Globalization and De-Globalization: Shifts of Power and Wealth
The theme of the 2019 Business History Conference annual meeting will be “Globalization and De-Globalization: Shifts of Power and Wealth.” The recent phenomena of the spread of populist and economic nationalist regimes throughout North America, Europe, Asia and elsewhere taking positions against the major trading blocks and the free movement of people and goods make the topic of this conference very timely. The conference aims to concentrate on business history research agendas that enable a nuanced understanding of the phenomena of globalization and de-globalization.
The conference theme encourages contributions from a variety of approaches to business history research, covering a broad range of geographies and periods. The program committee of Marcelo Bucheli (co-chair), Andrea Lluch (co-chair), Takafumi Kurosawa, Espen Storli, Laura Sawyer, and Teresa da Silva Lopes (BHC president) invites papers proposals addressing on the following topics, but not limited to:
- – the contribution of firms and the entrepreneurs to globalization and de-globalization
- – the role and responsibility of business in shifts of power, wealth and inequality;
- – the rise of emerging markets and the globalization of firms from those markets;
- – globalization and environmental and social sustainability;
- – business and gender during waves of globalization and de-globalization
- – and risk management during globalization waves