2023 BHC Meeting Program

Thursday, March 16th

Dissertation Colloquium 1, 8:00am - 12:00pm

Ambassador Room (3)

Dissertation Colloquium 2, 8:00am - 3:30pm

Esquire (3)

Paper Development Workshop: Economic History of Natural Resources, 9:00am - 1:00pm

Founders A (3)

Sponsored by Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Contact: Espen Storli, espen.storli@ntnu.no

Paper Development Workshop: Educating for Business and the Business of Education - Historical Perspectives and Developments, 9:30am - 11:45am

Founders B (3)

Sponsored by Copenhagen Business School

Contact: Christoph Viebig, cvi.mpp@cbs.dk

Workshops 1, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session a: Global Capitalisms and Commodities, Part 1
Founders A (3)
Sponsored by the Canadian Business History Association Contact: Donica Belisle, donica.belisle@uregina.ca
Chair: Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Discussant: The Audience
M. Stephen Salmon, Canadian Business History Association
"“Buffalo is also a strategic point”: The Imperial Economic Conference of 1932 and the Canadian Great Lakes Grain Trade"
Kashia Arnold, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Who Depends on the Global Economy?: Silk, Power, and Nationalist Narratives in the Global Pacific"
Rob Konkel, Yale University
"How to Build a Bloc: Strategic Minerals and Interwar Quests for Autonomy and Autarky"
Session b: Workshop Social Network Analysis
Founders B (3)
Chair: Susie Pak, St. John's University
Juliette Levy, UC Riverside
Adam Frost, Copenhagen Business School
Susie Pak, St. John's University
Session c: Digital Business History
Boulevard A (2)
Chairs: Paula de la Cruz-FernĂĄndez, University of Florida, and Sean Patrick Adams, University of Florida
Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal, Universidad del PacĂ­fico
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame
Israel GarcĂ­a Solares, University of Notre Dame
David Kirsch, University of Maryland

Coffee Break, 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Italian Garden (4)

Registration, 3:00pm - 7:00pm

Italian Garden (4)

BHC Trustees, 3:30pm - 6:00pm

Woodward C

Workshops 2, 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Session a: Global Capitalisms and Commodities, Part 2
Founders A (3)
Sponsored by the Canadian Business History Association
Chair: Rob Konkel, Yale University
Discussant: The Audience
Donica Belisle, University of Regina
"Imperial Capitalism in the Pacific: Canadian Sugar’s 1922 Departure From Fiji"
Siddharth Sridhar, University of Toronto
"“The Most Modern Way”: Reinventing Malayan Rubber during the Great Depression"
Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
"The Development of the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) and the Globalization of the Phosphate Industry (1921-1956)"
Session b: Business Historians in a World of Crises
Founders B (3)
Chairs: Susie Pak, St. John's University, and Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow, and Patrick Fridenson, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Discussant: The Audience

Opening Plenary, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Session a: Detroit: Then and Now
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
Discussant: The Audience
Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California & Copenhagen Business School
"Welcome"
Thomas Sugrue, NYU
Kendra Boyd, Rutgers University, Camden
Candace Miller, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

BHC After Dark (Welcome Reception), 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Crystal Ballroom (4)

Friday, March 17th

Breakfast, 7:00am - 8:30am

Italian Garden (4)

Registration, 7:00am - 5:00pm

Italian Garden (4)

