Our special issue on Historical Research on Institutional is out digitally and will be fully published shortly as Volume 60, issue 5 of 2018. In advance, here is a link to free offprints of our special issue introduction:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dkQvEsNj7TXrtT3J7TMa/full
Dear colleagues,
The European Business History Associaton awards a prize for the best dissertation published in the field of business history submitted to a European University every two years. The next prize will be awarded at the EBHA Conference this summer, and we are keen to encourage submissions from candidates who have obtained their PhD in the last two years. The deadline for submissions was originally 15 April, but this has now been extended to 30 April 2018.
It is perfectly possible for a dissertation to be considered for both the EBHA prize and the Coleman Prize simultaneously.
If you have had your PhD dissertation accepted in the last two years, or know of colleagues who are in this position, please do consider applying (or encouraging them to apply).
Further details on the prize, the submission process and the judging criteria can be found here:
http://www.ebha.org/?seite=dissertation_prize
With kind regards
Peter Miskell
The NEP-HIS blog, had Nicholas Wong (Newcastle Business School) discuss a piece by Dan and Christina (my co-editors here at OHN):
By R. Daniel Wadhwani (University of the Pacific, USA) and Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Business History Review, 2017, 91 (4): 767-799
The executive editors of Business History Review have given free access to this article for a limited time.
Please find the review and link to the article here http://www.nephis.org
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Last month Professor Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School, spoke at an event to mark the launch of the Global History of Capitalism (GHoC) project. For more information, follow this link:
Business History has changed its referencing style to author-date (APA). If you are unclear how to cite your archival sources in the new format, please see our editorial on the topic:
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/aAkRQtUsNehh5xACgcGq/full
If your manuscript is already under review, you can keep the old style footnotes. All new submissions from January 2018 onwards should be in the new format, and we plan to publish manuscripts in the new style from the first issue of 2019.
Stephanie Decker
on behalf of the Business History editorial team
New Scholars Fast-Track Workshop
13 June 2018
Torino, Italy
Financial History Review invites submissions of research papers from advanced PhD students and recent postdoctoral researchers (with less than five years from completing their PhD) in banking, financial and monetary history for a
eabh in cooperation with Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo and Compagnia di San Paolo
Papers on any topic and period are welcome. Please find the Call for Papers and additional information at http://bankinghistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018_Torino_FHR_NSW_Final.pdf
Deadline is 30 April 2018
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Seeing Like a Capitalist:
Histories of Commercial Surveillance in America
A Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library
Wilmington, Delaware, November 8-9, 2018
The history of surveillance is often associated with the history of the state. However, commercial organizations in the United States – from insurance companies to audience rating firms and database marketers, to corporate personnel and auditing departments – also exercise power over citizens through systems of identification, classification, and monitoring. The history of commercial surveillance thus intersects with key issues concerning the history of privacy, information, social sorting and discrimination, and technologies of discipline and control.
For a conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society on November 8-9, 2018, we invite proposals that explore the history of commercial surveillance in the United States, from settlement to the present. These (non-state) surveillance activities might be found in a variety of business settings and industries, involve a range of formal or informal practices, and might be directed at customers, media audiences, borrowers, consumer markets, employees, or labor. The long history of commercial surveillance serves to illuminate the precursors, continuities, and logic of today’s “surveillance capitalism.”
We are interested in original, empirically-grounded unpublished essays that consider one or more of the following questions:
Sarah E. Igo (Vanderbilt University) will open the conference with a keynote address on the evening of November 8. She will discuss her new book, The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America, to be published by Harvard University Press in May 2018.
If you are interested in proposing a paper, please submit proposals of no more than 500 words and a one-page C.V. to Carol Lockman at clockman@hagley.org by May 1, 2018. We welcome submissions from historians as well as ethnographically oriented social scientists. Presenters will receive lodging in the conference hotel and up to $500 to cover their travel costs.
This conference was initiated by Josh Lauer (University of New Hampshire), and he is joined on the program committee by Roger Horowitz (Hagley Museum and Library) and Ken Lipartito (Florida International University).
