Business and Economic History: Newcomen Prizewinners, 1992-1999

In 1992, the Newcomen Society of the United States began sponsoring an award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference. The winner receives a plaque and $1,000. From 1992 through 1999, the Newcomen Prize-winning paper was published in Business and Economic History. Since the founding of Enterprise & Society in 2000, the prize is awarded to the best article appearing in each volume year. A complete listing of prize winners is available in our Grants and Prizes section.

1992
Sally Clarke
"Innovation" in U.S. Agriculture: A Role for New Deal Regulation
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1993
Steven Usselman
IBM and Its Imitators: Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry
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1994
Paul Gompers
The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital
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1995
Kenneth Lipartito
Culture and the Practice of Business History
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1996
William Mass and Andrew Robertson
From Textiles to Automobiles: Mechanical and Organizational Innovation in the Toyoda
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1997
William Tsutsui
Rethinking the Paternalist Paradigm in Japanese Industrial Management
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1998
Sean Patrick Adams
Different Charters, Different Paths: Corporations and Coal in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia
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1999
Kevin Reilly
Dilettantes at the Gate: Fortune Magazine and the Cultural Politics of Business Journalism in the 1930s
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