Month: July 2023

Special Issue Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy, now in print

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Guess editors: Marten Boon, Espen Storli

Issue 65 – 5, 202

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Aldous, Michael. “From Traders to Planters: The Evolving Role and Importance of Trading Companies in the 19th Century Anglo-Indian Indigo Trade.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 803–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1623787.

Boon, Marten, and Espen Storli. “Creating Global Capitalism: An Introduction to Commodity Trading Companies and the First Global Economy.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 787–802. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2172163.

Declercq, Robrecht. “Natural Born Merchants. The Hudson Bay Company, Science and Canada’s Final Fur Frontiers (1925–1931).” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 920–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1625331.

DuBois, Thomas David. “Branding and Retail Strategy in the Condensed Milk Trade: Borden and Nestlé in East Asia, 1870–1929.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 902–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1688302.

Linneweh, Bastian. “Global Trading Companies in the Commodity Chain of Rubber between 1890 and the 1920s.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 863–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1693544.

Mizuno, Hiromi, and Ines Prodöhl. “Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian Soybean Trade: Geopolitics and Economic Strategies in China’s Northeast, ca. 1870s–1920s.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 880–901. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1687688.

Papadopoulou, Alexandra. “Foreign Merchant Businesses and the Integration of the Black and Azov Seas of the Russian Empire into the First Global Economy.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 821–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1676232.

Stambach, Amy. “Sourcing and Shipping Museum Objects from East Africa to the Smithsonian, 1887–1891.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 848–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1687687.

NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society

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The NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society supports residencies at the Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware for junior and senior scholars whose projects make use of Hagley’s substantial research collections. Scholars must have completed all requirements for their doctoral degrees by the February 15 application deadline. In accordance with NEH requirements, these fellowships are restricted to United States citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. These fellowships are made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fellowships may be four to twelve months in length and will provide a monthly stipend of $5,000 and complimentary lodging in housing on Hagley’s property. Hagley also will provide supplemental funds for local off-site accommodations to NEH fellowship recipients who can make a compelling case that special circumstance (e.g. disability or family needs) would make it impossible to make use of our scholar’s housing. Scholars receive office space, Internet access, Inter-Library Loan privileges, and the full benefits of visiting scholars, including special access to Hagley’s research collections. They are expected to be in regular and continuous residence and to participate in the Center’s scholarly programs. They must devote full time to their study and may not accept teaching assignments or undertake any other major activities during their residency. Fellows may hold other major fellowships or grants during fellowship tenure, in addition to sabbaticals and supplemental grants from their own institutions, but only those that do not interfere with their residency at Hagley. Other NEH-funded grants may be held serially, but not concurrently.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE FOR THE NEH-HAGLEY FELLOWSHIP ON BUSINESS, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

Deadline: February 15, 2023

Requirements for application: (Apply online at https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships/funding-application ).

·        Current curriculum vitae.

·        A 3,000-word explanation of the project and its contributions to pertinent scholarship.

·        A statement of no more than 500 words explaining how residency at Hagley would advance the project, particularly the relevance of our research collections.

·        A statement indicating the preferred duration of the fellowship.

Applicants also should arrange for two letters of recommendation to arrive separately by the application deadline. These should be sent directly to Carol Lockman,  clockman@Hagley.org. Questions regarding this fellowship may be sent to Carol Lockman as well.  Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Roger Horowitz, Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society in advance of submitting an application—rhorowitz@hagley.org.

Business History Issue 65-4 is out now

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TOC of Business History Issue 65-4 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/65/4?nav=tocList

Issue 65 – 4 2023

Berbenni, Enrico. “The Pitfalls of Multinational Banking: The Case of Italian Banks in Egypt before WWII.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 719–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1918675.

Díaz-Morlán, Pablo, and Miguel Á. Sáez-García. “The Paradox of Scrap and the European Steel Industry’s Loss of Leadership (1950–1970).” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 740–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1820988.

Hussain, Simon. “The Development of the Chartered Financial Analyst in the United States during the Twentieth Century.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 606–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1830063.

Keneley, Monica J. “The Shifting Corporate Culture in the Financial Services Industry: Explaining the Emergence of the ‘Culture of Greed’ in an Australian Financial Services Company.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 583–605. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1821660.

Lu, Qing, Steven Toms, and Yingqi Wei. “From Light Touch to Top Management Control: HSBC’s Integration of Its First Two Acquired Subsidiaries 1960-1980.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 656–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1883000.

Meeks, G., and G. Whittington. “Death on the Stock Exchange: The Fate of the 1948 Population of Large UK Quoted Companies, 1948–2018.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 679–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1893696.

