Programme

Beyond Businesses: Agency, Political Economy & Investors, c.1850–1970, a Summer School for doctoral students at the University of Tübingen, 20–22 September 2017

13:30–13:50	Introduction, Dr Daniel Menning, Dr Christopher Miller, and Prof Ewald Frie
13:50–14:00	Welcome from the University of Tübingen Graduate Academy by Dr Sibel Vurgun

14:00–15:30	Prof Phil Scranton & Prof Patrick Fridenson: Reimagining Business History

15:30–16:00	Coffee break

16:00–17:30	Presentation Session 1 (Chair: Fridenson)
	Chenxiao Xia (Kyoto University): Business, Fascism, War: Electricity in Germany and Japan, 1931–1945 Gery Ellis (University of Buckingham): Leon Alford’s humanised Scientific management
18:00–19:30	Keynote Lecture by Prof Phil Scranton (Rutgers University)

20:00	Dinner

8:30–10:00	Workshop 1: Scranton

10:00–10:30	Coffee break

10:30–12:30	Presentation Session 2 (Chair: Frie)
	Carolyn M. Keber (Open University): The Rise of the Investment Trust in England from the 1880’s to World War I Lloyd Melusi Maphosa (Stellenbosch University): A Historical Analysis of Joint Stock Companies in the Cape Colony, 1862–1910 Nicolaas Strydom (University of Johannesburg): The Johannesburg Stock Exchange 1887–1996 – An Institutional History

12:30–13:30	Lunch

13:30–15:00	Workshop 2: Fridenson

15:00–15:30	Coffe break

15:30–17:30	Presentation Session 3 (Chair: Menning)
	Zhaojin Zeng (University of Texas at Austin): From Bureaucratic Capitalism to State Capitalism: Indigenous Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Chinese Economy in the Long Twentieth Century Sven Kube (Florida International University): Bridging Two Shores: East German Record Production between Capitalist Opportunity and Communist Reality Josef Nothmann (University of Pennsylvania): Merchants and Commercial Associations as Contractual and Institutional Innovators: German Sugar and Cotton Traders, 1870–1930

17:30–18:00	Coffe break

18:00–19:00	Academic Publishing & Job Market Discussion/Roundtable

20:00	Optional Tour of Tübingen, with bars (Miller)

8:30–10:00	Presentation Session 4 (Chair: Scranton)
	Edward C. Davis IV (University of California, Berkley): Beer & the Bible: Economics, Language & Pedagogy in Congo-Angola Scott Kasten (Johns Hopkins University): The Business of Baseball: Commercializing the Fan Experience, Creating Fan Expectations Alberto Gabriele (Tel Aviv University): The Paper Trail: Nationalist/Transnational Currents in the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry and the Incorporation of the Book Trade

10:00–10:30	Coffe break

10:30–12:00	Presentation Session 5 (Chair: Miller)
	Adam J. Nix (Aston Business School): By the Rules of Whose Game? Social Factors Effecting Organizational Corruption; An Historical Study of Enron and the California Energy Crisis Kristin Stanwick Bårnås (University of Strathclyde): Internationalisation and Risk Management by Three Norwegian Firms in the 1960s and 1970s Beatriz Rodríguez-Satizábal (Queen Mary, University of London): Financing and Taxing Varieties of Capitalism. Firms in Developing Economies: From Stand-Alone to Business Groups. The Case of Colombia after 1950

12:30–13:30	Lunch

13:30–14:30	Workshop 3: Miller, Menning – Early Career perspectives on the academic job market in Europe

14:30–15:00	Closing Discussion/Roundtable