Session 4

28 August

9.00-11.00 (7 parallel sessions)

4A: The music business

Venue: Senate Room
Chair: Joost Dankers (Utrecht University)
Richard Coopey (London School of Economics), 'Fashioning a Business: Connections between the fashion industry and popular music enterprises in Britain, 1950-1980'
Christian Müller (University of Frankfurt am Main), 'Changes in the recording industry: The music business in West Germany in the 1970s'
Kevin Tennent (London School of Economics), A retail revolution: Changes in music distribution and retailing in the UK 1950-1980'
Stig Tenold (Norwegian School of Economics), 'Making Waves: Bergensbølgen and the branding of music locality'
Martin Coonan (University of Glasgow) and Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh), 'Promoting Business

4B: Business and political action

Venue: Gilbert Scott G466
Chair: Howard Cox (University of Worcester)
Ferry de Goey (N.W. Posthumus Institute, Netherlands), 'The business of consuls: Consuls and business'
Neil Forbes (University of Coventry), 'Defending democracy: Lord Weir and the organisation of Britain's rearmament drive in the 1930s'
Martijn Lak (Erasmus University), 'How to get one's stuff back: Dutch government efforts to defend Dutch business interests in Germany'
Margarita Dritsas (Hellenic Open University), 'On the crossroads of banking and politics'

4C: Business and fashion

Venue: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Chair: Mark Jakob (University of Goettingen)
Carlo Belfanti (University of Brescia), 'Renaissance and Made in Italy: History as an intangible asset for the fashion business'
Carina Grabacke (University of Gothenberg) and Kristoffer Jensen (Danish Museum of Industry), 'Trade Associations in Clothing 1970 to 2000 - a Comparison between Denmark and Sweden'
Birgit Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School), 'When clothes create people. The Federation of Danish Textile and Clothing Industries and the marketing of the Danish clothing industry from 1955 to 1960'
Francesca Polese (Bocconi University Milan) and Marina Nicoli (Bocconi University), 'Identifying an industry: The building of a successful international image of creativity: The case of Italian fashion and cinema'
Elisabetta Merlo (Bocconi University Milan) and Mario Perugini (Bocconi University), 'Pucci: The revival of a fashion brand as a collaborative innovation'

4D: European Car Multinationals and the Crisis of the 1970s

Venue: Forehall
Chair: Steve Toms (University of York)
Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez (Bocconi University Milan), 'The European automobile industry between economic crisis and European integration (1973-1981)'
Tommaso Pardi (EHESS Paris), 'An alternative explanation of the impact of the 1970s crisis on the decline of British Leyland: industrial policy, Japanese investments and the role of British suppliers'
Ute Engelen (University of Bielefeld), 'An opportunity to overcome old-fashioned conventions? The social policies of Volkswagen and Peugeot in the crisis of the 1970s'
Jean-François Grevet (University of Artois), 'The French automobile industry confronting the social, economic and environmental crisis of the 1970s (1968-1981)'
Tomás Fernández de Sevilla (University of Barcelona), Economical crisis andbusiness strategies: FASA-Renault in Spain during the Seventies'
Valentina Fava (University of Helsinki), 'Automobile multinationals, transfer of technology and East-West relations: The Fiat investments in the Soviet Union in 1960s and 70s: from politics to business'

4E: Emotions: A new Approach to the Business History of 20th Century Mass Consumer Societies?

Venue: Melville Room
Chair: Jim Phillips (University of Glasgow)
Frederike Sattler (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities), 'Animal Spirits and the Beginnings of Market Research within West German Banks'
Monika Mattes (Centre for Research on Contemporary History, Potsdam), 'Love - Money – Marriage': The Changing Monetary and Consumer Practices of Married Couples in West Germany from the 1960s to 1980s'
Susanne Hilger (Dusseldorf University), 'Utilizing the Concept of 'Emotional Capital' – Family as Image and Narrative in 20th Century Corporate Communications'
Manuel Schramm (Technical University, Chemnitz), Trust, distrust and Innovations. Business and Universities in a divided Germany (1949-90)'

4F: Business and Merchant Networks in Historical Perspective: Toward a Formal Approach

Venue: Turnbull Room
Chair: Andrea Caracausi (Foscari University)
Discussant: Giovanni Favero (Foscari University)
Anna Moretti (Foscari University), Michele Tamma (Foscari University), 'Networks of Complementarities'
David Carvajal (University of Valladolid), Merchant networks in in the Crown of Castile Cities between Medieval and Early Modern Age'
Franz-Julius Morche (University of Heidelberg), 'Business Networks as Complex Systems. On the Ambivalent Role of Mediterranean Trading Networks between Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period'
Aliye Mataraci (Bogaziçi University/Princeton University), 'Correspondences and Directories: Reading an Ottoman Business Network at the End of the Empire'

4G: Paternalism, New Paternalism, and Post-Paternalism (mid-19th century to present)

Venue: Gilbert Scott Room 250 Chair: Charlotte Natmessnig Rebecca Belvederesi-Kochs (RWTH Aachen University), 'Social commitment and changes in corporate culture of German Savings Banks in the 20th century'
Hubert Bonin (Sciences PO Bordeaux), 'Why did paternalism fail in France?'
Alain Cortat (Neuchâtel University & Swiss Research National Fund), 'New paternalism and old recipes? Personnel management at the Câbleries & Tréfileries de Cossonay, 1900-1970'
Irina Potkina (Institute of Russian History RAS, Moscow), From paternalism to socially oriented enterprise: The partnerships of Nikolskaya Mill Savva Morosov's son and New Russia'
Boris Shpotov (Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences) A fresh approach to Henry Ford's paternalism'
Paul Thomes (RWTH Aachen University), ''Beyond Paternalism: An early innovative German corporate social entrepreneurship model