Category: Call for Papers

CfP: Legacy & Change

Steph

Edited volume in the book series:

De Gruyter Studies in Organizational and Management History

Preliminary Title:

Legacy and Change: Perspectives from Organizational History

  • Co-editors: Andrea Casey, Sonia Coman, and Hamid Foroughi
  • Chapters to be submitted by February 1, 2024
  • Chapter length: 7,000-8,000 words

Scope of the book

With this volume, we will explore how past legacies both enable and restrict opportunities for organizational renewal, social change, and the emergence of new forms of organizing. On the one hand, collective memories can be a source of authentication, legitimation, and strategy restoration (Miller et al., 2019; Basque & Langley, 2018; Jaskiewicz et al., 2017; Lubinski & Gartner, 2023; Ravasi et al., 2019; Sasaki et al., 2020); on the other hand, past legacies could restrict our imagination by enforcing path dependency. A particular form of this path dependency is known as the ‘founder shadow’ in family businesses when the next generations of leaders are not able to change organizational course despite changing conditions (Peter & Harveston, 1999; Suddaby, et al, 2023).

Managing legacy can be a challenge for both old and new organizations. Organizations with a long or significant history often find that their legacy is at odds with the realities of the present or the directions they envision for the future (Hatch & Schultz, 2017; Kroeze & Keulen, 2013). In contrast, newly formed organizations often feel they have a deficit in legacy compared with long-established organizations and seek to boost credibility by engaging in activities that can be retrospectively claimed as their legacy as they tell their story internally and in the public forums.

In either case, when aspects of the purpose of an organization, understood as its raison d’être, change or the emphasis shifts from one aspect to another, the organizational identity is threatened, and legacy becomes an obstacle to overcome to effect change. We do not know yet what factors make this tension more difficult to resolve or whether this tension is stronger in some sectors, for instance, in purpose- driven organizations, given members’ emotional attachment to old memories and identities (Foroughi, 2020). We propose that the difference lies with the way the past is remembered. Central to understanding the relationship between legacies and imagined future is the recognition that what we understand as our legacy is socially and politically construed (Foroughi, Coraiola, Rintamäki, Mena & Foster, 2020) and is shaped by the agentic work of actors who can be termed ‘agents of memory’ (Schwartz, 1991) or ‘identity custodians” (Dacin et al, 2019). While this custodianship is important in maintaining and restoring past legacies, at the same time, it often implies silencing certain histories that

are deemed incompatible (Anteby & Molnar, 2012). This volume aims to contribute a deeper understanding of legacies and imagined futures as they pertain to organizational identity and change.

We enthusiastically invite chapters encompassing both theoretical and empirical contributions that delve into the intricate interplay between legacy and change, examining this dynamic from a diverse array of theoretical vantage points. Our call extends a special invitation to submissions that not only usher in fresh concepts to enrich the existing literature but also embark on the task of critically examining and redefining established theories. We welcome a wide spectrum of inquiries, which may include, but are not confined to, the following questions:

  • How do we theorize legacy and change in relation to organizational identity?
  • How does the intersection of legacy and change emerge in different types of organizations?
  • How has legacy been successfully leveraged for organizational change that contributed to societal well-being? Under what conditions does legacy promote change/rigidity?
  • What factors influence how the tension between legacy and change is experienced in an organization?
  • Why is the tension between legacy and change stronger in some sectors, such as purpose-driven organizations?
  • How can critical historical work help recover forgotten histories of alternative forms of organization?
  • How can we envision alternative forms of organizing by critically examining past legacies?

References:

Anteby, M., & Molnar, V. (2012). Collective memory meets organizational identity: Remembering to forget in a firm’s rhetorical history. Academy of Management Journal, 55(3), 515-540.

Basque, J., & Langley, A. (2018). Invoking Alphonse: The founder figure as a historical resource for organizational identity work. Organization Studies, 39(12), 1685-1708.

Brunninge, O. (2009). Using history in organizations: How managers make purposeful reference to history in strategy processes. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22: 8–26.

