16th ANNUAL CONFERENCE EBHA AND 1st JOINT CONFERENCE WITH BHSJ

registration

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Session 7.B: Emerging Scholars: Small and Medium Size Entreprises

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Chair-discussant : Philip Scranton, Rutgers University

› Global Trading Through Local Networking: The Case of Yokohama, Japan, in 1859–1923 - Ryutaro Yamafuji, Yokohama City University 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› The Economic Development of Silk Textile Industry: Local Clusters in Northern Italy and Global Economy during the Interwar Period - Makiko Hino, Osaka University 09:30-10:30 (1h)

› Invention and Commercialization of the “House Map”: The Case of Zenrin, 1946 - 1977 - Hajime Oda, Hitotsubashi University 10:15-10:30 (15min)

Session 7.G: Local Cooperatives in Global Competition

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Chair: Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, CNRS discussant : Joost Dankers, Utrecht University

› Local Agribusiness Strategy and Global Recession: A Case Study of Modern Japan - Hikaru Tanaka, University of Tokyo 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› The Operations of Cooperative “Centrals” in Germany in the Decades before World War I - Timothy W. Guinnane, Yale University - Frauke Schlütz, Universität zu Köln 09:05-10:30 (1h25)

Session 7.A: Becoming a Global Company

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Chair: Takeshi Yuzawa, Gakushuin University discussant : Nicolas Marty, Université de Perpignan

› Across the Borders and beyond the Boundaries: How the Olivetti Company Became a Multinational. - Adriana Castagnoli, Università degli Studi di Torino 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› The Globalization of the European Steel Industry. History of Arcelor-Mittal: 1978-2005 - Philippe Mioche, Aix-Marseille Université 09:05-10:30 (1h25)

› The Globalization of the Firm and its Limits: The Example of the Korean Group LG - Dominique Barjot - Rang-Ri Park-Barjot, Université Paris-Sorbonne 09:25-10:30 (1h05)

› A Local Business with Global Connections: The Internationalisation Strategy of SANLAM, 1990-2010. - Grietjie Verhoef, University of Johannesburg 10:05-10:30 (25min)

Session 7.I: Public Utilities as Agents of Globalization

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Chair: Eric Bussière, Université Paris-Sorbonne discussant : Takeo Kikkawa, Hitotsubashi University

› Before BT plc: The British Post Office and the Development of the International Telecommunications Business - Neil Forbes, Coventry University 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› The French National Telecommunications Network for Technology, Education and Research: Between Local and Global (1980-1990's) - Valérie Schafer, CNRS 09:10-10:30 (1h20)

› A New Orientation for the French Postal Services: Is La Poste Getting Global for its Own Sake? - Emmanuel de la Burgade, ESC Rennes 09:45-10:30 (45min)

› The Mail as Catalyst of Change at the French Post Office before 1914 - Sébastien Richez, Comité pour l'Histoire de la Poste 10:20-10:30 (10min)

Session 7.F: Branding: Same Name, Different Consumers

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Chair: Nobuo Kawabe, Bunkyo Gakuin University discussant : Pierre Volle, Université Paris-Dauphine

› Trademarks and British Global Dominance in Consumer Goods, 1876-1914 - Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York - Paulo Guimarães, Universidade do Porto 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› The Global Business with Local Records: Western Gramophone Companies in British India, 1902-1929 - Christina Lubinski, German Historical Institute, Washington DC 09:10-10:30 (1h20)

› International Marketing for Olive Oil Prior to World War II - Ramon Ramon-Muñoz, University of Barcelona 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Knitting Seamless on the Successive Waves of Globalisation: The Evolution of Shima Seiki, Wakayama, Japan 1962-2012 - Eugene Choi, Ritsumeikan University 10:20-10:30 (10min)

Session 7.E: Corporate Networks between Local and Global: a Long Term Perspective

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Chair: Michelangelo Vasta, University of Siena discussant: Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow

› The “Bank-Industry Divide” in Britain: Long-Term Evidence from Interlocking Directorates Data - Gerhard Schnyder, King's College London - John Wilson, University of Liverpool 09:00-09:55 (55min)

