IAESBE Working Papers Series

2006 Symposium

From November 16th through the 18th, 2006, IAESBE conducted the Sixth International Colloquium in Business History, titled
"HAS THERE BEEN A THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN GLOBAL BUSINESS?"

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If you would like a copy of any of the working papers from this conference, please contact the authors directly via email.

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2004 Symposium

On October 1, 2004, IAESBE conducted an international colloquium on “Balancing Public and Private Control: The United States and Germany in the Post-World War II Era.” Papers were presented by Dr. Colleen Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin; Harold James, Princeton University, and Christopher Kobrak, European School of Management, ESCP-EAP; Ulrich Wengenroth, TU Munich; Raymond Stokes, University of Glasgow; Caroline Fohlin, IAESBE. Commentators included Roland Vaubel, University of Mannheim; and Richard Sylla, New York University. The papers are being revised and edited for publication; the manuscript will be submitted to the Cambridge University Press.

For the Introduction to 2004 Symposium, continue here

Session 1: Evolving Patterns of Ownership and Control of Enterprise

Colleen Dunlavy, "Government Structure and Policy Making in Germany and the US and Policy Making in Germany and the US". To read the abstract of this paper, continue here
Harold James & Christopher Kobrak, "Family Firms & Public Corporations"


Session 2: Financial Markets and Institutions

Mary O'Sullivan, "What Drove the US Stock Market in the 20th Century?"
Caroline Fohlin, "Financing Innovation and the Evolution of Venture Capital: Germany and the United States in the Postwar Era"

Session 3: Innovation, Technology & Productivity

Ulrich Wengenroth, "Technology and Productivity in the Modern Era - Germany and the United States"
Raymond Stokes, "Closing the Gap? America as Inspiration and Anti-Model in Post-War Inspiration and Anti-Model in Post-War German Industrial Organization and Innovation". To read the abstract of this paper, continue here

Part Two: Other Working Papers

Louis Galambos, "Global Oligopoly, Regional Authority, and National Power: Crosscurrents in Pharmaceuticals Today and Tomorrow"

Louis Galambos, "The Critical and Widely Misunderstood Role of Marketing in Pharmaceutical Innovation"

Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Louis Galambos, "Science and Industry in the Twenty-First Century: The Biomedical Case"

Franco Amatori, "Entrepreneurship"

 


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