UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Centre for Business History in Scotland

Session 3

14.45-16.45 (7 parallel sessions)

3A: Entrepreneurs, Statistics and the Problem of Uncertainty

  • Venue: Senate Room
  • Chair: Giovanni Favero (University Ca' Foscari Venezia)
  • Discussant: Fabio Lavista(Bocconi University)
  • Maria Letizia D'Autilia (National Institute of Statistics, Italy), Statistics. Giovanni Montemartini's ideas and actions'
  • Simone Misiani (University of Teramo), 'The culture of national accounting and the emergence of the “Southern Question” in Fascist Italy'
  • Walter A. Friedman (Harvard Business School), 'Business Prophets: The Rise of Economic Forecasting in America'.
  • Tobias Rötheli (University of Erfurt), 'Banking Principles, Bank Competition and the Credit Boom of the 1920s'.
  • Jean-Guy Prévost (University of Quebec), 'The Gospel of Statistics and Its Prophet: The Ideas and Praxis of W. E. Deming from Industry to Government to Industry to Government'

 

3B: Aspects of Gender and Business History: 16th to 20th Centuries

  • Venue: Gilbert Scott G466
  • Chair: Paola Lanaro (Foscari University)
  • Discussant: Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (Athens University of Economics and Business)
  • Keynote Speaker: Mary Yeager (UCLA), 'Follow the Leaders: A different look at the VITAL FEW'
  • Additional speakers: Andrea Caracausi (Foscari University), 'Disciplining Work. Women and Children in Pre- Modern Italy'
  • Despina Vlami (Academy of Athens), 'Business and Material Culture in the Era of Merchant Capitalism: the Female Version'
  • Stefania Licini (University of Bergamo), 'Behind the Scenes: Women in business in 19th century'


3C: Roundtable: Where is Less More (and When)? Resource Constraints & Innovation in Business, Non-Profit, and Public Organizations

  • Venue: East Quad Lecture Theatre
  • Moderator: Phil Scranton (Rutgers University)
  • Michael Gibbert, Bocconi University Martin Hoegl, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
  • Matthias Weiss, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management;
  • Liisa Välikangas, Helsinki School of Economics
  • Janne M. Korhonen, Helsinki School of Economics
  • Campbell Wilson, University of Glasgow


3D: Business, labour relations, and organisational change

  • Venue: Forehall
  • Chair: Matthias Kipping (Schulich School of Business, Toronto)
  • Jeffrey Fear (University of Redlands), 'How American management Theory Helped to Legitimize German Codetermination: Erich Potthoff and the Cross-Border Transformation of Knowledge'
  • Jim Phillips (University of Glasgow), 'Employee Involvement and Management in the UK Workplace in the 1970s'
  • Tobias Jopp (University of Hohenheim), 'The hazard of merger by absorption: Why some Knappschaften merged and others did not, 1861-1920'
  • Janet Greenlees (Glasgow Caledonian University), 'Business people as local politicians and their impact on the workplace environment, c. 1870-1939'
  • Hugo Van Driel (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Bas Koene (Erasmus University), 'Struggling for legitimacy by the Dutch temporary work industry, 1961-1996'


3E: Business and diplomacy

  • Venue: Melville Room
  • Chair: Harm Schroeter (University of Bergen)
  • Alfred Reckendrees (Copenhagen Business School) and Isi Blasé (University of Hamburg), 'German Industrial Policy in Polish Upper Silesia (1920-1935)'
  • Stefan Schwartzkopf (Copenhagen Business School), 'The State as Market Researcher: How the Consumer Perspective Transformed the Public Sphere in Britain, 1926-1939'
  • Steen Andersen (Copenhagen Business School), 'Danish Business Diplomacy During World War I. Scandinavian Business Leaders and their role in trade negotiations with Britain, France and USA, 1914-1918'
  • Ralf Ahrens (Center for Contemporary History Potsdam), 'Organizing Expansion. Business rationale, networking and the expansion of the Flick concern into occupied territories during World War II'
  • Andrew Perchard (University of Strathclyde), 'Land and Empire : Politics and the British Aluminium Company'


3F: Delivering services

  • Venue: Turnbull Room
  • Chair: Bram Bouwens (University of Utrecht)
  • Susanna Fellman (University of Helsinki), 'Tensions between the private and the public - the case of of welfare services, town planning and investment in infrastructure in Finnish company towns, 1920-1960'
  • Roman Köster (Bundeswehr University Munich), 'On the threshold to dominance: Private business in German waste management, 1945-1980'
  • Stephen Sambrook (University of Glasgow), 'Private sector involvement in public services before Thatcher: British domestic waste disposal, 1945 to the late 1980s'
  • Gustav Sjöblom (Chalmers University of Technology), 'The service bureau industry in Sweden, 1950-1981'


3G: Business, politics, and economic development

  • Venue: Gilbert Scott Room 250
  • Chair: Ben Wubs (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
  • Franco Amatori (Bocconi University Milan) and Daniela Felisini (University of Rome), 'From corporations to agencies for Italy's economic development: IRI (1950-1980)'
  • Xuejie Jiang (University of Hitotsubashi), 'Why are some industrial districts more successful than others? The case of the TAMA high-tech industrial district in Tokyo'
  • Anna Spadavecchia (University of Reading) and John Cantwell (Rutgers Business School), 'Innovation, industrial competitiveness and British regions in the interwar period'