Black tissues (courtesy of MCL)

Why are tissues always white? No reason. In fact, they can be black, which is apparently this winter's trendy color. Daishowa First Corp's boxes of black tissues are available at Beaux-Art shops all over Japan.
Daishowa First Corp
500 yen
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/product/1328

Witness seminars

un excellent exemple d'utilisation des archives orales par un centre de l'Université de Londres.
http://www.icbh.ac.uk/icbh/witness/past.html
J'ai lu le dossier sur le Concorde l'inscription est gratuite et très rapide.

CFP : The Conquest of the Air: Birth of a New Imaginary Vision? 1900-1920

(from H-Net)
The Conquest of the Air: Birth of a New Imaginary Vision? 1900-1920 Université du Maine (Le Mans, France)
November 27-28, 2008
International Conference organized to commemorate the centennial of Wilbur Wright’s flights in Le Mans (1908).

Open to all scholars interested in historical and cultural issues related to the birth of aviation and its pioneers in the period 1900-1920.
Concerned fields: History, Cultural Studies, Art History, Literary Studies, Philosophy.

Description of the project:
At the beginning of the 20th century, the birth of aviation deeply transformed human societies. Beyond its groundbreaking effects in technology, history and politics, to what extent did the mastery of flight transform perceptions of reality, space and human relationships for both political and military elites, but also for the common people? To what degree did the conquest of the air establish a new way of thinking about society, and even the role and place of human beings in the world? The conference intends to promote new approaches on these new visions and perceptions during the period 1900-1920. The modern imaginary is a source of investigation, permitting us to better define the difficult and often-debased notion of “modernity” while attempting to give an anthropological definition of a historical phenomenon inscribed in a specific context.

Four scholarly themes will be approached in four half-day thematic sessions:

Theme 1: Are the 1908 flights an event?
How did aviation shift from sport and the hobby of amateurs to a major technical phenomenon with political, historical and even philosophical implications?
How did aircraft manufacturers from Le Mans, Pau, Rome and Berlin manage to gather their technical knowledge?
We will look also at how the information was diffused, the way in which elites and the general public were informed about this event and the possibilities it opened.

Theme 2: Another way to perceive reality
Of course, flying is not new in 1908-1910. However, with the development of the plane another dimension appears. Besides the height acquired with the hot air balloon, there is also the factor of speed and the possibility of seeing the world upside down (with the advent of acrobatics during the war of 1914-1918).
Avant-garde painters and writers, photographers and the filmmakers immediately adopted this new vision given through air travel or aerial photography.
Thus, it can be fascinating to study this new vision, “seen from the top”. How did European and American artists take part in the changing perception of reality? We can also wonder at the spread of this perception of the earth seen from the sky. What were the different stages of this diffusion in the media? How fast was it done, in relation to social levels and access to information and culture? What imaginary vision did it trigger in the population?
Theme 3: New impressions of the sky
At the beginning of the 20th century, aviation raises the issue of the relationship between modernity and religion, such as the religious rituals set up during the first aerial meetings and the religious discourse about how men and nations had captured the sky. Furthermore, did philosophical reflection or scientific discourse change in response to the conquest of the air? In a more directly relevant manner, in that period the sky became the site of a new threat: new fears concerning the sky arose with the emergence of a new military risk, especially with the use of aircraft by the armies between 1910 and 1918. How do governments and political and military leaders perceived? How does it fit the political or strategic thinking?

Theme 4: The pilot, a heroic figure of modernity?
Finally, another way of approaching the conquest of the air is to look at the key figures involved. The study of the figure of the pilot and his interactions with emerging public opinion may enhance this approach to modernity. From the forerunners to the of World War I, it is an imaginary inhabited by heroes who have mastered technology. Did the development of different air shows play a role in the setting up of this imaginary hero? Is there a link between the pioneers' representations and the aces of WWI?

Please submit a temporary title of your paper, a 20-line abstract and a short curriculum vitae to Francoise.Lucbert@univ-lemans.fr and Stephane.Tison@univ-lemans.fr, before Febuary 15, 2008. The presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. A priority will be given to scholars able to give their paper in French. Papers will published later on if they do not exceed 30 000 characters (notes and spaces included).

Dr. Françoise Lucbert
Université du Maine, Faculté des Lettres
Avenue Olivier Messiaen
72085 LE MANS cedex 9
Phone: 33 2 43 83 31 66
Fax: 33 2 43 83 36 50
Email: francoise.lucbert@univ-lemans.fr

Management History Research Group (from the ABH newsletter)

The Management History Research Group (MHRG) held its annual workshop in the peaceful surroundings offered by St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Ably managed by Judy Slinn of Oxford Brookes University, this event sustained the momentum built up over the last seven years, following similar workshops in Milton Keynes, Nottingham, London (Queen Mary, University of London),and Bristol.

