Annual Meeting Program
2020 BHC Meeting
Thursday, March 12th
Dissertation Colloquium, 8:00am - 1:00pm
Rooms 805 and 806, UNC Charlotte Center City building, 320 E. 9th St.Details on participants at https://thebhc.org/doctoral-colloquium-2020-charlotte-nc
Workshop: New Directions in African American Business History, 8:30am - 5:30pm
Charlotte ADetails at: https://thebhc.org/new-directions-african-american-business-history
Paper Development Workshop: Uses of the Past: Perspectives, Forms and Concepts in Business History, 9:00am - 3:00pm
1st WardDetails at: https://thebhc.org/uses-past-perspectives-forms-and-concepts-business-h…
Workshop: Teaching with Digital Collections: A Collaborative Design Sprint, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
4th WardDetails at: https://thebhc.org/teaching-digital-collections-collaborative-design-sp…
Workshop: Designing Collaborative Research Projects in Global Business History, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
3rd WardDetails at: https://thebhc.org/designing-collaborative-research-projects-global-bus…
Registration, 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Event EdgeTrustees Meeting, 4:10pm - 6:40pm
1st WardMembers’ Business Meeting, 6:50pm - 7:50pm
Charlotte AOpening Plenary: Collaboration in Business History, 8:00pm - 9:15pm
Charlotte EModerator: Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Roundtable:
- Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
- Gary Gereffi, Duke University
- Daniel R. Wadhwani, University of Southern California and Copenhagen Business School
Opening Reception, 9:15pm - 10:30pm
Charlotte D
Friday, March 13th
Continental Breakfast, 7:00am - 9:00am
Event HubEmerging Scholars Breakfast, 7:15am - 8:15am
Charlotte DRegistration, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Event EdgeExhibits, 8:00am - 6:00pm
Charlotte BCConcurrent Sessions 1, 8:30am - 10:00am
Charlotte A
"Conceptualizing Technological Maintenance: Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller in Historical Perspective"
Johnathan Williams, Boston University
"'Truckport USA': A Target Distribution Center and a Fight in the Midwest"
Muwei Chen, Beijing Foreign Studies University
"Economic Efficiency or Public Good: Collaborative Attempts to Deal with the 1970s Wastewater Pollution in the Kyoto Black Dyeing Industry"
Independence Square
"Wealth Without Power: The Rise of Chinese Private Business Elites and Their Relationship to the Communist Party"
Peter Wegenschimmel, University of Regensburg
"From Command Economy to Public Private Partnership: The History of Post-Socialist Shipbuilding"
Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University
"The Last Golden Age of China’s Cotton Textile Industry: State-owned Cotton Mills in the 1980s"
3rd Ward
"From Business History to History as Business"
Fayola Nicholas, Grenoble École de Management
"Retrospection as a Mediating Force for Future Planning"
Takeo Kikkawa, Tokyo University of Science
"Applied Business History: An Application to the Japanese Petroleum Industry"
Charlotte F
"Producing Entrepreneurs: The Paradox of Entrepreneurship Education in the United States and Germany, 1800-2015"
Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford and Rebecca Orr, University of Oxford
"Collaboration in Researching and Teaching the Global History of Capitalism at Oxford"
1st Ward
"New Vision for Health and Markets: The International Vitamin Standardization of 1931"
Greg Chu, Independent Scholar
"The Market Researcher Will See You Now"
Joan Flores-Villalobos, The Ohio State University
"The Value of Death: Federal Compensation in the Panama Canal, 1904-1914"
AJ Murphy, Columbia University
"Managing Military Work: Time and Motion Study in the Cold War U.S. Army"
Emma Teitelman, University of Cambridge
"The U.S. Freedmen's Bureau and the Business of Reconstruction"
Mark Hauser, Carnegie Mellon University
"From Four Million Conscripts to Four Million Consumers: Rethinking the First World War and Military-Industrial Complex"
