Session 1.F: Raw Materials: A Key Target for International Actors
Room 1
chair: Florence Hachez-Leroy, Université d'Artois and IUF discussant: Espen Storli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
› Entering the International Manganese Market. W.A. Harriman's Export Concession in the Soviet Union, 1925-1928: Success and Failure - Boris Shpotov, Institute of World History Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow
14:05-15:30 (1h25)
› Can I Take the Brass Plate Down Now? The Fate of International Mining Firms from 1950. - Simon Mollan, Kevin Tennent, University of York
14:10-15:30 (1h20)
› The Entry of the Rio Tinto Company into the Iron Ore Development in Western Australia - Ayumu Sugawara, Tohoku University
14:15-15:30 (1h15)
Session 1.D: Corporate Social Policy in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Between Local, National and Global Goals
Room 10
Chair: Janette Rutterford, Open University discussant : Nicolas Flamant, SPIE Batignolles
› The Industrial Revolution or when the Enterprise Claims to Be an Ideal Micro-Society - Valérie Baroteaux, EHESS
14:00-15:30 (1h30)
› From Local Stakeholders to a Plurality of Interest Groups. Corporate Social Policy from 1945 till the 1970s - Ute Engelen, Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde an der Universität Mainz e.V.
14:05-15:30 (1h25)
› French Influences in Finnish Companies in an Era of Industrial Breakthrough and Modernisation – Société Michelin's Welfare Program and G.A. Serlachius AB in the 1920s and 1930s. - Susanna Fellman, University of Gothenburg
14:10-15:30 (1h20)
› Legitimation and Appeasement at Home and Abroad. Social Accounting in the 1970s and 1980s - Stephanie Hagemann-Wilholt,, Bielefeld University
14:20-15:30 (1h10)
Chair: Dominique Barjot, Université Paris-Sorbonne, discussant: Bram Bouwens, Utrecht University
› The Control of Cartels in Switzerland during the 20th Century - Alain Cortat - André March - Frédéric Rebmann, Swiss National Science Research Foundation, University of Neuchâtel
14:00-15:30 (1h30)
› The Effects of Cartels on Mergers and Acqusitions: The Long-Term Development in a Selection of Industries in Sweden from the late 1940s to 1980 - Peter Sandberg, University of Gothenburg
14:05-15:30 (1h25)
› Ventures into Competitive Capitalism: A Comparison of the Australian and British Restrictive Trade Practices Registers - Zdravka Brunkova - David K. Round, University of South Australia
14:10-15:30 (1h20)
› Business Attitudes to the Australian Trade Practices Act 1965 and the Secret Register of Agreements - Kerrie Round - Martin P. Shanahan, University of South Australia
14:15-15:30 (1h15)
Session 1.I: Finance and International Investment 1: Expanding Capabilities
Room 14
Chair: Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School discussant : Ludovic Cailluet, Université du Littoral
› Serving Local Demand and Global Opportunities: Dutch Corporate Finance, 1602-1850 - Abe de Jong, Erasmus University - Joost Jonker, Utrecht University/Amsterdam University - Ailsa Röell, Columbia University
14:00-14:05 (05min)
› From Rome to Europe: “Banco Torlonia” 1829-1863 - Daniela Felisini, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
14:05-14:50 (45min)
› French Investment in Russia in the Late 19th Century: A Modern Portfolio Theory Explanation - Amir Rezaee, ISG - David Le Bris, Bordeaux Management School
14:10-14:10 ()
Session 1.G: Global and Local in 19th and Early 20th Century's Asia : Western Business Strategies and Asian Networks' Interplay and Rivalry in Treaty Ports
Room 15
Chair: François Gipouloux, CNRS - discussant: Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po Bordeaux
› The Saga of Taxation: Trade and Competition in Late Qing Shantou Treaty Port - Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po Bordeaux
