nature of Industry: Methodology and Concepts of the History of Industries
8.F New Perspectives on the Business of Imperialism
Chief Poker Jim
Chair: Shane Hamilton, University of York
Discussant: Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University
Malcolm Purinton, Northeastern University
Broadening our Focus: The Beer Trade Networks of New Imperialism, c. 1870-1914Maha Rafi Atal, University of Cambridge
Company Rule: Corporations as Political AuthoritiesKris Alexanderson, University of the Pacific
Imperial Businesses and the Interwar Struggle for Empire: Reflections from the Dutch Maritime World
8.G Reinterpreting the Entrepreneurial University
Eric Hauser
Chair: David Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: The Audience
Christopher D. McKenna, University of Oxford
A Perfect Union that was Nott: The Rise and (Scandalous) Fall of Union College, 1800-1860Stephen B. Adams, Salisbury University
A Garage, an Idea, and an Ecosystem: Reinterpreting the Hewlett-Packard StoryCatherine A. Conner, North Carolina State University
The Big Business of Academic Healthcare: Reinterpreting Decline in 1970s Birmingham, Alabama
6:30 – 6:45 p.m. Book Auction
Mezzanine
Bidding ends at 6:45
6:45 – 8:00 p.m. Reception
Queen Marie Ballroom
Sponsored by The Winthrop Group and the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Awards Banquet
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom
9:30 p.m. - Midnight Musical Performance by Na Rósaí
Colonel Lindbergh Ballroom