2nd Ward
"Checkout Lines: People, Supermarkets, and Suburbanized Media Networks"
Andrew Simpson, Duquesne University
"The Greying Market: Product Design and the Creation of an Elderly Consumer Market"
David L. Stebenne, The Ohio State University
"Doing Business with the Middle Class, 1933-1968"
Charlotte G
"Bankers from Afar: A Comparative Study of Foreign Banking in China and Japan Before World War I"
Fatma Derya Mentes, Duke University
"Tracing the Global Airline Industry's History in the Middle East"
Pål Thonstad Sandvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Standard Oil in Europe: European States and American Market Power, 1890-1930"
4th Ward
"The Role of Channel Management to Build a Strong Brand: Reforming Dealer Management of a Japanese Automotive Manufacturer Mazda"
Jeremy Land, Georgia State University
"A Regional Complex: Colonial Business Networks in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia"
Eric Oakley, Kennesaw State University
"Baubles of Boston: The Throughput of an Evolving Empire in the Pacific"
Torsten dos Santos Arnold, Justus-Liebig University Giessen
"Europe and the Atlantic Revolutions: Hamburg’s Atlantic Trade, c. 1785-1798"
Charlotte E
Discussant: Sean Vanatta, New York University
"Banking on Collaboration: Morgan Public Efforts to Promote a Cooperative Ethos, 1914-1920"
Per H. Hansen, Copenhagen Business School
"'Vestigia Terrent'? Making Sense of Danske Bank through Its CEOs, 1871-2020"
Sean Delehanty, The Johns Hopkins University
"Barbarian Scholarship: Making the Case for the Legitimacy of Hostile Takeovers in the 1980s"
Coffee Break, 10:00am - 10:15am
Event HubMini-Plenaries, 10:15am - 11:45am
Charlotte A
Discussant: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"M&A and the Treatment of Minority Shareholders in an Opaque Environment: The Case of the Stealth Hostile Takeover of the Third Avenue Railroad"
Jennifer Aston, Northumbria University
"New Perspectives: Reframing and Refocusing through Collaboration"
Kari Zimmerman, University of St. Thomas
"Joining Separate Fields and Separate Spheres in Business History"
Alisha Cromwell, Coastal Carolina University
"A Workshop of One's Own"
Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York, New Paltz
"Breaking Barriers, Thinking Bigger"
Independence Square
"Whence Cometh the Carbon Tax? The Economic and Business History of “Market-Based Regulation” "
Tim Hannigan, University of Alberta
David Kirsch, University of Maryland
Ida Jørgensen, Copenhagen Business School
"Curious Collaborations: the Viking Exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark"
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland
Charlotte G
Stephen Chambers, The Winthrop Group
Claire Brennecke, Economist, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
James Cortada, IBM
Elizabeth Brake, Vice President of Community Partnerships, Venture For America
Charlotte F
"The Cartagena Railroad: A Failed Hegemonic Experience and a Laboratory of Social Movements in the Caribbean (1894-1951)"
Raphaël Olivier, Paris-Dauphine University
"Corporate Carbon Pricing in the History of Carbon Markets"
Louis Galambos, The Johns Hopkins University
"Entrepreneurs, Teams, and Bureaucracy in Postwar American Business"
Catherine Casson, University of Manchester
"Compassionate Capitalism: Business and Community in Medieval Cambridge"
David Sicilia, University of Maryland
"Human Collaboration: Insights from Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology for Business History"
Daniel Horowitz, Smith College
"Most Sharks Swim Alone, but Those on 'Shark Tank' Only Pretend to Do So"
Charlotte E
Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva
Lunch Break, 11:45am - 1:15pm
-Business Historians in Business Schools Lunch, 11:45am - 1:15pm
204 North Kitchen and Cocktails, 204 N. Tryon Street204 North Kitchen and Cocktails, located at 204 N. Tryon Street, is a three-block, five-minute walk from the conference hotel.