Business History Call for Papers: Special Issue
Extended Deadline: 31 May 2018
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/fbsh-bank-vs-stock-market-industry/
During the Golden Age of the western economies (1950s-1960s) became clear that each country had to follow its own way to industrialization. For the full understanding of these processes, there was a growing interest for the use of an historical perspective. In this line of research, the book that Alexander Gerschenkron, professor at Harvard University, published in 1962 entitled Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective had much impact. In this seminal book, which proposed the concept of the “conditional convergence”, Gerschenkron proposed that financial institutions (not financial markets), by acting as “substitutive factor”, play a fundamental role in industrialization, as the German case had proved.
Gerschenkron’s thesis was challenged by Raymond Goldsmith, the author of Financial Structure and Development (1969), who proposed not to leave financial markets out of the analysis, because they were also part of the financial system and could contribute to economic development, understood as something broader than industrialization. Goldsmith’s approach was also influential, although Gerschenkron’s book fit better with the spirit of Golden Age governments, which were willing to put the banks (both public and private) at the service of the industrial policies (see Tortella & García-Ruiz 2013, Chapter 8, for the emblematic Spanish case).
From the Gerschenkron-Goldsmith debate, a line of research was developed by focusing on identifying the financial systems of countries as either bank-oriented or market-oriented (Bordo & Sylla 1995; Allen & Gale 2000), stressing the differences between them. Later on, Caroline Fohlin (2007, 2012, 2016) believed that this was a false polemic and gave historical arguments for a skeptical view of the issue. Nevertheless, she presents a new taxonomy, a “rough classification”, of the different financial systems based on the prevalence of different type of banks.
At the time, the economist Ross Levine and his associates (e.g. Levine & Zervos 1998) wanted to approach the problem from a quantitative perspective, trying to answer a very simple question: which system contributes most to economic development? Levine managed to involve the World Bank in his research and promoted the creation of the Global Financial Development Database (Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt & Levine 2000), whose recent exploitation is allowing a better exploration in the long run of the complexity of the relationships proposed in the 1960s by Gerschenkron and Goldsmith.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the deregulation of financial systems led to an approximation between institutions and financial markets that paved the way to the belief that the old divide had become obsolete (Rajan & Zingales 2003). However, the latest analyses detect the persistence of significant differences between national financial systems (Gambacorta, Yang & Tsatsaronis 2014).
It seems clear that much can be learned about the bank-industry and stock market-industry relationships if they are addressed from a Business History perspective, which until now has been almost completely neglected. For this reason it is proposed the launching of a special issue of Business History, based on a Call for Papers, aiming to obtain fresh articles that address the classical issues on the subject with a new Business History approach:
– Evidence of the advantages of the bank-industry relationship over the stock market-industry relationship or vice versa;
– The banking-industry relationship in the networks of large national banks and the networks of small local banks (Vasta et al. 2017);
– Persistence of the differences between financial systems based on Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) and/or Law & Finance (common law versus civil law countries) approaches;
– Access to finance by business size: large, medium and small companies facing markets and financial institutions;
– The role of managers in fostering the stock market performance of the firms;
– The best way to innovate: is the stock market the most appropriate way to finance and promote the innovative capabilities of the firm?;
– The problem of “financialisation”: too much money in the economy breaks the direct relationship between financing and economic development as proposed (Law & Sing, 2014)?
Submission instructions
This special issue welcomes contributions on the history of the bank-industry and stock market-industry relationships, especially if they use interdisciplinary and new methodologies and cross-country comparisons.
Articles should be based on original research and should not be under consideration by other journal. All articles should be submitted by 31 March 2018 via ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fbsh? utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JMO03712) , using the drop down to select submission to the Special Issue on Bank-Industry versus Stock Market-Industry Relationships: A Business History Approach. All the articles will be peer reviewed and, therefore, some may be rejected. Authors should ensure that their manuscripts comply with the Business History formatting standards, which can be found on the ‘Instructions for Authors’ (http://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=fbsh20&page=instructions&utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JMO03712) page. Authors who are not English native speakers are responsible for having a native English-speaking copyeditor check and correct their texts before final acceptance.
The articles initially selected for the Special Issue will be presented in a workshop that will take place in Madrid in June 2018, sponsored by available public funds. The final version of the papers should be the result of this workshop.
References
Allen, F. & Gale, D. (2000), Comparing Financial Systems, Cambridge (Mass.), MIT Press.
Beck, T., Demirgüç-Kunt, A. & Levine, R. (2000), “A New Database on Financial Development and Structure,” World Bank Economic Review, 14, 597-605.