Bucheli, M., Wadhwani, R. D. eds. (2014). The Future of the Past in Management and Organization Studies. Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods. New York: Oxford University Press.

Casey, A. J., Olivera, F. (2011). Reflections on organizational memory and forgetting. Journal of Management Inquiry, 20: 305–310.

Coman, S. & Casey, A. (2020). The enduring presence of the founder in collection museums: A historical and interdisciplinary perspective. Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications, edited by Maclean, M., Clegg, S. R., Suddaby, R., & Harvey, C. Routledge.

Coman, S. & Casey, A. (2021). Metahistories of Microhistories: How organizations narrate their origin story at different points in their history. EGOS Symposium, Subtheme 33: Historical Organization Studies in Action: Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. July 8 & 9, 2021.

Coraiola, D. M., Foster, W. M., Suddaby, R. (2015). “Varieties of history in organization studies.” In McLaren, P. G., Mills, A. J., Weatherbee, T. G. (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History: 363–372. New York: Routledge.

Dacin, M. T., Dacin, P. A., & Kent, D. (2019). Tradition in organizations: A custodianship framework.

Academy of Management Annals, 13(1), 342-373.

Davis, P. S., & P.D. Harveston. (1999). “In the founder’s shadow: Conflict in the family firm.” Family Business Review 12.4: 311-323.

Davis-Marks, I. (2020). Why the Houston Museum of African American Culture Is Displaying a Confederate Statue. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why- houston-museum-african-american-culture-displaying-confederate-statue-180975742/.

Foroughi, H. (2020). Collective memories as a vehicle of fantasy and identification: founding stories retold. Organization Studies, 41(10), 1347-1367.

Foroughi, H., Coraiola, D. M., Rintamäki, J., Mena, S., & Foster, W. M. (2020). Organizational memory studies. Organization Studies, 41(12), 1725-1748.

Hatch, M. J., & Schultz, M. (2017). Toward a Theory of Using History Authentically: Historicizing in the Carlsberg Group. Administrative Science Quarterly, 62(4), 657–697.

Kroeze, R., Keulen, S. (2013). “Leading a multinational is history in practice: The use of invented traditions and narratives at AkzoNobel, Shell, Philips and ABN AMRO.” Business History, 55: 1265–1287.

Lubinski, C., & Gartner, W. B. (2023). Talking about (my) generation: The use of generation as rhetorical history in family business. Family Business Review, 36(1), 119-142.

Miller, K. D., Gomes, E., & Lehman, D. W. (2019). Strategy restoration. Long Range Planning, 52(5), 101855.

Ravasi, D., Rindova, V., & Stigliani, I. (2019). The stuff of legend: History, memory, and the temporality of organizational identity construction. Academy of Management Journal, 62(5), 1523-1555.

Rodgers, D. M., Petersen, J., & Sanderson, J. (2016). Commemorating alternative organizations and marginalized spaces: The case of forgotten Finntowns. Organization, 23(1), 90-113.

Sasaki, I., Kotlar, J., Ravasi, D., & Vaara, E. (2020). Dealing with revered past: Historical identity statements and strategic change in Japanese family firms. Strategic Management Journal, 41(3), 590- 623.

Schwartz, B. (1991). Iconography and collective memory: Lincoln’s image in the American mind. The Sociological Quarterly, 32(3), 301-319.

Suddaby, R., Silverman, B. S., Jaskiewicz, P., De Massis, A., & Micelotta, E. R. (2023). History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work. Family Business Review, 36(1), 4-16.)

CfP: EURAM “Historical Research in Management Studies”

Steph

SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice 

We invite you to submit your research to explore the theme of 

FOSTERING INNOVATION TO ADDRESS GRAND CHALLENGES 

for the EURAM 24th Conference. 

We look forward to receiving your submissions. 