Business Historians Beyond the Academy, 11:45am - 1:15pm
The Asbury, 237 N. Tryon StreetConcurrent Sessions 2, 1:15pm - 2:45pm
4th Ward
Independence Square
Charlotte G
Discussant: Kathryn Steen, Drexel University
"Brands, Trademarks, and the Law in Medieval and Renaissance Business"
Gregory Hargreaves, University of Delaware
"The Gospel of Automation: Oliver Evans and the Business of Innovation, 1783-1819"
Peter Scott, University of Reading and Anna Spadavecchia, University of Strathclyde
"Fundamental Patents, Industry Control, and the Rise of the Giant American Corporation"
1st Ward
Discussant: Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
"The Sponsors of the Crown: The Shareholders of the Bank of Brazil in the Portuguese Empire, 1808-1821"
Jane Stroup, North Carolina State University
"The Rise and Decline of American Correspondence Schools"
Hernando Javier Arbelo, University of Buenos Aires
"Business Strategies in the Field of Education in Development Argentina (1943-1973): Factory-schools, Management and Financing of State Education"
Charlotte F
"Julia Child as Entrepreneur and Business Woman"
Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida
"Gender and the Multiple Currencies of Multinational Business"
Valeria Giacomin, University of Southern California and Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School and University of Southern California
"Contested Femininity and Entrepreneurial Imagination: Ruth Handler"
2nd Ward
"Recoveries from Financial Crises: The United States and Argentina in the 1890s"
Kena Wani, Duke University
"Trustees of the Nation: Business, Philanthropy and Trust-making Regimes in Twentieth-Century Colonial/Postcolonial India"
Jacqueline McGlade, Valley City State University
"Championing Collaboration over Competition: The Role of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Liberalizing World Trade Facilitation and Governance"
Aaron Marrs, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
"'The Men of the Church Must Go by Steam': Religion and Business in Antebellum America"
Nicholas Gaffney, Morehouse College
"Legitimizing Black Business from the Civil War to Civil Rights"
3rd Ward
"Legitimising the Index Fund: The US Neoliberalism and the Re-making of the U.S. Asset Management Industry in the 1970s"
Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"U.S. Policymakers, Regulators, and Bankers Search for Common Ground, 1945-1985"
Dalit Baranoff, Independent Scholar
"The Self-insurance Boom: Employee Health Benefits and the Changing Role of Insurance Companies, 1974 to 2010"
Charlotte A
Discussant: David Zonderman, North Carolina State University
"U.S. Business and the Pivotal Issue of Free Trade, 1947-1957"
Melanie Sheehan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Cooperation or Competition? U.S. Labor Unions, the ICFTU, and the Question of Import Protection, 1953-1969"
Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College
"Fighting the New Protectionism: NAM’s Global Trade Campaigns in the 1970s-80s"
Charlotte E
"The Art of Medicine and the Science of the Sale: Smith, Kline & French Co., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Ars Medica Collection"
Kyle Williams, University of Virginia
"The Challenge to Managerialism and the Corporate Politics of the Late Twentieth Century"
Jessica Levy, University of Virginia
"Mandela and Coke: How One of the World’s Most Well-Known Companies Courted a Black Revolutionary"
Coffee Break, 2:45pm - 3:00pm
Event HubConcurrent Sessions 3, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
3rd Ward
"Lost Opportunities: The Perplexing Persistence of Enterprise Zones"
Morris Speller, The Johns Hopkins University
"'Strangles Every Effort of the Borrower to Breathe Equity into His Home...': Redlining and Second Mortgages in 1950s St. Louis"
James McElroy, University of Minnesota
"'Consumer Dynamics': Racialized and Gendered Profiles of Supermarket Shoppers in the 1960s and 70s"
Independence Square
"Board Games: Cooperation and Collusion Amongst Large Australian Corporations, 1910 – 1952"
Joseph Wallace, The Johns Hopkins University
