The 26th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2023

Registration at the main entrance at BI.

Registration is open all day from 11:00 until the Welcome Reception at 19:00. The registration includes check in and pick up of your conference badge. To avoid long queues, we appreciate that the entire opening time is used.

Workshop 1: The History of Collective Management Societies: Paper development workshop
Room: A2-blue 3

Workshop 2: The business history of natural resources
Room: A2-blue 4

Workshop 3: SEHR Fast-track session
Room: A2-red 11

Room: A1-030

• Karen Spens, President of BI Norwegian Business School
• Espen Ekberg, Head of the Local Organizing Committee EBHA 2023
• Teresa da Silva Lopes, President of the European Business History Association
• Keynote speech "How can we make the past speak?" by Professor Patrick Fridenson, Centre de Recherches Historiques I'EHESS

Room: 7th floor at BI 

Session A1: Crises and Financial Transitions
Room: A2-blue 4
Chair: Sverre Knutsen 

Charlotte Nilsson (Economic History, Lund University)
Turning pupils into stock-market investors: The role of civil society and public schools in Swedish financialization c. 1985-2010

Grace Ballor (Bocconi University)
Business Euroskeptics: British Industry on Economic and Monetary Union, 1979-1999

Juliane Clegg (University of Potsdam (from April 2023 University of Stuttgart)
British Banks, European Monetary Policy and the Symbolic Value of Money, 1985-1992

Christopher Hartwell (ZHAW School of Management and Law, Kozminiski University)
Connected to a Sinking Ship? Political Connections and Political Violence in Tsarist Russia

Session A2: CANCELLED

Session A3: Jews In Business: Marginality, Agency and the Minority Experience 
Room: A2-red 8
Chair: Susie J. Pak
Discussant: Trisha Oakley Kessler 

Rebecca Kobrin (Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor Of American Jewish History, Columbia University, New York NY)
Too Big to Fail in 1930: The Bank of United States, East European Jewish Entrepreneurship and the Long Shadow of Immigrant Banking

Benito Peix Geldart (Research Department, Centre for Business History in Stockholm)
What can Swedish business archives tell us about Jews and business?

Trisha Oakley Kessler
Crisis Management: Responses of a Jewish family business to economic plunder in 1930s Europe

Roger Horowitz (Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society at the Hagley Library and Professor of History at the University of Delaware)
The Plumba: Branding Kosher Chicken in Interwar New York City

Session A4: Regulation and Property Rights 
Room: A2-red 12
Chair: Mary Yeager
Discussant: Pål Thonstad Sandvik

Teresa da Silva Lopes, Andrea Lluch (University of Los Andes)
Entrepreneurship and Diaporas in Property Rights Protection: Trademarks Registration Strategies in South America, 1870s-1918.

Kondwani Happy Ngoma, Klas Rönnbäck (University of Gothenburg)
Legitimizing Land Grabbing - Endogenous Property Rights in Southern Africa and the Regulatory Capture of the British Empire, 1924-1953

José Manuel Carrasco (Universidad del Pacífico), Martin Monsalve Zanatti
(Universidad del Pacífico)
Property rights, patents and business development in Peru 1896-1930

Session A5: Strategy and Industry Dynamics 
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Veronica Binda

Anne Heslinga (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ben Wubs
Philips and the competitive platform dynamics of the consumer electronics industry (1983-1999)

José Antonio Miranda (Universidad de Alicante), Alba Roldán (Universidad de
Alicante)
What does business history contribute to the knowledge of fast fashion?

