Annual Meeting Abstracts

2007 BHC Meeting

Stephen B. Adams, Domestic Direct Investment and Entrepreneurship in American Second Mover High-Tech Regions
Dimitry Anastakis, The Last Automotive Entrepreneur? Lee Iacocca Saves Chrysler, 1978–1986
Evelyn Anderson, Nissan's Keiretsu, 1956-1970
Jeffrey J. Archambault and Marie E. Archambault, Financial Reporting among Unregulated Industrial Companies in 1920
Gerben Bakker, The Emergence of High Sunk Costs Industries: Market Structure, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change in Services, 1750–2000
Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, A Business and Technological History of the ATM in the United Kingdom, 1965–2005
James L. Baughman, The Uneasy Underwriters: Advertisers and American Television, 1946–1956
Hani Bawardi, Why Do Arabs Own So Many Grocery Stores? Clan Affiliation in Business Ownership in Flint, Michigan
Stève Bernardin and Harrison Grafos, A 'Science' of Sovereignty? Domestic and Transnational Concerns in Automobile Safety
Mark Billings, Corporate Treasury in International Business History
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Are Synthetics "Test-Tube-Y and Unnatural"? Dorothy Liebes, Interior Designers, and DuPont Fibers in Postwar America
Gordon Boyce, Language, Family, Diversions, and Socially Constructed Reality in the Merchant-Shipowning Community: The Bates of Liverpool, 1870–1945
Philip G. Bradford and Paul J. Miranti, Technology, Associationalism, and the Transformation of Entrepreneurial Endeavor: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 1958–1976
Deborah Breen, The Individual in the Community: American Entrepreneurs in the Australian Colonies, 1850–1890
Douglas Bristol, Jr., The Bush Doctor Cometh: Putting the Soul into the "Soul" Market
Stephen Broadberry, Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850–2000: Britain, the United States, and Germany
Marcelo Bucheli, Nationalist Conflicts around Oil Marketing in the Southern Cone: Standard Oil of New Jersey and Royal-Dutch Shell in Argentina and Chile, 1922–1955
Yuri Campbell, The Brothers Johnson: The Lincoln Film Company and the Role of Black Business in Creating Black Modernity, Culture and Identity
Francesca Carnevali and Andrew Popp, Communities of Interest: Cooperation and Trust in Three Industrial Communities: Providence, Birmingham, and the Black Country
Adriana Castagnoli, The Female Entrepreneurs' Point of View and the Italian Economy
Daniel A. Clark, Should Your Boy Go to College? Mass Magazines, the Middle Class, and the Re-Conceptualization of College for a Corporate Age, 1890–1915
Richard Coopey, Enterprise on the River Severn, 1750–1950: A Linear Entrepreneurial Community?
Joaquim Cuevas, Lina Gálvez, and Lluis Torró, Integration or Cooperation: The Impact of Institutional Change and the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) on the Network Structure of Alcoi Textile Firms
Stephanie Decker, Guarding Corporate Image: Advertising as a Countervailing Measure to Host-Country Nationalism in West Africa
Jennifer Delton, Executives, Experts, and Activists: The Entrepreneurial Community of Workplace Integration, 1945–1964
Mark A. Eddy, Technologists Talking Back: Charles Brush and the Voice of Inventor-Entrepreneurs in Academic Research Science
Anton Ehlers, Renier van Rooyen and Pep Stores, Limited: The Genesis of a South African Entrepreneur and Retail Empire
Susanna Fellman, A Manager and His Professionals: Planning and Constructing the Modern Firm in Finland, 1920s–1940s
Caroline Fohlin, Creating Modern Venture Capital: Institutional Design and Performance in the Early Years
Karen J. Freeze, Unlikely Partners and the Management of Innovation in Communist Europe: A Case Study from the Czechoslovak Textile Machine Industry
Andrea Giuntini, Relationships and Linkages between Railways and Telegraphy in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Networks, Technology, and Management
Eric Godelier, "Do You Have a Garage?" Discussion of Some Myths about Entrepreneurship
Mark L. Goldstein, Washington and the Networks of W.W. Corcoran
Margaret Graham, Henry Phelps Gage: Standardizing Entrepreneur at Corning Glass Works, 1911–1947
Janet Greenlees, The New England Cotton Textile Manufacturing Community and Workers' Health, c. 1870–1939: Relationships between Investment, Concern, and Profits
Shane Greenstein, Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States
Louise Guenther, Embedded, yet Separate: British Cultural Strategies of Legitimation in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Cai Guise-Richardson, Art and Artifice: The Introduction and Adoption of Machine-Made Lace, 1760–1880
Thomas Haigh, The Web's Missing Links: The Search Engine and Portal Industry
Leslie Hannah, What Did Morgan's Men Really Do?