"Bank Lane Bohemians: Financial Culture and Sociability in the Early American Republic"
Mariana Saavedra-Espinosa, Denison University
"Rationalizing Family, Updating Social Status: Family Business Governance and Entitlement to Accumulation in Colombia"
Eric John Abrahamson, Vantage Point History
"Reputation, Social Capital, and the Industrialization of Credit: The Experience of One Mid-American City"
2nd Ward
"Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and the Historical Context of Christian Business Enterprise"
Joshua Morrison, University of Virginia
"Translating English into American: Americans, Indians, and Global Trade in the Western Indian Ocean (1825-1875)"
Keiko Okamoto, Hosei University
"The Rise and Fall of Two Muromachi Merchants in the Kyoto Kimono Textile Industry between 1900 and 1944"
Maikel Farinas Borrego, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Beyond Sugar and Tobacco: Cuban Economic Counterpoints, 1920-1940"
Charlotte F
"Selling Trust in the Oyster Cellars of Antebellum America"
Mandy Cooper, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"'For No Other Reason Than That They Wished Me': Family Economic Strategies in the Antebellum United States"
Laura McCoy, Northwestern University
"A Commerce of Affection: Bonds of Business and Feeling among Boston Merchants"
Charlotte A
"Banking on Women: Tracing the Shanghai Women’s Commercial & Savings Bank"
Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
"Immigrants, Bankers, and the Social Meaning of Money after World War I"
Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University
"The Lost World of Immigrant Banking: Failure and the Writing of U.S. Business History"
Charlotte G
"Tangled Up in Yazoo: Finance, Native Sovereignty, and the Case of Fletcher V. Peck"
Steven Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Courts as Collaborators: Ninth Circuit Patent Law and Western Boosterism"
JoAnne Yates, MIT Sloan School of Management and Craig Murphy, Wellesley College
"Political and Legal Responses to Cooperative Standard Setting"
1st Ward
Discussant: Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
"The Brewster Aeronautical Corporation: A Case Study in How Not to Run a Defense Business in Wartime"
Simon Cordery, Iowa State University
"Networking Chicago in the Gilded Age: Albert Benton Pullman Makes (and Unmakes) His Connections"
Andrew Primmer, University of Bristol
"A Profile of a 'Gentlemanly Capitalist': Shirley Jenks's Business Interests in Colombia"
4th Ward
"The U.S. Arms Trade in the Age of Latin American Revolutions, 1815-1825"
Robin Adams, Queen's University Belfast and Christopher Coyle, Queen's University Belfast
"The Wee Divergence: Entrepreneurship and Political Turmoil in Ireland Before 1900"
Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont
"Chilean Nitrate Exports to the United States during World War II: International Business and the U.S. Wartime Bureaucracy"
Charlotte E
"Business Leadership of Urban Anti-Air and Water Pollution Movements during the Progressive Era"
Tyler Priest, University of Iowa
"Voluntary Environmentalism: Legacy Issues in Oil and Gas"
Abby Spinak, Harvard Graduate School of Design
"Contextualizing Cooperative Ownership in Energy Transitions"
Krooss Plenary, 4:45pm - 6:00pm
Charlotte EKristen Alff, ‘The Business of Property: Levantine Joint-stock Companies, Land, Law, and Capitalist Development around the Mediterranean, 1850-1925’ [PhD History, Stanford University]
Grace Ballor, ‘Agents of Integration: Multinational Firms and the European Union’ [PhD History, UCLA]
Koji Hirata, ‘Steel Metropolis: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism, 1916-1964’ [PhD History, Stanford University]
Jessica Ann Levy, ‘Black Power, Inc: Global American Business and the Post-Apartheid City’ [PhD History, Johns Hopkins University]
Reception, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Levine MuseumThe Levine Museum, 200 E. 7th Street, is a short walk from the conference hotel. A minibus operated by Peak Limo will also be available. Galleries and regional history exhibits will be open to attendees during the reception.