To commemorate the enormous contribution that Edward Brech made to management history, the first session of the 2007 workshop was dedicated to his memory. Presentations by Derek Pugh and Peter Starbuck, as well as note sent from New Zealand by Andrew Thomson, skilfully teased out the way in which Edward used his wide experience as a consultant to bring practitioners and academics together in creating the MHRG. We certainly owe a massive debt to this man, a reflection of which is the way that at future workshops there will be an Annual Brech Lecture, as a means of sustaining our memories of a remarkable person. At the end of this session, John Wilson also stimulated some debate about the future direction of the MHRG, given the personnel changes on its governing body and the existence of diary-congestion for most of the academics who regularly contributed to the workshop. Arising from this debate, further electronic discussions have taken place over the summer, reaffirming our belief that the MHRG workshops should continue to be a feature of the conference calendar.
The second session, entitled ‘Before World War 2’, included papers from Trevor Boyns (Cardiff) on Lyndall Urwick, Susanna Fellman (Helsinki) on Finnish management, and Kevin Key (Salfrod) on transport management. This was followed in theafternoon by a session on ‘Management in the leisure industries of the twentieth century’, with papers from Richard Coopey (LSE and Aberystwyth) on the British popular music industry, Jonathan Groucutt (Oxford Brookes) on the GPO film unit, and Mary Quek (Oxford Brookes) on the international hotel industry. These sessions reflected both the diverse and international nature of MHRG papers and presenters, prompting a varied and lively discussion. The first day was completed by John Wilson, who gave an extended presentation on his contribution to an international research project entitled ‘Mapping Corporate Europe’. This was followed by an excellent dinner in St. Anne’s, as well as a tour of some of the nocturnal delights offered by Oxford to facilitate the networking that is at the heart of MHRG events.
The second day started with a genuinely international session on ‘Strategic management’, featuring papers by Kurt Pedersen and Jesper Strandskov (Aarhus) on schools of thought in strategy, Giuliano Maielli and Peter Clark (Queen Mary, London) on national specificities and boundaries of path dependencies, and Eric Cassells (Oxford Brookes) on strategic consulting. After coffee, a session on ‘Management and entrepreneurship quality’ included papers by John Quail (York) on management performance, and Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Leicester) on Mexican business elites. The consequent debates were highly stimulating, leading to lively discussions over lunch about future collaborations and publications. The final session of the was about ‘Management in the pharmaceutical industry’, with presentations from Tony Corley (Reading) on Beecham, Andrew Godley (Reading) on Merck, and Judy Slinn (Oxford Brookes) on the UK pharmaceutical industry. Once again, the international nature of the papers provided a base for extensive discussions concerning the links between different management systems, providing a theme for the two-day event that we will take on to future workshops.
For those who have never attended any of these workshops, it is important to stress that they combine academic and practitioner work in the broad field of management history, reflecting the desire of the MHRG’s founders to link the two perspectives as much as possible. Given that the MHRG has benefited with funds donated by John Bolton and Adrian Cadbury,it is clear that the practitioner perspective is a vital thread in our discussions. Crucially, the annual MHRG workshop offers a rich social experience that provides the basis for extensive debate and future collaborations. Of course, a lot of reliance is placed on the local organizer, and Judy Slinn certainly upheld the tradition of excellent organization combined with pleasant socialisation.
As we are looking for a suitable venue for 2008, volunteers should contact John Wilson ( John Wilson ) to discuss the details. It is especially important to stress that the MHRG offers £3,000 as a subsidy for each event, making it relatively easy to persuade local management that hosting a workshop will not pose any financial difficulties.

Nouveau membre dans l'équipe

Nicolas Bourgeon, historien diplômé du M2 recherche de l'Université Toulouse 2 rejoint l'équipe "planification stratégique". Basé à l'IAE Toulouse, Nicolas travaille au dépouillement des archives d'entreprises, organise les entretiens et l'analyse des annonces d'emploi de stratèges parues dans Le Monde de 1964 à 2004.

Modern Medicines: New Perspectives in Pharmaceutical History

Modern Medicines: New Perspectives in Pharmaceutical History
October 17-18, 2008 Madison, WI
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
-The evolution of the modern pharmaceutical enterprise over the long twentieth century—from its early intersection with the image and later the structure of scientific research, to its dramatic postwar expansion and late-century
saturation of medical and marketing media—has implications that stretch far beyond the traditional history of pharmacy and medicine to impact broader social, cultural, economic, business, legal, regulatory, and political developments. This conference seeks to foster and reflect on the growing body of pharmaceutical scholarship across historical disciplines and encourage novel theoretical and methodological developments by featuring newer scholars alongside more established figures in the field. Scholars are encouraged to submit a one-page proposal by 1 February 2008; some travel funds will be available for graduate students, and established scholars interested in
using the resources of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy can apply for travel funds through the Sonnedecker Visiting Scholar Program of the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy (see www.aihp.org for further information). AIHP Conference Planning Committee: Jeremy Greene, Dominique Tobbell, Arthur Daemmrich, Michael Flannery, Elaine Stroud, Greg Higby.
Contact: ModernMedicines@aihp.org

American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
777 Highland Ave. • Madison, WI • 53705
608.262-5378 • http://www.aihp.org

CALL FOR PAPERS Association of Business Historians 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
Association of Business Historians 2008 - ‘Business History after Chandler’
4-5 July 2008
University of Birmingham
www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/abh
On the 4-5 July 2008 the Association of Business Historians will hold their annual meeting at the University of Birmingham.
‘Business History after Chandler’.

Keynote speaker: Professor Leslie Hannah - ‘American Whigs and the Business History of Europe’
The primary aim of this conference is to provide a forum to reflect on the contribution of Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (1918-2007) to the development of business history. We welcome in particular papers that engage explicitly and constructively with the Chandlerian paradigm, including specific country and firm studies. Submissions of papers and sessions of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Big business and family firms
- Markets versus firms
- Firms and the State
- Professionalisation of Management
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- The theory of business history
- Business history as story
- Entrepreneurs, strategy and structure

Organizers also welcome papers on any topic related to business history, even where it does not focus on the conference theme, and on any time period or country. Proposals are welcomed for either individual papers or entire sessions (each of normally one-and-a-half hours). Each paper proposal should include a one page abstract, a list of 3 to 5 keywords, and a brief CV (one side of A4). Proposals for sessions should also include a cover letter containing a title, and one-paragraph of session description. If you have any questions please contact the local organizer Francesca Carnevali (f.carnevali@bham.ac.uk)
The deadline for submissions is 30 December 2007.
Please send these to:

Francesca Carnevali
Department of Modern History
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
0121 414 6635
f.carnevali@bham.ac.uk

