![]() | Business and Economic History On-Line Papers Presented at the BHC Annual Meeting ISSN 0849-6825 |
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2004 Program Abstracts Marie-Françoise Berneron-Couvenhes French Mail Contracts with Private Steamship Companies, 1835-1914 Sébastien Richez From the Transport to the Delivery of Mail: The Transformation of the French Postal Network in the Nineteenth Century Pierre Vernus Regulating the Activity of a Business Community: Employers' Organizations in the Lyon Silk Industry, 1860s-1939 Florence Brachet Champsaur French Fashion during the First World War Hubert Bonin "Blue Angels," "Venture Capital," and "Whales": Networks Financing the Takeoff of the Second Industrial Revolution in France, 1890s-1920s Pascal Desabres Decision Network: Who Decided What in the Building of the Paris Métropolitain, 1898-1920 Elizabeth Sage Disciplinary Practice and the Practice of Discipline, or Political Economy and Paternalism in Nineteenth-Century France Gabriel Galvez-Behar Technical Networks at Schneider Catherine Vuillermot The Schneider Network during the Presidency of Charles Schneider, 1942-1960 Mohamed Sassi Evolution of the Structure of the French Oil Economy between the Wars: Toward a French Holding Company Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou and Stavros Ioannides Market-Embedded Clans in Theory and History: Greek Diaspora Trading Companies in the Nineteenth Century Yves Cohen Matter Matters to Authority: Some Aspects of Soviet Industrial Management in the 1930s from a Multi-Sited Perspective Kees Boersma Creating an Agricultural Research Network: Irradiation of Plants with Artificial Light at Philips Research in the 1930s Stephen L. Morgan Professional Associations and the Diffusion of New Management Ideas in Shanghai, 1920-1930s: A Research Agenda Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Ana Cardoso de Matos The Networked City: Power and Water Utilities in Portugal, 1850s-1920s Denis Bocquet A Public Company as a Challenger to a Private Monopoly: Providing Water to the Eternal City, 1865-1964 Simone Selva State and Economy in Italy before the Economic Miracle: Economic Policy and International Constraints from the Reconstruction through the Pre-Boom Years Gail D. Triner Property Rights, Kinship Groups, and Business Partnerships in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil: The Case of the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, 1834-1960 Robert Dalton Harris, Jr. The Three Postal Networks of the United States in the 1930s Ross Thomson From the Old to the New: The Social Basis of Innovation in the Antebellum United States Edith Sparks Terms of Endearment: Informal Borrowing Networks among Northern California Businesswomen, 1870-1920 David L. Mason The Ties That Bind: Mutual Buildings and Loans and the Problem of Agency, 1880-1920 Albert Churella External and Internal Networks on the Pennsylvania Railroad: The Philadelphia Improvements William J. Hausman and John L. Neufeld The Economics of Electricity Networks and the Evolution of the U.S. Electric Utility Industry, 1882-1935 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? Julia Ott The "Free and Open" "People's Market": Public Relations at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913-1929 Maria McGrath "That's Capitalism, Not a Co-op": Countercultural Idealism and Business Realism in 1970s U.S. Food Co-ops Charles David Jacobson Expecting the Unexpected: Networks, Markets, and the Failure of Electric Utility Restructuring in California Michael Best, Albert Paquin, and Hao Xie Discovering Regional Competitive Advantage: Massachusetts High-Tech Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright Networks and History's Generalizations: Comparing the Financial Systems of Germany, Japan, Great Britain, and the United States Hiroyuki Okamuro Evolution of the Supplier Network in the German Automotive Industry from the Prewar to the Postwar Period: A Comparative Perspective with the Japanese Experience Sara Nocentini Building the Network: Raw Materials Shortages and the Western Bloc at the Beginning of the Cold War, 1948-1951 Patrice Flichy The Imaginary Internet: How Utopian Fantasy Shaped the Making of a New Information Infrastructure |