Emerging Scholars Reception, 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Charlotte ASponsored by Hagley Museum and Library
Saturday, March 14th
Continental Breakfast, 7:00am - 9:00am
Event HubRegistration, 8:00am - 12:00pm
Event EdgeExhibits, 8:00am - 5:30pm
Charlotte BCConcurrent Sessions 4, 8:30am - 10:00am
Charlotte A
"Dynamics in PC Server Industry: Collaboration and Competition Between PC Server Manufactures and EMS"
Valentina Fava, Czech Academy of Sciences and Technische Universität, Berlin
"Fiat S.p A. Strategy for the Soviet Market: The 1980s and the Challenging Path from Techno-scientific Cooperation to Productive Integration"
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University, Camden
"Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation and Subversive Entrepreneurship in Socialist Hungary"
Martin Monsalve, Universidad del Pacifico
"Move and Accommodate: Business and Government Relations during the Peruvian Military Dictatorship (1968-1980)"
Beau Cleland, University of Calgary
"Transnational Merchant Collaboration and the Political Economy of Blockade Running in Nassau, 1861-1865"
Juan Carmona-Zabala, United Arab Emirates University
"Employees or Entrepreneurs? Competing Views on the Predicament of Austrian Tobacco Shopkeepers (1907-1936)"
Edoardo Altamura, Graduate Institute, Geneva
"From Zero to Hero: Brazil and the World Bank Before and after the Military Coup of 1964"
Charlotte G
Discussant: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida
"Inquire Capitalism: Bringing the Archives for the Study of the History of Capitalism to the Web"
James Cortada, IBM
"Entwined Relations: IBM and Its History Research Relations with Journalists, Historians, and Employees"
Erik Rau, Hagley Museum and Library
"Scenes from an Archive: The Work of Aligning Interests of Business Organizations and Historians"
Benito Peix Geldart, Centre for Business History in Stockholm
"Helping Firms Use History, Promote Historical Research and Manage Archives: The Experience and Practices of the Centre for Business History in Stockholm"
jennifer boettcher, Georgetown University
"ZombieList to Track Historic Business Sources: A Collaborative Crowd-sourced Project"
1st Ward
Discussant: Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
"Neither Conquest nor Collusion: ‘The Spirit of Masonry” in the Evolution of the Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Fiscal-Monetary State"
Dewen Zhang, Randolph-Macon College
"Regional Networks and Female Banking Entrepreneurship in Republican China: A Case Study on the Shanghai Women’s Commercial and Savings Bank, 1924-1953"
Charlotte F
"Globalization and Enginerial Capitalism in the Danish Business System"
Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame and Israel García Solares, Harvard University
"Measuring the Expansion of Anglo-American Mining Engineers into the World, 1874-1929"
Jordan Howell, Harvard University
"The Business of Geology: Scientists on the Frontiers of Extraction"
Rory Miller, University of Liverpool
"Disruptive Technologies, Financial Crisis and Political Shocks: The Guggenheims and the Chilean Nitrate Industry, 1926-33"
Independence Square
Discussant: Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Harvard Business School and University of Georgia
"Bringing in the State: Global Competition, Research Consortiums, and the Paradox of High Tech Business, 1978-1988"
Ben Lisle, Colby College
"Beer-Oriented Development in the Post-Industrial City"
Gavin Benke, Boston University
"How Imagining “the Future” Blurred the Lines between Business and Government in the 1960s and 1970s"
2nd Ward
"Housewives Imagine a New World: The Social and Economic Thought of the International Co-operative Women’s Guild, 1921-1939"
Stephanie Vincent, Kent State University
"'Are You A Member of the Made in America Club?' Industrial Cooperation in the Buy American Movement of the 1930s"
Sebastián Elisalde, University of Buenos Aires
"IMPA Plastic Industries: A Company Managed by Its Workers"
3rd Ward
"The Evaluation of Public-Private Collaboration in Water Management in the Paris’ Suburb (1923-2017): from Discretion to Publicizing"
Benjamin Schwantes, The Johns Hopkins University
"Building a User Base through Collaboration: Gary Oppenheimer’s Periodic Electronic Newsletter (PEN) and the Development of an MCI Mail User Community"
Paul J. Miranti, Rutgers Business School and Phillip Bradford, University of Connecticut, Stamford
"Fourier’s Integral and the Development of Carrier Telephone at the Bell System: A Chapter in the History of Industrial Mathematics, 1918-1948"
Shigehiro Nishimura, Kansai University
"Networking Wireless Patents Worldwide: How Did Marconi and Telefunken Manage Global Technology Flows?"