› Evolution of Corporate Networks in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Japan - Satoshi Koibuchi, Chuo University - Tetsuji Okazaki, University of Tokyo 09:20-10:30 (1h10)

› The Evolving Structure of French Capitalism. Interlocking Directorates among the French Largest Firms, 1911-2000 - Pierre François - Claire Lemercier, CNRS 09:45-10:30 (45min)

Session 7.H: Technology Transfers 1: The Art of Building competences

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Chair: Eric Godelier, Ecole Polytechnique discussant: Kazuo Wada, University of Tokyo

› Danish Involvement in the Development of Asia's Cement Industry 1904-1939 - Morten Pedersen, Museum of Northern Jutland 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› The Transfer of French Machine-Tool Technology to Japan 1952-1964 - Toshikatsu Nakajima, Rikkyo University 09:15-10:30 (1h15)

› Local Competence-Building to Build a Global Competitor: International Technology Transfer, Cumulative Innovation and the Development of Synthetic Fibre in Toray - Michael Lynskey, Komazawa University, Tokyo - Tsunehiko Yui, Mitsui Historical Archives, Tokyo 09:40-10:30 (50min)

› Tchécoslovaquie Iron Gold – Ceskomoravská–Kolben Danek - Marcela Efmertová - Jan Mikeš, Czech Technical University 10:25-10:30 (05min)

Session 7.C: Capital Market and Entrepreneurship before the Great Depression

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Chair: Patrice Baubeau, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense discussant: Michel Lescure, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

› Regulating IPOs: Evidence from Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913 - Carsten Burhop, Universität zu Köln & Max-Planck-Institut - David Chambers - Brian Cheffins, University of Cambridge 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› Financial Connections and Firm Risk: Long-Term Evidence for Belgium - Ludo Cuyvers - Marc Deloof - Livia Ghita, University of Antwerp 09:50-10:30 (40min)

› The Result of Myopia or Reducing Free Cash Flow?: Payout Policy in the Interwar Period of Japan - Hideaki Miyajima, Waseda University - Takashi Najo, Bank of Japan - Ogawa Ryo, Waseda University 10:05-10:30 (25min)

› A Case Study of a Series of Mergers in the French Steel Industry - Muriel Kończyk-Petit, Université du Droit et de la Santé - Lille II 10:25-10:30 (05min)

Session 7.D: Changing Company Forms in the Internationalization Process

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Chair: Yannick Lemarchand, Université de Nantes discussant : Yoshitaka Suzuki, Hitotsubashi University

› Corporate Identity and Entrepreneurial Initiative: The British Levant Company in the Ottoman Empire (1740s-1825) - Despina Vlami, Academy of Athens 09:00-10:30 (1h30)

› The Joint Stock Company in a Peripheral European Economy during Hard Times: Statistical Series of Joint Stock Companies Births in Greece, 1909-1929 - Konstantinos D. Aivalis, independent scholar - Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis, Athens University of Economics and Business 09:15-10:30 (1h15)

› How Did British Agency Houses Make the Best Use of “Legal Fiction” of Managing Agency or External Management ? ?A Case of Harrisons & Crosfield around World War I - Koike Kenji, Surugadai University 09:55-10:30 (35min)

› Foreign Companies in Italy and Argentina: Investment Patterns and Organizational Forms, 1914-1959 - Andrea Colli, Università Bocconi - Norma Lanciotti, Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Andrea Lluch, Universidad de San Andres 10:20-10:30 (10min)

Coffee break

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Session 9.G: European Business and the Cold War: Constraints, Conflicts and Opportunities

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Chair: Phil Scranton, Rutgers University discussant: Luciano Segreto, Università degli Studi di Firenze

› British Government, Business and the Soviet Cold War Oil Offensive, 1957–1964 - Niklas Jensen-Eriksen, University of Helsinki 14:40-16:00 (1h20)

› Balancing between International and Local Needs: Nordic IBM Subsidiaries in the IBM World - Petri Paju, University of Turku 15:25-16:00 (35min)

› The Layers of Disunity: Presidential Politics of Finnish Business, 1981-1982 - Maiju Wuokko, University of Helsinki 15:55-16:00 (05min)