Bordo, M. & Sylla, R. (eds) (1995), Anglo-American Financial Systems: Institutions and Markets in the Twentieth Century, New York, Irwin.
Fohlin, C. (2007), Finance Capitalism and Germany’s Rise to Industrial Power, Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press.
Fohlin, C. (2012), Mobilizing Money: How the World’s Richest Nations Financed Industrial Growth, Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press.
Fohlin, C. (2016), “Financial Systems and Economic Development in Historical Perspective,” in C. Diebolt & M. Haupert (eds), The Handbook of Cliometrics, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 393-430.
Gambacorta, L., Yang, J. & Tsatsaronis, K. (2014), “Financial Structure and Growth,” BIS Quarterly Review, March, 21-35.
Gerschenkron, A. (1962), Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays, Cambridge (Mass.), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Goldsmith, R.W. (1969), Financial Structure and Development, New Haven, Yale University.
Law, S.H. & Singh, N. (2014), “Does Too Much Finance Harm Economic Growth?,” Journal of Banking and Finance, 41, 36-44.
Levine, R. & Zervos, S. (1998), “Stock Markets, Banks and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, 88, 537-558.
Rajan, R. & Zingales, L. (2003), Banks and Markets: The Changing Character of European Finance, Cambridge (Mass.), NBER Working Paper 9595.
Tortella, G. & García-Ruiz, J.L. (2013), Spanish Money and Banking. A History, Basingstoke & New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
Vasta, M., Drago, C., Ricciuti, R. & Rinaldi, A. (2017), “Reassessing the Bank-Industry Relationship in Italy, 1913-1936: A Counterfactual Analysis,” Cliometrica, 11, 183-216.
Editorial information
Guest Editor: José L. García-Ruiz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (jlgarciaruiz@ccee.ucm.es)
Guest Editor: Michelangelo Vasta, University of Siena, Italy (michelangelo.vasta@unisi.it)
For the first time, Aston’s summer programme is offering this course on historical methods in management & organization research.
Aston Business School
9 July 2018
Management and organizational researchers are increasingly interested in the opportunities for historical research. Even though history as a discipline does not have a similar understanding of methodology to the management and organization studies, in recent years there have been a number of publications and workshops demystifying historical approaches and analytical techniques. This one-day workshop will introduce participants to basic techniques and recent developments, as well as providing worked examples and on-hand advice for ongoing research projects.
9.45 – 10.00 Welcome and introduction
10.00 – 12.00 Introduction to basic research techniques
12.00 – 13.00 Focus on participants’ projects
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.00 Recent developments in organization history, introduction to key debates
15.00 – 16.00 Worked example: researching organizational corruption at Enron
16.00 – 17.00 How to publish organizational history: journals, rationales and strategies
17.00 – 17.15 Summary and end of seminar
Presenters:
Stephanie Decker, Professor in History and Organization Studies
Adam Nix, Researcher in Organization History and Organizational Corruption
More information on: http://www.aston.ac.uk/international/aston-summer-programme-2018/why-choose-using-historical-methods-in-management-and-organization-research/
Fees: One day workshop: £125. This includes University-wide wifi access; lunch and refreshments.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM
JUNE 13-15, 2018
ESCE
10, rue Sextius Michel
75015 Paris
France
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Professor John M.T. Balmer
Founder and Chairman of the International Corporate Identity Symposium
Professor of Corporate Marketing at Brunel University London
Director of the Marketing and Corporate Brand Research Group, Brunel Business School, London, UK
Professor Angela Bargenda
Host of the 6th International Corporate Identity Symposium
Professor of Marketing and Communication
Department of Marketing, Communication and Business Sales, ESCE International Business School, Paris, France
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Professor Angela Bargenda (angela.bargenda@esce.fr)
Professor John M.T. Balmer (john.balmer@brunel.ac.uk)
Professor Regis Monyedodo Kpossa (regis-monyedodo.kpossa@esce.fr), Professor of Marketing and Communication, Department of Marketing, Communication and Business Sales, ESCE International Business School, Paris.
INVITATION AND SYMPOSIUM THEME
The organisers cordially invite scholars (including PhD students) to submit papers which focus on corporate heritage or on corporate heritage related constructs and issues. A wide variety of papers will be welcomed including empirical research, conceptual papers, literature reviews, case studies etc. This year, we particularly
welcome papers which focus on corporate heritage design-related issues and research.
