UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Centre for Business History in Scotland

From the Non-European Tradition

Session 2

1.30-13.00 (7 parallel sessions)

2A: Accessing useful knowledge

  • Venue: Senate Room
  • Chair: Sally Horrocks (University of Leicester)
  • Kristine Bruland (University of Geneva), 'Global business and local knowledge: the mechanisation and globalisation of a simple product (19th-20th c.)'
  • Olav Wicken (University of Oslo), 'The exploitation of local knowledge in the transition to and early phases of firm organization of production (19th c.)'
  • Pierre-Yves Donzé (Osaka University), 'Institutionalizing 'useful knowledge': the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the beginning of the Japanese Miracle – the case of the precision machine industry (1945-1960)'


2B: Technology, cooperation, and competition

  • Venue: Gilbert Scott G466
  • Chair: Roy Edwards (University of Southampton)
  • Valerio Cerretano (University of Glasgow), 'Cross-Border Corporate Co-operation, Technology Transfer and Industrial Development: Evidence from the Global Rayon Industry, 1900-1940'
  • Soojeong Kang (London School of Economics), 'Developing Technological Capabilities: Technology Transfers and the Korean Synthetic Fibre Chaebols in the 1960s-1970s'
  • Lars Heide (Copenhagen Business School), 'Making business of a revolutionary technology with private and public: The Eckert-Mauchly company's design and building of computer with private  and government customers, 1945-1951'
  • David Pretel (University of Cambridge), 'Agents of Technology Transfer: Intermediaries and Foreign Corporate Patenting in Late Nineteenth Century Spain'

2C: Philanthropy and entrepreneurship I

  • Venue: East Quad Lecture Theatre
  • Chair: John Wilson (University of Liverpool)
  • Charles Harvey (Newcastle University Business School), Mairi MacLean (Bristol Business School/Exeter University Business School) and Jillian Gordon (University of Strathclyde Business School), Andrew Carnegie, world making and the Logic of Contemporary Entrepreneurial Philanthropy'
  • Therese Moylan (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin), Irish women in business: businesswoman, philanthropist, or social entrepreneur?'
  • Monika Poettinger (Bocconi University, Milan), 'From economy to philanthropy and back: business organizations in 19th century Milan'
  • Hubert Schijf (University of Amsterdam), 'Jewish bankers and businessmen as art collectors and philanthropists in the 19th century'


2D: Business in print

  • Venue: Forehall
  • Chair: Stephen Morgan (University of Nottingham)
  • Eugene Choi (Hitotsubashi University), 'Pan-industrial collaboration for information cost reduction: Meiji cotton spinners and their industrial journal, ca. 1880s-1890s'
  • Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (Oxford University Said Business School), 'News, networks, and coordination: the Associated Press, 1893-1945'
  • Erik Lakomaa (Stockholm School of Economics), 'Technology, labour and the rise of a financial newspaper: Dagens Industri 1975-1995'


2E: The challenges of internationalisation

  • Venue: Melville Room
  • Chair: Neil Rollings (University of Glasgow)
  • Carlo Morelli (University of Dundee), Jim Tomlinson (University of Dundee) and Valerie Wright (University of Dundee), 'Managing decline: the jute employers' strategies'
  • Steven Toms (University of York), Neveen Abdelrehim (University of York) and Josephine Maltby (University of York), Political instability and stock market reaction: The Anglo-Iranian oil nationalisation, 1951'
  • Teresa da Silva Lopes (University of York) and Mark Casson (University of Reading), 'Brand protection and globalisation of British business'


2F: Management, competitiveness, and context

  • Venue: Turnbull Room
  • Chair: Albert Carreras (Pompeu Fabra University)
  • Takafumi Kurosawa (Kyoto University) and Tomoko Hashino (Kobe University), From the Non-European Traditionto a variation of the Japanese model of competitiveness: The modern Japanese paper industry in the context of international comparison'
  • Alan Mantoan (Bocconi University Milan), 'Localizing scientific management: Alfa Romeo in southern Italy, 1938-1943'
  • Merko Stenroos (University of Turku), 'Structure, strategy and ideology: The case of local savings bank TYPbank 1987-1993'
  • Arjan van Rooij (Radboud University Nijmegan), 'Patents and markets: The case of the Dutch firm Van Berkel's Patent, 1898-1950'.


2G: Business operations in international context

  • Venue: Gilbert Scott Room 250
  • Chair: Chris Kobrak (ESCP Europe)
  • Liza Lombardi (University of Geneva), 'Du Pont de Nemours in Mexico, 1925: How the network played the game'
  • Miguel Lopez-Morell (University of Murcia) and Jose M O'Kean (Pablo de Olivade University), 'Seeking out and building monopolies: Rothschild strategies in non-ferrous metals international markets (1830-1940)'
  • Luciano Segreto (University of Florence), 'The international timber trade in Europe: organisational capabilities and business strategies, 1870-1939'