Amélia Branco (ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa), Veda Hastürk (ISEG - Universidade
de Lisboa), Pedro Neves (ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa)
The corporate strategy and environmental regulation: the case of Portuguese paper pulp industry

Anna Pikos (Kozminski University)
Longevity Factors of Polish Centennial Companies

Session A6: Uses of History
Room: A2-red 14
Chair: Alfred Reckendrees

Marten M Boon (University of utrecht), Sverre A. Christensen (Norwegian Business
School)
Uses of the past and cognitive bias in FDI decision making: the case of Equinor in the US

Christine Myrvang (BI Norwegian Business School)
Selling The Automatic Office: Making sense of the never-ending “end of clerical work”

Timo Leimbach (Dept. of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus Univerity)
Learning reflections through a historical lens – Historical case studies in project management education

Session B1: Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs in hotel business in the xxth century 
Room: A2-blue 4
Chair: Carlos Larringa and Laurent Tissot

Laurent Tissot
Hotels and hoteliers facing innovation: the case of the emergence of winter sports (1900-1940)

Carlos Larrinaga
Entrepreneurship and business associations in the hotel industry in Spain in the first third of the 20th century

Kevin James (University of Guelph, Canada)
Innovation & Adaptation in a Scottish Country House: Duff House, 1906-1995

Mathieu Narindal (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Entrepreneurship in the face of adversity: competition, professional solidarity, and state intervention in the Swiss hospitality industry from the Belle Epoque to the 1960s

Davide Bagnaresi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Recruitment and management of hotel staff in family-run tourism businesses in Italy

Session B2: CANCELLED

Session B3: Maritime Business 
Room: A2-red 8
Chair: Espen Ekberg
Discussant: Gellina Harlaftis

Shoya Fugetsu (University of Glasgow & Kyoto University (double degree, PhD)
Builders of the Royal Navy: Private shipbuilders’ naval constructions at the turn of the eighteenth century.

Ying Ding (University of the West of Scotland), Peiran Su (Audencia Business
School)
Dodwell & Co. Ltd., merchants and shipping agents, 1858-1973

Finn Erhard Johannessen (Professor in history at the University of Oslo)
The Lighting of the Sea Route from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea in Early Modern Time

Cho Sungshin (Kyoto University)
Dynamics of International and Inter-Industrial Relationships: Japanese and Hong Kong Maritime Industry since 1970

Session B4: State Owned Manufacturing in Europe
Room: A2-red 12
Chair: Andrea Colli
Discussant: Ola Innset

Ralf Ahrens (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)
Governing Airbus. Business and Politics in the Western European Aircraft Industry, 1960s to 1990s

Francesco Maccelli (University of Florence), Luciano Segreto (University of
Florence)
Enimont, the impossible alliance (1988-1990). Business and politics in the Italian chemical industry.

Pasi Nevalainen (Aalto University)
Valco: A business failure that initiated policy change and stigmatized state-owned companies

Session B5: The relevance of business history. Panel
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Henrikki Tikanen
Discussant: The audience

Rolv Petter Amdam (BI Norwegian Business School)
Business History as a Discipline

John F. Wilson, (Northumbria University Newcastle)
Business History and the ‘Practical Turn’

Juha-Antti Lamberg (Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, University of
Jyväskylä)
The Challenge of Dual Integrity

Session C1: Business and Cultural History 
Room: A2-blue 4
Chair: Peter Miskell
Discussant: Susanna Fellman

Aki Kinjo (Gakushuin Women's College), Naoya Takayanagi (Lecturer, Taisho
University (Tokyo)
Corporate Museums: Leveraging an Untapped Asset for Investigating Narratives in Business

Mariusz Jastrząb (Collegium Civitas), Tomasz Olejniczak (Kozminski University)
Varieties of rhetorical history: Comparative analysis of corporate museums in Japan, Italy and Poland

Rolv Petter Amdam (BI Norwegian Business School), Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem
(Volda University College)
Bacalao and regional identity: The roundtrip of cod, Norway—the Mediterranean

Session C2: Deeply Responsible Business - A Global History of Value Driven Leadership
Room: A2-red 12
Chair: Teresa da Silva Lopes
Panel: In this panel, Geoffrey Jones' book, Deeply Responsible Business, will be discussed by four business history scholars, Youssef Cassis (European University Institute), Hartmut Berghoff (Georg-August-Univerisität Göttingen), Mary Yeager (UCLA), and Ann-Kristin Bergquist (Uppsala University).