Natalya Vinokurova, University of Pennsylvania and Rahul Kapoor, University of Pennsylvania
"Converting Inventions into Innovations in Large Firms: How Inventors at Xerox Navigated the Organizational Filters to Commercialize Their Ideas"
4th Ward
"“Steaming Friends or Foes?: Early Cooperation and Confrontation with the First High Technology”"
Jacqueline McGlade, Valley City State University
"Championing Collaboration over Competition: The Role of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Liberalizing World Trade Facilitation and Governance"
Martin Louis Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Letting Dynamite Do It: Du Pont’s Motion Pictures, 1910-1930"
Susan Ohmer, University of Notre Dame
"Constructing Production: The Walt Disney Studio’s 1941 Move to Burbank"
Paul Monticone, Rowan University
"The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and Indirect Lobbying in an Entertainment Industry Trade Association, 1922-1945"
Peter Szende, Oxford Brookes University and Bradford Hudson, Boston College
"The Ritz Hotel in Budapest at the End of the Belle Époque"
Peter Labuza, University of Southern California
"Hard, Fast, and Capital: Ida Lupino and The Art-Business Divide of 1950s Hollywood"
Charlotte E
"Unfreedom and Contract: African American Contract Practice and Theory during the Age of Enslavement"
Michael Ralph, New York University
"Before 13th: The Origin of Convict Leasing"
Sharon Murphy, Providence College
"Gone to Texas: Deadbeat Debtors and Their Enslaved Property"
Coffee Break, 10:00am - 10:15am
Event HubConcurrent Sessions 5, 10:15am - 11:45am
Charlotte A
4th Ward
Discussant: Jacqueline McGlade, Valley City State University
"Confronting the Teacher Problem in Antebellum New York State: State-building for Public Participation"
Meng Zhang, Loyola Marymount University
"Trade Associations, Taxation, and Contract Enforcement in Early Modern China"
Adrien Jean-Guy Passant, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci
""The Role of Stakeholder Collaboration in Business School Survival: The Case of ESCP Europe, the Oldest Business School in the World (1819-2019)"
Charlotte G
"Rethinking the Development of American Consumer Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Advertising"
Dale L. Flesher, University of Mississippi and Gary John Previts, Case Western Reserve University
"War and Reconstruction"
Samuel Backer, The Johns Hopkins University
"'The Sidewalks of New York': Cooperation and Competition in the American Music Industry, 1880-1920"
Anthony Vickery, University of Victoria
"The Business Organization of Commercial Theatre in the United States from Colonial America to the Second World War"
Stefano Tijerina, University of Maine
"Building a Radio Station from the Bottom Up: WERU, Blue Hill (Maine) and Community Radio in the 1980s"
Charlotte E
"Nice Work If You Can Get It: Theater History as Business History"
David Freund, University of Maryland
"Money, Reform, and Financialization’s Long History"
Sean Vanatta, New York University
"The Fall of Fiscal Mutualism: New York State Public Employee Pensions and the State Origins of Financialization"
Erin Cully, CUNY Graduate Center
"From 3-6-3 to Wall Street: The Financialization of U.S. Commercial Banking"
Charlotte F
"Survival in the Air Age: The Finletter Commission and the Rise of American Corporatism"
Juliette Levy, University of California, Riverside
"Nineteenth Century Credit Associations and Cooperatives in Mexico: a Case of Misplaced Identity?"
