What can economic history tell us about the election of Donald Trump, and what it might mean for America’s future?
Source: An Economic History of Trumpism
Category: General
Event: Managing Political Risk
Managing political risk and uncertainty from a historical perspective
Monday 27 February 2017, 10.00 – 17.00
Coventry University Techno Park
This workshop is hosted by
- Economy, Society and History cluster, Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University,
- School of Strategy and Leadership, Coventry University,
- In conjunction with the British Academy of Management Special Interest Groups for Strategy and Management and Business History.
Theme
In a climate of increased political volatility, this workshop will examine organisational responses to political risk and uncertainty over time. It will explore the development of theoretical and methodological approaches to analysing non-market strategy and the management of political risk, specifically focusing on how history has been used. The workshop aims to generate discussion around the contribution to be made by history to the scholarship in this field.
Who should attend and the benefits
The organisers welcome and encourage scholars at all levels working across the range of disciplines (business and management studies; history; political science; sociology), as well as practitioners, interested in this field. It aims to increase interdisciplinary dialogue and will add to understanding of different approaches to the subject.
Keynote speakers
- Professor Steven McGuire (School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex)
- Professor Thomas Lawton (Open University Business School)
- Professor Emeritus Michael Moran (School of Government, University of Manchester)
- Professor Neil Rollings (Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow)
Fee
£30 for BAM members/ £50 for non-BAM members
Contact
For specific information, contact one of the workshop co-organisers:
Dr Andrew Perchard
Centre for Business in Society
Coventry University
andrew.perchard@coventry.ac.uk
Dr Neil Pyper
School of Strategy & Leadership
Coventry University
neil.pyper@coventry.ac.uk
Dr Kevin Tennent
York Management School
University of York
kevin.tennent@york.ac.uk
Register online: www.bam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=3234
@CBiS_CovUni
Thinking Historically
A big thank you to our readers from the editorial team at OHN. Have a merry christmas and a happy new year. We leave you with an interesting and curious read, cross-posted from “War on the Rocks” – Enjoy!
THINKING HISTORICALLY: A GUIDE FOR STRATEGY AND STATECRAFT
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Editor’s Note: This is adapted from the 12th Annual Alvin H Bernstein Lecture at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, delivered by the author on November 10.
On November 22nd, 2011, The New York Times published a short Errol Morris op-doc, “Umbrella Man,” to mark the 48thanniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. In the six and a half minute video, Morris employs his Interrotron camera to create his trademark intimacy while interviewing Josiah “Tink” Thompson, author of a book on the famous Zapruder film titled Six Seconds in Dallas. Backed by a haunting score arranged by minimalist composer Arvo Part and spliced with snippets of video from the fateful day, Thompson tells the mysterious story of a shadowy figure called the “umbrella man.”
Who was the umbrella man? During the Zapruder and other films and photographs from that fateful day in Dallas, an upright figure can be seen standing on the so-called grassy knoll, holding an open black umbrella, moments before the assassin’s bullets are fired into the president’s motorcade. The image is arresting: The weather in Dallas was sunny and warm.
The sight of a lone man under the umbrella would have been disconcerting even if Kennedy’s murder had not taken place right in front of the man seconds later. As Thompson says: “In all of Dallas, there appears to be exactly one person standing under an open black umbrella …. Can anyone come up with a non-sinister explanation for this?”
Writing in The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” series in December 1967, writer John Updike suggested the mystery surrounding who the umbrella man was and what he was doing on the grassy knoll “dangles around history’s neck like a fetish.” None of the authorities — the Dallas police, the Secret Service, the FBI, or the Warren Commission — ever located or even identified him or could explain his baffling appearance…
More on this: http://warontherocks.com/2016/11/thinking-historically-a-guide-for-strategy-and-statecraft/
Conf: Is there an accountability gap in archives?
Is there a democratic deficit in archives?