Session C3: Energy Challenges
Room: A2-red 11
Chair: Joost Dankers

Øyvind Nordbotten (Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at
University of Oslo)
The supposed resources for battery cell industry in Norway - the case of FREYR Battery 2017-2022 (tentative title)

Christoph Speitkamp (RWTH Aachen University), Paul Thomes (RWTH Aachen
University)
The business history and its relevance in the course of the future energetic transformation

Eivind Thomassen (University of South-Eastern Norway)
Governing Norwegian Oil

Session C4: Innovation In the Beauty Industy 
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Roger Horowitz

Emanuela Scarpellini
1. The Beauty Industry in Italy: A Multifaceted History

Anne Dalmasso (Université Grenoble Alpes), Anne-Marie Granet (Université Grenoble Alpes)
2. Cosmetics Companies in France (1930-2020)

Denise Sutton (New York City College of Technology - City University of New York (CUNY)
3. Rudolf Steiner and Lebensreform: The Case of Dr. Hauschka Skin Care and Weleda Beauty Brands

Leslie Harris (L'Oreal; Fashion Institute of Technology)
4. Historical Drivers of Growth in the Beauty Industry and the Impact on the Future of Innovation

Session C5: Managing Scarcity and Sustainability: Oil, Nuclear and Automobile Firms and the Economic and Societal Challenges of the 1970s-1980s
Room: A2-red 14
Chair: Cyrus Mody
Discussant: Marten Boon

Jelena Stanković (Maastricht University)
The Oil Industry and Solar Entrepreneurs in the 70s and 80s

Sönke Hebing (RWTH Aachen University)
Mobility of Future and Old Technologies: The Influence of Economic-social Transformations on Strategic Planning at BMW and Peugeot since the 1970s

Michiel Bron (Maastricht University)
Diversification due to a lack of profits? The role of access to cheap Middle Eastern Oil in determining diversification strategies by oil companies into nuclear energy

Pål Nygaard (BI Norwegian Business School)
Spillover from nuclear research to the oil industry: The development of software to control the flow of oil and gas subsea 1980-2000

Session C6: Nationalisation and Colonization 
Room: A2-red 8
Chair: Pedro Neves

Marie Huber (University of Marburg, Germany), Nina Kleinoeder (University of
Bamberg, Germany)
The business of colonization and decolonization in Africa – two case studies on transport infrastructures to argue for a (Post-)Colonial Business History

Rui Shi (Seinan Gakuin University)
Managing Retail Space: Reforms and the Evolution of Department Stores in China

Subhadeep Chowdhury (University of Oslo)
The Imperial International of Trademarks: British India and the Uneven Integration of Industrial Property 18¬70s-1910s

Wu Duoxiao (Kyoto University)
When multinational enterprises met political risk in China -Japanese and British steamship companies in 1920s China

Session D1: Business and Health
Room: A2-blue 4
Chair: Pierre-Yves Donzé

Hideki Yoshikawa (University of Glasgow, University of Barcelona, Kyoto University)
Ethics and diffusion of medical technology in the context of the AIDS crisis in the USA

Takashi Shimizu (The University of Tokyo)
Companies as a risk management device : An examination on the relationship between infectious diseases and management

Session D2: Corporate History and Archives 
Room: A2-red 11
Chair: Bram Bouwens
Discussant: Andrea Schneider

Lars Fredrik Øksendal (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)
On the writing of commissioned history – staying relevant in a changing market

Torkel Thime (National Archives of Norway), Karianne Scmidt Vindenes
(Vestfoldmuseene IKS)
Company archives

Session D3: Elites and Management Formation
Room: A2-red 12
Chair: Henrikki Tikkanen
Discussant: Thomas David

Yun WU (Shunan University)
The Forming of Chinese Management: the first stage of management hybridization in the early reform era

Juha Kansikas (University of Jyväskylä), Aleksi Korhonen (Jyväskylä University
School of Business and Economics), Pasi Nevalainen (Aalto University), Virpi Sorsa
(Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics)
Rise and Fall of Business Elite Formation: Proposing, Building, Devoting, Renewing, and Losing Tradition

