2017 Program
The Program Committee for the 2017 meeting consisted of Susie Pak (chair), St. John's University; Walter Friedman (BHC president), Harvard Business School; Eric D. Hilt, Wellesley College; Jessica Burch, Tougaloo College; Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley; and Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School.
“Civilizations”
Wednesday, March 29
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. BHC Doctoral Colloquium
Thursday, March 30
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. BHC Doctoral Colloquium
12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Parent's Room (A quiet place for parents and small children. Refrigerator available.)
Concierge Room
12:15 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. BHC Paper Development Workshop: International Business and Civilizations
Aspen A
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibit
Crestone Foyer
2:30-4:00 p.m. BHC Workshop 1: Brexit
Aspen B
4:15-6:00 p.m. BHC Workshop 2: Getting Your Book and Article Published
Aspen B
4:00-7:00 p.m. BHC Trustee Meeting
Crestone A
7:00-9:00 p.m. Opening Plenary: The Cultures of a Business Civilization
Crystal Ballroom B/C
Welcome by Pamela Laird, University of Colorado Denver
Chair: Laura Phillips Sawyer, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
“Cultural Change and Business History”Andrew Popp, University of Liverpool Management School
“Towards a Cultural History of Business”Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University
“The Entrepreneurial Culture & the Mysteries of Economic Development”Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
“An Extraordinary Time”
9:00-11:00 p.m. Reception
Crestone Ballroom
Friday, March 31
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Emerging Scholars Networking Hour
Aspen B
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
Crestone Foyer
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Parent's Room (A quiet place for parents and small children. Refrigerator available.)
Concierge Room
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea
Crystal Foyer
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Book Exhibit
Crestone Foyer
8:30-10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 1
1.A Expansion and Empire in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
Aspen A
Chair/Discussant: William Childs, Ohio State University
Alicia Maggard, Brown University
“Pacific Mail, Industrial Empire: The Pacific Mail Steamship Co., 1848-1860”Albert Churella, Kennesaw State University
“Railroads, War, and Conscience: Reconciling Business and Religion in 1840s Philadelphia”Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
“Industrial Manifest Destiny? American Manufactures and Territorial Expansion, 1838-1850”
1.B Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy
Aspen B
Chair/Discussant: Laresh Jayasanker, Metropolitan State University, Denver
Michael Ogbeidi, University of Lagos Nigeria
“Historicizing Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Government as a Failed Entrepreneur in Nigeria Since the 1960s”Jessica Levy, Johns Hopkins University
“American Business, and the Free Enterprise System in South Africa”Michael Aldous, Queen’s University Belfast
“Partners, Servants, or Entrepreneurs? Banians in the 19th-Century Anglo-Indian Economy”
1.C Business and Politics During the World Wars and After
Crestone A
Chair/Discussant: Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Phillip Dehne, St. Joseph’s College, New York
“Rebuilding Business Civilization after the Great War: Dilemmas Facing the Supreme Economic Council in Paris 1919”Corinna Schlombs, Rochester Institute of Technology
“A New Civilizing Mission? The Marshall Plan's Productivity Program and Labor Relations”Brandon Winford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“African American Business Abroad: John Hervey Wheeler, the United States-South Africa Leader Exchange Program, and Global Civil Rights, 1959-1969”
1.D Business and Responsibility in the Alcoholic Beverage Industry
Crestone B
Chair/Discussant: Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School
Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York, Andrea Lluch, CONICET and Los Andes University, and Gaspar Martins Pereira, University of Porto
“Imitation in Global Business: The Case of Alcoholic Beverages”Malcolm Purinton, Northeastern University
“Brewing Civilization: British and Continental European Business Practices in the Late Nineteenth Century”Matthew Bellamy, Carleton University
“Please Don't Drink and Drive: John Labatt's Campaign to Civilize Canadian Drivers, 1982-1995”Ida Lunde Jørgensen, Copenhagen Business School
“The Reflective Foundation: The New Carlsberg Foundation as Mediator of Culture and Capitalism”
1.E Companies in Colonial and Postcolonial Settings
Crystal A
Chair: Gail Triner, Rutgers University
Discussant: Pierre Yves Donzé, Osaka University
Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
