The M6 Business History workshop is designed to allow business historians living near(ish) the M6 motorway to meet and exchange ideas. I thought I would bring your attention to their forthcoming workshop on “Historical Approaches to Organisational and Institutional Change”. It will be held at Aston University in Birmingham.
Thursday 16 February 2011
Main Building Room G8 (East wing)
Programme
12.45 -1.00pm Registration (Main Building, Lower Foyer near reception )
1-2pm Sandwich lunch
2-2.45pm Simon Mollan (Durham) – “South Africa versus the United Kingdom: double taxation, organizational change and the Union Corporation in the 1950s and 1960s”
2.45-3.30pm Koji Yamamoto (St. Andrews) – “Distrust, Innovation, and Public Service: ‘Projecting’ in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England”
3.30-4pm Coffee break
4-4.45pm Andrew Popp (Liverpool) – “History’s Wild Play: G.L.S. Shackle, Decision and Business History”
4.45-5pm Final comments & end of workshop
Business historians deal with cases of growth and decline of individual firms, industries, countries or regions, as well as its causes and consequences. This workshop will offer a forum for scholars who are interested in the process of transition and adaptation that takes place in organisations and their institutional environments. These themes underpin a variety of historical investigations of enterprises and economies, and are equally relevant to business and management studies. Papers are welcome on any time period, area or context, both from established scholars and (post-) doctoral researchers.
The M6 Business History Workshop is run by Dr Stephanie Decker (s.decker@aston.ac.uk).
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I trust no academic workshop itinerary announcement from England that does not have the word “pub” in it… are you sure this is real? Or are they holding back on a session?