Concurrent Sessions 1, 8:00am - 9:30am

Session a: History Resized
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
Mark Field, Hosei University
"Reinvention and the Empty Space"
Sonia Jaimes-Penaloza, Universidad Icesi, and Jaime E. Londoño-Motta, Universidad Icesi
"Women Entrepreneurs Empowering Women: The case of WWB-Foundation Colombia (1980-2022)"
Shoya Fugetsu, Kyoto University & University of Glasgow
"Builders of the Royal Navy: Private shipbuilders’ naval constructions at the turn of the eighteenth century"
Session b: Innovation from the Bottom Up
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Natalya Vinokurova, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: The Audience
Eric Hintz, Smithsonian Institution
"Athletes as Inventor-Entrepreneurs: User Innovation in the Sports Industry"
Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon
"“Even Better than the Real Thing”?: Exploring Imitation Products through the Lens of Electronic Organs"
Adam Frost, Copenhagen Business School, and Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California & Copenhagen Business School, and Shuang Frost, Aarhus University
"Ordered Informality: The Economy of Begging in Northwest China"
Andrew Hargadon, University of California, Davis
"Between Cause and Consequence: A Microhistorical Study of the Innovation of Penicillin"
Session c: Resources and Sustainability
Founders A (3)
Chair: Jan Logemann, University of Göttingen
Discussant: Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Chad Denton, Yonsei University
"Vectors of Contagion to Sources of Raw Materials: Regulating German Knackers’ Yards, 1871-1939"
Audrey Gerrard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"The Law of Fire and Axe: Tensions of Sustainability and the Brazilian Forest Code 1964-1981"
Madeleine Dungy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Planned Environmental Migration: Internationalizing the End of ‘Land Settlement,’ 1930-1970"
Session d: Capitalism Rules!
Founders B (3)
Chair: Grace Ballor, Bocconi University
Discussant: The Audience
Liane Hewitt, Princeton University
"A Private World Economy? International Cartels & Business-Led Globalization in the Interwar Era of Deglobalization"
Filip Batsele, Ghent University & Université Libre de Bruxelles
"Investors of the World, Unite! The International Association for the Promotion and Protection of Private Foreign Investments (APPI) and the Genesis of Modern International Investment Law 1958-1968"
Sabine Pitteloud, University of Geneva
"Drug’s fair price. From bilateral trade negotiations to the “drug single market” [1969-1993]"
Session e: Fair Game
Ambassador Room (3)
Chair: Xavier Duran, Universidad de los Andes
Discussant: Xavier Duran, Universidad de los Andes
Keith Harris, Kenyon College
"Reinventing Protectionism: Regional Identity and International Trade in Early American Tariff Politics"
Elin Åström Rudberg, Stockholm University
"The concept of fair competition in business history "
Session f: Engineers and the Rule of Standards
Woodward D
Chair: JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
"Private Standards, Public Power: Paul Gough Agnew and the Corporate Capture of Standards Setting"
Sveinn Johannesson, University of Iceland
"Making Pretty Pictures: Technopolitics in the Early United States"
Liat Spiro, College of the Holy Cross
"Engineering Standards: Infrastructures of Development and Debt in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries"
Session g: Industry Dynamics
Esquire (3)
Chair: Michael Aldous, Queen's University, Belfast
Discussant: Michael Aldous, Queen's University, Belfast
Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics
"Reinventing UK and US Manufacturing for a Larger Scale and More High-Tech Future; What Do Their 1880/81 Censuses Show about Their Relative Progress Up to Then?"
Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School, and Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York, and Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem, Volda University College, and Maria Eugénia Mata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"The Impact of Deglobalization and Trade Wars on Industry Dynamics: Norwegian Cod Fish and Portuguese Port Wine in a Bilateral Context, 1920-1940"
Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University
"Industry Dynamics of Pulp and Paper Industry: A Global Long-Term Overview from the “Industry Heterogeneity” Perspective"
Session h: Silver Screen
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: William Childs, Ohio State University
Discussant: The Audience
Samuel Backer, Johns Hopkins University
"Far from Hollywood: Regional Managers in the Transition from Vaudeville to Film"
Anna Hajdik, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
"Herb Jeffries, the Reinvention of Racial Identity, and the Business of Black Movie Westerns in 1930s America"
Landon Palmer, University of Alabama
"When Motown Went West: A History of Motown Productions"

Krooss Dissertation Prize Plenary Session, 10:00am - 11:30am

Session a: Krooss Dissertation Prize Plenary
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Kendra Boyd, Rutgers University, Camden
Discussant: The Audience
Liana DeMarco, Yale University
"Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763-1868"
Adam Frost, Copenhagen Business School
"Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China"
Rob Konkel, Yale University
"Building Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age of Disequilibrium"

Business Historians in Business School Lunch, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Pre-Function (4)