“The Advantage of Outsiderness: International Business and Political Strategizing in Colonial India (1890s-1940s)”Hugo Pereira, CIUHCT-Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
“Railways as Promoters of Business Civilizations: The Case of Portuguese Africa”
1.F Business Educators' Contributions to the Civilization of Businesspeople
Crystal B
Chair: Ellan Spero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Matthias Kipping, York University
Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
“Creating the New Executive: Postwar Executive Education in a Civilization Perspective”Jacqueline McGlade, Sultan Qaboos University
“Always for Profit: The Rise of the Pedagogy of Profit in American Business Education and its Global Socio-Economic Impacts”Mitchell J. Larson, University of Central Lancashire
“Re-creating Business Civilization: UK Management Education and American Influences”A.J. Murphy, Columbia University
“Business Management Expertise in the Cold War U.S. Military”
1.G Free and Unfree Markets in Early 19th-Century United States
Crystal C
Chair/Discussant: Noam Maggor, Cornell University
Emilie Connolly, New York University
“Ward Creditors: Indian Trust Funds and the State Sovereign Debt Crisis of 1839”Robert Richard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“The First "Great Depression" in North Carolina: Banks, Bonds, and the Stubborn Myth of Southern Laissez Faire, 1819-1833”Matthew Saionz, University of Florida
“The Commercial Intercourse of Nations: The Contest for the New Mexico Overland Trade, 1821-1846”Kelly Kean Sharp, University of California, Davis
“No Free Market: The Enslaved Marketwomen and Butchers of Charleston's Centre Market Stalls”
10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Crystal Foyer
10:30 a.m.-12:00pm Concurrent Sessions 2
2.A Contemporary SE Asian Economy
Aspen A
Chair: Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York
Discussant: Michael Aldous, Queen’s University Belfast
Valeria Giacomin, Copenhagen Business School
“The Role of Singapore in the Southeast Asian Plantation Cluster”
2.B Management and Organization Theory
Aspen B
Chair: Jacqueline McGlade, Sultan Qaboos University
Discussant: Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
Daniel Raff, The Wharton School and NBER
“Organization Theory as Theory, Business History as History”Dan Wadhwani, University of the Pacific, and Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
“Toward a New Entrepreneurial History”
2.C Financial Development of the 20th-Century U.S.
Crestone A
Chair/Discussant: Louis Hyman, Cornell University
Rasheed Saleuddin, University of Cambridge
“Polycentric Governance and State Co-construction: The Making of Modern Futures Markets through 'Self-regulation' in Interwar Chicago”Peter Conti-Brown, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
“Central Bank Independence, Revisited: The Many Meanings of the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951”Natalya Vinokurova, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
“When Transaction Costs and Property Rights Collide: The Case of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS)”
2.D Business and the Senses
Crestone B
Chair/Discussant: David Suisman, University of Delaware
Feng-en Tu, Harvard University
“Selling the Odor of Civilization: Soap and the Business of the Senses in Modern Japan”Ai Hisano, Harvard Business School
"'The Eye Says Buy': Color and the Creation of the American Food Market, 1920s-1940s”Galina Shyndriayeva, King’s College London
“Innovation from the Aesthetic-Industrial Complex: The Production of Perfume Materials from the 1920s to the 1950s”
2.E Building American Financial Institutions
Crystal A
Chair/Discussant: Jane Knodell, University of Vermont
Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
“Immigrant Banks and the Construction of Financial Civilization in the Progressive Era”Noam Maggor, Cornell University
“The Reconstruction of American Capitalism: From Cotton to Domestic Industrialization”Pamela Popielarz, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Secretaries & Treasurers: Fraternal Orders and the Development of Bureaucratic Positions in 19th-Century America”
2.F The Great Depression and Its Legacy
Crystal B
Chair: Robert E. Wright, Augustana University
Discussant: Richard Sylla, New York University Stern School of Business
Per Hansen, Copenhagen Business School
“Making Sense and Decisions under Uncertainty: The Case of the 1931 Austrian Credit Anstalt Crisis from the World View of a Central Banker”Youssef Cassis, Anna Knaps, and Giuseppe Telesca, European University Institute, Florence
“The Memory of Financial Crises: The Great Depression and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008”Judge Glock, West Virginia University
“Keynesian Mortgage Policy in the Roosevelt Recession of 1937”Samuel Milner, Yale University
“Monopoly and the Problem of the New Deal: Wage-Price Policy and Industrial-Labor Relations, 1945-1960”