T12_04 – Historical Research in Management Studies 

Proponents: 

Matteo Cristofaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Kevin Tennent, University of York; Massimo Sargiacomo, University of Pescara; Michael Weatherburn, Imperial College London; James Fowler, University of Essex; Adoración Álvaro-Moya, CUNEF (Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros); David Boughey, University of Exeter Business School; Sébastien Damart, Paris Dauphine-PSL University 

Short description: 

The track “Historical Research in Management Studies” addresses the historical development of management and related areas (e.g., entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, retailing, strategy, accounting, auditing, management tools, etc.), concepts, theories, and practices as well as the application and evolution of historical research methods. We aim to encourage theoretically orientated social science history, and its methods, with a clear relationship to present-day debates and practices in the management discipline; from that, the types of contributions that are looked for fall into the following two categories. First, historical analyses of management concepts, theories, and practices. Second, contributions regarding revisitation or new directions in management historical research. 

Long description: 

The track “Historical Research in Management Studies” addresses the historical development of management and related areas (e.g., entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, retailing, strategy, accounting, auditing, management tools, etc.) concepts, theories, and practices as well as the application and evolution of historical research methods. The types of contributions that are looked for fall into two categories. 

First, works that make historical assessments of the social consequences of management, reexaminations of established historical concepts, the historical development of management of present-day companies, and topics that draw on historical data/firmly rooted in a historical perspective. In fact, the historical analysis of management concepts and theories helps to EURAM 2024 

AUTHORS GUIDELINES https://conferences.euram.academy/2024conference/authors-guidelines-for-full-papers/ 

understand how scholars accepted or rejected them. According to a practical point of view, historical research constitutes the starting point for analyzing and interpreting the mechanisms that interact with the life of companies. The observation, analysis, and comparison of past experiences can constitute the “lifeblood” for the development of new and more advanced management and governance models, to guide companies beyond the current uncertain times. For example, the historical study of the crisis and their external shocks – e.g., wars, plagues, natural disasters, and social problems – is a stream of investigation that is still largely to be explored and that can develop insights into why some external factors are influential according to the peculiarities of the territory in which they develop. Some other, but not exclusively, interesting management topics to be historically studied may be the management of education institutions, the realization of artistic pieces and their activities, sporting organisations, accounting tools and financial statements – these latter are considered as expressions of the intuitions and ideas of the organizational members and related actions. 

Being based on archival evidence, historical methods feature named organisations within their contexts, making it easier for scholars and learners to relate to and emphasise with them. Second, this track invites contributions able to discuss the ways of using historical materials, new directions in management historical research and oral history, and the importance of a historical perspective in management. Historic-based business studies have the advantage of being teachable and we believe that the historical methods – thanks to their unique understandings of historical context, chronology, continuity, and change – create a sort of narrative that aids the sensemaking of management concepts, theories, and practices. Case studies, longitudinal analysis, micro-history approach, ANTI-history approach, history as rhetoric, and genealogical pragmatic analysis constitute only examples of the welcomed submissions. 

Keywords: 

  • Management history 
  • Business history 
  • Accounting history 
  • Historical Methods 

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): 

Goal 4: Quality education,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals 

Publication Outlet: 

  • Fast-track process for the Journal of Management History at the end of each EURAM Conference 
  • Edited Book will be launched for each edition of the EURAM Conference. The publisher can be Information Age Publishing. A book series in Management History is present and the past editors are passing to Matteo Cristofaro Editorial duties. https://www.info 

For more information contact: 

Matteo Cristofaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata – matteo.cristofaro@uniroma2.it 

Business History Conference Events & Dates

Steph

Organized by BHC President Sharon Murphy, the 2024 conference is on the theme of “Doing Business in the Public Interest” and will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 14th – March 16th.  The call for papers, which was shared earlier this year, can be found here on the BHC website: https://thebhc.org/index.php/call-papers-bhc-2024

The deadline for receipt of all paper and session proposals for Providence is November 1, 2023.  

