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Monday August 17th the Centre for Business History hosted their first meeting after summer and Corona.

The main purpose of the meeting was to figure out how to organize the group both next semester and implications in a longer perspective.

First Rasmus Johnsen, who has moved to the philosophy group and is associate dean for lifelong learning, joined us. He had some ideas on how we could proceed in our efforts to develop our teaching profile.

Later Mitchell Dean joined us for an open discussion on how the department will be organized and the departments agenda for the fall semester.

Historical Entrepreneurship Case Series

Teaching with history is engaging and teaches contextual thinking. Our Historical Entrepreneurship case series, with cases by Christina Lubinski, Dan Wadhwani, Andrew Popp, Valeria Giacomin and Chris Viebig, is available at HBSP and at the Case Centre.

How to teach Historical Entrepreneurship: A Module Note https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG872-PDF-ENG

Instagram for Educators: Using Social Media in the Classroom
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG864-PDF-ENG

And a series of cases, all including teaching notes

Josiah Wedgwood: Creating Desire in the 18th Century
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG569-PDF-ENG

Business Model Challenges: The Electric Vehicle Company
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG566-PDF-ENG

Gramophone: Reimagining Music
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG557-PDF-ENG

Entrepreneurial Imagination: Ruth Handler and the Barbie Doll (see also Feature)
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG568-PDF-ENG

Danfoss and the Danish Variety of Capitalism
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG565-PDF-ENG

Kenyan Community Currencies: A Uses of History
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG570-PDF-ENG

The Miracle of Wörgl
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCG567-PDF-ENG

Yesterday associate professor Mads Mordhorst from our department was in DEADLINE where he talked about why companies should stick to identity issues based on Black Lives Matter

Follow the link down below, 19:35

https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/deadline_-populaere-amerikanske-produkter-aendrer-navn-i-koelvandet-paa-racismedebatten_194763

We love our podcasts here at the Centre for Business History. And if you are looking for some summer listening, here is selection of our favorites.

Scroll through the pictures for more info:

Anders Ravn Sørensen from our department has edited a new maritime historical anthology, which has been published by GAD's publishing house.

For more information, follow the link down below:

https://gad.dk/soefartshistorier

Context is everything

Call for Papers: Paper Development Workshop

The Centre for Business History at Copenhagen Business School will host a paper development workshop (PDW) for scholars conducting research on the uses of history and memory in organizations and organizing on Wednesday, December 9, 2015.

We welcome applications from scholars of all backgrounds conducting research on the question of why, how, and what affects the past is used by managers and organizations. The goal of the PDW is, in part, to support the development of research
and foster dialogue among scholars who may be interested in submitting papers to the Special Issue of Organization Studies devoted to the same topic, though neither application nor attendance at the workshop is required for full consideration of papers submitted for the special issue.

More information about the Special Issue can be found here: http://goo.gl/UVnpPx

Limited funds may be available on a competitive basis for applicants who are unable to get funding from their home institutions.

Deadline for Abstracts: October 13, 2015

To apply, please email an abstract of between 300 and 500 words describing your research, along with a cv or bio to one the PDW organizers below. Applications should be sent by October 13, 2015 to receive full consideration. Please submit your paper to Mads Mordhorst ([email protected]) and Dan Wadhwani ([email protected]).

Applicants will get a feedback October 19 and successful applicants will be asked to submit either short papers (approx. 3,000 words) or full papers (8-10,000 words) by December 1 in order for other participants to read them before the PDW.

PDW Organizers:
Mads Mordhorst, Copenhagen Business School, [email protected]

Andrew Popp, University of Liverpool, [email protected]

Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, [email protected]

Dan Wadhwani, University of the Pacific, [email protected]

Today, an old farm house in Northern Zealand lends its walls to the presentations later to be shown at the Business History Conference 2015.

Ten scholars of the Centre for Business History discuss the research and presentations, which not only helps enhance the overall quality but also make the member of the Centre more aware of each others work.

Visiting scholar: A warm welcome to Guest Professor Stephanie Decker, who is visiting from April 20 to May 5.

Stephanie is professor in the Economics and Strategy Group at Aston Business School in Birmingham. She is pursuing her research on qualitative approaches to international business & strategy.

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Visiting scholar: A warm welcome to Guest Professor Mick Rowlinson from Queen Mary University of London, who has joined our research group for three months (April 5 - June 26, 2015).

He is collaborating with the Center in the fields of the "uses of history" and historical approaches to entrepreneurship.

Prof Michael Rowlinson PhD (Aston) Professor Michael Rowlinson Professor of Organization Studies email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 6323 Location: Mile End, Building, Room 4.09 Profile Research Publications PhD Supervision Profile Sabbatical period: September 2014 - August 2015 Teaching Research Research interests:Mich…

Visiting scholar: A warm welcome to Prof. Ludovic Cailluet, who is professor of strategy at University of Littoral and research fellow at Toulouse University CNRS management research center (CRM-CNRS).

He 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.

Read more on his profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cailluet

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In his new article, postdoc Anders Ravn Sørensen of the Centre for Business History analyses the narratives of four Danish central bank governors from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1990s.

By conducting a historical analysis informed by neo-institutional theory, he shows how these central bank governors were continuously involved in public debates over the appropriateness and desirability of their decisions and policies. In these debates, interpretations and reproductions of Danish national identity were central to the governors’ claims to legitimacy.

Anders Ravn Sørensen argues that past narratives of the Danish central bank and its governors enabled and framed future legitimacy claims and that the central bank and its governors gradually became embedded in national identity.

Thus, the article highlights the historical development of the co-configuring relationship between Danish national identity and the legitimacy of monetary organization.

Link to full article: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10767-014-9196-5