UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Centre for Business History in Scotland

Session 1

27 August


9.30-11.00 Session 1 (7 parallel sessions)


 1A: Civil Science and the Firm in mid-Twentieth Century Britain

  • Venue:Senate Room
  • Chair: Klaus Staubermann (National Museums of Scotland)
  • Sally Horrocks (University of Leicester), 'British Food Manufacturers and State Funded Scientific Research on Food, 1918-1939'
  • Viviane Quirke (Oxford Brookes University), 'Between public and private, between science and industry: the Medical Research Council and British pharmaceutical firms, 1920s-1960s'
  • Sabine Clarke (University of Oxford), 'State, University andBusiness Collaboration in the Search for New Industrial Uses for Sugar after 1945'


1B: Cartels, Business, and the State in International Economy

  • Venue: Gilbert Scott G466
  • Chair: Jeff Fear (University of Redlands)
  • Niklas Jensen-Eriksen (University of Helsinki), 'Predators or Patriots? Export cartels as a source of power for the weak'
  • Elina Kuorelahti (University of Helsinki), 'Control and Cooperative Capitalism: Governments and the Nordic timber cartel in the 1930's'
  • Marco Bertilorenzi (Sorbonne University, Paris), 'Firms, knowledge, trade and cartels: The construction of an international network in the early aluminium industry, 1886-1914'


1C: Companies, trade associations and politics in the context of European integration

  • Venue: East Quad Lecture Theatre
  • Chair: Jan Hesse (University of Goettingen)
  • Marine Moguen-Toursel (EHESS Paris) and Neil Rollings (University of Glasgow), 'Trade associations and European Integration'
  • Matthias Kipping (Schulich School of Business, Toronto) 'Beyond lobbying: How companies and their representative associations re-shape the institutional environment'
  • Margrit Müller (University of Zurich), 'Companies, trade associations and politics in the context of European integration'


1D: Margarine, Business and Politics, 1900-1940

  • Venue: Forehall
  • Chair: Per H. Hansen (Copenhagen Business School),
  • Kurt Pedersen (Aarhuss School of Business) and Jesper Strandskov (University of Southern Denmark), 'The Failed Merger Negotiations between Monsted Ltd. and Jurgens in the early 1900s'
  • Bengt Åke Berg (Stockholm School of Economics), 'The scapegoat that many maids tried to milk. Swedish margarine policy in an international perspective'
  • Pål Thonstad Sandvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Espen Storli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), 'Controlling Unilever; whale oil, margarine and Norwegian economic nationalism, 1930-31'
  • Ben Wubs (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), 'Guns and margarine. Or how the Nazis disliked margarine, but could not afford to attack the Dutch Margarine Trust'


1E: Internationalisation and competitiveness

  • Venue: Melville Room
  • Chair: Andrea Schneider (GUG Frankfurt am Main)
  • Muriel Le Roux (Linacre College, Oxford), 'The History of a Deal or how to win an international competition in France 1970-1990s: The case of two anti-cancer drugs, Navelbine and Taxotére'
  • Goran Bergstrom (Uppsala University) and Andreas Dahlkvist (Uppsala University), ''Company internationalisation and industrial relations in historical perspective: The interrelationships between Swedish multinationals and trade unions in the internationalisation process of Swedish firms'
  • Tobias Cramer (University of Cologne), 'A case of internationalisation before World War II: Bayer's marketing strategies in Latin America'


1F: Business and public policy

  • Venue: Turnbull Room
  • Chair: Neil Forbes (University of Coventry)
  • Duncan Ross (University of Glasgow) and Allan Munro (Shetlands Island Council), 'Contested energy: Water and wind power developments in the Scottish Highlands since 1945'
  • Serena Belligoli (Institute of European Studies) and Jean-Christophe Defraigne (Institute of European Studies), 'Ties between business, aid programs and governance structure in Africa: A comparative analysis between the European and the Chinese cases'
  • Richard Vahrenkamp (University of Kassel), 'Trucking Europe: The European motorway network and the European traffic policy boosting logistics 1950-2000'


1G: Embeddedness of firms

  • Venue: Gilbert Scott Room 250
  • Chair: Susanna Fellman (University of Helsinki)
  • Inga Nuhn (University of Munich) and Thilo Jungkind (University of Konstanz), 'Theoretical and empirical interrelations between corporations and the surrounding society beyond operative business'
  • Valerio Varini (Bicocca University, Milan), 'Firms and Welfare: Company towns in Italy (19th-20th century)'
  • Alexandra von Kunsberg-Langenstadt (University of Mannheim), 'The holy ghost of electricity industry: The power of organised interests'
  • Tom Karrlander (Royal Institute of Technology), 'Malmo diskont - a supernova in banking'