Session D4: Sustainability and Ethics
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Hartmut Berghoff
Discussant: Ann-Kristin Bergquist

Sumohon Matilal (University of Sussex)
In the shadows of the 1984 Bhopal crisis: DOW's business in India

Abe De Jong (Monash University Melbourne, University Groningen), Florian
Madertoner (Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management), Ailsa Röell
(Columbia University)
Stand your ground: a case study on low tech firm survival in the Netherlands
between 1900 and 1938

Room: A1-030

Place: Outside the main entrance at BI.

The doors open at 18:45 and closes precisely at 19:30.
Address: Rådhusplassen 1, 0037 Oslo 

• See detailed programme here.

Getting there from Nydalen: Take the metro ("T-banen") from Nydalen station (track 1) to Nationaltheateret station (via Majorstuen), then walk 5 minutes to Oslo City Hall (map here). The Nydalen station is located just outside the main entrance of the conference building (BI).

You buy the ticket through the Ruter app here.

Session E1: Gender
Room: A2-red 8
Chair: Christine Myrvang

Pierre-Yves Donzé (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan.),
Takashi Hirano (Musashino Univesity), Ken Sakai (Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, Japan.)
Housewives and the Japanese Economic Miracle, 1955-1973

Laura Lopez-Gomez (University of Murcia, Spain), Susana Martinez-Rodriguez
(University of Murcia)
Financial inclusion and asset holdings in the first half of the 20th century: the Spanish case

Rika Fujioka (Kansai University)
Women Designers: Contribution to the Creation of Japanese Apparel Industry

Bernardita Escobar (School of Public administration, University of Valparaiso)
Business women and overcoming the transgression of machismo and marianismo cultures during the first globalization in Chile

Session E2: Innovation and Industrial Dynamics
Room: A2-blue 5
Chair: Pål Nygaard

Hiromichi Hasebe (Nihon University), Hikaru Kondo (Nihon University), Kenichi
Miyata (Meiji University)
Financing the Creativity of Japanese Animation: Development of the Production Committee System from Akira to Evangelion

Pål Sandvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
This land is my land: A Global and Comparative History of Regulation of Agricultural Land c. 1789-1913

Zi Yang (Aston University)
A Conceptual History of Transparency in the UK Financial Regulatory System: The Running Battle between Efficiency and Equality

Session E3: Regulation and Deregulation 
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Grace Ballor
Discussant: Stephen Mihm

Jørgen Burchardt (Museum Vestfyn)
Regulation of lorry transportation in international logistics 1920-2020: How changes in technology and business organisation influence public policy

Erik Lakomaa (Stockholm School of Economics), Rasmus Nykvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
Monopolists for competition?

Saara Matala (Chalmers University of Technology)
The emerging markets for oil, company power and the question of state regulation in Finland 1890-1940

Session E4: Strategic Renewal in the Consumer Co-operative Sector: An International Study
Room: A2-blue 9
Chair: John Wilson

John wilson (Northumbria University)
Strategic renewal and consumer co-operatives

Patrizia Battilani (University of Bologna, Italy)
Ambidexterity as a renewal strategy: the Italian consumer coop facing the challenge of the third globalization

Dionne Pohler, (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
The History of Strategic Renewal at Federated Co-operatives Limited in Western Canada

Fredrik Sandgren, (Dep. of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden)
From the fall of Coop Norden to “long-term boringness”: strategic renewal (?) in the Swedish Coop 2000-2020.

