地域の競争優位-国際比較産業史の中のヨーロッパと東アジア-

The 50st Congress of the Business History Society of Japan

Date:

September 11th – 13th, 2014

Organizer:

Business History Society of Japan

Contents:

Official website
Program
《 English session 》

11th（SO602): Government and Business

Julia Yongue: Business, Health Policy and the Creation of a New Disease: Japan's "French Connection" to the Global Vaccine Industry

12th（SO603）: Convergence or Divergence?: Recent Currents and Methods in Business History Studies

Chair: Julia Yongue / Discussant: Julia Yongue
Ayumu Banzawa, Makiko Hino, Hiroko Sadato: Development of Western Business History Research in Japan - with Reference to the Simultaneity of Researches in Western Countries.
Takafumi Kurosawa: Varieties of "Business History" and Historian's Approach

Workshop : Methodology of Historical Approach

Date:

September 10th (Wed.), 2014 14：00－19：00

Organizer:

Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

Contents:

Matthias Kipping (York University, Canada)
Daniel Wadhwani (University of the Pacific, USA)
“A Basic Methodology for Analyzing and Interpreting Historical Sources”
“New Business Histories! A plea for plurality in business history research methods”

EBHA 18th Annual Conference 2014 in Utrecht

Date:

August 21th (Thu.) – 23th (Sat.), 2014

Venue:

The University Hall, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Contents:

Please refer to the official website of the meeting.
Presentations were conducted on KAKENHI Project as follows;

3-2 - Shaping markets

Pierre-Yves Donzé: The emergence of fashion watch and the rise of the East Asian watch industry (1970-2010)

7-2 - Regulating anti-competitive behavior in historical perspective

Takafumi Kurosawa, Takahiro Ohato: Authorized Cartels in Post-War Japan: Cartel Registration and Business Structure from an International Comparison

4-5 - Ownership and control / Chair: Takeo Kikkawa

5-7 - Political Regulation of Natural Resources 1890-2000, Comparative Perspectives

Takeo Kikkawa: Dilemma of the Japanese regulations on the petroleum industry before World War II

8-7 - Industries, technology and innovation / Chair: Pierre-Yves Donzé

6-8 - Voluntary or Regulatory?: Comparative Business Activities to Mitigate Climate Change
/ Discussant: Takafumi Kurosawa

So Hirano: Life cycle analysis: The case of the chemical industry

Takeo Kikkawa: Historical overview: Japan’s challenge to cool the earth

7-8 - Changing fortunes in retail

Rika Fujioka: The effects of the world exposition on the development of Japanese department stores

New Publication　2014　（Donzé, Pierre-Yves）

A Business History of the Swatch Group
The Rebirth of Swiss Watchmaking and the Globalization of the Luxury Industry

 

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Hard Cover / 168 pages / English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

New Publication　2014　（Donzé, Pierre-Yves）

« Rattraper et dépasser la Suisse »
Histoire de l’industrie horlogère japonaise de 1850 à nos jours

 

Pierre-Yves Donzé

506 pages / Français
Publisher： Editions Alphil

New Publication 2013/2014　（Donzé, Pierre-Yves & Nishimura, Shigehiro）

Organizing Global Technology Flows : Institutions, Actors, and Processes

(Routledge International Studies in Business History)

Edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Shigehiro Nishimura

Hard Cover / 284 pages / English
Publisher: Routledge

New Publication　2014　（Kurosawa, Banzawa, Fujioka）

Keizai - Ronso　vol. 187, No. 3
(The Economic Review)

■SPECIAL ISSUE: The Competitive Advantage of Regions

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Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

New Publication in November, 2013　（Kurosawa, Kikkawa, Imajo, and Donzé）

The Kyoto Economic Review vol. 169　（Correction: 170→169）

■ SPECIAL ISSUE: The Competitive Advantage of Regions

1. The Competitive Advantage of Regions
　〈Takafumi Kurosawa〉

2. International Competitiveness of Japan's Petroleum lndustry: A View from Applied Business History
〈Takeo Kikkawa〉

3. Small Business Financing in Japan, from the Prewar to High-Growth Periods: An lnternational Comparison of the Financial History of Small Businesses
〈Toru Imajoh〉

4. The Changing Comparative Advantages of the Hong Kong Watch Industry, 1950-2010
〈Pierre-Yves Donzé〉

English / 63 pages
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

Fuji Conference, CARIS, BEAT Successive International Conferences

Date:

September 14th- 18th, 2013

Venue:

Mizuho Hall, Kyoto University

Program:

14th: The 31st International Conference of Business History(Fuji Conference)
15th: The 31st International Conference of Business History(Fuji Conference)
16th: CARIS International Workshop
17th: BEAT International Workshop
18th: Excursion

The 31st International Conference of Business History (Fuji Conference)

Date:

September 14th – 15th, 2013

Organizer:

Business History Society of Japan

Co-organizer: CARIS

 

Contents:

Program Abstract
Participants

CARIS International Workshop
The Competitive Advantage of Regions
: Comparative Studies of Industries from a Global Perspective

Date:

September 16th, 2013

Venue:

Mizuho Hall, Kyoto University
→Campus Map of Kyoto University

Contents:

1. Pierre-Yves Donzé （Kyoto University）　

From nation-based to global competition in the watch industry (1945-2010)

2. Andrea Schneider （GUG, Germany）　

From US to Europe: The Emergence of the Leasing Business

3．Matthias Kipping (York University, Canada)

Competitive Advantage and Industry Location (revised edition)

4．Takafumi Kurosawa (Kyoto University)

“Good Strategy, Bad Strategy”: An Interim Self Review on the CARIS Project.