In 2023 the BHC members elected four new trustees, and a new member of the nominating committee.  Grace Ballor, Victoria Barnes, Chinmay Tumbe, and Paula Vedoveli will serve three-year terms as trustees through the 2026 meeting. Christy Chapin was elected to the nominating committee for a two-year term, 2023 to 2025. Members also picked Stephen Mihm as our president-elect. Leaving our board of trustees after three years of noteworthy service (and with many thanks) were Jennifer Black, Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Eric Godelier, and Julia Yongue.  Shennette Garrett-Scott also completed her two-year term on the nominating committee.  Dan Wadhwani serves as past president, whilst Andrea Lluch became past president-on-board, having finished her term as past president, president, and president-elect.  Our deep appreciation to all these officers and committee members who continue to volunteer their valuable time serving our scholarly organization.

To continue this cycle of leadership, elections will take place beginning in January 2024. To that end, the BHC Nominating Committee invites your nominations for BHC president-elect, trustees, and member of the nominating committee.  If you are new to the organization and would like to know more about these roles and the structure of the BHC, I encourage you to look at https://thebhc.org/officers-current. Please send all nominations for these positions to committee chair, Dan Wadhwani, at dwadhwani@marshall.usc.edu by Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

Similarly, the BHC Grants and Prizes Committee invites nominations for the BHC Lifetime Achievement Award; the recipient will be announced at the Providence, R.I. meeting’s awards banquet. The criteria for this prestigious award are outlined here: https://thebhc.org/lifetime  Please email the committee chair, Pamela Laird, pamela.laird@ucdenver.edu  with any nominations by Monday, December 4, 2023.

I hope to see many of you at the 2023 mid-year virtual meeting held via Zoom on September 29th.  More information about this meeting, titled “Doing Business History as Public History,” can be found at https://thebhc.org/index.php/2023-mid-year-meeting. 

And finally, The Exchange, the BHC’s weblog, will now be sent as a monthly newsletter. You should have received the first issue on September 1st (please check your Spam folder in case the notification went there). To post announcements in The Exchange, please contact Paula de la Cruz-Fernández (web-editor@thebhc.org). You may use this link to subscribe. 

CfP: Affective Bonds, Intimate Exchanges: Family, Kinship, & Gender in Business History

Steph

5 Biennial Richard Robinson Workshop on

Business History

Portland State University

May 23–25, 2024, Portland OR

The modern economy is often conceived as a realm of anonymity, where strangers, motivated by rational and individual objectives, exchange goods and services with “no other nexus between man and man than naked self- interest, than callous ‘cash payment’” (as famously described in The Communist Manifesto). Yet actual business practices, in both the past and present, reveal the “embeddedness” of economic actions in social relations (as Granovetter and others have shown), most glaringly, in the a!ective and familial ties that are inextricable from economic strategies. This conference will explore the enduring imbrication of commercial practices with family, kinship, gender (which structures family and household bonds), and women (whose appearance as a social category troubled the notion of the autonomous, genderless, individual). It seeks to bring together scholars working on a broad array of topics related to the intimate and familial aspects of economic life from various regions across the globe and various historical periods (modern, pre-modern, & others). Questions this conference will investigate include, but are not limited to: How have family and kinship networks fostered trust, provided for credit and investment, shielded economic actors from uncertainty, and been leveraged as collateral? How have intimate relations, both legal and extra-legal, acted to forge commercial alliances, transfer and create capital, and facilitate the circulation of commercial information? How have kinship, marriage, and intimate relations permitted business exchanges in colonial and diasporic contexts?

How have kinship and marital ties allowed for long-term investment and long-distance (e.g. transoceanic and transcontinental) trades? How have gender roles and gender performances in the familial context enabled or undermined business activities? For instance, how have economic actors mobilized masculinity and femininity in their business practices? And how have women, as key actors in intimate economies, leveraged their position to participate in commercial a!airs?

In envisioning this workshop, we take a broad view of the notion of family and kinship, defining both as an association of people who do not see each other as strangers and who thereby possess a!ective ties and

bonds of obligation and reciprocity. These kinds of family formations extend from nuclear families to extended and joint families, and to kinship networks that may not involve blood ties. We are interested in works that interrogate how the search for profit or gain are tied to, embedded in, relations of obligation, that for financial benefits to relations of duty, and that for economic privilege to relations of responsibility. Given the historically crucial role of gender in intimate economies, we are particularly interested in papers that explore the gendered dynamics of business operations. We seek papers that engage how women have participated in formal and informal economies and the relation of their participation to their position in the household. As we intend this workshop to be a global history of business, we especially welcome proposals dealing with sites in the non-West, the counter-colonial space of the Global South, and the emerging continental entity of Eurasia.