Session E5: Training at the shop floot: Productivity Increase and catching up In the European economic periphery 
Room: A2-red 12
Chair: Santiago López
Discussant: Martin Monsalve

Mar Cebrián (University of Salamanca), Santiago López
Innovation and workplace learning: The case of FASA-Renault in Spain

Rafael castro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Francisco Cayón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Managing scarcity or avoiding waste? The curious case of Ferrovial and the socalled “Circular Economy”, c. 1952-1966

Adoración Álvaro-Moya
Technical training in the Spanish firm. The training programs of the Spanish Productivity Center (1950s-1960s)

Kyu-Hyun Baick (Kyoto University)
The First National Expressway Megaproject: How Have the States and Private Firms Have Learned From the Project

Session E6: Transmissions and exchanges of knowledge in cartels (20th century) 
Room: A2-red 10
Chair: Knut Sogner
Discussant: The audience

Ingeborg Guldal (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU),
Trondheim), Espen Storli (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU), Trondheim)
«Now is the time»: Zambia, Chile and the dream of creating a better world through the means of international copper co-operation, 1967-1974

Véronique Pouillard, Kristin Ranestad (University of Oslo)
Traveling for knowledge: the missions abroad of employees of the mining industries of Belgian Congo and Chile (1905-1960s)

Kasper Hage Stjern (Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Intermediaries of Cartelization: The Regional Circuits of the Norwegian and Swedish Brewery Cartels, 1906-1956

Session F1: Corporate Governance
Room: A2-red 8
Chair: Takashi Shimizu

Stephen Mihm (University of Georgia, USA)
Private standards and public power: Paul Gough Agnew and the corporatecapture of standards in the United States

Jan-Peter Gustafsson (University of Jyväskylä), Juha Kansikas (University of Jyväskylä)
Freemasons and Interlocking Directorates: Business Elite Network Evolution 1950-2010

Shunsuke Nakaoka (Kokushikan Univerisity)
Reconsidering the zaibatsu holding company –from perspective of recent trends of family business research

Neil Rollings (University of Glasgow)
"A few pike in a trout river”? Hostile take-over bids and dividend restraint: the debate in government in the 1950s

Session F2: Humanities and Organization Studies
Room: A2-blue 5
Chair: Pasi Nevalainen

Juha-Antti Lamberg (Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä), Antti Sihvonen (Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics (JSBE, Finland), Strategy and Entrepreneurship), Jarmo Taskinen (University of Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics (JSBE, Finland), Strategy and Entrepreneurship), Henrikki Tikkanen (Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland)
That escalated quickly: Emotions and the production of oral history during the political aftermath of a merger

Anna Soulsby (Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK)
Business History and Longitudinal Studies of Change in Post-Communist Societies: The Use of Narrative Resources By Managers

Session F3: Innovation and Technology
Room: A2-blue 9
Chair: Alvaro Silva

Tomáš Gecko (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of sciences) 
Espionage of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Washington, D.C., in the Early 1920s: Cooperation between Business and Diplomat-Economic Spy

Kristine Bruland (UiO)
A new perspective on innovation and industrialisation

Ghassan Moazzin (University of Hong Kong)
The Early Development of Long-Distance Telephony in China and its Economic Impact, 1900-1937

Session F4: Internationalisation Strategy
Room: A2-red 12
Chair: Ben Wubs

Matthew Bellamy (Carleton University)
John Labatt Ltd. in Europe: A Case Study in International Entrepreneurship and Business Failure, 1989-1995

Marcus Box (Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Department of Business Studies, Enter Forum), Mikael Lönnborg (Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Department of Business Studies, Enter Forum), Paulina Rytkönen (Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Department of Business Studies, Enter Forum)
Patterns and modes of consolidation and internationalization in the Western and Eastern European dairy sector, 1997-2020

Alfred Reckendrees (Copenhagen Business School)
The long shadow of history? Internationalization of Beierdorf 1890s-2000

Session F5: Making Business History Relevant to Students
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Veronica Binda

Maiju Wuokko
Introduction to Business History by Simulating the Historian’s Craft

Andrea Lluch (CONICET, Argentina and UniAndes, Colombia)
Teaching Business History of (and in) Latin America to Graduate Students: Reflections and Challenges for the Future

Alba Roldan Marin (University of Alicante)
A course of innovation using business history

Veronica Binda
Blended Learning: What to Learn from the Experience of a Course at the Msc Level