2.G The Consumption and Production of Energy
Crystal C
Chair/Discussant: Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University
Pierre-Yves Donze, Osaka University and Shigehiro Nishimura, Kansai University
“Patent Strategy and Global Competition in the Electric Appliance Industry: Siemens (1880-1945)”Casey Cater, Georgia State University
“Race, Class, and Electric Utility Regulation in Progressive Era Georgia”Nicholas Ostrum, Stony Brook University
“Major Acquisitions and West German Energy Security in the Late 1960s”Chenxiao Xia, Kyoto University
“Business, Fascism, War: Electricity in Germany and Japan, 1931-1945”Nicholas Osborne, Ohio University
“Necessary Goods: The Political Economy of Consumer Rights in the Gaslight Era”
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Atrium (4th Floor)
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Business Historians at Business Schools Lunch
Elements Restaurant (4th Floor)
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Plenary: Keywords in American Economic and Business History
Crystal B/C
Chair: Julia Ott, New School for Social Research
Commentator: Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Lawrence Glickman, Cornell University
“The Free Enterprise System”Richard R. John, Columbia University
“Monopoly and Its Critics in the Age of Enlightenment”Richard White, Stanford University
“Antimonopoly in the Gilded Age”
3:00-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Crystal Foyer
3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 4
4.A Early Business Communities in North America
Aspen A
Chair/Discussant: Susie J. Pak, St. John's University
Lynne Doti, Chapman University
“Creating Business Communities in the Spanish California Missions”Stephen Chambers, The Winthrop Group
“When the Business of Civilization Gets Personal: The Civilizing Process of Family Business in Massachusetts, 1815-1861”Cory Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Spirit of Commerce: American Business and the Progress of Civilization in Antebellum America”
4.B The Business of Fashion
Aspen B
Chair/Discussant: Jennifer M. Black, Misericordia University
Johanna Zanon, University of Oslo
“Third Time's a Charm? Failing Twice to Reawaken a 'Sleeping Beauty' of Haute Couture: The House of Worth, 1968-1971 and 2003-2013”Veronique Pouillard, University of Oslo
“The Early Globalization of the Fashion Business (1880s-1920s)”Rika Fujioka, Kansai University
“Expanding the Luxury Market and Adapting to the Western Fashion in Japan after the Second World War”Victoria Barnes, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and Lucy Newton, Henley Business School, University of Reading
“The Advent of the Modern Business Uniform: The Case of Barclays Bank”
4.C The Culture of Finance at the Turn of the Century
Crestone A
Chair: Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi
Discussant: Jamie Pietruska, Rutgers University
Mariusz Lukasiewicz, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
“Gold, Finance and Speculation in South Africa: The Making of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1887-1899”Aki Kinjo, Gakushuin Women's College
“The Birth of the Industrial Banker in Early 20th Century Japan: Takajiro Kurosawa, Silk Cocoons, the Suwa Warehouse and the Silk Reeling Industry”Dan Graham, University of Connecticut, Storrs
“From Business Mediums to Economic Forecasters: The Rise of Commercial and Market Astrology in the Fin-De-Siècle U.S”Nathan Delaney, Case Western Reserve University
“Futures Markets as Trustbusters: The Secrétan Copper Corner and the London Metal Exchange, 1887-89”
4.D The Impact of Entrepreneurs and Economic Development on Confucian East Asia
Crestone B
Chair: Kimura Masato, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation
Discussant: David Wittner, Utica College
Kazuaki Matsumoto, Nagaoka University
“Shibusawa Eiichi and Education for Local Entrepreneurs: Nagaoka's Case”Myungsoo Kim, Keimyung University
“The Kinds of Economic Theory and Practice Introduced to Korea from Japan in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Century”Hua Jin, Bunkyo University
“The Development of High-Tech Industry in China and the Role of Academic Entrepreneurs”
4.E Experts and Commercial Institutions
Crystal A
Chair/Discussant: Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford
Claire Brennecke, FDIC Center for Financial Research
“Credit Report Supply and the Development of American Business”Christopher Casey, University of California, Berkeley
“Sovereign Commerce: International Commercial Arbitration and the Standards of Commercial Civilization”
4.F The Dynamics of Innovation
Crystal B
Chair/Discussant: Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Muwei Chen, Kyoto University
“Institutional Inertia Induced by the Institutional Changes in the Traditional Nishijin-ori Necktie Industry of Kyoto in the Post-1970s”Shotaro Yamaguchi, Hitotsubashi University, Yasushi Hara, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and Hiroshi Shimizu, Hitotsubashi University