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Cleaning Up or Scraping By? Women in the Early Atlantic Service Economy
Lars Heide, Facilitating Technology Service: Welding Standards and the Shaping of a Danish Technology Service Provider, 1939–2005
Eric S. Hintz, Independent Inventors in an Era of Burgeoning R&D
Takashi Hirao, Diversification and Labor Strategy of the Nippon Rayon Company, Ltd., after World War II: A Case Study of the Introduction of Skill-Based Management in the Japanese Textile Industry
David Hochfelder, Trying to Turn an Elephant around in a Bathtub: Managing Western Union's Post–World War II Decline
Vicki Howard, The Biggest Small-Town Store in America: Department Stores and the Rise of Consumer Society
Thomas C. Jepsen, A Look into the Future: Images of Women Railroad Telegraphers and Station Agents in Pennsylvania, 1855–1960
Richard R. John, The New York Telegraph Act of 1848 and the Culture of Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Telegraph Industry
Robert Kanigel, All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated: The Corfam Debacle
Tobias Karlsson, Downsizing, State Ownership, and Modern Labor Management: Severance Pay at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915–1928
Robert C. Kenzer, African-American Businessmen in the Postwar South
Chris Kingston, Marine Insurance in Philadelphia during the Quasi-War with France, 1795–1801
Jane Knodell, Private Banking Networks and the Development of the Domestic Capital Market in the United States, 1840–1880
Christopher Kobrak, The Rise and Fall of International Family Banking: Private Banks, Capital Markets, and the Democratization of Finance
Naomi Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons from Cleveland's Experience in the 1920s
Matthieu Leimgruber, Contested Boundaries: British and Swiss Life Insurers and the Challenge of Postwar Pension Provision, 1945–1980s
Timothy Leunig, Nicholas Crafts, and Abay Mulatu, Which Was the Best-Managed Railroad in Britain a Century Ago?
Andrea Lluch, Investment and Marketing Strategies of American Companies in Argentina during the Rise of Economic Nationalism in the 1930s
Teresa da Silva Lopes and Mark Casson, Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Big Business in Branded Consumer Goods
Joshua D. MacFadyen, Threads in a Web of Trade: Reciprocity and Flax in the United States and Canada
Andrea Maestrejuam, Contracting Invention: The Firm as Entrepreneurial Community
Jennifer Malia McAndrew, But You Don't Look Like a Negro: African American Entrepreneurs in Female Beauty Culture during the Mid-Twentieth Century
Christopher Marquis and Michael Lounsbury, Historical Conflict and New Bank Foundings in US Communities in the 1990s
Aaron W. Marrs, Railroads and the Antebellum South: Southern Exceptionalism?
Kim McQuaid, The Space Age at the Grass Roots: NASA in Cleveland, 1958–1990
Peter Miskell, Movies and Multinationals: How Did U.S. Film Companies Operate in Foreign Markets during the "Studio Era"?
