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Welcome to Prof. Stephanie Decker

Stephanie Decker is visiting from April 20 to May 5. Stephanie is Prof in the Economics and Strategy Group at Aston Business School in Birmingham. She is pursuing her research on qualitative approaches to international business & strategy.

A warm welcome to Prof. Ludovic Cailluet

Ludovic Cailluet, professor of strategy at University of Littoral and research fellow at Toulouse University CNRS management research center (CRM-CNRS) is a visiting scholar at the Business History Group in April and May 2015. During his stay, he will be working on entrepreneurship in the cosmetics industry. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cailluet

Welcome to Prof. Michael Rowlinson

A warm welcome to Guest Professor Mick Rowlinson, Prof. Organization Studies, from Queen Mary University of London has joined our research group for three months (April 5 - June 26, 2015). He is collaborating with the Center in the fields of the "use of history" and historical approaches to entrepreneurship.

Business History Seminar: Mario Daniels (German Historical Institute, Washington) Economic and Industrial Espionage in Germany, the U.S. and Great Britain 1880-1990

The project discusses the importance of economic espionage for corporations and their countermeasures to protect themselves against illegal knowledge transfer. Since the late 19th century, a technological "lead" has increasingly been regarded as one of the factors responsible for an uneven distribution of market and political opportunities of states in a global competition. Governments and corporations therefore cooperated closely in the area of a "knowledge policy," which included espionage by national intelligence agencies in favor of the national economy as well as concerted safety precautions by state and corporations against industrial espionage.

Business History Seminar: Daniel Raff (Wharton Busniess School). The transformation of book retailing in America, 1970–95

Daniel Raff (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) will talk about the transformation of book retailing in America ca. 1970–95. The major transition was less modal sales venues shifting from Central Business Districts to suburban locations than the rise of extremely broadly merchandised ‘superstores’ and their supporting infrastructure. Complementarities and the persistence of core capabilities are striking features of the organizational histories, but so is—over a fairly extended period—evolutionary change.

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