“Staying Young at Heart or Wisdom of Ages? Age of the Firm and ROA Volatility in the U.S. and Japan”Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School
“Dynamics of Innovation across Cultures and Time: Appreciating Handloom Weaving Innovation and Understanding IBM's Downturn, 1985-1993”
4.G Pacific International Trade
Crystal C
Chair/Discussant: Michael Miller, University of Miami
Jeff Bartos, Montana State University
“From Speculative Boom to Efficient Monopoly: Herbert Hoover in Western Australia and the Pacific Rim”Kashia Arnold, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Importing Stability: World War I and the State-backed Business of the Pacific”Tyler Callaway, New York University
“Austro-Hungarian Shipping Companies and Overseas Trade in the Age of Empire”
4:45 - 5:00 p.m. Coffee Break
Crystal Foyer
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Presidential Address: Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School
Crystal B/C
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Presidential Reception
Held in honor of Chris Kobrak
Atrium (4th Floor)
We would like to express our gratitude to Rowena Olegario and Charles Wilson, to Pamela Walker Laird, and to Susie Pak for their help in funding a special reception in memory of Chris Kobrak (1950-2017). Their support allowed us to acknowledge the passing of a great friend and colleague.
9:30 - 11:30 p.m. Emerging Scholars Reception
Atrium (4th Floor)
Saturday, April 1
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Membership Meeting
Aspen B
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea
Crystal Foyer
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit
Crestone Foyer
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration
Crestone Foyer
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Parent's Room (A quiet place for parents and small children. Refrigerator available.)
Concierge Room
8:30-10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 5
5.A Regulation, Competition, and Antitrust
Aspen A
Chair/Discussant: Jeffrey Fear, University of Glasgow
Paul Miranti, Rutgers Business School
“Toward a Sustainable Civilization: Conservation and Financial Refom at the ICC, 1906-1920”Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“Living with Institutional Duality: Antitrust Laws, American Big Business and International Cartels, 1890-1940”David Raley, El Paso Community College
“The Phillips vs. Wisconsin Decision and the Decline of Regulatory Effectiveness”Daniel Robert, University of California, Berkeley
“Making the News: 'Space Grabbing' by Corporations in the 1920s”
5.B Business Imperialism
Aspen B
Chair/Discussant: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Raul Bringas-Nostti, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico
“Colonel Sanders Goes to Mexico: The First Venture of the Fast Food Industry into the Developing World, 1963-1975”Amanda Gibson, College of William and Mary
“African American Baptists and the Congo: Civilization, Imperialism, and Capitalism, 1865-1945”Brent Lane, UNV Kenan Flagler Business School
“The Customer Is Always White: The ‘Civilizing’ of Indigenous People as Prospective Customers in New World Merchant Advertising”
5.C The Business of Air and Space Travel
Crestone A
Chair/Discussant: Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University
Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont
“The Transition to the Jet Age: Business Strategy and Air Travel”Daniel Rust, University of Wisconsin, Superior
“Landscape of Suspicion: The Transformation of the American Commercial Airport”Enrico Beltramini, Notre Dame de Namur University
“Civilization Builders: The Case of Space Entrepreneurs”
5.D Corporate Social Responsibility
Crestone B
Chair/Discussant: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Stephanie Vincent, Kent State University
“It’s Our Bread and Butter: American Potters, Public Relations, and Corporate Social Responsibility”Sarah Wilson, University of York
“Business and Civilising Influences Seen through the Prisms of Law and Policy: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Openings and Exploring Connections between Business and Society, Past, Present, and Future”Matthew Hollow, University of York
"Friends in Need and Friends Indeed: Re-Evaluating the Evolution of Personal Networks in the Entrepreneurial Process using Historical Methods”
5.E The Evolution of Business Journalism
Crystal A
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Discussant: Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia
Tracy Lucht, Iowa State University
“The Personal Was Political: Sylvia Porter and the Development of Personal Finance Journalism”Chris Roush, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Thinking Things Over: Vermont Royster's Legacy at the Wall Street Journal”Rob Wells, University of Arkansas
“Business Journalism: Market Servant or Public Watchdog?”