24th – 25th January 2017
Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
At Northumbria’s Threats to Openness in the Digital World conference in 2015 Professor Arthur Lucas raised the question Is there a democracy deficit in the way records are managed and selected for archives? In the UK, there is public oversight of the process for releasing official records via the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council and the Information Commissioner, but there is no statutory oversight of the creation, selection or disposition of records. The recommendation in the recent FOI Act review that the Information Commissioner’s prosecution powers be strengthened to make it easier for the IC “to prosecute offences relating to destroying information that has been requested under the Act, and to increase the penalty for this offence”, implies that public bodies will need to publish destruction schedules that are supervised as in Scotland under amendments to the Public Records Act (Scotland).
Does this mean there is an accountability gap in archives? How should the profession respond to these fundamental criticisms?
This follow-on 1.5 day conference will explore the issue and seek to learn from a variety of experiences and perspectives. The keynote speaker will be the new Information Commissioner, Ms Elizabeth Denham. Aimed at members of civil society and information sharing groups concerned with democratic access to the use of information, academics, archivists, records managers and users, it will provide a unique opportunity for delegates to listen to and actively engage in a discussion with leading UK and international figures at the most senior levels of government, academia and the profession. Sessions will focus on what future users want, government reviews and inquiries, the importance of recordkeeping in Africa in fighting corruption and developing the continent, and how tragedies have taught us new lessons about managing records both currently and in the long term.
Other speakers include Greg Falconer, Deputy Director, Digital Records and Information Management at the Cabinet Office; Bruno Longmore, Head of Government Records at the National Records Scotland; Sarah Tyacke, a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, Julia Jones who is Head of Information Management for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and Dr Nick Barrett, Associate Director Collections and Engagement at Senate House Library; and Dr Sinéad Ring, Co-Director of the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality.
Cost: £75, including refreshments and evening reception. For more information and to book a place please see www.northumbria.ac.uk/archivesdeficit
Sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, there are some free places available for charities.
The conference blog is https://archivalaccountabilitygap.wordpress.com/ and Twitter handle is @archivalgap
Speakers:
Ms Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner
Prof David Nicholas, Director, Ciber Research Ltd
Alison Diamond, Archivist, Duke of Argyll, Inverary Castle
Assoc. Prof William Merrin, Media & Communication, University of Swansea
Greg Falconer, Deputy Director, Digital Records and Information Management, Cabinet Office, The Government’s response to Sir Alex Allan’s Review of Government Digital Records
Julia Jones, Head of Information Management, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
Bruno Longmore, Head of Government Records, National Records Scotland
Dr Alastair Tough, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Simon Gill, Project Director, Overseas Development Institute
Sarah Tyacke, former Keeper of Records, Public Record Office and member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel
Dr Nick Barrett, Associate Director Collections and Engagement, Senate House Library
Dr Sinéad Ring, Law School, University of Kent, Historical Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Nation’s Duty to Remember: Reflections from Ireland
On behalf of the organisers: Profs Michael Moss & Julie Mcleod and Visiting Prof Dr David Thomas, Northumbria University
Julie McLeod (Prof)| iSchool, Dept. Computer & Information Sciences, Faculty of Engineering & Environment, Northumbria University, Room 117 Pandon Building | Camden Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE, UK| t: +44 (0)191 227 3764
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Workshop report: Private Interests or National Heritage? Gothenburg, Sweden
Review of the Workshop
‘Private Interests or National Heritage? Corporate Archives and the Production of History in a Global Perspective’
Diego M. Coraiola
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
University of Victoria
The workshop “Private interest or corporate heritage” put together by Andrew Popp and Susanna Feldman took place in the beautiful city of Gothenburg in the 25th and 26th of November. The workshop brought together corporate archivists, business historians, and organizational theorists to discuss the reasons and practices the state and organizations use to collect, preserve, provide access, and use records from the past. There was a good mix of theoretical frameworks and practical applications and cases. This brought an interesting dynamic to the workshop to the extent that presentations would complement and draw from one another. Theoretical propositions would meet with practical experience and both scholars and practitioners would benefit from an enriched view of organizational mnemonic practices.
