The BHC 2023 Annual Meeting theme is Reinvention (Detroit, March 16-18, 2023)
The BHC 2023 conference program is now available. The table of contents below has links to each of the sessions. The program is also searchable on the website: https://thebhc.org/meeting-program/35703.
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2023 BHC Meeting
Detroit, MI, United States
March 16th – 18th, 2023
Reinvention
Paper Development Workshop: Economic History of Natural Resources, 9:00am – 1:00pm 3
Paper Development Workshop: Educating for Business and the Business of Education – Historical Perspectives and Developments, 9:00am – 1:00pm Room C. 4
Workshops 1, 2:00pm – 3:30pm.. 4
Session a: Global Capitalisms and Commodities, Part 1. 4
Session b: Workshop Social Network Analysis. 4
Session c: Digital Business History. 4
Workshops 2, 4:00pm – 5:30pm.. 4
Session a: Global Capitalisms and Commodities, Part 2. 4
Session b: Business Historians in a World of Crises. 5
Opening Plenary, 6:30pm – 8:00pm.. 5
Session a: Detroit: Then and Now. 5
BHC After Dark (Welcome Reception), 8:00pm – 10:30pm.. 5
Concurrent Sessions 1, 8:00am – 9:30am.. 5
Session a: History Resized. 5
Session b: Innovation from the Bottom Up. 6
Session c: Corporate Diplomacy. 6
Session d: Resources and Sustainability. 6
Session f: Engineers and the Rule of Standards. 7
Session g: Industry Dynamics. 7
Session h: Silver Screen. 7
Concurrent Sessions 2, 1:00pm – 2:30pm.. 8
Session a: Spatializing Business. 8
Session b: Murky Business. 8
Session c: Reinterpreting US-China Trade Relations. 8
Session d: Business and the Environment 9
Session e: Protect America Again. 9
Session f: Do We Have a Deal? Cooperation and Cartelization. 9
Session g: You’ve Got Chemistry. 9
Session h: Creating Spectacle. 10
Concurrent Sessions 3, 3:00pm – 4:30pm.. 10
Session a: New Recipes in Business History. 10
Session b: The Process of Reinvention. 10
Session c: Borderland Business. 11
Session d: Green Giants. 11
Session e: Antimonopoly in the Long Twentieth Century. 11
Session f: Laboring over Standards. 12
Session g: Care for Cash. 12
Session h: Divine Business. 12
Conversations, 5:00pm – 6:15pm.. 12
Session b: Legal History as Business History (and Business History as Legal History) Room B 13
Chair: Robert Eberhart, 13
Session d: Global Capitalisms and Commodities: Directions for Future Research. 13
Session e: The Great Inflation. 13
Session f: Careers Beyond the Academy for Historians. 14
Presidential Reception, 6:15pm – 8:00pm.. 14
Emerging Scholar Reception, 9:30pm – 11:30pm.. 14
Concurrent Sessions 4, 8:00am – 9:30am.. 14
Session a: Selling Sensation. 14
Session b: Merchants on the Move. 14
Session c: Profiteers Go Global 15
Session d: Responsibility and Irresponsibility in Global Business. 15
Session e: Property Wrongs. 15
Session f: Horse Power 15
Session g: Hired Guns. 16
Session h: History for Sale. 16
Concurrent Sessions 5, 10:00am – 11:30am.. 16
Session a: Gender, Business and Ethics. 16
Session b: The Politics of Entrepreneurship. 16
Session c: Pandemic Preparedness. 17
Session d: Regulating Finance. 17
Session e: Transactional and Commercial Law.. 17
Session f: Visions of Good Society. 17
Session g: The Business with Cars and Trucks. 18
Session h: Accounting for Accounting. 18
Concurrent Sessions 6, 1:00pm – 2:30pm.. 18
Session a: Business History in the Longue Durée. 18
Session b: Women’s Economic Revitalization in Early America. 19
Session c: Reinventing the World. 19
Session d: Financial Innovation. 19
Session e: Power Moves. 19
Session f: Postwar European Capitalism.. 20
Session g: Capitalism Computerized. 20
Session h: New and Improved! Advertising and Business. 20
Concurrent Sessions 7, 2:45pm – 4:15pm.. 21
Session a: Visualizing Business History. 21
Session b: New Approaches to Women’s Business History. 21
Session c: The Empire Frauds Back. 21
Session d: Reinventing Financial Standards. 21
Session e: Fair Game. 21
Session f: No Country for Oil Men. 22
Discussant: Pål Thonstad Sandvik, NTNU. 22
Session g: Recharting Chinese Business. 22
Session h: Media and Materiality. 22
Concurrent Sessions 8, 4:30pm – 6:00pm.. 23
Session a: Entangled, People and Words. 23
Session b: Professions and Careers. 23
Session c: Business in Arms. 23
Session d: Clusters, Agglomerations and Districts. 23
Session e: Deindustrializing History. 24
Session f: Stakeholders and Governance. 24
Session g: The Morality of Markets. 24