Topics of particular interest may touch on (but are not limited to):

  • Family and kinship as fostering trust and mitigating risk in economic networks
  • Marriage as economic strategy (capital transfer, commercial alliances, etc.)
  • Cross-generational and interfamilial capital transfer (inheritance, dowries, bride price) Economic aspects of intimate relations (information circulation, influence peddling) Performance of masculinity/femininity in business contexts
  • Women as business partners, shareholders, investors, property owners
  • Sex work and quasi- or non-monogamous marital ties (prostitution, courtesanship, concubinage)
  • Gender and intimacy in colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial commercial relations
  • Unmarried women, married women, and widows as economic actors
  • Kinship and diasporic businesses
  • Family as collateral: pawnship, debt collateral, and use of family reputation
  • Family as credit: family name and family reputation in finance, banking, and other credit-dispensing businesses

The Richard Robinson Business History Workshop has held small workshops on particular themes in business history since 2012. The keynote address of the fifth biennial Richard Robinson Workshop will be given by Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto) on the evening of Thursday, May 23. Papers selected for the workshop will be pre-circulated and discussed in plenary sessions on Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25.

Paper proposals, consisting of a one-page CV and a 500- word abstract, should be sent to the workshop organizers, Thomas Luckett (Portland State University), Chia Yin Hsu (Portland State University), and Erika Vause (St. John’s University), at psu.business.history.workshop@gmail.com (mailto:psu.business.history.workshop@gmail.com) by December 15, 2023. Accepted proposals will be notified by January 15, 2024.

Presentations will be in person at Portland State University. Presenters will receive lodging for three nights and meals, as well as air travel or other comparable travel to and from the Workshop. There will be no charge for conference registration.

AOM PDW on Microhistory

Steph

CALL FOR PDW PARTICIPANTS & SUBMISSIONS

Microhistory for Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Research

Professional Development Workshop

2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Friday, August 4th, 2023.  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E

We are excited to announce a Professional Development Workshop focused on microhistory at the Academy of Management Meeting co-sponsored by multiple divisions, including STR, ENT, MH, OMT, RM, and TIM.  This PDW brings together historians with leading history-engaged scholars in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship to explore the application of microhistory to management research.  The goals of the PDW are to develop awareness and understanding of microhistory as a research method and guide researchers in designing microhistorical studies.

The Microhistory PDW consists of three components:

  1. Microhistory Overview for Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.  Andrew Hargadon and Daniel Wadhwani will lead Section A.  The overview will give participants a working understanding of microhistory and its role in developing management-relevant theory.  The overview will focus on (a) the distinct explanatory character of the microhistory approach, (b) its relationship to other types of historical knowledge production, and (c) opportunities and means for using microhistory to advance research in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
  • Microhistory in Conversation with History-Engaged Researchers.  Leading, history-engaged scholars Rajshree Agarwal, Lamar Pierce, and Mary Tripsas will draw connections between their work and the formalized concept of microhistory.  They will explore how historical methods, and microhistory specifically, can address existing questions in the discipline in new ways and how such approaches can develop new research agendas.  This session will conclude with a Q&A including all scholars and PDW participants.
  • Interactive Roundtable Sessions.  Three working groups will be convened, each pairing a historian (Hargadon, Kirsch, and Wadhwani) and a “history-engaged” scholar (Agarwal, Pierce, Tripsas) to focus on accepted projects with the intent of working with the author teams to explore how the microhistorical approach is relevant to the project, how it might apply to it, the contribution of the work, and handling expected comments from reviewers less familiar with microhistory.  To be included in the roundtable sessions, participants must submit a document including a project summary and details about the team (See Apply Now below for submission guidelines).

The Microhistory Overview, Conversation on Microhistory Panel, and Q&A are open to all AOM 2023 attendees.  The Interactive roundtable sessions are limited to those that have submitted an accepted project.