Marine Moguen-Toursel, Emergence and Transfer of Vehicle Safety Standards: Why We Still Do Not Have Global Standards
John E. Murray, Actuarial Science in the Rise of Group Health Insurance
Tom Nicholas, Spatial Diversity in Invention: Evidence from the Early R&D Labs
Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Bringing Labor Back In: Worker Solidarity, Employer Opposition, and the Development of Old Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
Judit Olah, Empowering through Entrepreneurship
Juanjuan Peng, Cooperation versus Competition: The Daxing and Yuhua Cotton Mills in Crisis, 1931–1937
Brian Phelan, The Chrysanthemum and the Factory: Ruth Benedict, James Abegglen, and American Interpretations of the Japanese Economy, 1946–1960
Gary John Previts and Dale L. Flesher, Donaldson Brown (1885–1965): Twentieth-Century Financial Management Entrepreneur: The Power of an Idea over Time
Daniel Raff, The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration
Scott A. Redenius, Regional Economic Development and Variation in Postbellum National Bank Profit Rates
Claudia Riani, Cartel versus Monopoly: The German Nitrogen Industry in the Interwar Years
J. Andrew Ross, Hockeyists, Horsemen, Pugilists, and Promoters: Interwar Sports Entrepreneurs in the United States and Canada
Andrew L. Russell, Dot-Org Entrepreneurship: Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium
Joshua Salzmann, The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor, 1889–1906
Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Financing the Palaces of the People: Hotel Entrepreneurs, Commercial Capital, and Internal Improvements in Jacksonian America
Benjamin Schwantes, Disinterest and Distrust: The Ambivalent Relationship between Railroad Managers and Telegraph Entrepreneurs in Antebellum America
Peter Scott and Lucy Newton, "Jealous Monopolists"? British Banks and Responses to the Macmillan Gap during the 1930s
Daniel Scroop, A Faded Passion? Estes Kefauver and the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, 1957–1963
Yasuhiro Shimizu, Mayumi Inoue, and Satoshi Fujimura, Initial Intent and the Development of an Employee Ownership Plan: A Case of a Japanese Trading Company in the Early Twentieth Century
David B. Sicilia, Toward a Dynamic Model of American Entrepreneurship
Laura Singleton, Out of Many, One: The Divergent Social Vision of William Norris in the Minneapolis Business Community, 1967–1986
Hugh R. Slotten, Satellite Communications, Organizational Arrangements, and the Global Context of Entrepreneurial Activity
Andrew D. Smith, Scale and Soap: Lever Brothers in Canada, 1889–1914
Susan V. Spellman, "I would not be without this machine": The Cash Register in the Corner Grocery Store, 1880–1910
Maria Stanfors, Feminization and Professionalization of Pharmacies in Sweden
David Stebenne, Columbia, Maryland at Forty
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal, Knowledge Diffusion and Crossover Inventions: Evidence from the Electric Industries, 1890–1910
Dominique A. Tobbell, Who's Winning the Human Race? Cold War as Pharmaceutical Political Strategy
Steven Tolliday, Micro-Businesses and Entrepreneurial Communities in the Japanese Ceramics Industry in the Twentieth Century
John Turner, Protecting Outside Investors in a Laissez-faire Legal Environment: Corporate Governance in Victorian Britain
Maki Umemura, The Interplay between Entrepreneurial Initiative and Government Policy: The Shaping of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry since 1945
Heli Valtonen, Does Culture Matter? Entrepreneurial Attitudes in the Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Business Leaders in Finland and the United States
Richard Vangermeersch, The Marking of Stuart Chase as a "Red Accountant"—An Epic, 1917–1921
Jussi Vauhkonen, A Cross-Class Alliance in the Making: Finnish Employers and the Emerging Welfare State in 1950s and 1960s
R. Daniel Wadhwani and Geoffrey Jones, Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization
Peter Wardley, Modern Economic Growth and the Rise of Big Business: From Services to Industry and Back Again?
David F. Weiman, The National Banking Acts and the Transformation of New York Banking after the Civil War
David J. Whalen, Aerosat, A Case Study of Failure: Technology, Politics, and Markets
John Wilson, British Business Community and Europe: Strategy, Structure and Investment Trends since the 1950s
Joshua Wolff, The Telegraph Act of 1866: An "Entering Wedge" against the Western Union Monopoly
Joseph H. Wycoff, Exhibiting Innovation: U.S. Mechanic and Manufacturer Associations as Entrepreneurial Communities, 1820–1840
Takashi Yamamoto, East Meets West in an Entrepreneurial Farming Village in Japan: Endogenous Development Theories and Economic Gardening Practices
Alexia Yates, "A profession for those who have none": Business Agents and Professional Communities in Turn-of-the-Century Paris
JoAnne Yates and Craig Murphy, Charles Le Maistre: Entrepreneur in International Standardization