Month: May 2023

BRIDGE research grant for “Historical Perspectives on De-globalization and Geopolitics”

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Profs Stephanie Decker (BBS) and Marcelo Bucheli (UIUC) were awarded a BRIDGE seedcorn funding for their research project on “De-globalization and geopolitics – the impact of economic nationalism and economic security on business diplomacy, and corporate political activity” (DeGEO). The geopolitical environment of international business has significantly changed n response to increased nationalism globally. Yet the current trend for de-globalization should be seen in the context of varying appetites for international integration across the 20th century. The joint University of Birmingham – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BRIDGE project will study the political and diplomatic strategies developed by multinational corporations in times of deglobalization.  In the present times, hostility to globalization and renewed calls for protectionism have created a challenging political environment for multinational corporations.  How multinationals have adapted to deglobalization and nationalism in the past can provide insights into current deglobalization trends. The project builds on previous collaboration by the investigators and will focus on developing high-quality publications and a publicly accessible short-form book on the history of multinationals.

The “Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education” (BRIDGE) was signed in March 2014 by the University of Birmingham’s Vice-Chancellor and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Chancellor at the University of Illinois. The BRIDGE agreement establishes a framework for creative knowledge exchange across disciplines through frequent, purposeful, face-to-face meetings between faculty, staff and students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. What makes the BRIDGE partnership so distinctive is that it is genuinely multi-disciplinary, with over 70 cross-faculty links spanning Biosciences, Economic and Physical Geography, Psychology, Neuroscience, Environmental Genomics, Railway Engineering, Maths, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, American & Canadian Studies, Classics, History of Art, African Studies, Cultural Heritage and Education.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Birmingham jointly established the BRIDGE Seed Fund of $200,000 to stimulate wider academic engagement between the two universities. The BRIDGE framework aims to deepen these existing collaborations and develop wider faculty networks to: build cognate research areas; expand educational exchange opportunities; and strengthen strategic aspirations for institutional engagement.

Event: Origins & evolution of professional football clubs

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Register now for this in person event on The origins and evolution of professional football clubs from a business, management, and organizational history perspective taking place on the 22nd – 23rd June at Birkbeck, University of London. 

Professional football provides fertile ground for historians interested in exploring continuity and change. It has undergone considerable change and evolution in terms of its identification as an industry – historically football identified as a representative competition between locales, and in many countries profit or even turnover were not considered significant in the purpose of clubs. The entry of broadcasting and the opportunities for related entrepreneurship and licensing in the context of the game have created the opportunity for much of the change that the game has undergone, with a considerable increase the problem of “appropriability” (Buchanan, 1965; Demsetz, 1970; Coase, 1988), in which club owners have struggled to capture the benefits of these innovations, although they have often pushed to exploit them. Many of the benefits have flowed to players, who have seen increased status through the “economics of superstars” (Rosen, 1981) where highly talented played have seen their bargaining powers increase.

 We invite papers looking at club football from a management and business history perspective, especially those drawing on archival or oral history research.  Papers should seek to contribute to a developing stream of research including Dizin et al (2004), Walters and Hamil (2013), Gillett and Tennent (2017) and Fernández-de-Sevilla (2021). Secondly, following Gillett and Tennent (2020) we aim to broaden the realm of business and management history by providing opportunities to look at theoretical and empirical themes related to the professional football industry such as project-based enterprise, hybridity, or the role of not-for-profit organisations in business.

Benefits of attending 
  • Receive critical feedback on and review of in-progress academic work
  • Network with academics and practitioners in the field with the potential to encourage impact collaboration
  • Understand the current state of academic work on management and business in the football industry
Facilitators
  • Professor Geoff Walters, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Sean Hamil, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr Kevin Tennent, University of York
  • Dr Alex Gillett, University of York

Venue details:

  • School of Business, Economics and Infomatics
  • Birkbeck College
  • Malet St,
  • London
  • WC1E 7HX
Event Fee 
  • BAM Members: £10
  • BAM Student Members : Free (10 places available)
  • Non -BAM Members : £20
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To register please login to your account and proceed with the registration for the event by pressing the “book now” button on the top right side of the workshop page. Please complete the registration by the 23.59 UK time on the 8th June.