Session 8.G: Variants of the Corporate Form

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Chair: Claire Lemercier, CNRS discussant: Henry V. Nelles, McMaster University

› Determinants of the Corporate Form in 1910: A Global View - Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics - James Foreman-Peck, Cardiff Business School 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› Association and Joint-Stock Companies in Pre-War Japan - Yoshitaka Suzuki, Hitotsubashi University 11:05-12:30 (1h25)

› Demography of Business Organizations in Japan: 1903-2009 - Takashi Shimizu, University of Tokyo 11:25-12:30 (1h05)

› Small Business Finance in Japan from the Pre-World War II Period to the High Growth Period: From the Perspective of International Comparison of the Financial History of Small Businesses - Imajoh Toru, Hannan University 12:25-12:30 (05min)

Session 8.I: Shipping and Transport 1: European Intermediaries with the World?

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Chair: Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School discussant: Bruno Marnot, Université de La Rochelle

› Greek Family Shipping Firms in International Business, 19th Century - Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ionian University 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Wallem & Company: Shipping and Business Networks in the Far East 1903-1937 - Camilla Brautaset, University of Bergen 11:10-12:30 (1h20)

› Containers and the Hinterland of Rotterdam Sea Ports (1966-2010) - Klara Paardenkooper, Erasmus University Rotterdam 11:45-12:30 (45min)

Session 8.F: State and Business 1: National and International Issues

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Chair: Harm G. Schröter, University of Bergen discussant: Minoru Sawai, Osaka University

› Big Business and the State in Interwar Greece - Christine Agriantoni, University of Thessaly 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› Tensions between the Government and Business in Modern Japan: The Case of the Tax Reform in 1920 - Shunsuke Nakaoka, Kokushikan University 11:10-12:30 (1h20)

› The Response of MITI and Enterprises to the Open Economy in the 1960s of Japan - Inman Yeo, Ganeung-Wonju National University 11:30-12:30 (1h)

› A Loose Managerial Conglomeration, Step by Step - Régis Boulat, Université Grenoble II - Clotilde Druelle-Korn, Université de Limoges - Béatrice Touchelay, Université de Lille III 12:05-12:30 (25min)

Session 8.B: Between Local and Global: Family Multinationals

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Chair: Andrea Colli, Università Bocconi discussant: Marian V. Jones, University of Glasgow

› Family Multinationals: Entrepreneurship, Governance and Pathways to Internationalization - Christina Lubinski, German Historical Institute, Washington DC 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› Business, Kinship and Politics: The Determinants of the Growth and Internationalization of the Largest Chinese Family Businesses - Paloma Fernandez Perez, Universitat de Barcelona 11:05-12:30 (1h25)

› “From Zlín to the World”: Internationalization Strategies of the Czech Family Multinational Bat'a - Susanne Hilger, Universität Düsseldorf 11:20-12:30 (1h10)

› Mittelstand (SME) Micronationals - Jeffrey Fear, University of Redlands 12:10-12:30 (20min)

Session 8.A: Environment: a Key issue in the Globalization Process

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Chair: Steven Toms, University of Leeds discussant: Mathias Mutz, RWTH Aachen

› Exploring Low Carbon Futures, Experimental Carbon Markets as Mediating Instruments - Mélodie Cartel - Franck Aggeri, MinesParis-Tech 11:10-11:45 (35min)

› From the Parochial to the International: The Control of Municipal Waste Handling in Britain, 1945 to the Mid-1990s. - Ray Stokes - Stephen Sambrook, University of Glasgow 11:10-12:30 (1h20)

› Environmental Adaptation, Technology Development and Competition: The Case of Domsjö Sulphite Mill 1965-1990 - Kristina Söderholm, Luleå University of Technology - Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Umeå University 11:25-12:30 (1h05)

Session 8.C: Financial Institutions: Negotiating Difficult Contexts

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Chair: Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, EHESS discussant: Lars Fredrik M. Øksendal, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

› Investing in the Greek War of Independence: Loans, Brokers and the City of London in the Nineteenth Century - Maria Christina Chatziioannou, National Hellenic Research Foundation 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› A Late Victorian City of London Scandal: Founders' Shares and the Winchester House Group - Richard Hawkins, University of Wolverhampton 11:05-12:30 (1h25)

