Session 5
11.30-13.00 (7 parallel sessions)
5A: Firms, Universities and Professions in the Creation of British Skill c1870-1992
- Venue: Senate Room
- Chair: Phil Scranton (Rutgers University)
- Roy Edwards (University of Southampton), 'Bringing theory and practice together: Organisational response to technical education in Britain c1900-1992'
- Klaus Staubermann (National Museums of Scotland), 'Understanding Historic Machine Tools, Skills and Training'
- John Taylor (University of Southampton), 'Meeting the Needs of Industry: BritishUniversities 1870-1914'
5B: The fuzzy boundaries of business and the firm
- Venue: Gilbert Scott G466
- Chair: Tony Slaven (University of Glasgow)
- Joost Dankers (Utrecht University) and Bram Bouwens (Utrecht University), 'Co-operation and organization beyond business'
- Jan Otmar Hesse (University of Gottingen)and Roman Köster (Bunderwehr University Munich), 'Crossing borders between economy and economics: L. Albert Hahn and Eugen Schmalenbach as practitioners and economists'
- Martin Jes Iversen (Copenhagen Business School), 'Economic orders and formative phases: A business historical journey through Danish capitalism, 1850-2000'
- Jakob Whitfield (University of Manchester), 'Firm boundaries? The British state and the aero-engine industry, 1910-1940'
5C: Corporate Responsibility
- Venue: East Quad Lecture Theatre
- Chair: Duncan Ross (University of Glasgow)
- Martin Chick (University of Edinburgh), 'The 3Rs Regulation, risk and responsibility in British utilities since 1945'
- Keetie Sluyterman (University of Utrecht), 'Corporate social responsibility (CSR) of Dutch entrepreneurs in the 20th century'
5D: The business-education nexus
- Venue: Forehall
- Chair: Sabine Clarke (University of Oxford)
- Catriona Haston (University of Glasgow), 'Higher education and industry relationships in East and West German and problems in technology transfer'
- Christopher Pokarier (Waseda University), 'Unspeakable Truths: University Business Models in Historical Perspective'
- Matthias Pühl (Linde AG), 'Technology, Philanthropy, and education – Carl von Linde's engagement in the field of science and technological progress'
- Michael Schneider (GUG Frankfurt am Main) 'Science within the firm: Linkages between the research and development departments of the German chemical industry and the academic sphere'
5E: Aspects of British and South Korean Shipbuilding History
- Venue: Melville Room
- Chair: Hugh Murphy (National Maritime Museum)
- Martin Bellamy (Glasgow Museums), 'A Ludicrous Travesty: The failure of James R. Napier as a shipowner'.
- Lars C. Bruno (Norwegian School of Economics), and Stig Tenold (Norwegian School of Economics), 'The basis forSouth Korea's ascent in the shipbuilding industry'.
- Hugh Murphy (National Maritime Museum), 'British Shipbuilders plc: A suitable case for treatment?'
5F: Alternative forms of business organisation
- Venue: Turnbull Room
- Chair: To be announced
- Mark Billings (Nottingham University Business School) and Alan Booth (University of Exeter), 'The business of Britain's National Giro, 1968-78: “Socialist euphoria and selfdeception”?'
- Susanna Martinez-Rodriguez (University of La Coruna) and Timothy W Guinnane (Yale University), Did the cooperative start life as a joint-stock company? Business law and cooperatives law in Spain'
- Rang-Ri Park (Sorbonne University), 'Samsung: An original and competitive social model
5G: Shaping financial services
- Venue: Gilbert Scott Room 250
- Chair: Youssef Cassis (University of Geneva)
- Christopher Colvin (London School of Economics), God and risk: The role of religiosity in rural banking in early 20th century Netherlands'
- Andrea Schneider (GUG Frankfurt am Main), 'Profit for non-profit purposes: Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank and its business model as a niche bank'
- Mikael Wendschlag (Linköping University), 'Rigid Regulation, Dynamic Markets, Adaptive Enforcement, the case of Swedish banks' right to own and trade in stocks'