BHC Dissertation colloquium

BHC Dissertation colloquium reminder

The Business History Conference is continuing to accept applications for its Newcomen Dissertation Colloquium that will be held in conjunction with the 2008 BHC annual meeting. This intensive workshop, sponsored by the BHC through the generous support of the Newcomen Society of the United States, will take place at the conference venue Wednesday afternoon and evening, April 9, and Thursday morning, April 10. Participants will work closely with a small, distinguished group of BHC-affiliated scholars, including at least two of its officers. The assembled scholars and students will review dissertation proposals, consider relevant literatures andresearch strategies, and discuss the business history profession.
Limited to ten students, it is intended for doctoral candidates in the early stages of their dissertation projects. Those interested in participating should submit to Roger Horowitz, BHC Secretary-Treasurer (rh@udel.edu), a statement of interest, a preliminary or final dissertation prospectus, and a CV. Please make clear that you are interested in the Dissertation Colloquium. One recommendation from the dissertation supervisor (or prospective supervisor) should also be faxed (302-655-3188) or emailed to Roger Horowitz by December 15, 2007. The review committee will notify all applicants of its decisions by February 1st. A grant from the Newcomen Society of the United States will provide each participant with a $400US honorarium.


Dr. Roger Horowitz
Associate Director
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Hagley Museum and Library
PO Box 3630
Wilmington DE 19807
rh@udel.edu
302-658-2400, ext. 244
302-655-3188 (fax)

Clone Towns?

CHORD Conference Call for Papers
Clone Towns?
The High Street in Historical Perspective

10 and 11 September 2008
University of Wolverhampton, UK

CHORD invites submissions for a conference devoted to exploring the changing nature of the high street, from the medieval to the contemporary period, in Britain and elsewhere.
Proposals are invited for papers exploring any aspect of this topic, and focusing on any geographical area. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
· Shops and Selling
· Buildings and Architecture
· Window shopping, Strolling and Leisure
· Globalisation and Branding
· High street businesses
· Lighting, Transport and ‘Improvement’
· High street fashions
· Crime and Disorder
· The Impact of Out-of-town Shopping

Please send proposals (including title and c.200 words abstract) to the address below by 4 April 2008. For further information, please see:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/clones.html
or contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK.
E-mail: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

Rovensky Fellowships in American Business or Economic History,

The John E. Rovensky FELLOWSHIPS 2008-2009 in AMERICAN BUSINESS or ECONOMIC HISTORY
Applicants are sought for two $12,000 fellowships for doctoral thesis research in American Business or Economic History. These fellowships are available largely through the generosity of the late John E. Rovensky. The monies and the Fellowship program are administered by the University of Illinois Foundation.
Eligibility
Applicants must be working toward a Ph.D degree with American business or economic history as the area of major interest. Fellowship recipients must be enrolled in a doctoral program at an accredited college or university in the United States. Preference will be given to applicants who are preparing for a career in teaching and research and who will have completed all graduate course work prior to the Fall of 2008. Awards are non-renewable and may not be taken simultaneously with an Economic History Association graduate dissertation fellowship or Newcomen Society dissertation fellowship.

Application Process
The Rovensky Fellowship Selection Committee is composed of the following seven scholars:
William J. Hausman (William & Mary), Chair
Pamela Walker Laird (Colorado-Denver)
Steven Usselman (Georgia Tech)
Mary O'Sullivan (U. Penn, Wharton School)
Margaret Levenstein (U. Mich.)
Mark Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna)
Mary Yeager (UCLA)

Applicants are judged on the basis of the following criteria:

• Academic ability, documented in three letters of recommendation
• Interest in business and/or economic
history, demonstrated by course work and thesis topic
• Demonstrated ability in research and writing
• Potential for career in teaching and
academic research, supported in letters of recommendation
• Quality of dissertation proposal

Application forms may be found on the web at

http://www.thebhc.org/awards/rovenapp.html

Inquiries and requests for application forms may be directed to:

William J. Hausman
Department of Economics, Box 8795
601 Jamestown Rd.
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
e-mail: :wjhaus@wm.edu
Phone: 757-221-2381

Management and Business History Journals ranking from the French National Research Center (CNRS)

Here is the new journals ranking published by the CNRS (economics and management section). http://www.variance-cnu06.org/docs/~2/Classement%20Revues%20CNRS%202007.pdf
The ranking is available through the website of a professor's list elected to the national university council (CNU).
It is interesting to look at economic and business history journals and their ranking, including the "French exception" factor.

The 2008 Economic History Association Meetings

Hosted by Yale University
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
New Haven, Connecticut,

September 12-14, 2008
Alan L. Olmstead, President

"The Engines of Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and Human Capital Accumulation"

The Program Committee for the 2008 Economic History Association Meetings -- Paul Rhode, University of Arizona (Chair);Werner Troesken, George Mason University; Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology; and Ken Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine -- welcomes proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions. As is the rule, papers on all subjects in economic history are welcome, but a number of sessions will be devoted to the theme "The Engines of Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and Human Capital Accumulation."

The analysis of the causes and consequences of economic growth is central to the study of economic history. Growth takes place in a legal, political, and social context and the innovations that drive growth are often opposed by vested interests that expect to lose from the changes. Creative Destruction, whereby revolutionary innovations both spawn entirely new ventures and undermine the value of existing investments, appears to be an inevitable part of the long-run growth process. Understanding the political economy of institutional change and innovation is of special interest. This is particularly true for human capital and information given their public good characteristics. The Program Committee invites papers and sessions on this theme dealing with experiences from a broad range of geographical regions, time periods, and institutional settings.

