The Past Speaks

M6 Business History Workshop

26 January 2012

Coventry University

JA102

Programme

12.45 -1.30pm    Sandwich lunch

1.30-2.15pm       Stephanie Decker, Aston Business School, “The Silence of the Archives: Business history methodology and postcolonialism”

2.15-3.00pm      Aldwin Roes, University of Sheffield, “North to Katanga: the Robert Williams group and the expansion of the South African mining frontier, c1891-1906”

3.00-3.15pm Coffee

3.15-4.00pm    Bernardo Batiz-Lazo and Rasol Eskandari, Bangor University, “Does on-line publishing increase citation success?  Evidence from  Spanish accounting, business and economic history, 1997-2011”

4.00pm-4.45       Duncan Connors, Coventry University, “The Commercial Failure of British MAGNOX Nuclear Reactor Exports: The General Electric Company and the Tokai Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, 1955 to 1970”

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4.45-5pm             Final comments & end of workshop