Conference/Summer School "International Business in Historical Perspective: The Emergence of Global Entrepreneurship".
Publicado el 16-01-10
Conference/Summer School "International Business in Historical Perspective: The Emergence of Global Entrepreneurship"
Henley Business School at the University of Reading/ Institute for
Economic and Social History at the Georg August University of Göttingen:
Conference/Summer School "International Business in Historical
Perspective: The Emergence of Global Entrepreneurship"
Time and venue: University of Reading, March 19-20 (Conference) and
21-25 (Summer School), 2010
For a downloadable PDF document with further information, please go to:
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/130333.html
The Henley Business School at the University of Reading and the
Institute for Economic and Social History at the Georg August University
of Göttingen will hold an academic conference and a summer school for
graduate students and PhD candidates of economic history and business
history at the University of Reading in March 2010. During the combined
conference and summer school, scholars and students will explore the
concept of entrepreneurship applied to historical examples in an
international context. Topics include, for instance, the performance of
multinationals in foreign markets, immigrant entrepreneurship,
international family firms, and the institutional framework in which
entrepreneurial decisions were made. The conference will take place from
Friday to Saturday, the 19 and 20 of March 2010, and the summer school
will follow from Monday to Thursday, the 21 to 25 of March 2010. The
summer school can be acknowledged as a course worth 6 ECTS.
The conference and summer school are complementary events. Whereas the
conference is aimed primarily at researchers, their contributions serve,
at the same time, as input for the summer school sessions. For students
and PhD candidates who wish to participate in the summer school,
attendance of the conference therefore is mandatory. The summer school
will use the input of the conference proceedings to highlight current
research in business history and elaborate on methodological questions.
Summer school attendants will have the opportunity to discuss the
presentations of some conference contributors who will also teach summer
school sessions.
Applications for the summer school should be directed to the contact
below. In order to participate, applicants have to 1) write a short (!)
letter stating their motivation, with their study programme attached,
and 2) compose an essay of about 1500-2000 words related to the summer
school topic (e.g., on international business strategies, on cultural
barriers for market entry, on the ethical aspects of international
enterprise, on a case study of transnational entrepreneurship, etc).
Participants will be chosen on the basis of their essay’s relevance and
quality. Participants are asked to hold a brief presentation of their
papers during the seminar sessions. Further information is available
from the contact below. Electronic documents (PDF format) are welcome!
The deadline for applications is *31 January 2010*.
The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC, will fund up to
four travel grants for summer school participants from the USA. Eligible
US-based candidates are asked to indicate that they don't receive any
support from their own university and that they want to apply for the
GHI travel grant in their letter of application to the contact given
below. There is no tuition fee, but we ask for a lump sum contribution
of about 100 EUR to the costs for food, coffee, and materials provided.
The organizers have reserved rooms at the University of Reading where
participants can stay at reasonable rates.
Contact:
Dr. des. Mark Jakob M. A.
Georg August-Universität, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)551-39-12434
Fax: +49-(0)551-39-12433
Email: mark.jakob[ad]wiwi.uni-goettingen.de
Conference Programme
Friday, 19 March 2010
12:00-13:00 lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Welcome address
Mary Rose (Lancaster): 'You are what you share': Reflections on
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Business History
14:00-15:30 Session 1: Family Firms
Christina Lubinski (GHI, Washington, DC): Going Global.
Internationalization Strategies and Corporate Governance Changes in
German Family Firms (ca. 1960-2005)
Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj (Reading): Asian Family Firms in Britain, Kenya
and the USA since the 1970s
15:30-16:00 Tea break
16:00-17:30 Session 2: New Theoretical Approaches in Global Entrepreneurship
Alexander Engel (Göttingen): Futures and the Risk Management of Global
Entrepreneurs
Andrew Godley (Reading): Entrepreneurship, Implicit Contracts,
Information Asymmetries, and the Emergence of Marketing Capabilities:
The Case of US Pharmaceuticals c. 1930 to 1970
Saturday, 20 March 2010
9:00-11:00 Session 3: Re-evaluating the significance of Intellectual
Property (IP)
Carsten Burhop (Bonn): The Transfer of Patents in Imperial Germany
Michael C. Schneider (Frankfurt a. M.): Between two Worlds: Scientists,
Patents, and Academia
Anna Spadavecchia and John Cantwell (Rutgers and Reading): Patents and
Regional Entrepreneurship in Britain
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 4: Historic Patterns of Inward Direct Investment and
Impact on Indigenous Entrepreneurs
Andrea Colli (Bocconi, Milan) ‘Historic Inward Direct Investment in
Italy – a new database’.
Adoración Alvaro (Madrid) ‘Inward Direct Investment and
Entrepreneurship: US Investments in Spain (1920s-1970s)’.
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 5: Food and Tobacco
Howard Cox - Chair and comment
Mark Jakob (Göttingen): The German Tobacco Industry in the 19th Century
Kurt Pedersen and Jesper Strandskov (Aalborg University, Denmark): The
Evolution of the Danish Slaughterhouse Industry
15:30-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-17:00 Overview and discussion
Marc Casson/Mary Rose: Summary and Comment
Summer School Session Overview
Monday, 21 March 2010
Entrepreneurship and the impact of globalization, 1840-2000 (Hesse/Jakob)
Theories of international business (Hesse/Jakob)
International institutions and multinational business (Hesse/Jakob)
Tuesday, 22 March 2010
International and indigenous entrepreneurship (Godley)
Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship (Godley)
Student case studies: Regional aspects (NN)
Knowledge, Science, and Patents in International Business (Schneider)
Wednesday, 22 March 2010
Cultural barriers to market entry (Jakob)
Case studies: tobacco and chemicals (Jakob/Schneider)
Student case studies: Enterprises (Jakob)
FDI: Theory/Case Studies (NN)
Thursday, 23 March 2010
Global finance and international entrepreneurship (NN)
Peculiarities of Marketing, Organization, and Culture in international
business? (NN)
The ethical aspects of global entrepreneurship (Hesse)
Final discussion: lessons learned and further study (All)
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Dr. des. Mark Jakob
Georg August-Universität
Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
37073 Göttingen
Tel.: +49-(0)551-39-12434
Fax: +49-(0)551-39-12433
mark.jakob@wiwi.uni-goettingen.de
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