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EMAIL ARCHIVING SYMPOSIUM 13-15 June (online)

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The programme for the Email Archiving Symposium is out now:

The keynote is by Nicole Hemmer

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ABSTRACT:

As historians begin tackling the work of analyzing the 1990s and early 21st century, they are learning that the traditional paper trail — the memos, records, and correspondences that make up so much of the historian’s craft — peters out, and that a world of born-digital sources takes its place. Few historians have been trained to tackle these new archives; even locating emails, videos, and websites remains a monumental task. Nicole Hemmer, a historian of the near-past, will talk about her experiences working with born-digital sources and the challenges the profession must overcome as it reaches the end of the paper-trail era.

BIOGRAPHY:

Nicole Hemmer is director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. She is author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics and Partisan: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s. She co-hosts the podcasts Past Present and This Day in Esoteric Political History, and is a columnist at CNN.

To register click here.

New deadline for submissions to Special Issue in JESB

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The new deadline for submissions for the Special Issue “Women in the Economy Since the 1950s: Change and Transformation in Expected and Contested Roles” has been extended to June 20th, 2023.

More information about the journal can be found here: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/JESB/index

Call for Papers

This Special Issue seeks studies that explore the roles (leaders, workers, consumers, shareholders or investors, amongst others) that women have actively assumed while participating in the economy since the 1950s. The editors of this SI are particularly interested in research articles that identify change and transformation over time of these roles, in either an economic sector or an industry or within a particular organization, whether this refers to sectors or sizes -micro, small and medium-sized companies and large national and transnational companies. We welcome theoretical and empirical pieces that question culturally informed assumptions that women in Global North have more power and access to greater roles in the economy. The time period is limited to the second half of the twentieth century with the aim of understanding how historical processes and changes in the workplace and education, such as the 1970s shift in women’s labor to work outside the home and the greater number of women in higher education, or the 1960s US and European protests and social unrest, affected the ways in which women became business actors during the time.

Women around the world are not exclusively defined by gender, instead they need to be conceptualized in all their complexity as economic and social subjects (Hills Collins, 2015). We consider that the perspective of intersectionality is a valuable resource to understand women’s identities and societal inequalities through the multiple interlocking social categories such as race/ethnicity, class, age, sexual orientation or ability/disability, among others (see the reviews of Hills Collins, 2015 and Viveros Vigoya, 2021). We also reckon that the contributions of management and business history studies (see the reviews of Barbero and Lluch, 2014; Cárdenas de Sanz de Santamaría, Franco and Sandoval, 2014; and Ripoll, 2014) are useful for understanding that the context in which women constitute economic actors is heterogeneous and shape women’s participation and access to business and opportunities over time.

As editors of this SI, we seek to broaden the understanding of the role that women have played as leaders, different from high-level corporate positions (see for example, De la Cruz-Fernandez, 2021; Ginalski, 2022;  Lluch and Salvaj, 2022; Tumbe, 2022; Wright, 2021). For this, we encourage studies that focus on the construction of meaning about women and the expected or contested roles they play in the economy and other interrelated domains (see for example, Fernández and Hamilton, 2007, Berkers, Verboord, and Weij, 2016; Milanes-Reyes, 2011; Richards, 2007; Rodriguez-Martinez, 2022; Skalli, 2011, and Tribín-Uribe, Pirela-Ríos and Gómez-Barrera, 2022), incorporating novel sources and methods.

This SI aims to include papers that examine the following issues:

  • The diversity of paths that women have undertaken to be part of industry and business, as leaders, workers, consumers, shareholders or investors and the ways in which their cultural, social, and economic background has helped or has been an obstacle to their pursues.
  • Female entrepreneurship in different geographical regions and the diverse outcomes of their endeavors to understand the variety of contexts and organizations that women work and manage.
  • The impact that the press and the new digital media have had in the construction of women as economic actors and how they have reflected upon it.

The Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business is an open access publication with two issues per year, with an external and international academic peer review process of evaluation, with the sponsorship of RCUB (Revistes Científiques de la Universitat de Barcelona) gratefully acknowledged.

All submissions will undergo a peer review process to select up to 8 accepted papers. Please follow the submission guidelines: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/JESB/about/submissions

Calendar

September 30th, 2022: Open call for papers
June 20th, 2023: Deadline for full paper submission
June 21st – September 15th, 2023: New round of reviews
November 15th, 2023: Final submission
January 2024: Expected publication

Guest editors

Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal (Universidad del Pacífico), bh.rodriguezs@up.edu.pe. She is a business historian, lecturer at Universidad del Pacífico (Perú) and member of the History, Business and Entrepreneurship (GHE) research group of Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Doctor in Business and Management (PhD, QMUL, 2021) holds degrees of Economics (BSc, UniAndes, 2003) and Economic History (MSc, LSE, 2010). She is currently studying women entrepreneurs in Peru from 1980 to 2022, a research based on interviews and newspapers.