5.F Business and Religion
Crystal B
Chair/Discussant: Jessica Burch, Tougaloo College
Rahima Schwenkbeck, The George Washington University
“Selling a Tiny Civilization: Advertising Utopias, Businesses and the Apocalypse”Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“A Godly Enterprise: Church Finance and Social Investment in the High Middle Ages”Joseph Slaughter, University of Maryland
“Creating a Civilized America: Harper & Brothers' Illuminated Bible”Yda Schreuder, Hagley Museum and Library
“Sephardic Merchants and the Dutch Golden Age”
5.G The Urban Entrepreneur
Crystal C
Chair: Terri Lonier, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Discussant: Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Aaron Cayer, University of California, Los Angeles
“Architecture Business: Corporate Practice and the Economic Value of Design, 1960-1984”Alexandra Greco, University of Georgia
“In the Business of Cutting: The Sartorialist Reaction to Modern Industry in the New York Garment District in 'The American Tailor and Cutter'”Kendra Boyd, Rutgers University
“Urban Renewal and the Decline of Black Business in Mid-Twentieth Century Detroit”Keith Hollingsworth and Carolyn Davis, Morehouse College
“Using Old Institutions to Legitimize New Entrepreneurial Ventures: Looking at Black Entrepreneurs in Atlanta from the Civil War to Civil Rights”
10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Crystal Foyer
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 6
6.A Contemporary Economic Dynamics
Aspen A
Chair: Jeffery Fear, University of Glasgow
Discussant: Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles
Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Breaking Chains: Manufacturing After the Peak of Globalization”Hartmut Berghoff, Goettingen University
“The Compliance Revolution of the 2000s”Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow
“British Business and Margaret Thatcher”Mary O’Sullivan, University of Geneva
“A Confusion of Capital in the United States”
6.B Varieties of Banking in Interwar Britain
Aspen B
Chair and Discussant: Mitchell J. Larson, University of Central Lancashire
Rory Miller, University of Liverpool Management School
“The Collapse of the Anglo-South American Bank”Mark Billings, University of Exeter Business School
“Amalgamation and Survival in Lancashire Banking”Mark Crowley, Wuhan University
“Thrift, Saving and the Role of the Post Office Savings Bank in Britain in War and Peace, c. 1914-1945”
6.C The Advertiser, the Traveler, and the Credit Ledger: Character and Credit in America’s Business Culture
Crestone A
Chair: Claire Brennecke, FDIC Center for Financial Research
Discussant: Wendy Woloson, Rutgers University, Camden
Jennifer M. Black, Misericordia University
“Respectfully Soliciting Your Patronage: The Language of Legitimacy in Antebellum Advertising”Amanda Mushal, The Citadel
“R. G. Dun's Man in Charleston: Professional Agents in the Anonymous Credit Reporting Networks of Antebellum America”Susan Spellman, Miami University
“The Fixer: Business Travel and the Maintenance of Retail Systems”
6.D Themes from Modern U.S. Financial History: Federalism, Deregulation, and Culture
Crestone B
Chair: Peter Conti-Brown, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Sean Vanatta, Princeton University
“Federalism and the Postwar Financial System”Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University
“Deregulation Before Deregulation: James J. Saxon and American Bank Politics, 1961-1966”Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Capital Flows: Three Drivers of U.S. Financialization”
6.E Governance and Private Interests in American Law and Business, 1960-1990
Crystal A
Chair/Discussant: Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis
“IBM Software and American Patent Law in the 1960s”Anne Fleming, Georgetown University Law Center
“Small-Dollar Loans and the New Financial Federalism”Erik Erlandson, University of Virginia
“Gateways to Government: Ex Parte Contacts and Private Influence Over Public Regulation in the 1970s”Thomas Scheiding, University of Hawaii
“It's Mine! The Copyright Ownership Battle in American Physics”
6.F Maps, Mobility, Money, and Manipulation: Credit’s Many Faces in the Early Modern Atlantic
Crystal B
Chair: Ellen Hartigan O’Connor, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Nora Slonimsky, CUNY Graduate Center
“Virtue of Their Credit, Not Their Power: Copyright, Claims and Civility in Colonial America”Mara Caden, Yale University
“Credit and the Advent of Paper Money in Colonial Pennsylvania”Tom Cutterham, University of Birmingham
“Credit and Deception in Transatlantic Finance, 1784-1792”
6.G The Business of Maintenance
Crystal C