The workshop started with Elizabeth Shepherd’s (University College London) keynote speech overviewing the history of archival science and the development of business archives in the UK. It was followed by Mats Jönsson’s (University of Gothenburg) analysis of the private ‘documentary’ ‘Das Dritte Reich’. The movie is based on an assemblage of silent amateur footage of the Nazi regime period to which the voice of a narrator and some other sounds related to the images were added, bringing specific meaning to some of the scenes. Mats then used this case to argue about the importance of media and for the future of historical consciousness. The third presenter was Andrew Smith from the University of Liverpool. Andrew’s paper was a manifest for a transparency revolution in business history. He attempts to sensitize researchers, journals, and publishers for engaging with ‘active citation’ – i.e. the inclusion of hyperlinks with full access to a digitized copy of the sources used in the production of a piece of business history.
The second round of presentations started with Karl-Magnus Johansson and his description of the Gothenburg regional state archives, followed by Anders Houltz from the Swedish Centre for Business History. Both presenters make the point that instead of looking at public and private preservation as concurrent alternatives, it would be better to think about corporate archives as integral to national heritage. While the first presentation reinforced the existing accounts about business archives in Nordic countries by describing how corporations and the state work together in Sweden, Andres introduced the original approach taken by the Center, which provides consulting for organizations on how best use their past, from records keeping to history writing. I took over after them to present a framework in which Stephanie Decker (Aston Univerity) and I try to provide an answer to the question of why organizations remember the way they do. We believe that there is more to the memory of business than private interest or national heritage and we argue that we should pay attention to the institutions at play within an organizational field. Our framework thus identifies for different models of governance for the business and management memory: public governance, private governance, community governance, and representative governance.
Neill Forbes from the University of Coventry presented the case of the digitization of the records of British Telegraph, a very challenging reality for corporate archives, and commented on the possibilities this brings for business history. Ine Fintland and Torkel Thime cheered us with the case of the Norwegian oil and gas archives and the collective project for the preservation of business archives developed by the European companies that gave rise to the European Oil and Gas Archives. After their presentation, Jarmo Luoma-aho introduced us to the Finnish state-based model of business archives and the role of Elka, the Central Archives for Finnish Business Records in preserving business archives as part of the national heritage. Our first day ended with a collective reflection about the subject and a delicious dinner at a local restaurant.
Charles Harvey (Newcastle University) was the keynote speaker for the second day. He did a wonderful job summarizing the historical turn and introducing the notion of rhetorical history to a varied audience of scholars and practitioners. He made a distinction between four types of rhetorical history based on the intended audiences and the frequency in which they are addressed. He also explored the idea of possibly quantifying the contribution of corporate archives based on a formula accounting for the direct value archives add to the business plus the value they add to the society, minus the costs of operation of the archives. In addition to the bright ideas and comments, Charles enlightened us all with an amusing performance of a Scottish cherishing and defending its hundred old invented traditions. After him, Wim van Lent (Montpellier Business School) presented an ongoing project we are working together that focuses on the uses of the past in the East India Company. This is one of the first accounts of a company interested in recording its history, and we hope to understand better the corporate interests and uses in play even before the rise of the modern notion of history and archives.
Andrew Popp (University of Liverpool) delivered the last presentation at the workshop, based on a paper he and Susanna Fellman (University of Gothenburg) are writing together. They main purpose of the paper is to develop a methodological framework based on a stakeholder approach to business archives that contributes to legitimize the research on archives for an audience of management and organization scholars. After the presentations we engaged in an open discussion about possible future plans for this stream of research and wondered about the possibility of bringing close together scholars from organization studies, history, and archival theory through joint conferences, edited volumes, and special issues. I take this opportunity to thank both Andrew and Susanna for their proactive role in organizing this interesting workshop and for the well-planned sessions and the social get together. This was a great event and I hope to see – and maybe contribute to – this idea to grow and flourish in the future.