› The State and Financial Markets in Post-Soviet Russia, 1990-2011 - Ilja Viktorov, Sodertorn University 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Session 8.D: The Tensions between Business System and Morality from the Perspective of Eiichi Shibusawa

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Chair: Jeffer Daykin, Portland Community College discussant: Janet Hunter, London School of Economics

› The Tensions between the Open-Market Model and Closed “Zaibatsu” Model - Masakazu Shimada, Gakuin University 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› Harmonization between Morality and Economy: Shibusawa’s Philosophy of Business - Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hitotsubashi University 11:05-12:30 (1h25)

› Eiichi Shibusawa's Confucian Business Ethics and Western Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility - John Sagers, Linfield College 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Comparative Study of Eiichi Shibusawa and Sang-Yong Han: The Introduction of Modern Management Thoughts to Japan and Korea - Myungsoo Kim, Keio University, Tokyo 12:25-12:30 (05min)

Session 8.E: Transnational Strategies and International Exchanges

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Chair: Patrick Fridenson, EHESS discussant: Bernard Jullien, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan

› Product Specifications in International Trade, 1850-1914 - Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› Developing One Idea in Two Countries: The Business Groups Urquijo (Spain) and Somex (Mexico), 1940-1974 - Nuria Puig, Universidad Complutense Madrid 11:05-12:30 (1h25)

› The transatlantic business community faced with conflicting interests between local and global stakes: the case of U.S. direct investments in France (1958-1968) - Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, Université de Lausanne 11:25-12:30 (1h05)

› Roles of Multinational Companies in the Self-Sustenance of the Thai Automobile Industry: The Case of Toyota Motor Thailand - Nobuo Kawabe, Gakuin University 12:20-12:30 (10min)

Session 8.H: Women and Gender Relations in Business

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Chair: Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University discussant : Maura Doherty, ASK

› The Employment of Women and Firm Survival: Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century Sweden - Björn Eriksson - Maria Stanfors, Lund University 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› A Two-Population Comparative Study of Working-Class Women: Spanish Women in France and Mexican Women in USA - Blanca Ceceña, Université Paris-Sorbonne 11:10-12:30 (1h20)

› The Invisible Leading Women -The Rise and Disappearance of a Character- - Paulette Robic, Université de Nantes - Eve Lamendour, Université de La Rochelle 11:30-12:30 (1h)

Lunch

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EBHA General Meeting

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Session 9.D: Regional Differentiation in an International Perspective

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Chair: Franco Amatori, Università Bocconi discussant: Fumihiko Ichikawa, Kwansei Gakuin University

› Trading Places. How Merchants Shaped the Rotterdam-Ruhr Axis in the First Global Economy, 1870-1914 - Marten Boon - Joep Schenk, Erasmus University Rotterdam 14:30-16:00 (1h30)

› Joint-Stock Companies Dynamics, Legal Institutions and Regional Economic Disparities in Italy (1859-1914) - PierAngelo Toninelli, Università Milano-Bicocca 14:35-16:00 (1h25)

› The Global and the Local: External Shocks and the Corporate Network in Portugal (20th Century) - Álvaro Ferreira da Silva - Pedro Neves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 15:25-16:00 (35min)

› Internationalisation and the Life-Cycles of Regional Clusters - Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School - Ove Bjarnar, Molde University College 15:55-16:00 (05min)

Session 9.I: Multinationals: Adapting to Diversity

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Chair: Adriana Castagnoli, Università degli Studi di Torino discussant : Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University

› The German Automobile Industry and the Challenge of Global Competition - Christiane Katz, RWTH Aachen University 14:40-16:00 (1h20)

› From Local to Global: Cirque du Soleil and Multinationals as Trees - Matthias Kipping, York University - Ken-Ichi Yasumuro, Osaka University of Commerce 15:55-16:00 (05min)

Session 9.B: The Unexpected Transformations of Family Business

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Chair: Minoru Sawai, Osaka University discussant: Pierre-Paul Zalio, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan

› “Casa Ybarra”: management, vertical integration and internationalisation, c. 1860-1936 - Javier Fernandez-Roca, Universidad Pablo de Olavide 14:30-16:00 (1h30)

› From a Global Level to a Local Level: The Transition of “Fratelli Allatini” from a Multi-National Enterprise Based in Ottoman Selânik to a Local Company of Greek Salonica (1906-1926). - Evanghelos Hekimoglou, Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki - Eleni Kaplitzoglou, Allatini Mills” Archive - Maria Kavala, Hellenic Open University 14:35-16:00 (1h25)

› Foreign Family Business and Capital Flight: The Case for a Fraud to Fail - Giovanni Favero, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia 15:20-16:00 (40min)

› The Making of a Family Entrepreneur. An Institutionalisation of the Succession Process as a Factor of Continuity in Family Enterprises - Paulette Robic - Dominique Barbelivien - Nicolas Antheaume, Université de Nantes 15:50-16:00 (10min)

Session 9.A: European Luxury Goods and Services for Asian Markets: a Perspective on Production, Distribution and Insurance Systems

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Chair: Eugene Choi, Ritsumeikan University discussant: Francesca Polese, Università Bocconi

› Fibres of History. The Transformation of the Danish Fashion Industry and the Emergence of Global Value Chains, 1970-2011 - Kristoffer Jensen, The Danish Museum of Industry and the University of Southern Denmark - René Poulsen, Copenhagen Business School 14:30-16:00 (1h30)

› The Global Value Chain and the Shift towards Luxury in the Swiss Watch Industry: A Focus on the Swatch Group (1990-2010) - Pierre-Yves Donzé, Kyoto University 14:35-16:00 (1h25)

› Expanding Luxury Market in Japan: How Did the Department Stores Contribute to Increase the Sales of European Luxury Brand? - Rika Fujioka, Kansai University 14:45-16:00 (1h15)

› Expansion of the Insurance Industry into East Asia in the 19th Century - Peter Borscheid, Universität Marburg - Niels Viggo Haueter, Swiss Re 15:45-16:00 (15min)

Session 9.C: Business with Money: Monetary Politics and Capital Flows in the Era of the First Globalization

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Chair: Etsuo Abe, Meiji University discussant: Georges Depeyrot, CNRS

› Greek Currencies Issue in France: A Case of Economic and Cultural Interaction (1868-1893) - Catherine Brégianni, Academy of Athens - EHESS 14:30-16:00 (1h30)

› Foreign Loans and Investments in the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the 19th Century - Vladimir Bakhtin, Financial University, Moscow 14:35-16:00 (1h25)

› The Lisbon Mint Activity during the Era of the First Globalisation - Rita Martins de Sousa, Technical University of Lisbon 15:20-16:00 (40min)

› The Bank of France and the Globalization of Capital Flows in the Early 19th Century - Emmanuel Prunaux, EHESS-Mission Historique de la Banque de France 15:55-16:00 (05min)

Session 9.H: Empirical Methods in Business History

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Chair: Abe de Jong, Erasmus University discussant: Andrea Colli, Università Bocconi

› New Business History? Justification for Alternative Empirical Approach - Abe de Jong - Hugo Van Driel, Erasmus University - David Higgins, University of York 14:30-16:00 (1h30)

› Ownership, Financial Strategy and Performance: The Lancashire Textile Industry, 1918-1938 - Steven Toms, University of Leeds - David Higgins, University of York 15:00-15:35 (35min)

› Family Involvement, Innovation and Growth, a PLS and Case Survey Analysis - Hugo van Driel, Abe de Jong, Erasmus University - Gerarda Westerhuis, Utrecht University 15:25-16:00 (35min)

› Opening the Innovation Systems Black Box - Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School 15:55-16:00 (05min)

Session 9.F: State and Business 2: Confrontation or Cooperation?

