Month: October 2023

20th World Economic History Congress

Steph

Call for sessions

The 20th World Economic History Congress will convene from 28 July–1 August 2025 in Lund, Sweden. The theme for the Congress is Equality and Sustainability Challenges, which highlights some of the central issues facing humanity today and also connects to a broad and diverse range of historical problems. To address both the challenges and to find insights from the historical record for that endeavour, a range of perspectives will be necessary.

The IEHA has a particularly strong desire to attract sessions related to this theme. However, submissions are welcome on the economic and social histories of all places and periods, and on the exploration of varied sources and methods, and on the theory and uses of economic history itself. We also invite members to employ and analyse diverse strategies for representing the past.

Sessions may be proposed by any member of the international economic history community, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, as well as by scholars in related disciplines. Given the diversity of our membership, we will consider any submission that advances the study, teaching and public presentation of economic history. We welcome panel proposals that highlight scholarship emerging from economic history, business history, financial history, demographic history, environmental history, global and world history, social history, urban and agrarian history, gender studies, material culture, methodological approaches to historical research, history of economics and economic thought, science and technology studies, and other related fields.

The programme of the Lund Congress will be organised on the same principles as previous Congresses. The 5-day Congress will have approximately 180 sessions, with each day divided into time blocks of 90 minutes each (two before lunch and two after lunch). As in the past, it will be possible to combine two sessions into larger coherent units.

The session proposals should contain:

  • Name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the session organiser
  • Possible co-organisers (optional)
  • Title of the session
  • Description of the session’s aim, contribution, and relevance (max 5,000 characters with blanks)
  • Researchers invited to participate in the session, or those already confirmed, and their affiliations

The call for sessions will close on January 31, 2024. Sessions should be submitted via the portal at at this link. Please note that unlike in past years, there will be ONLY ONE call for sessions. Decisions will be finalised in June 2024.

New edition of “The Evolution of Management Thought”

Steph


Dear Organizational History Network Colleagues

It is our pleasure to announce that digital evaluation copies of the newly released ninth edition of The Evolution of Management Thought are now available. Designed for upper-level and graduate courses, this new edition further cements The Evolution of Management Thought’s place, over the past half-century, as the field of management history’s leading text.

A book cover showing a forest

Far more than a chronicle of the historical development of modern management’s many roots, The Evolution of Management Thought is a fascinating telling of how ideas about the nature of work, the nature of human beings, and the nature of organizations have changed throughout history.

The Evolution of Management Thought’s methodology is analytic, synthetic, and interdisciplinary. It is analytic, in that it examines the backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs of people who made significant contributions to management thinking. It is synthetic, in that it weaves developmental trends, social movements, and environmental forces into a conceptual framework for understanding how management thinking has evolved within and across generations. It is interdisciplinary, in that it draws insights from economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology to explain why management thinking has developed as it has. 

This new edition traces the intellectual history of modern management thought as an activity and as an academic discipline in a way that makes reading The Evolution of Management Thought a thoroughly enjoyable encounter.

Request a digital evaluation copy by pasting the following URL into your browser: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Evolution+of+Management+Thought%2C+9th+Edition-p-9781394202294

We remain grateful for the suggestions and encouragement of the many people who have used previous editions of The Evolution of Management Thought in the classroom and in their own research. For more information, or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,

Daniel A. Wren and Arthur G. Bedeian – abede@lsu.edu

Accounting History International Conference

Steph

The 12th Accounting History International Conference will be held September 4-6 2024 in Siena, Italy. The conference theme is “Accounting for arts, culture and heritage in historical perspectives”. Papers on this topic are encouraged, but any accounting history paper will be considered for presentation at the 12AHIC. Paper submission is by 31 March 2024.

The website for the conference is now live –  http://www.congressi.unisi.it/12ahic/