Date/Time/Format

  • Friday, August 4th, 2023.  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
  • Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E

Speakers:

  • Rajshree Agarwal, University of Maryland
  • Andrew Hargadon, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
  • David Kirsch, University of Maryland
  • Lamar Pierce, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School
  • Mary Tripsas, UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering
  • R. Daniel Wadhwani, USC Marshall School of Business

Apply Now

Applications to participate in the Interactive Session Roundtables are now open.

Please submit a document including the following elements:

            –           Paper title

            –           Submitter’s name and current status (e.g., doctoral student, faculty, etc.)

            –           Full author team;

            –           Paper or paper summary.

Please submit here:  https://bit.ly/microhistorypdw

The deadline to apply is June 23rd, 2023.

We have limited spots available, so we encourage you to apply early.

We look forward to seeing you!

Jay Habegger (habegger@umd.edu) & David Kirsch (dkirsch@umd.edu)

Organizers

Microhistory for Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

Professional Development Workshop

2023 Academy of Management Meeting

CfP Archives of Economic Life

Steph

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.

Call for Research Proposals – The 19th Accounting History Symposium  

Steph

Saturday 1st July 2023 

Format: Face-to-face 

Time: 9.00 am -1.00 pm 

Venue: The Star on the Gold Coast, Australia 

Following the great success of the 18th Accounting History Symposium, held on Wednesday 7th December 2022, the Accounting History Special Interest Group (AHSIG) is pleased to announce the first event of 2023. The 19th Accounting History Symposium will be held on 1st July 2023 at the Star on Gold Coast, Australia. Associate Professor Carolyn Fowler of Victoria University of Wellington will be the guest speaker for the symposium. Carolyn is the joint editor of the Accounting History Journal and will give a talk about writing for and publishing in the Accounting History Journal. She will provide valuable insights and a behind-the-scenes overview of the process, the timing, and key points to enhance the quality of manuscripts. We are delighted to have Carolyn as the 19th Accounting History Symposium guest speaker in 2023.

In addition to the guest speaker, individuals interested in making a presentation about a planned or existing research project are invited to submit a research proposal (of no more than three pages, single-spaced) containing the following information: 

1. Project (working) title 

2. Background (or scenario for investigation) 

3. Main research objective in one sentence 

4. Concise key research question(s) 

5. Research methodology 

6. Period selection 

7. Limitations of the study 

8. Expected (original) contribution.

The due date for submission of research proposals is Friday, 19 May 2023, and should be sent to 

acchis.sig@gmail.com (please also copy in giulia.leoni@unige.it and maryam.safari@rmit.edu.au) 

In addition to the presentations of research proposals relating to accounting history, a panel of scholars will be in attendance, discussing and/or providing feedback on the presentations of the participants. 

The following registration fee will be applicable for the participants via the AFAANZ website: 

  • AHSIG members: $65 
  • AHSIG non-members: $90 

The registration fee will cover the catering including morning tea and lunch. 

We look forward to your participation at the 19th Accounting History Symposium. 

Giulia Leoni and Maryam Safari 

AHSIG Convenor and Deputy Convenor 

If you haven’t already done so, please follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for our latest updates:

@AFAANZ

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CfP Social History of Migration

Steph

Call for Papers 

Migration in Modern Times: Systems – Routes – Experiences – Conflicts 

Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 64 (2024) 

The next issue of Archiv of Sozialgeschichte invites contributions in a research field that has fundamentally changed during the last years. Migration history stands at the intersection of different methodological debates and epochal approaches. It has moved away from the struggle for recognition that was initially marked by the need to emphasise the potential ‘achievements’ of migrant-receiving countries or migrants. The issue aims to consider current research trends and invites contributors from different (social-) historical disciplines to reflect on the future of the history of migration, both empirically and theoretically. The issue focuses on the time from the 18th century onwards, without excluding contributions on earlier periods. 