Chair and Discussant: Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Bangor Business School
Andrew McGee, Carnegie Mellon University
“Bureaucratic Workarounds to Technological Obstacles: Institutional Maintenance as Administrative Response to Stressed Computer Systems in U.S. Government Agencies in the 1960s and 1970s”Ellan Spero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
““A Card for everything, Miss Whittle!” A Maintainer's Approach to the Organization of Academic-Industrial Research”Rebecca Slayton, Cornell University
“Historicizing Cybersecurity as a Race for Repair”Nathan Ensmenger, Indiana University
“The Fizzle in the Computer Revolution? Software Maintenance as Management Crisis, 1968-1999”
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Atrium (4th Floor)
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Women in Business History Lunch
Elements Restaurant (4th Floor)
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 7
7.A Commodity Cartels
Aspen A
Chair: Richard John, Columbia University
Discussant: Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Andrew D. Smith, University of Liverpool Management School
“An Evolutionary Economics Perspective on the Liverpool Timber Cluster, 1810-1913”Elina Kuorelahti, University of Helsinki
“Small States, Big Risks: Nordic Diplomacy and the European Timber Cartel in the 1930s"Malin Dahlström, University of Gothenburg
"The European Cement Cartel—A Swedish Cartel?"
7.B The Application of Economic Thought
Aspen B
Chair: Timothy Shenk, Columbia University
Discussant: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
Kyle Stein, Florida International University
“Prohibition by the Numbers: Economic Thought and the Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth Amendment”Caroline Jack, Data & Society Research Institute
“Expert Enough: The Clash between Economists and Corporate Advocates over Junior Achievement's Applied Economics, 1982-1985”Rachel Knecht, Brown University
“A Good Economist Knows the Importance of Carving: The Business of the Household in Antebellum America”Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique, and Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Questioning Three Criteria of Business Civilization in Business History: Market, Family, and Rationality”
7.C Business and the State around the World
Crestone A
Chair: Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University
Discussant: Patrick Fridenson, EHESS
Sebastian Teupe, University of Bayreuth
“Civilizing Competition in West Germany: Disputes between Firms and Courts in the Social Market Economy´s Formative Stage, 1945-1958”Martin Monsalve Zanatti, Universidad del Pacifico
“New Economic Groups and Changes in the Peruvian Corporate Network during the Military Regime (1968-1980)”Zhaojin Zeng, University of Texas, Austin
“From Bureau of Ordnance to Ministry of Heavy Industry: The Rise of China's Economic Bureaucracy and State Business, 1937-1949”
7.D Converting Social Networks into Bonds in the Early Republic, Antebellum, and Civil War Eras
Crestone B
Chair: Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Discussant: Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
Scott Miller, University of Virginia
“Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade: Revolutionary Social Organizations and the Emergence of American Commercial Networks”Mandy Cooper, Duke University
“'I am induced to trouble you': Family, Affective Labor, and Business Networks in the Antebellum U.S.”David Thomson, Sacred Heart University
“The French Connection? American Civil War Debt, Transatlantic Ties, and Global Capital Markets”
7.E Business Civilizations in the Nordic Countries
Crystal A
Chair/Discussant: Per H. Hansen, Copenhagen Business School
Martin Iversen, Copenhagen Business School
“The Wallenbergs and the Glöckstadts: Nordic Financial Networks in Business and Civilization, 1890s-1910s”Susanna Fellman, Gothenburg University
“Company Welfare Programs and the Perception of the Welfare State in Business Interest Organizations in the Nordic Countries”Jeppe Nevers, University of Southern Denmark
“Conceptualizing Business in the Early Phase of the Welfare State”
7.F Profit and Reform in the American Progressive Era
Crystal B
Chair: Vicki Howard, University of Essex
Discussant: Rosanne Currarino, Queen's University (Canada)
Daniel Platt, Brown University
"Profit and 'Reputable Capital' in the Usury Reform Movement, 1909-1925”Katie Rosenblatt, University of Michigan
“The Definition of ‘Profit': Cooperatives, Corporate Taxes, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue"Robbie Nelson, University of California, Berkeley
“Saving American Capitalism: Savings Banks and Class Politics in the Gilded Age”