Concurrent Sessions 2, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Session a: Spatializing Business
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Morten Tinning, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California & Copenhagen Business School
Keith Hollingsworth, Morehouse College, and Ihsan Beezer, Rutgers University
"Measuring the Impact of Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot: Using Mapping to Trace Increased Segregation"
Shuang Frost, Aarhus University, and Adam Frost, Copenhagen Business School
"Spatial Entrepreneurship: Transforming Urban Space and Economic Inclusion in China"
Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University, and Matteo Calabrese, University of Luxemburg
"The rise of the mutual fund global city network in the post war period (1945-1989)"
Session b: Murky Business
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
Discussant: Vicki Howard, University of Essex
Simon Ville, University of Wollongong
"Reinventing traditional markets in the first era of globalisation: the international barter trade in natural history specimens, 1860-1900"
Marcus Böick, University of Bochum
"”A Business with Fear”? Private Security Companies and their Never-ending Struggle for State Recognition and Public Acceptance in the US and Europe during the 20th Century"
Jan Logemann, University of Göttingen
"“Funeral Trusts” and PietĂ€t: Transatlantic Differences in Establishing Respectability in Funeral Markets since the late 19th Century"
Session c: Reinterpreting US-China Trade Relations
Founders B (3)
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland, College Park
Discussant: David Sicilia, University of Maryland, College Park
Dan Du, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"From Canton to the Coast: Reinventing the China-U.S. Tea Trade after the Opium War"
Peter Thilly, University of Mississippi
"The Business of Rebellion: Citizenship, Migration, and Profits during the 1853 Small Sword Uprising"
Dael Norwood, University of Delaware
"Reinventing the China Merchant as an American Businessman"
Session d: Business and the Environment
Founders A (3)
Chair: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Copenhagen Business School
"The Can War – Everyday Business History from the Perspective of the Aluminium Container"
Elisabeth Asher, University of Maryland, College Park
"Garbage Trucks in the Waste Regime: Software, Hardware, and Neoliberalism"
Sally Clarke, University of Texas, Austin
"Nature in a Can: Chesapeake Bay Oysters and the American Can Company, 1900-1940"
Session e: Protect America Again
Ambassador Room (3)
Chair: Roger Horowitz, Hagley Library and Museum & University of Delaware
Discussant: Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow & Wharton Initiative for Financial Policy and Regulation
Ryan Haddad, University of Maryland
"National Security Protectionism: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tools Industry in the 1950s"
Nathanael Mickelson, University of Georgia
"Reinventing the Dollar: Southern Lawyers and the Origins of the U.S. Gold Reserve Act of 1934"
Session f: Do We Have a Deal? Cooperation and Cartelization
Woodward D
Chair: Richard John, Columbia University
Discussant: The Audience
Zi Yang, Aston University
"The Running Battle between Transparency and Inequality in the UK Financial Market, and What Can We Learn from the US History and Modern Technology. "
Malin Dahlström, University of Gothenburg
"The Swedish Building Standards – result of cartelization or basis for cartels? "
Mols Sauter, University of Maryland
"Every Rotten Idea Since Adam: Tracing the Debates on Modern Portfolio Theory and the ERISA Prudence Clarification 1974-1979"
Session g: You've Got Chemistry
Esquire (3)
Chair: Pamela Laird, University of Colorado Denver
Discussant: Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York
Jack Moss, University of Nottingham
"Reinventing Tradition; Boots the Chemists’ Experiments with Self-Service in Early Postwar Britain"
Cody Patton, Ohio State University
"Mites, Mildew, and Anheuser-Busch: How Pests, Big Beer, and Hops Shaped the Craft Brewing Industry"
Session h: Creating Spectacle
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon
Discussant: Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon
Shawna Kidman, University of California, San Diego
"Writing the History of Hollywood Using Contemporary Hollywood's Biggest Databases"
Gerald Ronning, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
"From Guitar Shop to Big Box and Resistance to Reinvention"

