BEH Online

Welcome to Business and Economic History On-Line, a selection of papers presented at the Business History Conference's annual meeting. Authors from each annual meeting are encouraged to submit their papers for inclusion in BEH On-Line; please read the Submission Guidelines for more details about the process.



Annual Meeting Author(s) ed
2004 BHC Meeting Charles David Jacobson Expecting the Unexpected: Networks, Markets, and the Failure of Electric Utility Restructuring in California
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Bruno Jégou Free Trade and Protectionism in a French Region at the End of the Nineteenth Century
2007 BHC Meeting Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization
2010 BHC Meeting Tobias Alexander Jopp The Welfare State Evolves: German Knappschaften, 1854-1923
2007 BHC Meeting Tobias Karlsson Downsizing, State Ownership, and Modern Labor Management: Severance Pay at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1928
2005 BHC Meeting K. Austin Kerr The Rebirth of Brewing and Distilling in the United States in 1933: Government Policy and Industry Structure
2005 BHC Meeting Duol Kim The Next Best Thing to Getting Married: Partnerships among Jewelry Manufacturers in the Providence-Attleboro Area during the Nineteenth Century
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Mary A. Kizima and Sergey A. Kizima The Development of Business Styles in Post-Soviet Russia and Belarus
2005 BHC Meeting David Koistinen Public Relations as Redevelopment Tool: Accentuating the Positive in Deindustrializing New England
2014 BHC Meeting David Koistinen Business and Regional Economic Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England
2006 BHC Meeting David Koistinen The Political Economy of Regional Redevelopment: Business and Area Government in the Regeneration of the New England Economy
2005 BHC Meeting Beth Kreydatus 'Enriching Women's Lives': The Mary Kay Approach to Beauty, Business, and Feminism
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting Gilles Laferté and Sean O’Connell Socialized Credit and the Working Class Family Economy: A Comparative History of France and Britain, 1900-2000
2017 BHC Meeting Naomi R. Lamoreaux Cultural Change and Business History
2007 BHC Meeting Naomi Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth Sokoloff Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons from Cleveland's Experience in the 1920s
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Richard N. Langlois Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Mitchell J. Larson Practically Academic: Forming British Business Schools in the 1960s
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Fabio Lavista Local Cultures and International Influences among an Italian Group of Management Practitioners after the Second World War
2005 BHC Meeting William Lazonick Evolution of the 'New Economy' Business Model
2011 BHC Meeting William Lazonick and Edward March The Rise and Demise of Lucent Technologies
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Muriel Le Roux A Chemist's Community as a Forerunner in Management Change and Innovation in France during the Second Part of the Twentieth Century? The Case of the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, a CNRS Laboratory
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Andrea Lluch From Local to Global Markets: Notes on the Role and Function of Commercial Networks in the Export Boom of Argentina, 1890-1930
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Santiago López The Role of Telefonica: The Internationalization of Telecommunications in Spain, 1970-2000
2011 BHC Meeting Cinzia Lorandini The Financing of SMEs and the Role of Knowledge: Some Evidence from Trentino-South Tyrol, 1950s-1990s
2005 BHC Meeting Robert MacDougall Long Lines: AT&T, Long Distance Telephony, and Corporate Control
2006 BHC Meeting Robert MacDougall The Telephone on Main Street: Utility Regulation in the United States and Canada before 1900
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Robert MacDougall The People's Telephone: The Political Culture of Independent Telephony, 1894-1913
2006 BHC Meeting Niall G. MacKenzie 'Chucking Buns across the Fence'? Government-Sponsored Industry Development in the Scottish Highlands, 1945-1982
2004 BHC Meeting Fionn MacKillop The Influence of the Los Angeles "Oligarchy" on the Governance of the Municipal Water Department, 1902-1930: A Business Like Any Other or a Public Service?
2012 BHC Meeting Chris Madsen Technology Adoption and Adaptation in Canada's West Coast Shipyards 1918-1950
2011 BHC Meeting Rachel Maines Engineering Standards as Collaborative Projects: Asbestos in the Table of Clearances
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Corine Maitte Labels, Brands, and Market Integration in the Modern Era
2010 BHC Meeting Jason D. Martinek Business at the Margins of Capitalism: Charles H. Kerr and Company and the Progressive Era Socialist Movement
2004 BHC Meeting David L. Mason The Ties That Bind: Mutual Buildings and Loans and the Problem of Agency, 1880-1920
2010 BHC Meeting David L. Mason Homeownership Is Colorblind: The Role of African American Savings and Loans in Home Finance, 1880-1980
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting Marc McClure Victor Morawetz, Draftsman of Political-Economy: A Study in Constitutional Constraints and Solutions in the Era of Reform
2004 BHC Meeting Maria McGrath That's Capitalism, Not a Co-op: Countercultural Idealism and Business Realism in 1970s U.S. Food Co-ops
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting Katalin Medvedev Trading Places: Women Offer a Different Take on Downtown St. Paul Business in 1939
2018 BHC Meeting Debra Michals The Buck Stops Where? 1970s Feminist Credit Unions, Women’s Banks, and the Gendering of Money
2004 BHC Meeting Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou and Stavros Ioannides Market-Embedded Clans in Theory and History: Greek Diaspora Trading Companies in the Nineteenth Century
2009 BHC/EBHA Meeting José Antonio Miranda Competing in Fashion Goods: Firms and Industrial Districts in the Development of the Spanish Shoe Industry
2006 BHC Meeting Jesús Mirás-Araujo and Carlos Piñeiro-Sánchez Tensions between Public and Private: Water Supply in a Northwestern Spanish City under the Franco Dictatorship
2012 BHC Meeting Sam Mitrani Policing Upheaval: How Employer Responses to the Labor Movement Drove the Development of State Power in Chicago
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Hideaki Miyajima, Yusuke Omi, and Nao Saito Corporate Governance and Performance in Twentieth-Century Japan
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Marine Moguen-Toursel Strategies of European Automobile Manufacturers Facing Community Environmental Standards
2007 BHC Meeting Marine Moguen-Toursel Emergence and Transfer of Vehicle Safety Standards: Why We Still Do Not Have Global Standards
2003 BHC-EBHA Meeting Stephen L. Morgan China's Encounter with Scientific Management in the 1920s-1930s
2004 BHC Meeting Stephen L. Morgan Professional Associations and the Diffusion of New Management Ideas in Shanghai, 1920-1930s: A Research Agenda
2005 BHC Meeting Eric J. Morser Grassroots Rebels: Municipal Power and Railroad Regulation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1883-1900
2015 BHC-EBHA Meeting Johanna M.S. van Mosseveld Innovation and Intellectual Property Management at the Australian Government Clothing Factory