Anna Pikos (Kozminski University), Thomasz Olejniczak (Kozminski University)
Business History as Critical Thinking: Proving the relevance of history to bachelor students in a Polish Business School context 

Session F6: Supervising Finance
Room: A2-red 14
Chair: Youssef Cassis
Discussant: Christopher Hartwell

Sverre Knutsen (BI Oslo), Mikael Wendschlag (Uppsala University)
The Nordic banking supervisor meetings of the interwar period

Janette Rutterford (The Open University), Dimitris Sotiropoulos (The Open University, UK), Daniele Tori (The Open University, UK)
Bottom-up activism and shareholder democracy: U.K. Shareholder Investigation Committees, 1888–1940

Joaquim Cuevas (University of Valencia), Maria A. Pons (University of Valencia)
Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850-1936

Session G1: Business History and Other Disiplines
Room: A2-red 8
Chair: Tomasz Olejniczak

Jan-Peter Gustafsson (University of Jyväskylä)
Review article: Intertwining business history and international business literature

Juha-Antti Lamberg (Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä), Roosa Oinasmaa (University of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics)
Grand Strategy and the Forest Industry: Discovering the Corporate Government Interlock

Session G2: Cartels
Room: A2-blue 5
Chair: Harald Espeli
Discussant: Bram Bouwens

Susanna Margareta Fellman (University of Gothenburg; Sweden), Martin Shanahan (University of South Australia,; University of Gothenburg)
‘Hiding in plain sight’ The curious neglect of international cartels in international business history.

Ágnes Pogány (Eötvös Lorand University Budapest)
The Hungarian Cartel Law of 1931 in an International Perspective

Session G3: Economic Development In Emerging Markets
Room: A2-red 12
Chair: Martin Monsalve
Discussant: Andrea Lluch

Jose Peres-Cajias (Universitat de Barcelona)
Revisiting industrialization in the periphery. The Bolivian case, 1920s-1940s

Neveen Abdelrehim (Newcastle University business school), Akram Beniamin (University of Reading), John wilson (Northumbria University)
Foreign banking and Egyptian economic development

Qing Xia (Business School, Xining University; School of Economics and Management, Qinghai Nationalities University)
The growth of Chinese Caterpillar Fungus industry, 1990-2020

Session G4: Innovation
Room: A2-red 14
Chair: Kristin Ranestad

Xaq Frohlich (Auburn University)
A lifecycle history of food packaging: Reconsidering what product packaging does for business and society

Francesca Fauri (University of Bologna)
How did a railway-material manufacturer become one of Italy’s top-notch aircraft producers in the 1930s: the case of the Officine Meccaniche Reggiane

Tine Malonæs (Inland Norway University of Applied sciences)
The dynamics in creating ‘room for innovation’. A microfoundational perspective on the innovation breakthrough of the Kongsberg Group after 2000

Session G5: Internationalisation and Contextual Changes
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Ben Wubs

Pierre-Yves Donzé (Osaka University), Sabine Pitteloud
“Waiting for Better Days”: Nestlé’s Human Resource Management in the postcolonial world (1950-1990)

Sanders Andreas R.D. (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Friendship, commerce and "national treatment": Treaties on foreign acquisition of real property 1815-1913

Yuan Jia-Zheng (University of Barcelona)
China’s Outward Investment in the European Automotive Industry: Squaring the Circle during the 21st Century

Sudarat Sukloet (The School for Business and Society, University of York)
The Internationalization of British Firms in Thailand, from Buffer to Friendship

Session G6: Varities of Capitalism 
Room: A2-blue 9
Chair: Susie. J. Pak
Discussant: Knut Sogner

Fco. Javier Fernández-Roca (Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla), Jesús D. López Manjón (Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla)
The use of SMA for country-of-origin effect by andalusian olive oil exporter firms during first third of 20th century

Valerio varini (Università degli studi Milano - Bicocca)
Enterprise architecture. Hybrid forms of success. Italian companies in the world (1830s-1930s)