Papers and session proposals should be submitted on line at: http://eh.net/eha/meetings/prop_08.php. The following rules and procedures apply. The due date is January 31, 2008. Paper proposals should include a 3-5 page précis and a 150-word abstract suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History. By vote of the Board of Trustees, the corresponding author must be a current member of the Association (to join the Association, please go to http://eh.net/eha/). Papers should in all cases be work in progress rather than accepted or published work; submitters have a responsibility to let the program committee know if the proposed paper has been submitted for publication. Submissions for entire sessions should include no more than three papers and each proposal should be submitted separately. The committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be included in those sessions that are accepted. Finally, those who had a paper accepted by the regular program committee for the 2007 meeting (Austin) must wait two years before submitting again.

The dissertation session convened by Kevin O’Rourke (Trinity College, Dublin) and Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College) will honor six dissertations completed during the 2007-2008 academic year. The submission deadline is June 1, 2008. The Alexander Gerschenkron and Allan Nevins prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on non-North American and North American topics. Note that students may not submit both to the dissertation session and the regular program, but there is a two year window within which a dissertation may be submitted for consideration.

Graduate students are encouraged to attend and the Association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress.
For further information, including detailed travel options to New Haven, check the EHA meetings page (http://www.ehameeting.com), or contact Meetings Coordinator Jari Eloranta at .

The Social History Society

(forwarded)
The Social History Society holds its Annual Convention between 27 and 29 March 2008 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. As the convener (S Schwarzkopf) of the "Production and Consumption" strand, I cordially invite all interested Business Historians to submit papers.
For further particulars see
http://www.socialhistory.org.uk/annualconference.htm and the attached strand description.

The SHS is an interesting forum for academics working in the sector of cultural and social history. It is also a forum where "non-obvious" ideas and controversial subjects can be launched and discussed.

Stefan Schwarzkopf & Maggie Walsh

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Business History

Mergers and Acquisitions in the Long-Term Perspective

January 26-27, 2008
Tokyo, Japan

Waseda University / Hitotsubashi University/Business History Society of Japan

ORGANIZERS:
Waseda University 21st Century COE Program: Waseda Institute for Corporation Law and Society.
Hitotsubashi University 21st Century COE Program: Normative Evaluation and Social Choice of Contemporary Economic Systems.
Business History Society of Japan.

HOST JOURNAL:
Enterprise and Society
FOCUS:
While the most recent wave of mergers and acquisitions has been attracting considerable public attention, it is by no means a new phenomenon. This is the fifth wave since the 1890s. It is well known that there have been five worldwide M&A waves in history: 1890s, 1920s, 1960s, 1980s and the one underway since 1990. In spite of a long list of M&A literature, in both economics and management science, few papers have addressed the causes and effects of M&A from the
long-term perspective.
We invite papers from a business history or applied economics approach. Papers should discuss long-term trends in M&A or focus on a certain phase of an M&A wave. Comparative studies across countries/industries are also welcome. Topics include but are not limited to the following.
- What role has M&A played in the growth of a firm? Did M&A enhance its profitability, productivity, growth rate or value? If so, how was it possible and what was the source of value enhancement? If not, what negative impacts did M&A have?
- When did a firm's management choose M&A rather than green-field investments? What factors determined management's choice between internal growth and M&A?
- How did M&A contribute to the development of the industries and countries in question? How did M&A change the market structure, technology, and competitiveness of the industries? How did M&A waves affect the economic development of the countries?
- What legal, economic and institutional factors determined M&A? Were macroeconomic shock(s) and technological innovation the main drivers for M&A waves, or did financial factors such as stock market booms
also have a significant effect?
- Were hostile takeovers unique to corporate development in the US and the UK, or can one find examples in other countries? Did they also play a significant disciplinary role in other countries? In other words, can one find country-specific characteristics of M&A?
Both empirical and in-depth case studies from the long-term perspective are welcome.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
To foster interaction amongst the conference participants, we aim to accept only a limited number of high-quality papers. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is October 15, 2007. Full papers of 30-40 pages including tables, figures and notes are most welcome, but extended abstracts of approximately 500 words (including title, author's name and affiliation and keywords) may also be submitted. Authors of papers selected for presentation will be notified by November 15, 2007. The final version of the papers must be submitted by the end of December. If the author of an accepted paper intends to
submit it to Enterprise and Society for publication consideration, he/she should first inform the journal's editor, Philip Scranton, (scranton@camden.rutgers.edu). The author should then submit his/her article according to the Instructions for Authors used by Oxford journals: http://es.oxfordjournals.org/.

Papers, abstracts (electronic MS Word or PDF files only) as well as inquiries should be sent to the following.

CONTACT: Prof. Hiroyuki Okamuro Hitotsubashi University, Naka 2-1, Kunitachi Tokyo 186-8601 Japan
EMAIL: okamuro@econ.hit-u.ac.jp
REVIEW PROCESS:
The following Program Committee will select the papers for
presentation at the Conference.
Program Committee Members:
Philip Scranton (Enterprise and Society, Rutgers University).
Julian Franks (London Business School)
Leslie Hannah (EHESS, Paris and London School of Economics)
Naomi Lamoreaux (University of California, Los Angeles)
Miyajima, Hideaki (Chair of Committee of International BH Conference,
Waseda University)
Odagiri, Hiroyuki (Hitotsubashi University)
Okamuro, Hiroyuki (Project leader of International BH Conference,
Hitotsubashi University)
Yuzawa Takeshi (Chair of Business History Society of Japan, Gakushuin
University,)

PUBLICATION:
All the papers presented at the conference will be included in the conference proceedings and accepted as discussion papers of the COE projects at Waseda and Hitotsubashi Universities. As mentioned above, the authors of papers will be invited to submit their work to the editor of Enterprise and Society for evaluation through the usual referee process.

VENUE:
The Conference will be held on the campus of Waseda University,
located in central Tokyo.

EXPENSES:
The conference organizers will cover travel (round-trip/economy class ticket) and accommodation expenses (three nights in Rihga Hotel; http://www.rihga.com/tokyo) for the presenters of accepted papers.