14:00-14:20 (20min)
› Chinese Elite's Invitation to Foreign Powers in 1860-1890 - Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po Bordeaux
14:50-15:10 (20min)
Session 1.E: Alternative Strategies, New Products: Dacia Logan and Fiat
Room 2
Chair: Giandomenico Piluso, Università degli Studi di Siena discussant: Alan McKinlay, Heriot Watt University, Edimburgh
› From the Conception of the Logan to the Development of the Entry Line: The Organizational Conditions behind a Successful Disruptive Innovation - Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique
14:00-15:30 (1h30)
› Producing the Logan: The Forced March of Internationalization for Renault and its Teams - Yannick Lung, Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV
14:05-15:30 (1h25)
› The Marketing and Sales of Logan: The Emergence of an Alternative Model - Bernard Jullien, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
14:10-15:30 (1h20)
› On Strategic Discourses and Intangible Specialisation: Output-Mix Optimisation at Fiat, 1970-2012 - Giuliano Maielli, University of London
14:15-15:30 (1h15)
Chair-discussant: Christophe Bouneau, Université Bordeaux III
› States at War, Business at Stake: The Question of the Japanese Coal “Embargo” towards China during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) - Alexandre Roy, INALCO
14:00-15:30 (1h30)
› The Suez Crisis and Managerial Response: British Petroleum, 1956-1957 - Neveen Abdelrehim - Josephine Maltby , University of York - Steven Toms, University of Leeds
14:10-15:30 (1h20)
› Entrepreneurial Leadership and Financial Strategy of Tonen Corporation within the Global Strategy of Exxon and Mobil, 1970-1990 - Ioka Kayoko, Hitotsubashi University
14:20-15:30 (1h10)
› The Global Competitiveness of Petrochemical Complex in Group Operation from the Formation of Kashima Complex to the Development of RING (Research Association of Refinery Integration for Group-Operation) in Japan - Kazuya Inaba, Yamaguchi University
14:30-15:30 (1h)
Session 1.A: Between Local and Global : Tourism as a Factor of Economic, Technical and Social Transformations. A Comparative Approach (19th-20th centuries)
Room 4
Chair: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University discussant: Catherine Bertho-Lavenir, Université Paris III
› The Importance of Innovation in the Parisian Great Hotel Trade, Mid-19th Century-1914 - Alexandre Tessier, Université François Rabelais, Tours
14:00-15:30 (1h30)
› Trains and Tourism. A Fatal Relation in the Development of Tourism? The Montreux-Oberland-Bernois during the 20th Century - Laurent Tissot, Université de Neuchâtel
14:15-15:30 (1h15)
› Baccarat and Bernardaud: When Heritage Meets Brand Communication - Eugénie Briot, Université Paris-Est – Marne-la-Vallée
15:10-15:30 (20min)
Session 1.H: Hidden Aspects of Internationalization
Room 5
Chair: Holger R. Bungsche, Kwansei Gakuin University discussant : Grietjie Verhoef, University of Johannesburg
› The Dynamics of Ethnic Minority Business in Japan: The Development of the “Pachinko” Pinball Entertainment Industry - Jaehyang Han, University of Tokyo
14:05-15:30 (1h25)
› Evolution of “Design Approved Parts” Suppliers in the Japanese Electronics Industry. The Case of Teikoku Tsushin Kogyo in the 1960s - Yuki Nakajima, Toyo University
14:10-15:30 (1h20)
› New Challenge toward Free-Standing: Free-Standing Company (FSC) Headquartered in One Country but Operated in Another Can Be Non-Profit? - Takeshi Ohtowa - Jinyu A. Kayama, Hiroshima City University
14:25-15:30 (1h05)
› Reimagining Business History: A Roundtable - Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow - Francesca Polese, Università Bocconi - Claire Lemercier, CNRS - Steve Tolliday, University of Leeds. Responses by Philip Scranton, Rutgers University - Patrick Fridenson, EHESS
16:00-17:30 (1h30)