BEH Online

Welcome to Business and Economic History On-Line, a selection of papers presented at the Business History Conference's annual meeting.

BEH On-Line was founded by William J. Hausman in 2003 on behalf of the Business History Conference as a continuation of the Business and Economic History print series; he was assisted by Deborah Green of the College of William & Mary. Edwin J. Perkins assumed the editorship with the 2010 issue and served through 2012. Pat Denault provided editorial assistance for volumes 1-9. Benjamin Schwantes of the German Historical Institute served as editor until 2019, with Will Hausman as assistant editor from 2014.



The entire run of the printed Business and Economic History, 1962-1999, is available as well. Citations in BEH On-Line papers to essays from these issues are linked to the full text in the archives.



 

Annual Meeting Author(s) ed
2017 BHC Meeting Thomas Scheiding The Initial Monetization of the Copyright in American Physics
2014 BHC Meeting Benjamin Schwantes Selling E-Mail to America: MCI Mail and the Commercialization of Computer-Based Electronic Communication
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Stefan Schwarzkopf What Was Advertising? The Invention, Rise, Demise, and Disappearance of Advertising Concepts in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Europe and America
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Marlis Schweitzer Uplifting Makeup: Actresses' Testimonials and the Cosmetics Industry, 1910-1918
2007 BHC Meeting Daniel Scroop A Faded Passion? Estes Kefauver and the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, 1957-1963
2004 BHC Meeting Simone Selva State and Economy in Italy before the Economic Miracle: Economic Policy and International Constraints from the Reconstruction through the Pre-Boom Years
2014 BHC Meeting Simone Selva Capital-Intensive Modernization, Internal Expansionary Policies, Competitive Export: The Political Economy of U.S. Nuclear Assistance Programs during Bretton Woods. The Case of Italy before the End of Fixed Exchange Rates
2005 BHC Meeting Simone Selva The Economic Implications of Early Military Assistance to Western Europe under the Truman Administration, 1949-1951
2005 BHC Meeting Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite Members or Clients? Employer Associations, the Decentralization of Bargaining, and the Reorientation of Service Provision: Evidence from Europe and Australia
2011 BHC Meeting Minoru Shimamoto R&D Strategy and Knowledge Creation in Japanese Chemical Firms, 1980-2010
2010 BHC Meeting Hiroshi Shimizu Pitfalls of Open Innovation: The Technological Trajectory in Laser Diodes in the United States and Japan
2011 BHC Meeting Hiroshi Shimizu and Satoshi Kudo How Well Does Knowledge Travel? The Transition from Energy to Commercial Application of Laser Diode Fabrication Technology
2008 BHC Meeting Hiroshi Shimizu and Takashi Hirao Collaborative Research Networks in Semiconductor Laser Technology, 1960-2000: A Comparative Perspective on Networks and Breakthroughs in the United States and Japan
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Bryant Simon Up-Close in the Flat World: Learning about the Global at a Local Starbucks in Singapore
2010 BHC Meeting Philip H. Slaby The Contradictions of Controlled Immigration: Mines, Foreign Labor, and the State in Interwar France
2004 BHC Meeting Edith Sparks Terms of Endearment: Informal Borrowing Networks among Northern California Businesswomen, 1870-1920
2010 BHC Meeting Uwe Spiekermann Claus Spreckels: A Biographical Case Study of Nineteenth-Century American Immigrant Entrepreneurship
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting John E. Spillan and Howard G. Ling Woolworths: An Adizes Corporate Lifecycle Perspective
2007 BHC Meeting Maria Stanfors Feminization and Professionalization of Pharmacies in Sweden
2010 BHC Meeting Natalia Starostina Money was of no consideration: French Railway Companies and Sustaining Troops on the Battlefields during the Great War
2011 BHC Meeting Marc Stern Real or Rogue Charity? Private Health Clubs vs. the YMCA, 1970-2010
2008 BHC Meeting Marc Stern The Fitness Movement and the Fitness Center Industry, 1960-2000
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Gayle Strege Influences of Two Midwestern American Department Stores on Retailing Practices, 1883-1941
2011 BHC Meeting Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Louis Galambos The German Connection: Merck and the Flow of Knowledge from Germany to the United States, 1880-1930
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting Richard Sylla Financial Development, Corporations, and Inequality
2004 BHC Meeting Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright Networks and History's Generalizations: Comparing the Financial Systems of Germany, Japan, Great Britain, and the United States
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Graham D. Taylor Seagram Comes to Scotland: The Role of Local Players in the Overseas Expansion of a Canadian Multinational, 1949-1965
2006 BHC Meeting Graham D. Taylor 'From Shirtsleeves to Shirtless': The Bronfman Dynasty and the Seagram Empire
2008 BHC Meeting Kevin Tennent Management and Networks: To What Extent Were Free-Standing Companies Controlled from the Home Country? Four Scottish Examples, 1865-1885
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Francesca Tesi The Application of Taylorism in France: The Role of the Michelin Family in the Rationalization of French Work
2005 BHC Meeting Gregory L. Thompson How Portland's Power Brokers Accommodated the Anti-Highway Movement of the Early 1970s: The Decision to Build Light Rail
2011 BHC Meeting Ross Thomson Did the Telegraph Lead Electrification? Industry and Science in American Innovation
2012 BHC Meeting Ross Thomson The Government and Innovation in the United States: Insights from Major Innovators
2004 BHC Meeting Ross Thomson From the Old to the New: The Social Basis of Innovation in the Antebellum United States
2010 BHC Meeting Ross Thomson Understanding Machine Tool Development in the United States: Uniting Economic and Business History
2008 BHC Meeting Ross Thomson The Continuity of Wartime Innovation: The Civil War Experience
2012 BHC Meeting Steven Tolliday Crumbling Dream: Japan's Nuclear Quest, 1954-2011
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Janice Traflet Own Your Share of American Business: Public Relations at the NYSE during the Cold War
2004 BHC Meeting Gail D. Triner Property Rights, Kinship Groups, and Business Partnerships in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil: The Case of the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, 1834-1960
2005 BHC Meeting C. H. Tzeng Understanding Economic Development in Modern China: The Interplay among the State, the Market, and the Social Sector
2008 BHC Meeting Cheng-Hua Tzeng The State, the Social Sector, and the Market in the Making of China's First Entrepreneurial Venture
2008 BHC Meeting John G. Uggen The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise in Ecuador: The Case of the Ecuadorian Corporation
2010 BHC Meeting John F. Uggen The Day the Music Died: Rooney, Pace and the Hostile Takeover of the Norlin Corporation
2007 BHC Meeting Maki Umemura The Interplay between Entrepreneurial Initiative and Government Policy: The Shaping of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry since 1945
2007 BHC Meeting Heli Valtonen Does Culture Matter? Entrepreneurial Attitudes in the Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Business Leaders in Finland and the United States
2004 BHC Meeting Pierre Vernus Regulating the Activity of a Business Community: Employers' Organizations in the Lyon Silk Industry, 1860s-1939
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting Robert Voss Railroads in the Indian Territory: Governments and Unlikely Partnerships
2004 BHC Meeting Catherine Vuillermot The Schneider Network during the Presidency of Charles Schneider, 1942-1960
2012 BHC Meeting Michael Wagner Managing to Compete: The Hudson's Bay, Levant, and Russia Companies, 1714-1763
2005 BHC Meeting Robert E. Weems, Jr. The 1961 National Conference on Black Business: The 'Negro Market,' the Cold War, and the Future of Black Business in America