Corporate Archives in Global Perspective
Corporate Archives in Global Perspective: Preliminary Timetable
Thursday 24th November 2016:
10.00 Opening of workshop, words of welcome, practical information
10.15-11.00. Key Note I Professor Elizabeth Shepherd (UCL, London) TBA
11.00 -12.00 Session I: Voice vs Silence in the Corporate Archive:
Mats Jönsson (University of Gothenburg): “From Private Silent Imagery to Counterfactual Audiovisual History: Causes and Effects of Digital Compilation by A Commercial Film Archive”..”
Andrew Smith (University of Liverpool) & Maki Umemura (Cardiff Business School), “Why We Need a Transparency Revolution in Business History.”
Lunch: 12.00-13.00
13.00-14.30 Session II: National vs. International Perspectives on Preservation of Corporate Archives
Karl-Magnus Johansson (Landsarkivet I Goteborg), “Short Introduction to Swedish Corporate Archives and their Preservation.”
Anders Houltz (Centre for Business History, Sweden), “Private Interests and National heritage: A Swedish Model for Preserving Corporate Archives.”
Diego Coraiola (University of Victoria, Canada) & Stephanie Decker (Aston Business School), “International Archives and National Institutions.”
Coffee: 14.30-15.00
15.00-16.30: Session III Public needs vs Private Interests? Competing Models for Preserving Corporate Archives
Neill Forbes (University of Coventry), “New connections for the BT Archives?
Inte Fintland & Torkel Thime, “The Potential and Possible Problems in Combining Private and Public Archival Material.”
Jarmo Luoma-Aho (Central Archive for Finnish Business Records): “The state subsidy system for private archives and the Central Archives for Finnish Business Records.”
16.30-17.30: Panel Discussion and Closing of Day 1
Friday 25th November:
8.30-9.15 Key Note II: Professor Charles Harvey, (Newcastle University Business School) “History, Archives and the Pursuit of Competitive Advantage: Upside and Downside”.
9.15-9.30 Coffee:
9.30-11.30 Session III: Business Archives and the Control of the Past
Diego Coraiola (University of Victoria) & Wim van Lent: “Creating the Ultimate History: Archives, Memory and Control at the Dutch East India Company.”
Hans Hulling (Karlstads Universitet), “Histories in the Principality of Uddeholm: Corporation, Trade Union and local Community narrating History at times of Transformation and Crisis, ca 1870-1990.”
Andrew Popp (University of Gothenburg) and Susanna Fellman (University of Gothenburg), “A Stakeholder Perspective on Corporate Archives.”
Roy Suddaby (University of Victoria), TBA
11.30 closing of seminar, lunch.
Funded PhD position
PhD position at the Department of Historical studies
1 PhD position within the project “European integration and the quest for access to external natural resources, 1945-2015.”
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim), Department of Historical Studies, offers a full-time 3-year PhD position within the project “European integration and the quest for access to external natural resources, 1945-2015. “, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). The PhD candidate will work with the project leader, Researcher Mats Ingulstad (NTNU). The department also hosts several other research projects which examine different aspects of the international political economy of natural resources. The PhD candidate will thus be a part of a research team of 12-14 historians.
The research project examines how European countries have worked through the EU and its predecessors to secure their supply of raw materials from external sources. It will examine how this influenced the integration process from 1945 until the present, and how the EU-members collectively have sought to shape the international environment in order facilitate access to these resources.
The proposed PhD project should illuminate longer trajectories in the historical relationship between the member states individually or collectively, the EU, and third countries, based on the exploitation of natural resources. Relevant topics are diplomacy, international trade, decolonization, development, technology, environmental and security policy. A description of the research project is available upon request from the project leader (mats.ingulstad@ntnu.no).