13TH ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT HISTORY CONFERENCE

Call for Papers
13TH ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT HISTORY CONFERENCE
Or léans (France) March 27t h 28t h 2008
The French Accounting and Management History Conference has been, since its first edition in 1995, a key annual meeting for those who are interested in the history of management. Since 1995, we intend to bring together researchers in accounting, management, history, sociology, law or economics ; all convinced that the past is often unexpected and has still much to learn to us.
As usual, all subject matters will be welcomed, but we would like to suggest a particular theme for the
2008 edition :
"The FAILURE"
This theme could include several kinds of papers :
- the history of a failure
- the consequence and the lessons of a failure
- the management of a failure
- the integration of failure in management
- some particular themes like bankruptcy, dismissal, financial krach, crisis etc.

We would like to shed light on failure from different points of view, i.e. accounting, management control, human resource management, marketing, finance, corporate strategy, etc.
Organisation committee : Rahma Chekkar, Carole Grillet, Pierre Labardin, Marc Nikitin.

December 15 2007 : Deadline for submission of papers with two abstracts (french / english). They should be sent at the following mail : jhcm@free.fr.
Any submission will be subject to a double anonymous reading and, once accepted and unless there is a counterclaim by the author, it will be published on the Congress’ Internet site (http://jhcm.free.fr).

BEYOND THE SHOP; CHORD Workshop and Call for Papers

BEYOND THE SHOP, 1500-2000:
Acquisition and Exchange Outside the Formal Market

2 April 2008

CHORD invites all interested researchers to a workshop devoted to the discussion of selling, acquiring and exchanging commodities and services outside the ‘formal’ retail market. Proposals are invited for papers exploring any aspect of this topic, and focusing on any geographical area. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Gifting and Lending
* Charity
* Hawking and Street Selling
* Theft
* Barter and Exchange
* Self-provisioning, Making and Mending
* The relationship between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ markets
* Garage Sales, Jumble Sales, Car Boot Sales ...

The workshop will be held at:
the University of Wolverhampton, UK

Please send proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) to the address below by 18 January 2008. Fee: £ 9. For further information, please contact Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK. E-mail: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

Or see: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/exchange.html

13EMES JOURNEES D’HISTOIRE DE LA COMPTABILITE ET DU MANAGEMENT

Appel à communication
13EMES JOURNEES D’HISTOIRE DE LA COMPTABILITE ET DU MANAGEMENT
Jeudi 27 et Vendredi 28 mars 2008 à Orléans sur le thème de l’échec
Les Journées d’Histoire de la Comptabilité et du Management constituent, depuis leur première
édition en 1995, un rendez-vous annuel incontournable pour ceux qui s’intéressent à l’épaisseur temporelle des problèmes de gestion. Elles rassemblent des gestionnaires, mais aussi des historiens, des sociologues, des juristes et des économistes. L’esprit originel de ces Journées demeure car le passé, souvent inattendu, a encore beaucoup à nous apprendre sur les pratiques actuelles. Comme chaque année, toutes les propositions de communications sont accueillies avec bienveillance,
mais nous souhaitons néanmoins proposer un thème. Ainsi, l'Association Francophone de Comptabilité et le Laboratoire Orléanais de Gestion lance cet appel à communication sur le thème :
"L'ECHEC"
Bien souvent, en entendant les médias se faire l’écho de nombreuses success stories, nous avons l’impression qu’on nous raconte des histoires, et c’est pour prendre le contre-pied de cette démarche parfois suspecte que nous proposons un thème original.
Ce thème de l’échec pourra être décliné de la façon suivante :
- l’histoire d’un échec
- les conséquences et les leçons d’un échec
- la gestion de l’échec
- la prise en compte de l’échec dans la gestion
- les thématiques de la faillite, du licenciement, des krachs boursiers, des crises etc.
A l’occasion de ce congrès, nous aimerions pouvoir décliner la thématique de l’échec dans les différentes disciplines de la gestion : la comptabilité, le contrôle de gestion, la Gestion des Ressources Humaines, mais aussi dans des disciplines traditionnellement plus discrètes dans les journées d’histoire comme le marketing, la finance, la stratégie etc.
Si des doctorants sont intéressés, un tutorat des thèses pourra être organisé lors de ces journées.
Le site du colloque http://jhcm.free.fr

de la part de B. Touchelay



Histoire d'entreprises

Le site suivant reprends le texte de International Directory of Company Histories. St. James Press, 2004 pour de très nombreuses entreprises (y compris françaises) avec des sources complémentaires

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/

Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Harvard Business School and the Newcomen Society of the United States support a postdoctoral fellowship in business history for twelve months of residence and research at the Harvard Business School. Fellowships normally run for the academic year, July 1 to June 30; the stipend is currently $60,000.

The purpose of the award is to enable scholars who have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline within the past ten years to improve their professional acquaintance with business and economic history, to increase their skills as they relate to this field, and to engage in research that will benefit from the resources of the Harvard Business School and the Boston-area scholarly community. The successful applicant will participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities.

The annual application deadline is October 1 of the year preceding the fellowship. For additional information, write to Walter A. Friedman, Rock Center 104, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163. Email wfriedman@hbs.edu.

the Hawthorne Experiments

The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924-1933), the first in a series of exhibitions marking the Centennial of Harvard Business School, recently opened in the North Lobby of Baker Library.

The exhibit and accompanying Web site (http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/hawthorne/ ) feature a wide array of graphs, charts, interviews, correspondence, photographs, and publications from the Library's collections including the Western Electric Hawthorne Studies Collection and the papers of Elton Mayo, Fritz Roethlisberger, and other HBS faculty members.

The exhibition catalog and Web site also include an essay by HBS Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana on the impact of the Hawthorne Studies on management research and education today.