Reception & Banquet, 8:15pm – 10:00pm.. 25
2023 BHC Meeting Program
Dissertation Colloquium 1, 8:00am – 2:00pm
Room A
Dissertation Colloquium 2, 8:00am – 2:00pm
Room B
Room D
Sponsored by Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Contact: Espen Storli, espen.storli@ntnu.no
Sponsored by Copenhagen Business School
Contact: Christoph Viebig, cvi.mpp@cbs.dk
Room C
Contact: Donica Belisle, donica.belisle@uregina.ca
Chair: Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School (ABS), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic 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”
Room D
Chair: Susie Pak, St. John’s University
Room A
Chairs: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida, and Sean Patrick Adams, University of Florida
Atiba Pertilla, GHI Washington DC, and Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, and Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal, Queen Mary University of London, and Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Coffee Break, 3:30pm – 4:00pm
Other 1 TBC
BHC Trustees, 3:30pm – 6:00pm
Room F
Room C
Chair: Rob Konkel, Princeton 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)”
Room D
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
Other 1 TBC
Chair: Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California
Discussant: The Audience
Thomas Sugrue, NYU
Kendra Boyd, Rutgers University-Camden
“Mapping Detroit’s Historic Black Business Community”
Other 2 TBC
Room A
Chair: Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: The Audience
Mark Field, Hosei University (Japan)
“Reinvention and the Empty Space”
Morten Tinning, Copenhagen Business School
“Maritime Microhistory: New Approaches to Actors and Experiences”
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 (double-degree)
“Builders of the Royal Navy: Private shipbuilders’ naval constructions at the turn of the eighteenth century”
Room B
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, 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”
Room C
Chair: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: The Audience
Jan-Otmar Hesse, University of Bayreuth
“Offshoring Incentivized: The Promotion of FDI by the German Government in the 1970s”
Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at 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 Universität Marburg
“Understanding West German-Ethiopian business relations in the 1960s through the lens of security and insecurity”
Room D
Chair: Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Discussant: The Audience
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 (NTNU)
“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 e: Capitalism Rules!
Room E
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”
Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia
“Health and the Chronology of Global Governance”
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]”
Room F
Chair: JoAnne Yates, MIT
Discussant: JoAnne Yates, MIT
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”
Room G
Chair: Michael Aldous, Queen’s University Belfast
Discussant: The Audience
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”
Room H
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”
AYŞE FEYZA ŞAHİNKUŞU, ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY-YOZGAT BOZOK UNIVERSITY
“Discovering Traces of Istanbul’s Economic History In 1960-1980 Turkish Cinema”
Krooss Dissertation Prize Plenary Session, 10:00am – 11:30am
Room A
Lunch (and Business Historians in Business School Lunch), 11:30am 1:00pm
Other 1 TBC
Room A
Chair: Morten Tinning, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: The Audience
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)”
Room B
Chair: Laura Phillips Sawyer, University of Georgia
Discussant: Vicki Howard, University of Essex
Simon Ville, University of Wollongong, Harvard University
“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 Pietät: Transatlantic Differences in Establishing Respectability in Funeral Markets since the late 19th
Century”
Room C
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Discussant: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Dan Du, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“From Canton to the Coast: Reinventing the China-U.S. Tea Trade after the Opium War”
Peter Thilly, University of Missippi
“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”
Room D