Concurrent Sessions 3, 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Session a: New Recipes in Business History
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Jennifer Black, Misericordia University
Discussant: The Audience
Xaq Frohlich, Auburn University
"What is the Mediterranean Diet?: Reinventing a Traditional Diet as a Global Health Brand"
Roger Horowitz, Hagley Library and Museum & University of Delaware
"Jewish Cuisine and Poultry Markets: From Eastern Europe to America, 1880-1935"
Barkha Kagliwal, Cornell University
"To Eat Maggi or Not to Eat Maggi: How an MNC Branded Itself out of a Controversy"
Julia Sarreal, Arizona State University
"Rebranding Yerba Mate from a Symbol of National Identity in South America to a Hipster Energy Drink in the United States and Germany"
Session b: The Process of Reinvention
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Xavier Duran, Universidad de los Andes
Discussant: The Audience
Anna Spadavecchia, University of Strathclyde
"The International Market for Inventions: the UK and the USA in the Interwar Period"
Natalya Vinokurova, University of Pennsylvania
"Kodak’s Surprisingly Long Journey Towards Strategic Renewal: A Half Century of Exploring Digital Transformation in the Face of Uncertainty and Inertia"
Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
"What’s a Grocery Store? Kroger, Albertsons, and Competion in a Reinvented Industry"
Session c: Borderland Business
Founders B (3)
Chair: John Wong, University of Hong Kong
Discussant: The Audience
Sungshin Cho, Kyoto University
"Reorganization of interfirm networks under globalization: Establishment of an international division of labor in the Japanese shipping industry"
Hekang Yang, Columbia University
"Investing in the Manchurian Frontier: The American Business Community, 1895-1916"
Jian Gao, University of Texas, Austin
"Chinese Businesses in Mexico: Transnational Networks and Survival Strategies, 1899-1947"
Session d: Green Giants
Founders A (3)
Chair: Nicolette Bruner, Northwestern University
Discussant: Nicolette Bruner, Northwestern University
Gavin Benke, Boston University
"“We are all prisoners of our perceptions” – The Institute for the Future and Monsanto Contemplate Environmentalism in the 1970s"
Andrew Busch, Coastal Carolina University
"New Towns of Technology: Energy, Economic Diversification, and Metropolitan Growth in 1980s Houston"
Bartow J. Elmore, Ohio State University
"What Happens When the Business You Write About Comes to Your Home"
Session e: Laboring over Standards
Woodward D
Chair: Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
Discussant: The Audience
Catharina Haensel, University of Göttingen & Scuola Normale Superiore
"A basis for labour-management co-operation”? The ILO Productivity Mission in Ahmedabad, 1954-58"
Andrea Lluch, Universidad de los Andes & CONICET
"ILO and the productivity and management development missions: the experience of the Productivity Center of Argentina (1958-1967)"
Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Universidad
"International Cooperation in Management Training. ILO and the Turkish Management Development Centre, 1968-1974"
Bianca Centrone, Princeton University
"Scientific Management and Social Peace: the International Labour Organization and the Dissemination of Taylorism in the Interwar Years "
Session f: Care for Cash
Esquire (3)
Chair: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Discussant: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Martha Gardner, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
""Like a Cigarette Should": RJ Reynolds' Pivot from Camel to Winston during the Emerging Health Scare, 1950-1964"
Thomas Buckley, University of Sussex, and Chay Brooks, University of Sheffield
"The Wellcome Trust and the Rise of the Business of Giving in the UK"
John Rudnik, University of Michigan
"Old is New Again: the 'Longevity Economy' and the Reinvention of Home Care"
Session g: Divine Business
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Sharon Murphy, Providence College
Discussant: Sharon Murphy, Providence College
Nicole Kirk, Meadville Lombard Theological School
"Holy Spectacles: Marketing the American Circus to Christians"
James Dupey, Arizona State University
"You Get What You Pay For: Building a Consumerist Christianity in Early America"
Joseph Slaughter, Wesleyan University
"God & Guns: Making Colt Christian"

Conversations, 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Session a: Is Capitalism a Useful Category of Analysis?
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: The Audience
Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
Caitlin Rosenthal, UC Berkeley
Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Session b: Legal History as Business History (and Business History as Legal History)
Founders B (3)
Chair: Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University
Discussant: The Audience
Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University
Justin Simard, Michigan State University
Evelyn Atkinson, University of Chicago
Geneva Smith, Princeton University
Session c: Entrepreneuring Society
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Robert Eberhart, UCLA
Discussant: The Audience
David Kirsch, University of Maryland
Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon
Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Session d: Global Capitalisms and Commodities: Directions for Future Research
Founders A (3)
Sponsored by the Canadian Business History Association
Chair: Donica Belisle, University of Regina
Discussant: The Audience
Kashia Arnold, University of California, Santa Barbara
Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Rob Konkel, Yale University
M. Stephen Salmon, Canadian Business History Association
Siddharth Sridhar, University of Toronto
Session e: The Great Inflation
Esquire (3)
Chair: Susie Pak, St. John's University
Discussant: The Audience
Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
David Sicilia, University of Maryland College Park
Peter Conti-Brown, The Wharton School
Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow & Wharton Initiative for Financial Policy and Regulation
Session f: Careers Beyond the Academy for Historians
Woodward D
Chair: Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
Discussant: The Audience
Paula de la Cruz-FernĂĄndez, University of Florida
Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Eric Hintz, Smithsonian Institution
Michael Aldous, Queen's University Belfast
Louis Hyman, Cornell University

Presidential Reception, 6:15pm - 8:00pm

Crystal Ballroom (4)

Sponsored by Copenhagen Business School

Emerging Scholar Reception, 9:30pm - 11:30pm

Crystal Ballroom (4)

Sponsored by Hagley

Saturday, March 18th

Registration, 7:00am - 10:00am

Italian Garden (4)