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Chair: Andrea H. Schneider, Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V. discussant: Marie Carpenter, Télécom Ecole de Management

› The Swedish Business Federations and Economic Policy-Making 1921-1933. Integration, Confrontation or Cooperation? - Martin Eriksson, Umeå University 14:30-16:00 (1h30)

› The Cooperation between the Luxemburg Government and its Industry, a Case Study - Marc Birchen, Université du Luxembourg 14:35-16:00 (1h25)

› French Military Action in Spain: Selling Arms, Transferring Technology, Approaching French and Spanish Armies, 1969-1980 - Esther Sánchez, Universidad de Salamanca 15:00-16:00 (1h)

› Tensions with and within Multinationals: From Bull-General Electric to Honeywell-Bull (1964-1985) - Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne 15:50-16:00 (10min)

Session 9.E: Adapting Local Labor to the Constraints of the Global Economy

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Chair: Maria Christina Chatziioannou, National Hellenic Research Foundation discussant : Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS

› The Social Roots of British India Low Textile Labor Productivity - Estefania Santacreu Vasut, ESSEC Business School and THEMA 14:30-16:00 (1h30)

› Business Strategies and Forced Labor in Spanish Railway Infrastructures during Franco's Dictatorship: The M.Z.A. Company - Fernando Mendiola, Universidad Pública de Navarra 14:35-16:00 (1h25)

› Economic Crisis, Business and Employer Organizations: Convergences and Divergences of Interests in Greece during the Memorandum Era - Kostas Lavdas - Dionisis Gravaris - Valia Aranitou, University of Crete 14:50-16:00 (1h10)

Coffee break

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Session 10.C: Finance and International Investment 2: Law, Trust, Debt

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Chair: Michel Margairaz, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne discussant: Joost Jonker, Utrecht University/Amsterdam University

› The Local Partners of International Investors: German and American Business in 20th Century Spain - Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Business School - Nuria Puig, Universidad Complutense Madrid 16:30-16:35 (05min)

› Lack of Trust among Foreign and Domestic Investors in a Developing Electricity Market: UEP in North Portugal (1922-1944) - Isabel Bartolome-Rodriguez, Universidad de Sevilla 16:40-18:00 (1h20)

› Law, Politics and Financial Development: The Great Reversal of the UK Corporate Debt Market - John Turner - Christopher Coyle, Queen's University Belfast 17:30-18:00 (30min)

Session 10.B: Emerging Scholars: Crossing Borders

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Chair-discussant: William J. Hausman, College of William and Mary

› Expecting and Allowing Engineers' Autonomous Activities: A Case Study of the R&D Process at Sony, 1946-1982 - Hiromichi Hasebe, Hitotsubashi University 16:35-18:00 (1h25)

› Organisational Construction and Internationalisation in the 1960s: A Comparative Study of Heineken and Carlsberg - Jun Sakamoto, Meiji University 16:50-18:00 (1h10)

› Managerial Perceptions and R&D Strategy: The Case of GE and WH in the 1970s - Kenichi Miyata, Meiji University 17:25-18:00 (35min)

Session 10.F: State and Business 3: Do Politics Matter?

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Chair: Ferry de Goey, Erasmus University Rotterdam discussant: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

› Trading in the Age of Revolution: Victor Du Pont & Cie and the Leclerc Expedition to Subdue Saint-Domingue, 1802 - Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University 16:30-18:00 (1h30)

› Hungarian Electrical Companies between Local and Global 1939-1949: Transnational Networks and State Control - Maria Hidvegi, University of Konstanz 16:35-18:00 (1h25)

› Industrial Elites: From Nazi Germany to Communist Germany, 1940-1950 - Marcel Boldorf, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 16:45-18:00 (1h15)

› The Rise of the August Thyssen-Hütte and the First Continuous Hot Strip Mill in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) (1952-1964) – Company Strategies between Technology, Local and Global Politics - Tobias Witschke, European Commission 17:10-18:00 (50min)

Session 10.G: Bridging the Gap between Local and Global : Experiences of Japan and China under Modernization and Globalization

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Chair:Masakazu Shimada, Bunkyo Gakuin University discussant: Masato Kimura, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation

› Bridging the Gap between Local and Global: Dual Economic Functions Attributable to Shibusawa Eiichi's “Gappon-Shugi” in Japan's Modernization - Takeo Kikkawa, Hitotsubashi University 16:30-18:00 (1h30)