Migration systems 

The term migration system, which in our understanding only refers to stable connections between (world) regions through mobility over the course of long periods of time, has long been established in research. Since the 15th century, the movement of Europeans to the Americas and to colonies in other regions of the world has formed a pattern well into the 1950s. Likewise, the centuries-long deportation of Africans to Latin America and the South of the (later) USA until the second half of the 19th century referred to as the ‘Black Atlantic’ describes a similar process. Systems of migration do not only apply to the voluntary movement of migrants. Rather, it would be desirable to include debt-labour relationships, which have been the focus of much recent research and which affect numerous migrants from Asia. Bonded labour relations which are temporary de jure but not always de facto, allude to the temporary dimension of migration, which is not necessarily permanent. We are interested in return migration movements as well as seasonal patterns, regardless of whether they were controlled by harvest cycles of residence regulations, the importance of which is obvious, for example, for nurses from Eastern Europe working in Germany. On the one hand, the search for patterns requires the inclusion of the demo-economic situation in the regions of origin and the differently organised labour market in the target regions. This puts emphasis on the state as an important steering body that must be taken into account, without migration policy being the primary interest of the volume. On the other hand, it is important to take into account the actors who organise the movement between the region of origin and the target region, formally or informally, legally, semi-legally or illegally. Only by bringing both sides together will we be able to understand, for example, the long-term and stable recruitment of care workers from the South East Asian island countries to work in Europe and North America. 

Routes, means of transportation, networks 

The actors mentioned above consequently raise questions about the means of transportation available to migrants, the routes they used and the networks they were supported by or remained trapped in. Footpaths are still important today (and the knowledge about them is a key to illegal border crossing), but shipping, rail and air links have fundamentally changed the infrastructure of migration. Ports, railway stations and airports have become central relay stations that not only serve as interfaces between different sections of migration but also often block the latter because epidemic regulations enforce quarantines or entail forced accommodation in sometimes extraterritorial shelters under asylum law. The volume particularly addresses this tension between mobility and immobility, emphasising that regions of origin and target regions are not clear-cut starting and ending points of migration, which in some cases– such as migrant labour – remained closely linked. 

Experiences, knowledge and conflicts 

Above all, on arrival, it is often uncertain whether a place – usually a city – will or even should become the final destination. Timeframes, largely determined by the potential wish to return, also shape migrants’ strategies. It is no coincidence that they often try to find employment in trade and gastronomy. Such strategies need to be examined more systematically, also taking the importance of ethnic or religious networks into account. Last but not least, we are interested in whether these participation rights, including the right to vote, are claimed and when, and what reactions can be observed in the majority society. Local workers have often denied migrants participation in the labour market – a constant challenge for trade union organisations, especially as employers have often used ethnically or racially discriminated groups as strikebreakers. In addition to the labour market, the housing market is particularly prone to conflict, showing that migration does not invariably equate to poverty. The Russians who have fled to Georgia are sometimes viewed with suspicion because their above-average professional qualifications enable them to pay very high rents. While the volume will not be able to systematically analyse all of these fields of conflict, we do hope for conceptual and empirically rich contributions. 

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation will host a conference, expected to take place in October 2023, to discuss ideas, themes and questions for contributions on the subject of AfS 64 as outlined above. We invite scholars to submit proposals of no more than 3,000 characters by 5 June 2023. Abstracts, conference papers and subsequent contributions may be submitted in German or English. Subsequently, the editors of the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte will select contributions, which should be approximately 60,000 characters (including footnotes). The submission deadline for contributions is 31 January 2024. 

The Archiv für Sozialgeschichte is edited by Claudia Gatzka, Kirsten Heinsohn, Thomas Kroll, Anja Kruke, Philipp Kufferath (managing director), Friedrich Lenger, Ute Planert, Dietmar Süß and Meik Woyke. 

For further information and all articles in open access up to 2021, see: https://www.fes.de/afs/ 

Contact 

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 
Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 
Email: afs[at]fes.de 
Tel.: +49 228/883-8057 
Web: http://www.fes.de/afs 

Reminder – Deadline for Tony Slaven Doctoral Workshop approaching

Steph

Call for Papers: Tony Slaven Doctoral Workshop in Business History, 29 June 2022 

Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University Newcastle. 

