Session 6

14.30-16.00 (7 parallel sessions)

6A: The Changing Role of Banks in Corporate Governance

Venue: Senate Room
Chair: Chris Colvin (London School of Economics)
Hans Sjögren (Linköping University), 'Regime Changes and the Structure of Swedish Post World War II Banking'.
Per H. Hansen (Copenhagen Business School), 'Financial crises – the micro perspective: Four bank failures in Denmark in the 1920s'
Gerarda Westerhuis (Utrecht University) and Abe de Jong (Erasmus University), 'The impact of diversification on risk and return in the Dutch banking sector, 1957-2007'
Chris Kobrak (ESCP Europe), 'Banking on governance: markets and management in the post-Bretton Woods period'

6B: Innovation and firm and industry performance

Venue: Gilbert Scott G466
Chair: Anna Spadavecchia (University of Reading)
Harald Degner (University of Hohenheim), 'Investigating the Determinants of German Firms' Innovativeness duing the Second Industrial Revolution (1877-1932)'
Niall Mackenzie (University of Glasgow), 'Business R&D, Path Dependence and Innovation: explaining Finland and Sweden's Productivity Performance, 1981-present'
Alberte Martinez (University of La Coruna), 'Technical change and business model: the urban transport companies in Spain, 1871-1989'

6C: Not for profits

Venue: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Chair: Per Boje (Aalborg University)
Ricardo Cella (University of Verona), 'Accounting for philanthropy: The development of accounting practices in the Italian non-profit sector'
Francesca Fauri (University of Bologna), 'Non-profit aims in Italy's industrial policy towards the engineering sector after the Second World War'
Thierry Maillet (EHESS Paris), 'Two non-profit organisations shaped the French fashion industry after World War II'

6D: Entrepreneurs beyond the firm?

Venue: Forehall
Chair: Martin Jes Iversen (Copenhagen Business School)
Boris Gehlen (University of Bonn), 'Is business beyond the firm really beyond the firm? The case of Paul Silverberg'
Masami Kita (Soka University Tokyo), 'A.R. Brown and his entrepreneurial activity with Meiji Japan'
Peter Sørensen (Aarhus Business School) and Henrik Nørgaard, 'The Entrepreneur, Alex Brask Thomsen and the Danish Authorities, 1957-1981'

6E: Corporate governance and context

Venue: Melville Room
Chair: Martin Chick (University of Edinburgh)
Graeme Acheson (University of Ulster) and John D Turner (Queen's University Belfast), 'The character and denomination of shares on the British equity market, 1825-1870'
Pedro Neves (Technical University Lisboa) and Jaime Reis (Technical University Lisboa), 'Corporate law vs. company charter: shareholder protection and corporate governance in late 19th century Portugal'
John Singleton (Victoria University of Wellington), 'Central bankers as entrepreneurs'

6F: Retailing, licit and illicit

Venue: Turnbull Room
Chair: Francesca Polese (Bocconi University Milan)
Ralf Banken (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main), '“Everything in capitalism you can get in a department store”: The development of the department store in West Germany, 1949-2000'
Rika Fujioka (Osaka University of Economics), 'The Development of Japanese department stores in the early 20th century: The process of western adaptation'
Klara Arnberg (Umea University), 'Under the Counter: The business of pornographic magazines in Sweden, 1950-1971'

6G: Pictures and stories

Venue: Gilbert Scott Room 250
Chair: Richard Coopey (London School of Economics)
Gerulf Hirt (Georg-August University Goettingen), 'Ghostwriters beyond the firm: German prewar ad men's influences on teh West-German advertising industry and their relationships to entrepreneurial stakeholders up to the 1960s'
Troels Riis Larsen (Copenhagen Business School), 'Denmark's new Brand: after the Cartoon Crisis'
Mads Mordhorst (Copenhagen Business School), 'National narratives and business: The Nordic countries'
Marina Nicoli (Bocconi University Milan), 'The commoditization of images: The changing landscape of photojournalism'