Chair: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Centre for Business History, 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 at Austin (retired)
“”Nature in a Can: Chesapeake Bay Oysters and the American Can Company, 1900-1940″”
Room E
Chair: Roger Horowitz, Hagley
Discussant: Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University
Ryan Haddad, University of Maryland
“National Security Protectionism: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tools Industry in the 1950s”
Michael Best, University of Massachusetts
“Reinvention of Capability-informed Macroeconomic Policymaking “
Nathanael Mickelson, University of Georgia
“Reinventing the Dollar: Southern Lawyers and the Origins of the U.S. Gold Reserve Act of 1934”
Room F
Chair: Susanna Fellman, University of Gotenburg
Discussant: The Audience
Ingeborg Guldal, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Espen Storli, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“«Now is the time»: Zambia, Chile and the dream of creating a better world through the means of international copper cooperation, 1967-1974”
Zi Yang, Aston University, Birmingham UK
“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”
Room G
Chair: Pamela Laird, University of Colorado Denver
Discussant: Teresa da Silva Lopes, York University
Jack Moss, University of Nottingham
“Reinventing Tradition; Boots the Chemists’ Experiments with Self-Service in Early Postwar Britain”
James Nealy, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
““The Shchekino Method: Flexible Production with Socialist Characteristics in the Soviet Union””
Cody Patton, Ohio State University
“Mites, Mildew, and Anheuser-Busch: How Pests, Big Beer, and Hops Shaped the Craft Brewing Industry”
Room H
Chair: Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon
Discussant: The Audience
Jeff Fear, University of Glasgow, and Cristina Stanca-Mustea, FOM Hochschule Berline
“”Anything You Tackle is Bound to Go Wrong:” A Paul Kohner Production 1920-1941″
Shawna Kidman, UC San Diego
“Writing the History of Hollywood Using Contemporary Hollywood’s Biggest Databases”
Devon Powers, University of Michigan
“Communication as Promotion: The Business Roots of Communication Research”
Gerald Ronning, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
“From Guitar Shop to Big Box and Resistance to Reinvention”
Room A
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/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”
Room B
Chair: Xavier Duran , Universitat de Los Andes Bogota
Discussant: The Audience
Salem Elzway, University of Michigan
“Reinventing Automation: The Past, Present, and Future of a Concept”
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”
Room C
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 at Austin
“Chinese Businesses in Mexico: Transnational Networks and Survival Strategies, 1899-1947”
Alvaro Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics
“The African Connection: Business and Power in a Period of Crises (1890-1940)”
Room D
Chair: Nicolette Bruner, Northwestern University
Discussant: The Audience
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”
Maki Umemura, Cardiff University
“Reinventing technological expectations and the building of the hydrogen energy business “
Room E
Chair: Laura Phillips Sawyer, The University of Georgia
Discussant: Laura Phillips Sawyer, The University of Georgia
Ashton Merck, NC 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”
Room F
Chair: Rolv Petter Amdam, Norwegian Business School
Discussant: The Audience
Catharina Haensel, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen and Scuola Normale Superiore
“„A basis for labour-management co-operation”? The ILO Productivity Mission in Ahmedabad, 1954-58”
Andrea Lluch, CONICET, Argentina & at the School of Management, University of Los Andes – Colombia
“ILO and the productivity and management development missions: the experience of the Productivity Center of Argentina (1958-1967)”
Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF, Madrid
“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 “
Room G
Chair: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore
Discussant: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore
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”
Room H
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”
Session a: Is Capitalism a Useful Category of Analysis?