Mourlon-Druol, Emmanuel. “Banking on Détente: Barclays, Paribas, and Société Générale in Poland, 1950s-1980s.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 699–718. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1907347.

Quinn, William, and John D. Turner. “Bubbles in History.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 636–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1844668.

San Román, Elena, Nuria Puig, and Águeda Gil-López. “German Capital and the Development of the Spanish Hotel Industry (1950s-1990s): A Tale of Two Strategic Alliances.” Business History 65, no. 4 (May 19, 2023): 762–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1821658.

AOM PDW Craft & Organizations

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The ultimate goal for this PDW is to introduce the audience to the topic of craft and organizations in a way that emphasizes both its theoretical and practical significance and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss pre-submitted extended abstracts with editorial board members of diverse management journals.

This PDW will be divided into halves. In the first half, open to everyone, guest speakers will introduce the topic of craft and organizations. In the second half, participants who submit abstracts will be grouped at tables with editorial board members of diverse management journals that have affinity with craft-related research. Each participant will have an opportunity to introduce their abstract with the rest of the table and receive developmental feedback from an editorial board member.

We want to create a friendly and developmental environment for everyone interested on this line of research. We invite interested participants that are currently engaged or interested in engaging in craft and organizations research to submit extended abstracts (Max 900 words) for research on craft and organizations, both broadly defined.

Please use the following link to submit your abstract by July 14th. 

Organizers:

Jose A. Cerecedo Lopez, UT San Antonio

Jochem Kroezen, Erasmus University

Speakers:

Innan Sasaki, University of Warwick 

Michael G. Pratt, Boston College 

Editorital Board Members:

Tobias Pret, Illinois State University

Silviya Svejenova Velikova, Copenhagen Business School

Jo-Ellen Pozner, Santa Clara University

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Jose A. Cerecedo Lopez
The University of Texas at San Antonio
jose.cerecedolopez@utsa.edu
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Annotated TOC for Business History (65-2, 2023)

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Business History Issue 65-2, 2023, Special Issue in Brokers of the wealthy (Transnational business associations) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/65/2.

Grace Ballor in ‘Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–1999’’ explores how the European automobile industry lobbied for protection and influenced the European Union trade relations with Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. Read it here: Business History, 65(2), pp. 302–328, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.2025218.

‘’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century’ by Thomas David and Eichenberger focuses on the history and role in creating transnational business networks of the International Chamber of Commerce; read it in Business History, 65(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.2025219.

Who are the brokers of globalization? Pierre Eichenberger, Neil Rollings, and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl provide some answers and insights about the role of international organizations in shaping the global economy in the introduction to the Special Issue “Brokers of the Wealthy”. Read ‘The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena’, Business History, 65(2), at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2112671.

In ‘Fighting for a neoliberal Europe: Swiss business associations and the UNICE, 1970–1978’ Ludovic Iberg explores the actions and strategies that BusinessEurope, known before as Union des Industries de la Communauté Européenne (UNICE), pursued to influence economic policy in the process of European integration.  Read Business History, 65(2), available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1892643.

Read more about how the ‘Interlaken Conferences’, a Swiss Federation of Commerce-initiated meetings of leaders from the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland that sought to represent the interests of different industrial groups in the context of European integration in Sabine Pitteloud’s article ‘Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a “liberal bastion” within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987’, Business History, 65(2), available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1905797

The article by Neil Rollings ‘The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century’ provides an overview and historical trends of international non-governmental organizations working in subjects such as pacificism, law and administration, labour, education, feminism, sport and tourism, religion, humanitarianism and much more.  In Business History, 65(2), available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1958783.

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl’s ‘Becoming the advocate for US-based multinationals: The United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1945–1974’, explores the rise to prominence of the United States Council for International Business (founded in 1945 as part of the International Chamber of Commerce) in in defending and promoting international direct investments by American companies. Read in Business History, 65(2), pp. 284–301. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1877273.

Glenda Sluga’s afterword ‘Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in’, comments on key concepts like methodological cosmopolitanism, transnational business, business associations, integration of economic life, and more. Available at: Business History, 65(2), pp. 382–388, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2130896.

Benjamin Waterhouse, in ‘The Business Roundtable and the politics of U.S. manufacturing decline in the global 1970s’, studies how this key industry representative, the Business Roundtable, failed to create or defend a forward-thinking industrial policy, hindered by outdated analysis and a fixed political vision. Read more in Business History, 65(2), pp. 329–344. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1863949.