Conference: The Emergence of Global Entrepreneurship
Publicado el 05-03-10
Henley Business School at the University of Reading/
Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen
Reading, March 19th-20th, 2010.
Programme:Friday March 19th.
Session 1. 2.00-3.00 – Chair: Jan Otmar Hesse (Göttingen)
Andrew Godley (Reading)
'How has the agenda changed? Global Entrepreneurship in the discipline of Business History since
2000'
Mary Rose (Lancaster)
'"You are what you share”: Reflections on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business History’.
Session 2. 3.00-4.30 – Family Firms – Chair: Mary Rose (Lancaster)
Christina Lubinski (GHI, Washington DC)
‘Going global. Internationalization strategies & changes in corporate governance in German family
firms c. 1960-2005’.
Ian Hunter (Auckland and Reading)
‘When family values meet corporate entrepreneurship: the Case of Levene & Co., 1952-1994’.
Session 3. 5.00-6.30 New Theoretical Approaches in Global Entrepreneurship – Chair: Carsten Burhop
(Bonn)
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 March 20th
Session 4. 9.00-10.30 – Re-evaluating the significance of Intellectual Property I – Chair: Anna
Spadavecchia (Reading)
Carsten Burhop (Bonn)
‘The transfer of patents in Imperial Germany’.
Michael C. Schneider (Frankfurt a. M.)
‘Between two worlds: Scientists, Patents, and Academia’.
Session 5. 10.45-12.15 – Re-evaluating the significance of Intellectual Property II – Chair: Andrea
Colli (Bocconi, Milan)
Anna Spadavecchia (Reading) and John Cantwell (Rutgers and Reading)
‘'Innovation and British Regions in the Interwar Period'’.
Federico Barbiellini Amidei (Bank of Italy)
‘Knowledge, innovation and localised technological change in Italy, 1950-1990’
Session 6. 13.30-15.00 Historic Patterns of Inward Direct Investment and Impact on Indigenous
Entrepreneurs – Chair: Ian Hunter (Auckland and Reading)
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)’.
Session 7. 15.15-16.45 Food and Tobacco – Chair: Howard Cox (Worcester)
Mark Jakob (Göttingen)
‘The German tobacco industry in the 19th Century’.
Kurt Pedersen (Aarhus) and Jesper Strandskov (University of Southern Denmark)
‘Evolution of the Danish Slaughterhouse industry’.
Session 8. 16.45-17.30. Overview and Discussion: Mark Casson (Reading)
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