The University of Tübingen (Germany) as part of its Institutional Strategy (ZUK 63) has made available funding for an intensive three-day event aimed at PhD students and early career Post-Docs. The summer school can still fund accommodation, conference dinner, lunches and coffee breaks for up to seven people interested in participating and willing to pay their own travelling costs. Those interested should send a short CV and letter of application to the organizers by August 20th.

Topic:
Business history and economic history have been distinct disciplines, separate from both economics and organizational studies, for over three-quarters of a century. They have developed a rich and varied historiography that has helped to answer and contextualize some of the largest questions of the last two centuries. These include explaining rapid technological changes of the industrial and information ages, the globalization of financial and production markets, and, not least, the rise of Capitalism itself. However, recent trends have in some cases deepened the divide with ‘traditional’ history and historiography. For instance, business history has often found its natural home in business schools rather than history departments, while economic history is increasingly undertaken in a highly quantitative manner in economics, rather than history, faculties. However, while much work remains to be done to redress the balance, new approaches from historians are starting to re-bridge the divide. We believe historians engaged in archival research have much to offer business and economic topics, and it is work in this area that this summer workshop intends to foster.

Also, see the extended CfP for a broader description: http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-34018?title=reminder-business-beyond-businesses-agency-political-economy-investors-c-1850-1970&recno=1&q=beyondq=beyond businesses&sort=newestPublished&fq=&total=2

Program:
Wednesday, 20th September
13.30-13.50: Introduction – Dr Daniel Menning, Dr Christopher Miller, Prof Ewald Frie
13.50-14.00: Welcome from the University of Tübingen Graduate School – Dr Sibel Vurgun
14.00-15.30: Reimagining Business History - Prof Phil Scranton & Prof Patrick Fridenson
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.30: Presentation Session 1 (Chair: Patrick)
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: Key Note Lecture – Phil Scranton

Thursday
08.30-10.00: Workshop 1: Phil
10.00-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-12.30: Presentation Session 2 (Chair: Ewald)
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.
Josef Nothmann (University of Pennsylvania): Merchants and Commercial Associations as Contractual and Institutional Innovators: German Sugar and Cotton Traders, 1870-1930.
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Workshop 2: Patrick
15.00-15.30: Coffee Break
15.30-17.00: Presentation Session 3 (Chair: Daniel)
Zhaojin Zeng (University of Texas): 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.
17.00-17.30: Coffee Break
17.30-19.00: Academic Publishing & Job Market Discussion/Roundtable

Friday
08.30-10.00: Presentation Session 4 (Chair: Phil)
Edward C. Davis IV (University of California Berkley): Beer & the Bible: Economics, Language & Pedagogy in Congo-Angola.
Scott Kasten (Johns Hopkins): The Business of Baseball: Commercializing the Fan Experience, Creating Fan Expectations.
10.00-10.30: Coffee break
10.30-12.00: Presentation Session 5 (Chair: Chris)
Adam J. Nix (Aston Business School): By the rules of whose game?
Kristin Stanwick Bårnås (University of Strathclyde): Internationalisation and Risk Management by three Norwegian Firms in the 1960s and 1970s.
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.30: Workshop 3: Chris, Daniel
14.30-15.00: Closing Discussion/Roundtable