Ascendancy of Corporate Heritage and the International Corporate Heritage Symposium
With the establishment of the International Corporate Heritage Symposium in 2002 by Professor John M.T.Balmer (which evolved from a research initiative funded by Brunel University London ) and building on the seminal scholarship on the territory by Balmer, Greyser, and Urde in 2006 and 2007 on monarchies and corporate brands with a heritage, there has been an exponential growth in research, scholarship, and management interest in the field. The Symposium has become the premier forum where an international community of scholars can present, disseminate and discuss their work on the territory. Often, too, there are opportunities to submit their work to special editions of academic journals (and to books).
The symposium is distinguished by its emphasis on corporate/organisation heritage with corporate heritage being viewed as a portmanteau term which covers a family of constructs which include-but are not limited to- corporate heritage identity, corporate heritage brands, corporate heritage communications, corporate heritage marketing, corporate heritage/organisational heritage identification and corporate heritage design. The above being said, papers sometimes adopt a broader conceptualisation of heritage and, as such, a more discernible product /services foci.
Collegial and international in reach and ethos Although having its origins in the United Kingdom and, in particular, Brunel University London, the symposium has impeccable international credentials and is also celebrated for its collegiality. The symposium is small in scale in order to foster a sense of esprit de corps and provides a welcoming and supporting environment for scholars at the start of their career as well as for more-established members of the academy. Previous symposia have been held at leading universities in Sweden, Finland and France. Brunel University London has hosted the event twice including the inaugural symposium. This year, after a highly successful symposium held at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France in 2016, the symposium returns again to France and to Paris where the academic meeting will be hosted by the ESCE International Business School.
Submission and acceptance details In the first instance, the organisers ask for a one page abstract of around 300-500 words in length (1,5 spaced, Times New Roman font size 12pt) which should include the title, names, affiliations and email addresses of authors, along with key words and references. Referencing style should conform to the guidelines of Corporate Communications: An international journal. A designated corresponding address should be detailed. Please send us your extended abstract proposal in Microsoft Word format, following adapted form of Corporate Communications: An international journal consisted from: Purpose; Design / methodology / approach; Findings; Practical implications; Originality/value; Keywords; Paper type; Minimal references.
ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SENT BY MARCH 30TH 2018 TO THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRES SO THAT YOUR PAPER
CAN BE SPEEDILY REVIEWED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Professor Angela Bargenda (angela.bargenda@esce.fr)
Decisions will be made by April 10th 2018.
Special Editions/Publications
In line with earlier symposia, the organisers anticipate that a special edition will include papers from the symposium and/or a book of published chapters. Details to follow.
Costs
SYMPOSIUM FEES (in EUR)
Early bird registration
(till April 20th 2018)
Late registration
(April 21st-May 9th 2018)
Presenter 300 EUR 400 EUR
Non-presenter 400 EUR 500 EUR
PhD student 250 EUR 350 EUR
VAT is included in the fees. Accommodation is not included. The conference registration fee covers admissions to all sessions, luncheons, coffee breaks, 1x conference dinner. Registrations will only be processed upon receiving payment in full. Cancellation must be made in writing. In case of cancellation no later than May 1st, 2018, the full amount less a cancellation fee of €100 will be refunded. In case of cancellation after May 1st, 2018, no refund will be made.
Payments may be made by cheque or bank transfer.
Cheques – please make your cheque payable to “ESCE” and send to:
ESCE – Service de la comptabilité
10, rue Sextius Michel
F-75015 Paris
Bank transfer – please contact angela.bargenda@esce.fr for details.
Important dates:
Confirmation of intention to attend March 15th 2018
Submission of Extended Abstract March 30th 2018
Notification of Acceptance April 10th 2018
Early registration ends April 20th 2018
Symposium fee payment deadline May 9th 2018
Symposium dates June 13th – 15th 2018
Transport
Paris is well-served with excellent air and train connections within Europe and beyond. ESCE is located next to the Eiffel tower in the northern part of the 15th arrondissement. The nearest metro station is Bir Hakeim.
Accommodation
Please make your own travel and accommodation arrangements (not included in the conference fees). Possible discount rates for hotels in the vicinity of the conference venue will be communicated later.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Paris!
Organizational History Network 