Francesca Fauri, University of Bologna
"The Italian State’s Active Assistance to the Aeronautical Industry: The Case of the Caproni Group (1921-1951)"
John Styles, University of Hertfordshire
Andrew Perchard, University of Wolverhampton and Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton
"No Mere Capitalist Business: Forging a Nationalised British Coal Industry"
2nd Ward
"Interactions between Academia and Business on Internationalization: Teaching Cases on Multinational Enterprises in U.S. Business Schools, 1955-1964"
Dan Du, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Black Gold and White Gold: Weaving a Global Network through the Chinese-American Tea Trade, 1815-1842"
Dael Norwood, University of Delaware
"An Exclusive Traffic: The Failed Collaboration between Olyphant & Co., the United States, and the Republic of Peru in the Business of Human Trafficking in the First Era of Globalization"
Peter Hamilton, Trinity College Dublin
"From College Station to Shanghai: Mu Xiangyue and the Introduction of Taylorism in China"
Zhaojin Zeng, University of Pittsburgh
"The Broken Honeymoon: Rethinking Sino-U.S. Economic Exchange in the Long 1980s"
1st Ward
"The French Textile Industry and the Search for Fibers in a Time of Crisis, 1938-1962"
David Wight, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"U.S. Businesses, Petrodollars, and Interdependence with the Middle East in the 1970s"
Jacqueline Wukich, Case Western Reserve University
"The Evolution of the Fair Value Versus Historical Cost Debate and Its Modern-Day Advocates"
Bamidele Aly, Independent Scholar
"The Fate of Austro-hungarian and German Businessmen and Firms in Nigeria During WWI "
Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Siegen University
"Three Empires in the East: IBM’s Communist Collaboration"
Ella Coon, Columbia University
"Hardliners and High Technology: Conflicts over the Globalization of Computer Technology in the Communist World"
4th Ward
Discussant: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Ideology, Strategy, and 'Self-Regulation' in the 1920s Construction Industry: Reassessing Herbert Hoover’s 'Associative State'"
Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Harvard Business School and University of Georgia
"Jurisdiction beyond Our Borders: The Long Road to U.S. V. Alcoa and Extraterritorial Antitrust, 1909-1945"
Jamieson Gordon Myles, University of Geneva
"Rethinking the Problem of Agricultural Credit: Trade Associations, Farmers' Cooperatives, and the U.S. Government, 1913-1923"
3rd Ward
"Animal-Capital Co-operation: Bovines and the Industrial Feedlot"
Chris Deutsch, University of Missouri
"The Homosexual Steer: Buller Syndrome and the Role of Cross-species Cooperation at the Feedlot"
Rosanne Currarino, Queen's University
"Economies of Scale: Business and the State in Gilded Age America"
Women in Business History Lunch, 11:45am - 1:15pm
Charlotte DLunch Break, 11:45am - 1:15pm
-Concurrent Sessions 6, 1:15pm - 2:45pm
Charlotte A
"Brewing Corporate Consolidation: Labor Relations, Financialization, and Regulation at Blatz Brewing, 1885-1920"
Sebastián Elisalde, University of Buenos Aires
"North American and Argentine Companies: Productive Articulations and Training Strategies: The Siam Di Tella and the Westinghouse (1935-1945)"
Bram Bouwens, Utrecht University and Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique
"Cross Border Merger: Guarantee of Failure? The Cases of Renault-Nissan and Air France-KLM"
Independence Square
"Red FDI: The Case of Russian Oil Products, Ltd. in the British Isles, 1924-1948"
Ryan Haddad, University of Maryland
"Money between Friends: Canadian-American Foreign Direct Investment Controversies in the Diefenbaker Era"
Ashton Merck, Duke University
"Towards 'One Smithfield': Smithfield Foods, WH Group, and the Politics of Pork from North Carolina to China"
Charlotte G
Discussant: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Charlotte F
"Inconsistent Directions: The Department Stores and Consumptions in China, 1949-1965"
Brian Callaci, Data & Society Research Institute
"'It's Traumatic to Consider Myself an Employee': Franchisee Associations and Small Business Organizing in the United States"
Shuang Frost, Harvard University and Adam Frost, Harvard Univeristy
"Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and Infrastructure in a Global Metropolis"
Charlotte E
"Managing Silver Money on the Periphery of the English Empire: Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1715"
Andrew Edwards, Oxford University
"Money’s Empire: Political Economy and Reform in the Wake of the Seven Years War"
Sydney Sweat, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Economic Innovation through Community Persistence"