Concurrent Sessions 4, 8:00am - 9:30am

Session a: Selling Sensation
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware
Discussant: Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware
Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo
"“Don’t Streamline Mother While I’m Gone”: Industrial Aesthetics in the Post-War United States"
Sven Kube, Florida International University
"Phase Shift: Synthetic Sounds and the Cold War’s Musical Divide"
Rachel Gross, University of Colorado, Denver
"“Copper Men Do Not Get Cold Toes”: The Science and Selling of Comfort"
Robert Gordon-Fogelson, Rochester Institute of Technology
"Multisensory Marketing: The Look and Feel of Building Consumer Confidence"
Session b: Merchants on the Move
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: The Audience
Abhijit Roy, University of Scranton
"The Tata Group as the Pioneer of the Values of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)"
Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute
"Staking Financial Citizenship: Immigrants and Retail Banking in the United States, 1910s–1930s"
Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University
"The Global Merchants of the 19th Century: A Case Study"
Alastair Su , Westmont College
"The “Richest Chinaman in America:” Loo Chew Fan and the Making of Hop Kee and Company, 1852-1908"
Session c: Profiteers Go Global
Founders B (3)
Chair: Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford
Discussant: Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford
Damian Clavel, University of Zurich
"The Drinks Party: (Re)inventing Colombia in the City of London – July 10, 1822"
Yi Liu, Ruhr University of Bochum
"The Resumption of Sino-West German Financial Relations in the Post-War Period "
Benoit Majerus, University of Luxembourg
"From Local Notables to Global Players: Law Companies in a Tax Haven (1960s to 2020s)"
David Shorten, Harvard Business School
"International Financiers and the Reinvention of U.S. Neutrality in the circum-Caribbean, 1900-1914"
Session d: Responsibility and Irresponsibility in Global Business
Founders A (3)
Chair: Bartow J. Elmore, Ohio State University
Discussant: Sabine Pitteloud, University of Geneva
Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University
"Environmentalism and Sustainability in the Southeast Asian Plantation Industry (1930s-2000s)"
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
"Deeply Responsible Business Leaders in History"
Session e: Property Wrongs
Jefferson (3)
Chair: Anna Spadavecchia, University of Strathclyde
Discussant: The Audience
Brittany Farr, New York University School of Law, and Felipe Cole, Boston College Law School
"Public and Private Bonds: Debt and Slavery in the Antebellum South "
Andrea Lluch, Universidad de los Andes & CONICET, and Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York
"Economic Development in South America, 1870s-1914s: Does the Lens of Trademark Registrations Provide any New Insights?"
PĂ„l Thonstad Sandvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"This land is my land: A Global and Comparative History of Regulation of Agricultural Land c. 1789-1913"
Amy Sopcak-Joseph, Wilkes University
"Creating Content worth Circulating: Magazine Publishers, Intellectual Property, and Profit in the mid-Nineteenth Century"
Session f: Horse Power
Ambassador Room (3)
Chair: Albert Churella, Kennesaw State
Discussant: Albert Churella, Kennesaw State
Kyuhyun Baick, Kyoto University
"Learning from the First National Expressway Megaproject: Project Execution Capabilities and the Construction Firms in Korea"
Morten Tinning, Copenhagen Business School
"Steaming Ahead: Actors and Experience in Maritime History"
Session g: Hired Guns and the Role of the State
Esquire (3)
Chair: Stephen Adams, Salisbury University
Discussant: Stephen Adams, Salisbury University
Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Strategy and Structure for a Neoliberal Era: The Rise of SAIC, 1969-2001"
Lauren Pearlman, University of Florida
"If You Want a Dirty Job Done, Call Wackenhut"
Neil Forbes, Coventry University
"Attempting to Reconcile the Irreconcilable? The Expansion of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s International Business and UK Public Policy after the First World War"
Session h: History for Sale
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mads Mordhorst, Copenhagen Business School
"History as business – genealogy from hobby to multibillion businesses "
Camilla Ferri, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
"Politics of time around a legacy: the case of CaffĂš Pedrocchi"
Emily Buchnea, Northumbria University, and Andrew Smith, University of Liverpool
"A Family Firm Narrates Its History in War and Peace: Jardine Matheson And Its Histories"

