Thursday, May 23
Venue: Hotel Maximilian (Maximilianstr. 28, Regensburg)
17:00 – 19:30 Opening and Keynotes
Opening statements by Ulf Brunnbauer and Oleg Sidorkin (both IOS)
Andrei YAKOVLEV (Moscow)
Evolution of State-Business relations in Post-Soviet Russia
Jan O. HESSE (Bayreuth)
Business History – A Western Approach?
Dinner reception
Friday, May 24
Venue: IOS Regensburg, Landshuter Str. 4, Room 319
9.00 – 10.45
Panel 1: Foreign investments, local adaptations
Leonid BORODKIN(Moscow)
Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company in the Russian Empire: on the impact of international business and foreign capital on Russian business culture
Judit KLEMENT (Budapest)
Social Image of a Firm. The Leadership of the Siemens’ Subsidiary in Hungary Before 1946
Michael MORITZ (Nuremberg)
German FDI in the Czech Republic – Employment Effects in the Home Country
11.15 – 13.00
Panel 2: Between private and the state
Rachel TRODE
(Florence)
Administering the Private and State-Owned Firm in Habsburg Bosnia
and Herzegovina: Government Approaches during the General Strike,
May 1906
Valentina FAVA
(Prague)
A Tale of Two Enterprises: Production and Organisational Decisionmaking
in the Trajectories of Skoda Auto and AvtoVAZ (1970–2000)
Philipp KOROM
(Graz)
The Many Transformations of Austria Inc. (1937–2008). From
Networked and Politicised to Post-Networked and Depoliticised?
LUNCH
14.00 – 16.15
Panel 3: Managers, markets, workers
Olexandr SHEPOTYLO
(Bradford)
Market power, productivity and distribution of wages: theory and
evidence with micro data
Anna SOULSBY
(Nottingham)
Organizations and the Re-Institutionalisation of Management in Post-
Communist Societies: the case of the Czech Republic
Thomas STEGER
(Regensburg)
Look back in anger? Reconstructing former GDR managers’ individual
and organizational realities during Cold War
Jan HAGEMEJER
(Warsaw)
Misallocations go a long way: evidence from firm-level data
16.45 – 18.30
Panel 4: The fate of state owned enterprises (SOEs)
Volodymyr KULIKOV
(Kharkiv)
State-Owned Enterprises in the Late Tsarist Economy: Purpose,
Structure, and Performance
Grzegorz
KWIATKOWSKI
(Lublin)
State-owned enterprises in the contemporary Polish economy ‒ the
impact of path dependence and their economic and non-economic
objectives
Joanna TYROWICZ
(Warsaw)
Privatizing when firm value is unknown: an agency model and an
application to the case of Poland
Saturday, May 25
Venue: IOS Regensburg, Landshuter Str. 4, Room 319
9.00 – 10.45
Panel 5: Political conflict and risks
Ágnes POGÁNY (Budapest)
Conflict and Co-operation: Adaptation Strategies of Hungarian firms after World War I
Karlo BASTA (Saint Johns)
Socialist Enterprises and the Slovenian Independence Referendum of 1990
Ksenia GONCHAR (Moscow)
Impact of political risk on foreign subsidiaries’ survival in Russia
11.15 – 13.00
Panel 6: Networks and border crossings
Gelina HARLAFTIS (Corfu)
Prosperity, cooperation and conflict of foreign entrepreneurs in the Black Sea port-cities of the Russian Empire. Greek traders and ship-owners from Odessa to Batumi, 1780s to 1910s.
Goran MUSIĆ (Sarajevo)
Outward Processing Production and the Yugoslav Self-Managed Textile Industry in the 1980s
Evguenia DAVIDOVA (Portland)
An Ottoman Firm in the Age of Nationalisms: The Case of the Tŭpchileshtov Company Case of the Tŭpchileshtov Company
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.45
Panel 7: Reasons of Survival and Failure
Petya SLAVOVA (Sofia)
Between the ‘economic success’ and the risk of political failure: the case of the firm enterprise Texim-Imextracom in communist Bulgaria
Evžen KONČENDA (Prague)
Institutions and Determinants of Firm Survival in European Emerging Markets
Irina LEVINA (Moscow)
Decentralization and Innovations of Hungarian Firms
16.00 – 16.45
Wrap-up discussion