The ABH will hold its tenth annual Tony Slaven Doctoral Workshop on 29 June 2023. This event immediately precedes the 2023 ABH Annual Conference at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. The full call for papers can be found here: https://www.theabh.org/conferences. Participants in the Workshop are encouraged to attend the main ABH Annual Conference following the Workshop. They will also have an opportunity to participate in the Poster Competition (explained in the main call for papers). The Workshop is an excellent opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their work with other research students and established academics in business history in an informal and supportive environment. It is important to note that this will not be a hybrid event and all participants need to attend the workshop in person. Students at any stage of their doctoral studies, whether in their first year or very close to submitting, are urged to apply. In addition to providing new researchers with an opportunity to discuss their work with experienced researchers in the discipline, the Workshop will also include at least one skill-related session. The Workshop interprets the term ‘business history’ broadly, and it is intended that students in areas such as (but not confined to) the history of management and organizations, international trade and investment, financial or economic history, agricultural history, the history of not-for- profit organisations, government-industry relations, accounting history, social studies of technology, and historians or management or labour will find it useful. Students undertaking topics with a significant business history element but in disciplines other than economic or business history are also welcome. We embrace students researching any era or region of history. Skills sessions are typically led by regular ABH members; in the past these have included ‘getting published’, ‘using historical sources’, and ‘preparing for your viva examination’ sessions. There will be ample time for discussion of each student’s work and the opportunity to gain feedback from active researchers in the field. 

How to Apply for the Tony Slaven Workshop 

Your application should be no more than 4 pages sent together in a single computer file: 1) a one-page CV; 2) one page stating the name(s) of the student’s supervisor(s), the title of the theses (a proposed title is fine), the university and department where the student is registered and the date of commencement of thesis registration; 3) an abstract of the work to be presented. 

If selected for the workshop, you will be asked to prepare a 15-minute presentation that is either a summary of your PhD project (giving an overview of the overarching themes, research questions, and methodologies) or a chapter/paper. 

You may apply via email to Dr Michael Aldous at m.aldous@qub.ac.uk. Please use the subject line “Tony Slaven Workshop” and submit by 24 March 2023. 

CfP: Industriousness in the History of Capitalism

Steph

Call for Papers Hybrid/IRL Symposium: 

Working five to nine: Industriousness in the History of Capitalism

7 July 2023, Australian Catholic University

Victoria Parade, Fitzroy (Melbourne). Room TBA. Hybrid Format.

Convenors: Hannah Forsyth and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Twentieth century capitalism has relied to a considerable degree on industriousness at work and school. Such industriousness became key to accessing the elite. Yale law scholar Daniel Markovits describes a college application essay in which a student boasted that their dedication to study led them to pee their pants rather than interrupt an intellectual discussion. Such commitment became quite widespread. Musical icon Dolly Parton recently rewrote her iconic song, “9 to 5,” into “5 to 9” for an app commercial, which praised the many striving to get ahead, or just break even, in the Gig Economy. Productivity increases in service sector occupations have arguably driven a great deal of profitability since the late twentieth century. Longer working hours, fewer and shorter vacations, helicopter parenting  and other forms of investment in our own human capital have acted as a bulwark against falling into workforce precarity or losing class status, though it may be destabilized by the ‘Great Resignation’ succeeding COVID lockdowns. This symposium seeks to understand the origins and unfolding of this twentieth century work ethic, considering New Deal and welfare state preoccupations with full employment, the massive increase in years of schooling globally and the expansion of working hours, particularly among university students and in white-collar occupations.

We welcome proposals from history, sociology, education, political economy or other fields that consider industriousness in the twentieth century, whether in the USA, UK, Australia or elsewhere. Priority will be given to papers that may cohere into a published collection.

Please send short abstract proposals to Hannah by 1 May 2023: hannah.forsyth@acu.edu.au

For enquiries, feel free to contact either Hannah hannah.forsyth@acu.edu.au or Ellie eshermer@luc.edu