Newcomen Article Prize Winners
In 1992, the Newcomen Society of the United States began sponsoring an award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference. The winner receives a plaque and $1,000. From 1992 through 1999, the Newcomen Prize-winning paper was published in Business and Economic History. Since the founding of Enterprise & Society in 2000, the prize is awarded to the best article appearing in each volume year. The full text of the articles from 1992 to 1999 is available in the BEH Archives. Those published in Enterprise & Society are online and available via subscription.
1992: Sally Clarke, "'Innovation' in U.S. Agriculture: A Role for New Deal Regulation"
1993: Steven Usselman, "IBM and Its Imitators: Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry"
1994: Paul Gompers, "The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital"
1995: Kenneth Lipartito, "Culture and the Practice of Business History"
1996: William Mass and Andrew Robertson "From Textiles to Automobiles: Mechanical and Organizational Innovation in the Toyoda Enterprises, 1895-1933"
1997 : William Tsutsui, "Rethinking the Paternalist Paradigm in Japanese Industrial Management"
1998: Sean Patrick Adams, "Different Charters, Different Paths: Corporations and Coal in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia"
1999: Kevin Reilly, "Dilettantes at the Gate: Fortune Magazine and the Cultural Politics of Business Journalism in the 1930s"
2000: Jonathan Zeitlin, "Reconciling Automation and Flexibility? Technology and Production in the Postwar British Motor Vehicle Industry"
2001: Daryl M. Hafter, "Women in the Underground Business of Eighteenth-Century Lyon"
2002: Morris L. Bian, "The Sino-Japanese War and the Formation of the State Enterprise System in China: A Case Study of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, 1938-1945"
2002 Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Hornstein, " 'Rosie the Realtor' and the Re-Gendering of Real Estate Brokerage, 1930-1960"
2003: John Smail, "The Culture of Credit in Eighteenth-Century Commerce: The English Textile Industry"
2004: Emanuela Scarpellini, "Shopping American-Style: The Arrival of the Supermarket in Postwar Italy"
2005: Tony Webster, "An Early Global Business in a Colonial Context: The Strategies, Management, and Failure of John Palmer and Company of Calcutta, 1780-1830"
2006: Dario Gaggio, "Pyramids of Trust: Social Embeddedness and Political Culture in Two Italian Gold Jewelry Districts"
2007: Per Hansen, "Organizational Culture and Organizational Change: The Transformation of Savings Banks in Denmark, 1965-1990"
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