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'