› History of Consumer Credit in Japan from Meiji Era to the Age of Neo-Liberalism - Adrienne Sala, Hitotsubashi University 16:35-18:00 (1h25)

› Entrepreneurial Universities and Industrial Creation in China - Hua Jin, Hitotsubashi University 16:40-18:00 (1h20)

› Neoliberalism, Economic Growth and Education Reform in Japan - Peter von Staden, Bristol Business School 16:50-18:00 (1h10)

Session 10.H: Technology Transfers 2: Multiple Impacts

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Chair: TBA discussant: Dominique Barjot, Université Paris-Sorbonne

› From Mulhouse to Gastonia: Technology and the Migration of Cotton Combed Yarn Production, 1840-1920 - Annette Cox, Independent Scholar 16:30-18:00 (1h30)

› The Nikolskaya Mill Partnership and the West European Firms: Some Aspects of Technological Transfer - Irina Potkina, Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences 16:35-18:00 (1h25)

› Aviation Gasoline Technology Transfer beyond Borders during the Second World War - Munehiro Miwa, Kyushu University 16:40-18:00 (1h20)

› Technology Transfer and Chain of Spinoffs in a Supporting Industry: The Chinese “Spring Washer Town” and the Japanese and Taiwanese Screw Clusters - Atsushi Kondo - Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University 17:10-18:00 (50min)

Session 10.D: International Capital, Local Ventures

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Chair: Laure Quennouëlle-Corre, CNRS discussant: Mikael Lönnborg, Norwegian Business School & Södertörn University

› Can Monetization Kill the Markets? Short-Term Finance in France, 1945-1951 - Patrice Baubeau, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense 16:30-18:00 (1h30)

› Local Agents and Global Finance. The End of the Rothschilds (London and Paris)-Belmont (New York) Relationship, 1919-1925 - Youssef Cassis, European University Institute - Floriane Schmidt-Maarsen, University of Geneva 16:50-18:00 (1h10)

› Mechanism under the Gold Standard: Sweden, 1834 – 1913 - Anders Ögren, Uppsala University 17:55-18:00 (05min)

Session 10.I: Shipping and Transport 2: Corporations and Public Institutions

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Chair: Keetie Sluyterman, University of Utrecht discussant: Gelina Harlaftis, Ionian University

› The Port Authority, a Product of a Globalized World? - Dirk Koppenol, Erasmus University Rotterdam 16:35-18:00 (1h25)

› "What Is In It For Us?" - Compromises and Conflicts between Public and Private Interests in Danish and Norwegian Shipping, 1980-2010 - Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School - Stig Tenold, Norwegian School of Economics and Business 16:40-18:00 (1h20)

› Going Abroad to Escape Local Market Decline: A Business History of the Recent Development of the Danish Marine Equipment Industry - Henrik Sornn-Friese - René Poulsen, Copenhagen Business School 17:35-18:00 (25min)

Session 10.E: Latin America and Globalization: Conflict and Collaboration between Elite Networks across the Atlantic World

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Chair: Nobuo Kawabe, Bunkyo Gakuin University discussant: Henry V. Nelles, McMaster University

› The Limits to Globalization: International Banks in Mexico, 1960-2011 - Gustavo A. Del Angel, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) – México 17:10-18:00 (50min)

› Transnational Business and Networks. International Credit and Joint Ventures in Colombian Industrial Development (1925-1955) - Elisa Grandi, Université Paris-Diderot 17:50-18:00 (10min)

Session 10.A: Beyond the Management of Human Resources

Room 5

Chair: Catherine Omnès, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines discussant: Per Boje, University of Southern Denmark

› Analysing the Motives for the Implementation of De Beukelaer's Fabrieken's Corporate Social Responsibility Policy (1885-1929) - Lazlo Passemiers, University of Stellenbosch 16:30-18:00 (1h30)

› Transfer of Engineers in Military Sectors and Colonies to Civilian Sectors after the Second World War: Cases of Technical Research Institute of the Japanese National Railways and Japan Consulting Engineers Association - Minoru Sawai, Osaka University 16:35-18:00 (1h25)

Closing Gala Dinner: Collège des Bernardins, 20 rue de Poissy M° Maubert-Mutualité

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