Laura M. Milanés-Reyes (Scholar), lmilanes@alumni.albany.edu. She is a cultural sociologist who is currently working on gender and media in Andean countries. Ph.D. in Sociology (University at Albany, SUNY) and a former Fulbright Grantee. Laura has analyzed the representation of CEOs in the personal profiles appearing in the U.S. press during the 1990s-2000s, focusing on gendered meaning making patterns. Her dissertation compared news coverage of two economic crises: The Great Recession in the U.S. and Colombia’s crisis (1998).

Paula de la Cruz-Fernández (Scholar), padelacruzf@gmail.com. She is a gender and business historian, digitization and archives specialist, bilingual editor, and a scholarly communications consultant. Currently, Paula manages projects that focus on outreach and the wide promotion of academic research via digital media like websites, podcasts, blogging, and social media.  She is the digital editor of the Business History Conference and co-editor of New Books Network en español.

References

Barbero, María Inés, and Andrea Lluch. 2014. “Business History and Women’s History in Argentina. A Brief Historiographical Essay-Review.” History, Business and Entrepreneurship Newsletter 5: 8-13. https://administracion.uniandes.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/05-boletin-newsletter-ghe-ago-2014.pdf.

Berkers, Pauwke, Marc Verboord, and Frank Weij. 2016. “«These Critics (Still) Don’t Write Enough About Women Artists»: Gender Inequality in the Newspaper Coverage of Arts and Culture in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, 1955-2005.” Gender & Society 30(3): 515-39. doi: 10.1177/0891243216643320.

Cárdenas de Santamaría, Maria Consuelo, Valentina Franco, and Daniela Sandoval. 2014. “Women in Management Positions in Colombia: An Illustration.” History, Business and Entrepreneurship Newsletter 5: 14-18. https://administracion.uniandes.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/05-boletin-newsletter-ghe-ago-2014.pdf.

De la Cruz-Fernández, Paula. 2021. Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940. Routledge: New York.

Fernández, Paloma, and Eleanor Hamilton. 2007. “Gender and family firms: an interdisciplinary approach.” UB Economics – Working Papers [ERE] WP E-Eco07/171. Barcelona: University of Barcelona. http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/11961.

Ginalski, Stéphanie. 2022. “How Women Broke into the Old Boys’ Corporate Network in Switzerland.” Business History. doi: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2034788.

Hill Collins, Patricia. 2015. “Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas.” Annual Review of Sociology 41(1): 1-20. doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112142.

Lluch, Andrea, and Erica Salvaj. 2022. “Women May Be Climbing on Board, but Not in First Class: A Long-Term Study of the Factors Affecting Women’s Board Participation in Argentina and Chile (1923–2010).” Business History. doi: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2063275.

Martínez-Rodríguez, Susana. 2022. “Diana (1969-1978): The First Women’s Finance Magazine in Spain.” Feminist Media Studies. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2022.2055606.

Milanes, Laura. 2011 “Media Representation of Chief Executive Officers: Personal Profiles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, 1990s-2000s” Master in Sociology, State University of New York at Albany.

Richards, Patricia. 2007. “Bravas, Permitidas, Obsoletas: Mapuche Women in the Chilean Print Media.” Gender & Society 21(4): 553-78. doi: 10.1177/0891243207304971.

Ripoll, Maria Teresa. 2014. “Women Entrepreneurs in Colombia: Is Gender Relevant in the Study of Entrepreneurial Performance?” History, Business and Entrepreneurship Newsletter 5: 19-26. https://administracion.uniandes.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/05-boletin-newsletter-ghe-ago-2014.pdf.

Skalli, Loubna H. 2011. “Constructing Arab Female Leadership Lessons from the Moroccan Media.” Gender & Society 25(4): 473-95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243211411051.

Tribin-Uribe, Ana Maria, Ana Pirela-Rios, and Alan Gómez-Barrera. 2022. Informe Quanta cuidado y género: Diferencias de género en los medios de comunicación digitales: Un análisis empleando minería de texto. Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, PNUD, Quanta y Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. https://cuidadoygenero.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Genero-medios-digitales.pdf.