Manuel Alejandro Bautista-González, Columbia University
"King Cotton and His Mexican Dollars: The Political Economy of Mexican Silver Dollars in New Orleans, 1838-1862"
2nd Ward
"The New Conservatism: Peter Drucker Discovers Entrepreneurship"
Marina Ampudia, University of Buenos Aires
"New Spatialities of Resistance in the World of Work; Case Study of the Graphic Company Chilavert"
Hartmut Berghoff, Göttingen University
"Varieties of Family Capitalism: Results of a Comparative Project on Germany and the United States"
1st Ward
"The Historical Transformation of Traditional Japanese Companies into “Global Niche Top” Companies-Lessons from Japanese Local Companies"
Kira Lussier, University of Toronto, Mississauga
"Psychology in the Corporate Laboratory: A History of Human Resource Management Consulting"
Devon Powers, Temple University
"'The Smartest People I Could Find': Collaborative Futuring and the Corporate Use of Collective Knowledge"
Caroline Jack, University of California, San Diego
"Rationales for Economic Education: Management Reports and the Construction of Facts"
4th Ward
Discussant: Eric John Abrahamson, Vantage Point History
"Coordinating Heritage in Hudson’s Bay Company Marketing and Development, 1925-1931"
Ann Carlos, University of Colorado, Boulder
"The Essential Role of Indigenous Consumer Satisfaction in the Eighteenth-Century Hudson’s Bay Company"
Joe Martin, University of Toronto
"The Hudson's Bay Company and the Creation of Canada's History Society"
Coffee Break, 2:45pm - 3:15pm
Event HubConcurrent Sessions 7, 3:15pm - 4:45pm
Charlotte A
"Reclaiming Ferguson, South Carolina 1890-1940: A Community Study"
Aaron Thomas, Mississippi State University
"Jingle Bell Stock: Technology and Labor in the Postwar Artificial Christmas Tree Industry"
Owen Hyman, University of Mississippi
"Collaboration and Dispossession: The Creation of NASA’s Space Technology Laboratory"
Independence Square
"Valuable Relations – Business Backed Think Tanks in Sweden and Their International Connections, 1945-1985. "
Lin Gardner, University of Glasgow
Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
Jade Halbert, University of Huddersfield
Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1st Ward
"A Secret Triangle Trade: The Royal African Company Versus the Private Trading Ring of James Phipps, William Baillie, and Humphry Morice"
Graeme Acheson, University of Strathclyde
"The London Assurance Company: Investor Behaviour and the South Sea Bubble"
4th Ward
"Bagehot's Giant Bubble Failure"
Araceli Almaraz, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
"Business Families in Mexico: Succession and Business Continuity"
José Galindo, Universidad Veracruzana
"The CBPM and Its Role in Shaping the National Banking Sector"
Victor Angel Flores, Banco Nacional de México
"A Close Relationship: Entrepreneurs and Workers in the Mexican Bank, 1920-1940"
Gustavo Del Angel, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
"The Trap and the Temptation: Government Financing to Mexican Mining"
Charlotte G
Discussant: Shane Hamilton, University of York
"Seeking Compatible and Embracing Differences: Management Transfer in China, 1978-1990"
Cody Patton, The Ohio State University
"Dust Bowl Beer: The Environment’s Role in Shaping the Modern American Brewing Industry, 1930-1941"
JONATHAN WLASIUK, Michigan State University
"Harm Reduction: What the War on Drugs Teaches Us About Living in the Anthropocene"
Neil Humphrey, The Ohio State University
"‘The Sure Way of Building Up a Dog’: The Evolution of Spratt’s and Transforming Nature into Dog Biscuits"
3rd Ward
Discussant: Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva
"The International Brokers of the Wealthy - an Introduction to the Special Issue"
Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow
"Exploring the Motivations for Transnational Business Associations: The Case of Europe"
Sabine Pitteloud, University of Geneva
"Let's Coordinate! The Creation of a ‘Liberal' Bastion within European Industrial Federations (1978-1987)"
2nd Ward
"Setting Standards for the Single European Market: Multinational Corporations and European Standards Organizations, 1957-1992"
Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
"The Business of Standards and the Limits of Government: Engineers and the Privatization of Standards-Setting in the United States"
Charlotte F
"The Gender Dynamics of Industry"
Ai Hisano, Kyoto University
"Between Global and Local: The Dynamics of the Food Industry"
Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York
"Brands and the Organization of Industries"
Niels Haueter, SwissRE
"Dynamics of Savings"