Concurrent Sessions 5, 10:00am - 11:30am

Session a: Gender, Business and Ethics
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York, New Paltz
Discussant: Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York, New Paltz
Trish Kahle, Georgetown University Qatar
"Selling Conservation: The Transformation of Electricity Promotion in a Decade of Energy Crisis"
Ira Anjali Anwar, University of Michigan
"Seeing Like a Gig Company"
Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford
"#MeToo: Reimagining the History of Sexual Harassment in Business History"
Session b: The Politics of Entrepreneurship
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Keith Hollingsworth, Morehouse College
Discussant: The Audience
Marlene Gaynair, Washington State University
"“Meet Me at Eglinton and Oakwood!”: Re/Invention of a West Indian Small Business Class in Toronto during the Mid-Twentieth Century"
Jeremy Goodwin, Cornell University
"From Economic Literacy to Entrepreneurial Literacy: The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Business Conservatism in the United States, 1987-1999"
Neil Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The National Alliance of Business, Job Training, and the Limits of Social Entrepreneurship in the 1960s and 1970s"
Robert Kaminski, Drew University
"Unmaking a New Deal: Resistance to the NRA and the Origins of Small-Business Economic Conservatism"
Session c: Pandemic Preparedness
Founders B (3)
Chair: Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Robert Eberhart, University of California, Los Angeles
Matt Hopkins, SOAS University of London
"“Respironics: The Growth of an Innovative Enterprise (until Financialized Philips Got Hold of It)”"
Oner Tulum, Academic-Industry Research Network
"Money for Science or Science for Money? BioNTech and Moderna in the Development of the mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines"
Session d: Regulating Finance
Founders A (3)
Chair: Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Universidad
Discussant: Robert Yee, Princeton University
Rafael Pardo, Washington University, St. Louis
"Reinventing the Bankruptcy Power"
Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow & Wharton Initiative for Financial Policy and Regulation
"Reinventing Bank Supervision during the New Deal, 1933-1938"
Simone Selva, University of Naples L'Orientale
"Financial Deregulation, Monetary Tightening, Transnational Capital Flows: the United States and the Origins of Neoliberal Financial Policies"
Session e: Transactional and Commercial Law
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Gabriel Rauterberg, University of Michigan Law School
"The Rise of Form Contract: Standard Form Contracting in the First Corporations"
Justin Simard, Michigan State University
"Routine Debt Collection and the Making of the Early American Legal Profession"
Sarah Winsberg, Brooklyn Law School
"Hiring the Enslaved: Custom, Bailment, and Slavery’s Commercial Law"
Session f: Visions of Good Society
Jefferson (3)
Chair: Jessica Levy, Purchase College
Discussant: Jessica Levy, Purchase College
Christoph Viebig, Copenhagen Business School, and Stephen Cummings, Victoria University of Wellington, and Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
"Forgotten Foundations: Alternative Visions of the Good of Management and Enterprise at the Cusp of Management Science 1908-1928"
Youssef Cassis, European University Institute
"Remembering and Forgetting Financial Crises"
Stefano Tijerina, University of Maine
"Removing Blinders Through Business History: Teaching Students to See the World from the Lens of their Economic Bloc "
Session g: The Business with Cars and Trucks
Esquire (3)
Chair: Anders SĂžrensen, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Sally Clarke, University of Texas, Austin
Glenn Bugos, Moment LLC
"Reinventing the NUMMI Fremont plant for small trucks, 1992"
Dan Smith, Wayne State University
"The International Political Economy of the United Auto Workers"
Tao Chen, Tongji University
"The Initial Stage of Chinese-German Negotiations to Build Volkswagen's Shanghai Factory "
Session h: Accounting for Accounting
Ambassador Room (3)
Chair: Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College
Discussant: Graeme Acheson, University of Strathclyde
Vera Linke, Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg
"Irritating Accounts of Insurable Lives: How Calculative Devices Reinvented Organizational Practices"
Boyao Zhang, University of Toronto
"The Mystique of Expert Numeracy: Reinvented Traditions, Untranslatable Science, and the Professionalization of Chinese Accountants"

Women in Business History Lunch, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Pre-Function (4)