Room A
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
Chair: Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University
Discussant: The Audience
Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University
Justin Simard, Michigan State University College of Law
Evelyn Atkinson, University of Chicago
Geneva Smith, Princeton University
Session c: Entrepreneuring Society
Room C
Chair: Robert Eberhart,
Discussant: The Audience
David Kirsch, University of Maryland
Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon
Naomi Lamoreaux, University of Michigan
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
Robert Eberhart, University of California
Room D
Chair: Donica Belisle, University of Regina
Discussant: The Audience
Kashia Arnold, UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, & Democracy
Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Rob Konkel, Yale University
M. Stephen Salmon, Canadian Business History Association
Siddharth Sridhar, University of Toronto
Room E
Chair: Susie Pak, St. John’s University
Discussant: Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow
Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
“The “Great Inflation,” Disintermediation, and the Culture of Banking”
David Sicilia, University of Maryland College Park
“Volcker’s Three-Front Battle: Political, Public, Personal”
Peter Conti-Brown, The Wharton School
“The Politics of the “Volcker Shock””
Room F
Chair: Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
Discussant: The Audience
Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, University of Florida
Other 1 TBC
Sponsored by Copenhagen Business School
Other 1 TBC
Room A
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”
Room B
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”
Room C
Chair: Christopher McKenna, Oxford University
Discussant: Christopher McKenna, Oxford University
Damian Clavel, University of Zurich
“The Dinner : (Re)inventing Colombia in the City of London”
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”
Room D
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)”
Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Umeå University
“Business, Institutions and Climate Change “
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
“Deeply Responsible Business Leaders in History”
Room E
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, University of Los Andes and 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?” “
Pål 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”
Room F
Chair: Albert Churella, Kennesaw State
Discussant: The Audience
KYUHYUN BAICK, Kyoto University
“Learning from the First National Expressway Megaproject: Project Execution Capabilities and the Construction Firms in
Korea”
Matthew Lowenstein, Hoover Institution
“The Decline and Fall of the Horse”
Mingke Ma, University of Oxford
“Arsenal, Cotton Mill, and Railways: Modern Industrial Enterprises and The Regional State in Warlord Northeast China,
1921-1931″
AYA TANAKA, Shiga University
“The Formation of the U.S. Railroad Companies’ Network in the 1850s”
Room G
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””
Room H
Chair: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: The Audience
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 Caffè 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 “
Room A
Chair: Susan Ingalls Lewis, SUNY New Paltz
Discussant: Susan Ingalls Lewis, SUNY 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”
Room B
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”
Room C
Chair: Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: The Audience
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”
Room D
Chair: Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Universidad Madrid
Discussant: Robert Yee, Princeton University
Rafael Pardo, Washington University in St. Louis
“Reinventing the Bankruptcy Power”
Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow
“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”
Room E
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”
Room F
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, EUI
“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 “
Room G
Chair: Anders Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Sally Clarke, University of Texas at Austin (retired)
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 “
Room H
Chair: Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College
Discussant: Graeme Acheson, University of Strathclyde
Hadar Hoter-ishay, University of Vienna
“Sovereign Debt and Foreign Trade through the Mexican ‘Era of Chaos,’ 1827-1861”
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”
Lunch (and Women in Business History Lunch), 11:30am – 1:00pm
Other 1 TBC
Room A
Chair: Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School
Myriam Greilsammer, Bar Ilan University
“THE CONTINUAL REINVENTION OF THE LOMBARD MONEYLENDERS’S SURVIVAL TACTICS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES (13th-17th
Century)”
Gregory Hargreaves, Hagley Museum & Library
“Edge Effect Capitalism: The North American Fall Line in the Longue Durée”
Tristan Sharp, University of Chicago
“The Late Medieval Feud as Entrepreneurial Endeavor “
Room B
Chair: Alexandra Garrett, Saint Michael’s College
Discussant: Amanda Gibson, Kenyon College
Ashley Gilbert, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“Women Tavernkeepers in the Revolutionary South “
C.C. Borzilleri, George Washington University “Women Printers in the Early American Republic”
Room C
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”
Room D
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 at Austin
“The “White Knights” of Showbiz: Junk Bonds & Leveraged Buyouts in 1980s Television”
Room E
Chair: Mary Yeager, UCLA
Discussant: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina
Grace Ballor, Bocconi University