7.G The Business of Religion in America
Crystal C
Chair/Discussant: Darren Grem, University of Mississippi
Scott Libson, Emory University
“Gold and the Golden Rule: American Religion and Philanthropic Giving in the 1920s”William Schultz, Princeton University
“Making Jesus Springs: Colorado Springs and the New Geography of Evangelicalism”Kyla Young, Princeton University
“Mom Knows Best: How Christian Women Challenged the Infant Formula Industry”
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
Crystal Foyer
3:30-5:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 8
8.A Historicizing Property in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Aspen A
Chair and Discussant: Ariel Ron, Southern Methodist University
Greg Ablavsky, Stanford University Law School
“The Rise of Federal Title”Justin Simard, The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University of Buffalo
“The Legal Routine of Nineteenth Century New York Commerce”Emma Teitelman, University of Pennsylvania
“Treason, Trespass, and the Property of the Nation: The Civil War Origins of Federal Mining Legislation”
8.B Seeking Control within Industry
Aspen B
Chair and Discussant: Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University, Pueblo
JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College
“Industrial Civilization, Engineering, and Industrial Standard Setting: The Global Engineering Standardization Movement in the 1920s”Howard Stanger, Canisius College
“Theodore DeVinne and Charles Francis: Competing Visions of Labor-Management Harmony and the United Typothetae of America's Labor Problem”Chad Pearson, Collin College
“Owen Wister and Anti-Labor Violence in the Progressive Era”Xaq Frohlich, University of Texas, Austin
”Food Labeling Regulation and Its Reform: The Market Politics of the 1973 FDA New Food Label Rules”
8.C The Corporate Form: Its Meanings and Social Obligations
Crestone A
Chair/Discussant: Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
David Chappell, University of Oklahoma
“Conflicted Meanings of Corporation in the Centuries before the General Incorporation Laws”Evelyn Atkinson, University of Chicago
“Like a Good Neighbor? The Saga of the West Wisconsin Railroad”Kyle Williams, Rutgers University
“Shareholder Democracy vs. The City of God: Corporate Polity in Mid-Century United States”
8.D Colonial Economies
Crestone B
Chair/Discussant: Robert Wright, Augustana University
Peter Hilsenrath and Thomas Pogue, University of the Pacific
“Path Dependency, Capabilities and the Evolution of South Africa's Natural Resource-Based Economy”Anne Ruderman, Harvard University
“The Changing Use and Importance of Slave-Ship Captains in the Royal African Company”Matthew David Mitchell, Sewanee, the University of the South
“Risk Shifting in the British Atlantic Slave Trade, 1700-1730”
8.E Early British Corporations and Law
Crystal A
Chair: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Mark Billings, University of Exeter Business School
Graeme Acheson, University of Stirling, Gareth Campbell, Queen's University Belfast, and John D. Turner, Queen's University Belfast
“Common Law and the Origin of Shareholder Protection”Gabriel Geisler Mesevage, University of Oxford
“Bubble Companies: Company Promotion and Fraud During the Railway Mania of 1845”David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
“The Moral Economy of British Liberalism: Fair Trade and General Incorporation in the Nineteenth Century”Henderson Carter, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
“Degrading the Civilizing Mission: The Operation of the Plantation System in Barbados, 1838-1876”
8.F Making and Shaping Markets
Crystal B
Chair/Discussant: Marc J. Stern, Bentley University
Shannon Perry, De Montfort University
“The Eastman Kodak Company: Shaping Networks, Shaping Consumers between 1895-1915”Gavin Benke, Boston University
“John Naisbitt’s Trend Letter: Reimagining Business Civilization in the 1980s”
5:00 – 5:15 p.m. Book Auction
Crestone Foyer
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Krooss Dissertation Plenary
Crystal B/C
Chair: Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
Gerardo Con Diaz, Yale University, 2016
"Intangible Inventions: A History of Software Patenting in the United States, 1945-1985"Justene G. Hill, Princeton University, 2015
"Felonious Transactions: Legal Culture and Business Practices of Slave Economies in South Carolina, 1787-1860"Shaun Nichols, Harvard University, 2016
Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865-Present
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Reception
Crestone Foyer and Crystal Foyer
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Awards Banquet
Crestone Ballroom