Concurrent Sessions 6, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Session a: Business History in the Longue Durée
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Alexandra Garrett, Saint Michael's College
Discussants: Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School, and Amanda Gibson, Kenyon College
Ashley Gilbert, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Women Tavernkeepers in the Revolutionary South"
Gregory Hargreaves, Hagley Museum & Library
"Edge Effect Capitalism: The North American Fall Line in the Longue Durée"
Anders SĂžrensen, Copenhagen Business School
"Swindling From Copenhagen To Canton - Merchants’ Ethics and Colossal Fraud In 18th Century Danish Asiatic Company"
C.C. Borzilleri, George Washington University
"Women Printers in the Early American Republic"
Session b: Reinventing the World
Founders B (3)
Chair: Sabine Pitteloud, University of Geneva
Discussant: The Audience
Robert Yee, Princeton University
"Between Europe and Empire: Sir Henry Strakosch, Expertise, and Reconstruction, 1914–1926"
Pierre Eichenberger, University of Lausanne
"(Re)inventing Business Internationalism: The Foundation of the International Chamber of Commerce in 1920"
Madeleine Dungy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Shifting Relations between Trade Law and Business Practice in the League of Nations"
Session c: Financial Innovation
Founders A (3)
Chair: Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University
Discussant: The Audience
Nick Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
""An Additional Public Assistant:" The Oil Shocks, Commercial Banking, and the Empowerment of the International Monetary Fund in the 1970s"
Graeme Acheson, University of Strathclyde
"Business Form in a British Industrial City: The case of Glasgow 1861-1901 "
Aleksandra Komornicka, University of Amsterdam, and Alexis Drach, Université Paris 8
"Reinventing Financial and Monetary Europe after the 1970s Crises: the European Currency Unit Private Market and European Integration"
Pete Johnson, The University of Texas, Austin
"The “White Knights” of Showbiz: Junk Bonds & Leveraged Buyouts in 1980s Television"
Session d: Power Moves
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Grace Ballor, Bocconi University
"European Commerce Against European Policy: Retail Associations and the Social Dimensions of the Single Market Program"
Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow
"Routes to Political Influence: Business and the UK Government from the Second World War to the 1980s"
Session e: Postwar European Capitalism
Jefferson (3)
Chair: Andrea Lluch, Universidad de los Andes & CONICET
Discussant: Andrea Lluch, Universidad de los Andes & CONICET
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
"Reinventing Hungary’s Socialist Enterprises: Two Kádár-era Reconstructions"
Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
"Nationalization as a prelude to reinvention: the Renault experience, 1944-1975"
Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian Business School
"A disruptive strategic metal: Norway’s aluminum industry meets World War II"
Session f: Capitalism Computerized
Esquire (3)
Chair: Kendra Boyd, Rutgers University, Camden
Discussant: The Audience
Ella Coon, Columbia University
"The Struggle to Bring a Global Assembly Model to Computer Services: Control Data Corporation and Reagan’s Caribbean Basin Initiative "
Alain Michel, Evry Paris Saclay University
"Reinventing Detroit Motor Town in 1968 & rethinking historically today an unexpected case"
Dag K. Andreassen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Making business of business machines, Norwegian entrepreneurs and IBM in the late 1920s"
Session g: New and Improved! Advertising and Business
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Thomas Buckley, University of Sussex
Discussant: Michael Stamm, Michigan State University
Cynthia Meyers, College of Mount Saint Vincent
"Television and Reinvention in American Advertising Agencies, 1950s-60s"
Stephanie Vincent, Kent State University
"From “Ceramic Arts of Destruction” to “Sunny Postwar Breakfasts”: The Reinvention of British and American Pottery Advertising During WWII"

Concurrent Sessions 7, 2:45pm - 4:15pm

Session a: Visualizing Business History
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Dan Bouk, Colgate University
Hannah Pivo, Columbia University
"Charting the Market: Statistical Graphics, Graphic Design, and Business in the 20th-Century United States"
Paula Vedoveli, Fundação Getulio Vargas
"Plainly Visible: The Making of Visual Economic Data in Buenos Aires and SĂŁo Paulo, 1900-1930"
Heather Welland, State University of New York, Binghamton
"Histories of Habit: British Life Insurance and the Imagined Future, ca.1870-1930"
Session b: New Approaches to Women's Business History
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Paula de la Cruz-FernĂĄndez, University of Florida
Discussant: Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York, New Paltz
"Hiding in Plain Sight: Female Microentrepreneurs in Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend"
Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal, Universidad del PacĂ­fico, and Laura Milanes-Reyes, Independent Scholar
"Peruvian women from ‘traditional and feminine’ to ‘independent agents’: the changing media construction of their pursuits"
Session c: Corporate Diplomacy
Founders B (3)
Chair: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Thomas DeBerge, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Multinational Corporations Nonmarket Strategies: A View from History"
Sarah Snyder, American University
"Corporate Ambassadors: The Diplomacy of American Business in Revolutionary Russia"
Marie Huber, Philipps UniversitÀt Marburg
"Understanding West German-Ethiopian business relations in the 1960s through the lens of security and insecurity"
Session d: Reinventing Financial Standards
Founders A (3)
Chair: Youssef Cassis, European University Institute
Discussant: The Audience
John Handel, University of Virginia
"Unstandardized Settlement: Market Structure and the Limits to Arbitrage in the First Age of Financial Globalization"
Charlotte Robertson, Harvard Business School
"From Repression to Regulation: French Police as Securities Market Authorities, 1850-1885"
Christoph Nitschke, University of Stuttgart
"Investment standards in an imperial world: the case of the United States during Reconstruction"
Kevin Douglas, Michigan State University
"Finding Empirical Measures of Market Confidence using Goodwin v. Agassiz"
Session e: Antimonopoly in the Long Twentieth Century
Jefferson (3)
Chair: Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
Discussant: Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
Ashton Merck, North Carolina State University
"Hope in Trusts: National Broiler Marketing Association v. United States and the Limits of Countervailing Power"
Victoria Woeste, Indiana University Law School
"The Capper-Volstead Act at 100: Farmers, Monopolies, and Corporate Power in America, 1922-2022"
Shaun Yajima, University of Tokyo
"Fuel, Fear, and Fault: Mass Media and Monopoly Blaming during the German Coal Crisis in 1900"
Richard John, Columbia University
"Frances Willard, Anti-Monopoly, and the Liquor Machine in Victorian America"
Session f: Recharting Chinese Business
Esquire (3)
Chair: Shuang Frost, Aarhus University
Discussant: Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California
Ghassan Moazzin, University of Hong Kong
"Calling Beijing, Calling Nanjing: The State, Business and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900-1937"
Peter Hamilton, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
"Translating Solutions: Transnational Networks and Circulations of Management Knowledge in Republican China"
Zhaojin Zeng, Duke Kunshan University
"“Little Taipei on the Mainland”: Self-Made Kinship Capitalism and the Rise of China’s Wealthiest County, 1978-2000"
Session g: Media and Materiality
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Richard Popp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Discussant: David Suisman, University of Delaware
Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Broadcasting Seeds on the American Landscape"
Josh Lauer, University of New Hampshire
"When Telephone Operators were Accountants"
Richard Popp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Mediating Real Estate in Midtown Manhattan"