Benito Peix Geldart (Research Department, Centre for Business History in Stockholm)
Olof Söderberg and the rise of modern industrial and trade organisations in early 20th Century Sweden

Judit Klement (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
Fraternal relations in family businesses: family capitalism in mid-19th century Hungary

Session H1: Business Networks
Room: A2-red 14
Chair: Emanuela Scarpellini
Discussant: Neil Rollings

Chris Corker (York University), Joe Lane (Reading University), John wilson (Northumbria University)
Industrial clusters, the unit of analysis and economic behaviour: new business history perspectives

Ramon Ramon-Muñoz (Universitat de Barcelona), Alberto Rinaldi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, CiMET and RECent)
Regional resilience in a long-term perspective: Catalonia and Emilia-Romagna compared (1950-2020)

Pedro Neves (ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa), Alvaro Silva (Nova School of Business and Economics (Univ. Nova Lisboa))
The African connection: business and power in a period of crises (1890-1940)

Session H2: Climate Change and Business History 
Room: A2-red 12 
Chair: Andrea Lluch
Discussant: The audience

Ann-Kristin Bergquist (Uppsala University), Geoffrey Jones (Harvard Business School)
Business, Institutions and Climate Change

Niels Viggo-Haueter (SwissRe)
Insurance – From environmental concerns to global warming

Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid (University of California Berkeley)
From whitewashing to greenwashing: PR confronts climate change

Ann-Kristin Bergquist (Uppsala University), Thomas David (University of Lausanne)
Changing the (Dis)course. The International Chamber of Commerce and Responses to Climate Change 1970s to the Early 1970s' 

Session H3: Historical Tensions between International Business and National Taxation: A challenge for Europe Today
Room: A2-blue 2
Chair: Neil Forbes

Neil Forbes
Preliminary findings from the Volkswagen Stiftung-funded project Historical Tensions between International Business and National Taxation: A Challenge for Europe Today

Jan Otmar Hesse (Bayreuth University)
„Offshoring incentivized: The promotion of FDI by the German government in the 1970s“

Jeroen Euwe (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ben Wubs
Corporate taxation, Multinational Enterprise and the League of Nations

Lexy Remij (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Multinational study-groups and the making of the post-war Dutch tax regime, 1940-1950

Antonie Doležalová (Charles University, Prague)
Evolution of Tax Havens Strategies. A Macroeconomic View

Session H4: Innovation, Technology and Productivity
Room: A2-red 8
Chair: Luciano Segreto

Benjamin Schneider (OsloMet)
Labor Augmenting or Job-Replacing? Railroad Firemen and the Automatic Stoker

Maria Padovan (University of Rome Tor Vergata & University Paris City)
The long way of French nuclear reactor technology (1946-1998)

Henrique Oliveira (Nova University Lisbon)
Some notes on the entangled nature of the history of the Tagus River Bridge Project (1962-66)

Session H5: Knowledge Transfer and Appropriation
Room: A2-blue 5
Chair: Adoración Álvaro-Moya

Juxuan Zhang (Osaka University)
The shift of Chinese apparel companies from global outsourcing to local retailing, 1978-2020

Arttu Huoviala (University of Jyväskylä), Mirva Peltoniemi (University of Jyväskylä), Topi Taipale (University of Jyväskylä)
Pre-entry experience in CoPS: Where do machine makers come from?

Hiroyuki Yamabe (Nara Prefectural University and University of York)
The Japanese bicycle industry in the interwar period: through comparison with the UK.

Session H6: New Perspectives on the Business History of Modern Japan
Room: A2-blue 9
Chair: Steven Ericson
Discussant: Janet Hunter

Martha Chaiklin (Independent Scholar)
Stepping Out: Shoe Exports in Prewar Japan, 1870-1930

Simon Bytheway (Nihon University)
Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Early Japanese Automobile Exports to Australia, 1930-1937

Steven Ericson (Dartmouth College)
Business Deconcentration in Occupied Japan: Reexamining Its Scale and Impact

Place: Thon Hotel Storo