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CfP: 5th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History (deadline 15 giugno 2024)
On behalf of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History and the Norwegian Economic and Business History Association, the Centre for Business History at BI Norwegian Business School welcomes to the fifth Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History. The meeting specifically invites papers, sessions and tracks on economic, business,…
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CfP: Business History Special Issue: “Chandler Redux? Looking Back to Move Forward” (deadline 1 maggio 2024)
The proposed special issue invites both empirical research and reflections that draw on and develop the rich legacy of Chandler’s work to help further innovative and impactful scholarship in business history. It aims to encourage researchers to (a) draw on the historical and comparative investigation of firms and industries to answer big questions about epochal…
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CfP : Business History Special Issue: “Globalisation, varieties of economic nationalism and big business: innovation, opportunities and longterm strategy, 1870-2022” (deadline 31 maggio 2024)
Globalisation as a historical process since the 19th century has been characterised by the reduction of geographic constraints and by the growing flow of goods, capital, people, and ideas across national borders. In a long-term perspective, the growth of trade and the integration of the global economy has indisputably been phenomenal. But at the same…
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CfP: “Multinazionali italiane: un attore di lungo periodo” (deadline 7 aprile 2024)
Call for Papers promossa da Andrea Maria Locatelli, Giulio Mellinato, Valerio Varini, per una giornata di studi da tenersi nel mese di ottobre 2024 L’espansione delle aziende oltre i confini dei propri mercati d’origine è stata approfonditamente studiata dagli storici. La varietà di modelli organizzativi adottati è diventata un affascinante argomento di ricerca.Studi esemplari sono…
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CfP: Special Issue “Where Have All the Business Women Gone? Female Entrepreneurship in the long 20th Century” (30 novembre 2023)
We invite scholars to contribute to the special issue that will examine changes in female entrepreneurship over the twentieth century and the factors explaining these shifts. In the special issue, we define entrepreneurship deliberately broadly to capture the different manifestations of female entrepreneurship in the past. We define female entrepreneurs as women who were taking…
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Letture: Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States, di Sharon Ann Murphy
È ormai ampiamente riconosciuto che la massima espressione del capitalismo americano del XIX secolo si trovava nelle strutture della schiavitù. Si sa anche che quasi tutte le altre istituzioni e gli altri aspetti della vita di allora erano per lo più legati alla sopravvivenza della schiavitù, e spesso ne traevano profitto. Tuttavia, come dimostra Sharon…
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CfP: Special Issue in SEHR “Politics back in business? State-owned enterprises in recent history” (deadline 30 aprile 2024)
Special Issue in Scandinavian Economic History Review on state owned enterprises Introduction The financial crises, the global pandemic, and the recent escalation of global political tensions have thrust the imperative of states to safeguard their strategic economic interests into the spotlight (Megginson, 2017; Tihanyi et al., 2019). While the concept of state capitalism spans a…
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Letture: Quantitative Business History, by Veronica Binda and Anna Spadavecchia (Guest Editors), Revista de Historia Industrial-Industrial History Review, Special Issue Vol. 32 No. 88 (2023)
È stato pubblicato il vol. 32, n. 88 (Luglio 2023) della Revista de Historia Industrial – Industrial History Review (RHI-IHR), Special Issue, Quantitative Business History, a cura di Veronica Binda and Anna Spadavecchia. Articoli: Introduction: new advances in quantitative business history, by Veronica Binda, Anna Spadavecchia; Between the number and the word: quantitative methods in…
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CfP: ASSI Meeting 2023, “Doing business between globalisations” (deadline 15 settembre 2023)
University of Florence, Campus of Social Sciences, 15-16 December 2023 Phases of global integration and interdependence – characterised by the acceleration of exchanges, trade flows, and transfer of goods, people, and information – represent a long-term configuration of the world economy. Many scholars mostly outline the acceleration of this process during the last two centuries…