For further information, please follow this link: https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/129796/phd-position-at-the-department-of-historical-studies
CFP: EGOS Sub-Theme: Theorizing the Past, Present and Future in Organization Theory
Crossposted from The Past Speaks
Sub-theme 43: Theorizing the Past, Present and Future in Organization Theory
Convenors:
David Chandler
University of Colorado Denver, USA
david.chandler@ucdenver.edu
Mar Pérezts
EMLyon Business School, France
perezts@em-lyon.com
Roy Suddaby
University of Victoria, Canada, & Newcastle University Business School, United Kingdom
rsuddaby@uvic.ca
Call for Papers
Many organizational outcomes are the result of processes that occur over long periods of time. In spite of this, within much macro-level research the passage of time tends to be assumed or ignored, rather than theorized rigorously (Bluedorn & Denhardt, 1988; Goodman et al., 2001; Lee & Liebenau, 1999). One way in which we exclude time from our theories is by studying climactic moments of change. Although these “moments of institutional choice” are inherently interesting, focusing on them risks privileging the instance of change at the expense of the essential groundwork that generated the conditions under which the opportunity for change emerged (Pierson, 2004, p. 136)…
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Corporate Archives in Global Perspective: Preliminary timetable
Cross-posted from The Past Speaks
This is the programme of the workshop on Corporate Archives that will be held at the University of Gothenburg in November.
Thursday 24th November 2016:
10.00 Opening of workshop, words of welcome, practical information
10.15. Key note 1:
11.00 -12.15 Session I: National vs. International Perspectives on Preservation of Corporate Archives
Karl-Magnus Johansson (Landsarkivet i Göteborg), “Short Introduction to Swedish Corporate Archives and their Preservation.”
Anders Houltz (Centre for Business History, Sweden), “Private Interests and National heritage: A Swedish Model for Preserving Corporate Archives.”
Diego Coraiola (University of Victoria, Canada) & Stephanie Decker (Aston Business School, UK), “International Archives and National Institutions.”
Lunch: 12.15-13.15
13.15-14.45 Session II: Public needs vs Private Interests? Competing Models for Preserving Corporate Archives
Neill Forbes (University of Coventry, UK), “New connections for the BT Archives?
Inte Fintland & Torkel Thime (Arkivverket, Norway), “The Potential and Possible Problems in Combining Private and Public Archival Material.”
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Prize Essay Competition in the Philosophy of History
THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
2016 Prize Essay Competition
The Royal Institute of Philosophy and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the 2016 Philosophy Essay Prize. The winner of the Prize will receive £2,500 with his or her essay being published in Philosophy and identified as the essay prize winner.
The topic for the 2016 essay competition is:
Can there be a credible philosophy of history?
Many thinkers from classical times onward have seen history as having a predetermined direction. Some have seen it in terms of inevitable decline, others in terms of progress to a utopian future. The idea that history has a predetermined direction has been criticised by many, who stress the unpredictability of the future in general or the effects of human freedom, creativity and ingenuity, or other ways in which the course of events may change radically. Are these or other criticisms conclusive, or is it still possible to hold a deterministic or evolutionary view, either despite the criticisms or by refuting them directly? Even given historical unpredictability in detail, are there still trends in history which can be discerned? If history has no direction, is there anything left to be said about the philosophy of history? Authors may address the question by considering some of the issues raised above or by attempting other approaches of their own.
In assessing entries priority will be given to originality, clarity of expression, breadth of interest, and potential for advancing discussion. All entries will be deemed to be submissions to Philosophy and more than one may be published. In exceptional circumstances the prize may be awarded jointly in which case the financial component will be divided, but the aim is to select a single prize-winner.
Entries should be prepared in line with standard Philosophy guidelines for submission (see http://royalinstitutephilosophy.org/…/philosophy-informati…/). They should be submitted electronically in Word, with PRIZE ESSAY in the subject heading, to assistant@royalinstitutephilosophy.org<mailto:assistant@royalinstitutephilosophy.org>.
The closing date for receipt of entries is 3rd October 2016.
Entries will be considered by a committee of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and the winner announced by the end 2016. The winning entry will be published in Philosophy in April 2017.
http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/
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