Concurrent Sessions 8, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Session a: Entangled, People and Words
Venetian Ballroom (4)
Chair: Elisabeth Asher, University of Maryland, College Park
Discussant: Hugo Gaggiotti, UWE Bristol
Michael Aldous, Queen's University Belfast
"Amateurs to Fat Cats? British CEOs in the 20th Century"
Jennifer Black, Misericordia University , and Jeff Stephens, Misericordia University
"Reinventing Discourse Analysis with Big Data: Business Jargon in the 19th Century "
Emily Buchnea, Northumbria University
"The life of a network: a story of birth, death and reinvention in long-run historical social network analysis "
Session b: Professions and Careers
Boulevard A (2)
Chair: Peter Hamilton, Lingnan University
Discussant: Sudev Sheth, University of Pennsylvania
Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College
"Business Bureaucracies and the Rivalry of Accountants and Engineers in American and British Corporate Capitalism, 1880-1930"
Karen Mahar, Siena College
"“A New Race of Businessmen”: Scientific Racism, Eugenical Assumptions, and Executive Potential, 1910-1925"
Eli Cook, Haifa University
"The Whip and the Mirror: Walter Dill Scott and the Rating of the Modern Self"
Session c: Business in Arms
Founders B (3)
Chair: Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Discussant: Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont
"Fertilizer for Victory: Negotiating the Chilean-U.S. Nitrate Trade during World War II"
Tsz Ho Wong, University of Edinburgh
"The Capital Networks of the Wartime Japanese Empire’s Non-Ferrous Metal Industry "
Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara
"War and the Limits of Reinvention: Consumers, Soldiers, and the Effort to Remake Alcohol's Public Image"
Session d: Clusters, Agglomerations and Districts
Founders A (3)
Chair: Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University
Discussant: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
Xavier Duran, Universidad de los Andes
"Automobile assembly product life cycle and agglomeration"
Thomas Irmer, Berlin School of Law and economics
"Schoeneweide- Reinventing Berlin's industrial heartland"
Session e: Deindustrializing History
Jefferson (3)
Chair: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Rowe, University of Oxford
"Galvanizing Moment: The Post-Industrial Transformation of the US Steel Industry"
Melanie Sheehan, Harvard Business School
"Retooling: The Big Three US Auto Firms in the 1980s"
Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
"From “Industrial Policy” to “New Economy”: Changing Conceptions of Industry, Technology, and Globalization Amongst Democratic Party Policy Intellectuals, 1980-1995"
Session f: Stakeholders and Governance
Esquire (3)
Chair: Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
Brian Sarginger, University of Maryland
"To Change What We See Fit: The Gilbert Brothers’ Transition from Gadflies to Activists"
Jean-Philip Mathieu, McGill University
"“Drunk, Sick or Lazy”: A Case-Study of Workers’ Control and Managerial Revolution in Early Twentieth Century Canada"
Casey Eilbert, Princeton University
"Decentralizing for Democracy in the Postwar Corporation"
Session g: The Morality of Markets
Crystal Ballroom (4)
Chair: Christoph Viebig, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Volodymyr Kulikov, The University of Texas, Austin
"“Standing on the Right side of History” – Multinational Corporations and the Russia-Ukraine War"
Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut
"“An Elephants’ Graveyard”: the Deregulation of American Industry in the Late Twentieth Century"
Chelsea Lei, Boston College
"How Institutions Become Entrepreneurial: The Emergence and Evolution of Cultural Toolkits for Reinventing Government in the United States (1980s-2020s)"

Book Auction, 6:00pm - 6:20pm

Venetian prefunction (4)

Presidential Address, 6:30pm - 7:15pm

Venetian Ballroom (4)

Reception, 7:15pm - 8:15pm

Woodward AB Ballroom

Banquet, 8:15pm - 10:15pm

Woodward AB Ballroom

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