The Web site (http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/hawthorne/ ) provides direct links to encoded collection finding aids and full-text of seminal works for further research.

images mobiles

On peut aussi intégrer sur ce blog des videos. Ici un film de 1903. Source : www.archive.org, en particulier le chapitre "moving images" http://www.archive.org/details/movies

La genèse de la décision (CFP)

Chiffres et entreprises : contrôle, financement et stratégie
(XIXe-XXIe siècles)
Université Paris-Dauphine/CRM-CREFIGE/Université Paris VIII-IDHE/CNRS – Université Paris XII-Institut Jean-Baptiste Say
Nicolas Praquin - Béatrice Touchelay - Philippe Verheyde

Journée d’études
8 février 2008

Orientation générale et problématique

Cette troisième journée d’études vise à stimuler les réflexions sur les relations qui s’établissent entre la décision, l’évaluation et la mesure dans les entreprises, ou d’autres formes d’organisations, privées ou publiques, de la France contemporaine.
La période retenue, des années 1800 à nos jours, correspond à l’affirmation d’un appareil statistique performant, à la systématisation de l’outil chiffré, à l’émergence et au développement d’une normalisation et d’une harmonisation comptables et à la diffusion des pratiques de gestion dont le point commun s’articule autour de la nécessité de « penser et produire le chiffre ».

Le chiffre, quel qu’il soit et d’où il émane, peut être abordé à travers ses fonctions ou finalités majeures :
- un instrument de mesure, de comptage et/ou de quantification
- un moyen pour développer la vérification interne
- un outil permettant d’anticiper, de prévoir et/ou de comparer
- un appareil au service du contrôle externe
- un outil de gestion, de légitimation et/ou de pouvoir

Sans négliger les critiques qui doivent être adressées à ces chiffres (science sans conscience…), nous formulons l’hypothèse que leur affirmation joue un rôle moteur à la fois dans l’évolution des formes de gestion des entreprises publiques et privées, mais aussi dans la mise en place d’un Etat moderne, puisqu’ils permettent à l’ensemble des décideurs de disposer d’instruments présentés comme scientifiques pour étayer leurs décisions. Ces journées permettront de discuter cette hypothèse.
Le champ couvert est très vaste puisqu’il va de l’étude des institutions produisant des statistiques publiques ou privées, à celle des outils eux-mêmes, à l’examen des motivations et de l’usage de leurs commanditaires et de leurs utilisateurs. Un tel champ, de nature historique, est propice à une approche pluridisciplinaire. Les économistes, les gestionnaires, les historiens, les juristes et les sociologues sont fortement invités à nourrir cette réflexion commune. Cette démarche pluridisciplinaire autour du chiffre doit permettre d’en souligner les enjeux politiques, sociaux et techniques.

Après les journées d’études organisées en 2006 (Université de Paris XII-Val-de-Marne : Chiffres publics, chiffres privés dans la France du XXe siècle) et en 2007 (Université de Paris VIII–Saint-Denis : Chiffres privés : construction, usage et perception), cette troisième journée se déroule le 8 février 2008 à l’Université de Paris-Dauphine.

Liste de revues du CNRS section 37

Voici un lien vers la liste actuelle servant à l'évaluation des chercheurs en gestion
http://hp.idefi.cnrs.fr/marty/comnat/revues.pdf

Traduction vers l'anglais

Les coordonnées du traducteurs que j'utilise en Inde sont les suivantes Mr Yann Pitchal, son adresse : wordpro(AT)auromail.net

Une tentative

Chers amis
A la suite de notre réunion du 24 septembre. Je me suis permis cette initiative. Ce n'est qu'un essai. Merci de donner votre sentiment et d'alimenter la chose.
Ludovic Cailluet

Les Corps Intermédiaires économiques : entre l’État et le marché (CFP)

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Les Corps Intermédiaires économiques : entre l’État et le marché

Université de Limoges, Centre de recherche historique de l’Université de Limoges (CERHILIM E.A. 3840)
23-24 octobre 2008


Description :

Avec la suppression des Corporations en 1791, un coup fatal semble être porté aux « corps intermédiaires ». De plus, les lois sur les associations et les corporations au cours du XIXe siècle puis de la période de Vichy, ont successivement postulé l’absence de « corps intermédiaires » en France, et rendu incompatibles le corporatisme et la République.

Ainsi que le soulignent Alain Chatriot et Claire Lemercier dans leur article « Les corps intermédiaires » dans A. Duclert et C. Prochasson, Dictionnaire critique de la République, Paris, Flammarion, 2002, (pp. 691-697), un monde institutionnel changeant et en général discret, naît de cette tension entre République et corps intermédiaires. Dès les premières décennies du XIXe s, la société civile ou certaines de ses fractions, aspirent à s’organiser et à peser sur les décisions de l’État « jacobin » alors que ce dernier et les collectivités locales, ne peuvent ni tout faire, ni tout savoir. Parmi ces institutions, les Chambres syndicales, les syndicats, les associations, les Chambres de commerce et d’industrie, puis d’agriculture et de métiers, les tribunaux de commerce, les Conseils de prud’hommes, constituent un monde mal connu.

Les journées organisées par l’équipe d’accueil du CERHILIM en cette année du 150ème anniversaire de la Chambre de commerce de Limoges, se proposent d’examiner aux échelles régionale et nationale, quelques-unes des nouvelles formes institutionnelles économiques et sociales qui se reconstruisent à partir du XIXe siècle autour du Commerce et de l’Industrie. Elles ambitionnent de faire le point sur des recherches sur ces thèmes qui se multiplient en France depuis quelques années.

1. Approche institutionnelle et sociale :
Dans un premier moment, des analyses associant plusieurs périodes historiques envisageront comment s’opère le passage des formes d’Ancien Régime aux formes contemporaines de corps intermédiaires, en particulier celles régissant l’organisation du commerce et des métiers, ainsi que la justice consulaire ou encore les rapports entre patrons et employés. Les origines et les parcours des élites présentes dans les nouvelles institutions seront à interroger.