“European Commerce Against European Policy: Retail Associations and the Social Dimensions of the Single Market Program” Susanna Fellman, Gothenburg University
“In Search for Power: Analyzing Business Groups’ Interest Formulation, Political Activity, and Influence” Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow
“Routes to Political Influence: Business and the UK Government from the Second World War to the 1980s”
Room F
Chair: Andrea Lluch, University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Discussant: Andrea Lluch, University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University, NJ, USA. Email : scranton@rutgers.edu
““Reinventing Hungary’s Socialist Enterprises: Two Kádár-era Reconstructions” “
Patrick Fridenson, EHESS, Paris. Email: patrick.fridenson@ehess.fr
““Nationalization as a prelude to reinvention: the Renault experience, 1944-1975,” “
Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo. Email: knut.sogner@bi.no
““A disruptive strategic metal: Norway’s aluminum industry meets World War II” “
Room G
Chair: Kendra Boyd, Rutgers University-Camden
Discussant: Matthew Lowenstein, Hoover Institution
Ella Coon, Columbia University, History
“Control Data: American Power and the Global Assembly Line, 1971-82”
Alain Michel, Evry Paris Saclay University
“Reinventing Detroit Motor Town in 1968 & rethinking historically today an unexpected case”
Dag K. Andreassen, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“Making business of business machines, Norwegian entrepreneurs and IBM in the late 1920s”
Room H
Chair: Thomas Buckley, University of Sussex
Discussant: Michael Stamm, Michigan State University
Susmita Das, Independent Scholar
“Advertising for Progress: Indian Advertising Industry Responds to Taxation Policy, 1965-66”
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”
Room A
Chair: Caitlin Rosenthal, UC 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 São Paulo, 1900-1930”
Heather Welland, SUNY Binghamton
“Histories of Habit: British Life Insurance and the Imagined Future, ca.1870-1930”
Room B
Chair: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
Susan Ingalls Lewis, State University of New York at New Paltz
“Hiding in Plain Sight: Female Microentrepreneurs in Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend”
Kari Zimmerman, University of St. Thomas
“Strategic Entrepreneurship: Businesswomen and Brazilian Economic Development, 1870-1910”
Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Perú), and Laura Milanes-Reyes, Independent Scholar
“Peruvian women from ‘traditional and feminine’ to ‘independent agents’: the changing media construction of their pursuits. “
Room C
Chair: Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Discussant: Edward Balleisen, Duke University
Anders Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School
“Swindling From Copenhagen To Canton – Merchants’ Ethics and Colossal Fraud In 18th Century Danish Asiatic Company” Kevin Douglas, Michigan State University
“Finding Empirical Measures of Market Confidence using Goodwin v. Agassiz”
Room D
Chair: Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania
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”
Room E
Chair: Xavier Duran , Universidad de Los Andes Bogota
Discussant: Xavier Duran , Universidad de Los Andes Bogota
Keith Harris, Kenyon College
“Reinventing Protectionism: Regional Identity and International Trade in Early American Tariff Politics”
Ajibade-Samuel Idowu, Department of History, University of Ibadan
“Gold Production in Nigeria since 1913: A Study of Reinvention”
Elin Åström Rudberg, Stockholm University, Dept. of economic history and international relations
“The concept of fair competition in business history “
Room F
Chair: Espen Storli, NTNU
Discussant: Pål Thonstad Sandvik, NTNU
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”
Sara Matala, Chalmers University of Technology
” Negotiating new rules for a new market in a new country: Emergence of the oil business in Finland before IIWW” Paul Chastko, University of Calgary
““Becoming Imperial: Canada’s Downstream Industry and Standard Oil, 1890-1939””
Room G
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”
Room H
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”
Room A
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 “
Room B
Chair: Peter Hamilton, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
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”
Room C
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”
Room E
Chair: Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University
Discussant: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
Xavier Duran , Universidad de los Andes
“Automobile assembly product life cycle and agglomeration”
John Wilson, Northumbria University, and Chris Corker, University of York, and Joe Lane, University of Reading
“Industrial Clusters, the Unit of Analysis and Economic Behaviour: New Business History Perspectives”
Thomas Irmer, Berlin School of Law and economics
“Schoeneweide- Reinventing Berlin’s industrial heartland”
Room F
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″
Room G
Chair: Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
Julio Cesar Zuluaga, Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan , and Pilar Acosta, École Polytechnique, Paris, France.
“Rethinking the role of businesses in the provision of public goods in Latin America: a historical perspective”
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”
Room H
Chair: Christoph Viebig, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Volodymyr Kulikov, The University of Texas at 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
Other 1 TBC
Presidential Address, 6:30pm – 7:15pm
Other 2 TBC
Reception, 7:15pm – 8:15pm
Other 2 TBC
Other 2 TBC
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