Tumbe, Chinmay. 2022. “Women Directors in Corporate India, C. 1920–2019.” Business History. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2038139.

Viveros Vigoya, Mara. 2021. El oxímoron de las clases medias negras. Movilidad social e interseccionalidad en Colombia. Guadalajara: Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro María Sibylla Merlan de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (CALAS). https://editorial.udg.mx/gpd-el-oximoron-de-las-clases-medias-negras-9786075712765.html.

Wright, Claire E. F. 2021. “Good Wives and Corporate Leaders: Duality in Women’s Access to Australia’s Top Company Boards, 1910–2018.” Business History. doi: h10.1080/00076791.2021.1994948.

TOC of Business History 65 3 has just been published

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Volume 65, 3 (2023) of Business History, with four book reviews, seven articles, and one comment, has just been published. TOC is available below, or browse here https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/65/3

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TOC 65 – 3, 2023

Paola Lanaro and Chistophe Austruy’s L’Arsenale Di Venezia. Da Grande Complesso Industriale a Risorsa Patrimoniale, reviewed by Isabelle Cecchini, Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 576–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2053048.

Derbyshire, J. “Cross-Fertilising Scenario Planning and Business History by Process-Tracing Historical Developments: Aiding Counterfactual Reasoning and Uncovering History to Come.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 479–501. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1844667.

Eshter Sahle’s Quakers in the British Atlantic World, 1660-1800, reviewed by Sheryllyne Haggerty, Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 580–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2053371.

Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R., Kilminster, W. and Spee, P. “An Integrative Approach to Investigating Longstanding Organisational Phenomena; Opportunities for Practice Theorists and Historians.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 414–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1906227.

Lagrosen, S. and Roy, A. “Entrepreneurial Relationship Marketing in 19th Century India – The Case of Railway Contractor Joseph Stephens.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 525–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1821659.

Maeda, K. “Market-Based Financing for Small Corporations during Early Industrialisation: The Case of Salt Corporations in Japan, 1880s–1910s.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 502–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1825689.

Lomang Wang’s Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910, reviewed by Ghassan Moazzin, Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 572–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2046383.

Pearson, R. “Normative Practices, Narrative Fallacies? International Reinsurance and Its History.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 397–413. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1808885.

Scherner, J. and Spoerer, M. “Infant Company Protection in the German Semi-Synthetic Fibre Industry: Market Power, Technology, the Nazi Government and the Post-1945 World Market.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 541–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1900118.

Soydemir, C. O. and Erçek, M. “State and Transforming Institutional Logics: The Emergence and Demise of Ottoman Cooperatives as Hybrid Organizational Forms, 1861–1888.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 423–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1802429.

Klas Rönnbäck and Oskar Broberg’s Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa, 1869–1969, reviewed by Nicolaas Strydom, Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 574–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2049042.

Wong, Nicholas D., and Tom McGovern. “Entrepreneurial Strategies in a Family Business: Growth and Capital Conversions in Historical Perspective.” Business History 65, no. 3 (April 3, 2023): 454–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1807952.

CfP Archives of Economic Life

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Archives of Economic Life

A Researching Event for Historians of Capitalism and Corporate Archivists

The Centre for Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester invites submissions for a two-day networking workshop for historians of economic life in the UK, to be held on June 8 and 9, 2023. The workshop will bring together early- and mid-career researchers in the history of capitalism, business, and economic life to discuss research interests and reflect on the history of capitalism in the UK. Scholars will not only engage with each other but will also work with archivists from some of the leading corporate collections in the UK, exploring opportunities for collaboration and research development.

The organizers are keen to identify scholars in the UK pursuing the history of global capitalism and interested in the possibilities that corporate archives might provide in terms of knowledge mobilization and impact agendas. The history of capitalism is understood capaciously – including the history of economic life, business, political economy, consumption, labour, and economic thought – as well as transnationally, and a variety of methodological approaches are welcome. Proceedings will include small-group workshops to discuss shared challenges, presentations of research agendas/works in progress, and panel discussions. The emphasis will be on meeting and discussing rather than formal presentations, but participants should expect to speak about their research agendas and works-in-progress.

Please send an email to the organizer, Dr. Alexia Yates (alexia.yates@manchester.ac.uk) outlining your interest in the workshop, along with a short CV (2 pages) and a 300-word description of a relevant work-in-progress by May 12, 2023. Funding from the AHRC is available to support travel and accommodation expenses.