2. Aspects organisationnels et activités :
Les modalités d’organisation et d’action des commerçants, industriels, banquiers autour des Chambres de commerce, des Chambres des métiers, de syndicats patronaux dans quelques secteurs, ainsi qu’à l’échelle de la Région Économique qui se met en place au lendemain de la 1ère Guerre Mondiale, constitueront le deuxième axe de ces journées. Une attention particulière sera portée aux liens entre les échelles locale, régionale et nationale, voire internationale lorsqu’ils existent.

3. Circulations et échanges à partir des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles :
Les institutions économiques locales ont montré beaucoup de détermination afin de convaincre les gouvernants et les bureaux parisiens du bien fondé de leurs demandes en matière de routes, de chemin de fer, et depuis quelques années d’autoroutes et de liaisons aériennes. Un dernier temps des journées placera dans une perspective historique longue et transdisciplinaire ces débats, y compris les plus actuels à l’échelle régionale. Une table ronde réunissant des acteurs économiques et politiques locaux sera organisée sur ce thème.


Organisateurs :
Clotilde Druelle-Korn, Maître de Conférences, Histoire Contemporaine, Limoges
Paul D’Hollander, Professeur, Histoire Contemporaine, Limoges
Michel Cassan, Professeur, Histoire Moderne, Limoges

Comité Scientifique :
Patrice Corbin, Conseiller maître à la Cour des Comptes, Paris.
Danièle Fraboulet-Rousselier, Professeur, Histoire Contemporaine, Université Paris XIII.
Patrick Fridenson, Directeur d’études à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Claire Lemercier, Chargée de recherches au C.N.R.S., Paris.
Michel Margairaz, Professeur, Histoire Contemporaine, Université Paris VIII.

Une publication rapide des actes est prévue à l’issue des journées.

Les propositions de communication sous la forme d’un texte de 2500 signes environ accompagné d’un titre sont à adresser avant le 30 octobre 2007.

Contact :
clotilde.druelle-korn@unilim.fr
Université de Limoges, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines
Département d’Histoire – CERHILIM E.A 3840
35 E rue Camille Guérin - 87036 LIMOGES CEDEX
Tél : 05 55 43 56 00

EBHA Summer school (past CALL FOR APPLICATIONS)

4th EBHA DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL
WRITING, PRESENTING, PUBLISHING: HOW TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

The 4th edition of the EBHA (European Business History Association) Summer School will take place in Italy from September 5th to September 11th, 2007.
The school aims at providing doctoral students with an overview of relevant research results and of innovative tools and methodologies in the field of Business History. It is organised jointly by the European Business History Association (EBHA), the Istituto per la Cultura e la Storia d’Impresa Franco Momigliano (ICSIM) of Terni and the Italian Association for Business History (ASSI).
Students will spend the week in an Italian villa in the beautiful hills of Umbria (location: Villalago di Piediluco- Terni – approximately one hour from Rome by train) debating and discussing their research with leading international scholars .
The title of the school will be Writing, Presenting, Publishing: How to make the best use of your own research. The school will focus on theoretical, methodological and practical issues which are of relevance for advanced research in business history. In this edition, special attention will be put on the issue of making the best use of a research project, in terms of writing and argumentation, presentation at conferences, publication in academic journals. In the mornings, invited scholars will give lectures and seminars on specific topics. In the afternoons, students have a chance to present their own research project and or preliminary findings. On Sunday, an excursion to visit the region will be organized.
The organisers will cover all local costs (accommodation and food), but participants are expected to pay their own travel to and from Terni. Participation will be limited to 15-20 PhD students.
Those interested in attending the summer school should send the following documents by e-mail to the academic organisers Prof. Andrea Colli (andrea.colli@uni-bocconi.it) and Dr. Francesca Polese (francesca.polese@unibocconi.it):
1.) a half-page CV;
2.) a summary of their dissertation project, not exceeding three pages;
3.) (if possible) an example of their work in progress, e.g. a draft chapter or a working paper (in any language).
The new deadline for applications is May 1st, 2007. A maximum of 20 participants will be selected from these applications and will be notified before the end of May

Participants

Project abstract

Scientific background and objectives
Description of project, methodology
Expected results
The following proposal « Business administration : private practices, public challenges – A historical perspective » was born from the observation that the general expansion of management and its methods in society are often challenged but have been more rarely researched by historians and management scholars altogether.
Business administration and its methods have expanded since the 19th century to pervade almost all organisations. Their development have gone beyond the private sector to government agencies, NGOs and foundations. While penetrating all types of organisation business administration has destroyed traditional boundaries between government and the private sector. Acquiring a new dimension far beyond functionality and business administration raises new issues in society. The question asked by pervasive business administration practices and systems are not only organisational or economic but political and societal ones. Such a phenomenon deserves a genealogy and a history.
The project ambition is to study the origins, apparition and the development of management practices, tools and systems that are far from being universal. Progressing from macro to micro, it is divided in three sections.
- « Private administration, public domain » studies management techniques development from the 19th century. Using a systemic approach it is concerned with corporate decision support techniques.
- « Managerial programmes » is looking at very current issues from a historical perspective. Using a set of widespread management themes, its aim is to understand their roots as to build a theory of their emergence. Four case studies will be studied in detail in that section: corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, oursourcing and knowledge management.
- « Managerial devices » is analysing the conditions of the emergence, diffusion and international transfer of more specific business administration practices/tools: strategic planning and management scorecard (tableau de bord).
The MPPEP project is coherent with a long tradition of international cooperation between history and business administration scholars. In France, this fruitful interdisciplinary work has however remained relatively unstructured to date. Using MPEEP as a backbone, the researchers will be able to reinforce and develop transfers between history and business administration scholars in terms of methods, data and knowledge diffusion.
To question the condition of emergence and the origins of management practices is indeed very valuable for management scholars. For a long time they have considered management tools, systems and practices as « natural » elements (data). But there is no data without past and management systems are heavily socially constructed and contextualised. A history of management tools and practices offers a sophisticated analytical framework to understand the phenomenon. Putting the roots of management tools in their national economical, political and sociological context and moreover looking at their evolution and their international transfer and adaptation provide a powerful way to understand their influence in today’s society.
Exploiting primary archival sources and using historical methodology, MPEEP has a triple objective:
• Structuring the research in management history as to capitalize and diffuse new knowledge;
• Identifying places and conditions of management practices emergence as to evaluate the pertinence of their current use;
• Building a theory of the emergence and diffusion of management tools, systems and practices.
The results of the research will be published in three separate edited volumes. The first one will be a multidisciplinary inventory of authors, practices and places where appear management methods changes. The second volume will be focused on corporate governance given the homogeneity of the topic. It will be based on an in-depth case study of the Crédit Lyonnais bank. The last volume will deal with the theory of the emergence and diffusion of business administration tools and practices.
In addition, participants are expected to publish papers in academic journals using partial results obtained during the project. As an example, a special issue of Long Range Planning on the contextualisation of strategy will be co-edited by two participants of the project in 2008.

Résumé du projet

Le projet « Management : pratiques privées, enjeux publics – Une mise en perspective historique » (MPPEP) est lié à un constat général d’expansion du management et de ses méthodes :
- entre des zones géographiques distinctes, les modèles nationaux étant exposés à l’influence plus ou moins forte de modèles étrangers;
- entre des entreprises de différentes natures : secteur économique, taille, …
- au-delà des entreprises : administrations publiques, associations, ONG, etc.
Le management et ses méthodes se sont en effet diffusés au-delà de leurs frontières traditionnelles. Des pratiques traditionnellement privées acquièrent ainsi une dimension nouvelle porteuse d’enjeux publics de nature économique mais aussi sociale ou politique. Ce phénomène mérite d’être étudié selon une perspective historique car il s’enracine dans un passé déjà riche. Le management et ses méthodes se sont ainsi historiquement diffusés entre les entreprises, les pays ou les secteurs. A l’inverse, les entreprises sont aussi influencées par des pratiques extérieures, publiques, associatives, etc.
Dans le cadre de ce jeu d’influences croisées, l’objectif du projet MPPEP est d’étudier historiquement des pratiques et des dispositifs de gestion ainsi que leur contexte historique d’apparition et d’évolution. C’est pourquoi, trois grands « chantiers » seront ouverts du macro vers le micro :
- le premier (« Gestion privée, domaine public ») pour inscrire les grandes politiques de management des entreprises ou des organisations dans une perspective historique (période contemporaine) et à une échelle « macro ». Il envisage une approche globale du sujet. Il s’intéresse à l’évolution des méthodes ou des techniques qui conduisent à la décision dans l’entreprise depuis le XIXe siècle.
- le deuxième (« Programmes managériaux ») pour étudier des pratiques et des problématiques très actuelles selon une perspective historique afin de mieux en comprendre les racines et les enjeux. Quatre thèmes sont ici envisagés : la gouvernance, la responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise, l’externalisation, et la gestion de la connaissance (dite aussi knowledge management).
- le troisième (« Dispositifs managériaux ») pour analyser les conditions d’émergence et de diffusion de dispositifs plus spécifiques : la planification stratégique et les tableaux de bord de gestion.
Le projet MPPEP s’inscrit dans un contexte de relations anciennes entre l’histoire et la gestion. Histoire et sciences de gestion coopèrent depuis de nombreuses années au sein d’un réseau international de chercheurs. Cette collaboration transdisciplinaire fructueuse mérite d’être poursuivie au sein d’un programme structuré ayant pour principaux objectifs d’organiser ce collectif autour d’un projet précis, de consolider les passerelles existantes entre l’histoire et la gestion, de contribuer à une meilleure capitalisation des connaissances et de permettre la diffusion de ces connaissances.
Le recours à l’histoire constituera ainsi un détour utile. En effet, le propre de l’histoire est de questionner et de chercher les origines de ce que beaucoup considèrent comme des évidences et des données – data. Partant du principe qu’il n’existe aucun data sans passé, l’histoire des méthodes de gestion permettra de comprendre quels ont été les contextes au sens large (économique mais aussi social et politique) dans lesquels elles ont vu le jour, à quelles fins elles ont été conçues et, enfin, quelles évolutions les ont affectées au cours du temps.
Fondé sur la méthode historique et l’exploitation de fonds d’archives (anciens et nouveaux), le projet MPPEP a pour ambition de produire des résultats originaux autour de trois thématiques :
- Structurer la recherche autour de ce thème afin de capitaliser ses résultats et de diffuser des connaissances nouvelles ;
- Identifier les lieux et les conditions d’émergence des dispositifs de gestion afin d’évaluer la pertinence des usages contemporains.
- Esquisser une théorie de l’émergence et de la diffusion des dispositifs et programmes de gestion.
Concrètement, le projet MPPEP permettra de réaliser trois ouvrages collectifs : l’un sur l’inventaire pluridisciplinaire des auteurs, des pratiques et aussi des lieux où apparaissent les changements des méthodes du management. Le deuxième sur la gouvernance, compte tenu de l’intérêt du sujet et de l’homogénéité de l’enquête historique envisagée (le Crédit Lyonnais). Le troisième, plus théorique, sur l’émergence et de la diffusion des dispositifs et programmes de gestion. Par ailleurs, des articles dans des revues françaises et internationales constitueront aussi une production attendue de MPPEP. Enfin, une meilleure connaissance des sources d’archives et de la documentation historique constitue aussi un résultat attendu du projet.