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BEAT Workshop Ⅳ〔Kyoto〕

Date:

September 17th, 2013

Organizer:

BEAT (Center for humanity, Utrecht University)

Facilitator:

CARIS

Joined Organization:

1．CARIS
2．Center for Business History, University of Glasgow

Contents:

Program
Participants

EBHA 17th Annual Conference 2013 in Uppsala

Date:

August 22th (Thu.) – 24th (Sat.), 2013

Venue:

Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

Contents:

Please refer to the official website of the meeting.
Presentations were conducted on KAKENHI Project as follows;

Session 1 F. Business strategies - Chair: Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University

Session 3 D. R & D in the medical/pharmaceutical industry.

>Pierre-Yves Donzé, Kyoto University. R & D in a Science-Based Cluster: The Japanese Medical Instruments Industry (1880-1937)

Session 4 C. Innovation, growth and competitivness: Regional dynamics of global industries

>Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University. Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness: Possibilities of Regional Perspective and Concepts of the Industry History

>Takeo Kikkawa, Hitotsubashi University. Can the Japanese Petroleum Industry Make Innovation and Growth? Utilizing Competitive Advantage of East Asia Region

Session 5 B. Interpreting business history in emerging economies: The creation of Thai capitalism - Chair: Julia S. Yongue

>Julia S. Yongue, Hosei University. Moving Up the Value Chain: Prospects for Upgrading the Thai Drug Industry using lessons from other Asian Latecomers

Session 6 A. Business in Europe and Asia in the 20th century: changing business systems and economic performance

>Shigiro Nishimura. East Asia in the Global Market; and Analysis of the Electrical Equipmen t Industrias.

Publication of New Title 2013 (Rika Fujioka)

Comparative Responses to Globalization : Experiences of British and Japanese Enterprises

(Responses to Globalization: Comparison between British and Japanese Enterprises from 18th Century to Current times)

Maki Umemura (Edition), Rika Fujioka (Edition)

Hard Cover / 261 pages / English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Size: 14.2 x 22.4 cm

BEAT Workshop III 〔Frankfurt〕

Date:

March 18th &19th, 2013

Venue:

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, Frankfurt

Organizer:

BEAT (Center for humanity, Utrecht University)

Facilitator:

Gesellscahft fur Unternehmensgeschichte（GUG）

Joined Organization:

1． CARIS2．Center for Business History, University of Glasgow

Contents:

Program
Participants

Kyoto University Outstanding Graduate School Research Base Formation Project CARIS International Workshop 2
“The Competitive Advantage of Regions: Industrial Dynamics and Transnational Networks”

Date:

March 2nd, 2013 (Sat.)

Venue:

Mizuho Hall, Kyoto University
→Kyoto University Campus Map

Contents:

1. Takafumi Kurosawa (Kyoto University)　

Structural Change, the Rise of Multinationals, and Regional Clusters

2. Terumoto Ozawa Terumoto Ozawa (Colorado State University, USA.)

Structural Change, the Rise of Multinationals, and Regional Clusters

3．Takeo Kikkawa (Hitotsubashi University)

International Competitiveness of the Japanese and East Asian Petroleum Industry

4．Arjan van Rooij (Radboud University, the Netherlands)

Competition, geography and strategy: The Dutch and Belgian chemical industries considered, 1970-2010.

5. Ben Wubs (Erasmus University, the Netherlands)

River dependence. Creating a Transnational Rhine Economy, 1850-2000

Comment：Hiromi Shioji, Junko Watanabe (Kyoto University)

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Kyoto University Outstanding Graduate School Research Base Formation Project CARIS International Workshop 1
“Comparing the Histories of Management in the Railway Industry : Integration or Competition?”

Date:

February 16th, 2013

Venue:

Mizuho Hall, Kyoto University
→Kyoto University Campus Map

Contents:

1. Gisela Hürliman (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Modernized but still integrated: The Swiss Federal Railways on the path towards the future (1950s to 2000)

2. Ayumu Banzawa (Professor, Osaka University)

Failure of obtaining the first national railway statistics in Germany in the 1870s and 1880s

3. Naofumi Nakamura (Professor, Tokyo University)

From competition to integration: Railway networks in Meiji Japan

Comment： Takeshi Yuzawa (Gakushuin University)

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The 3rd CARIS Research Seminar

《Lecturer》

Matthias Kipping

Professor of Policy, Chair in Business History, The Schulich School of Business, York University
MA (Paris-Sorbonne, France), MPA (Harvard, USA), Dr. phil. (München, Germany)
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BEAT Workshop II 〔Glasgow〕

Date:

September 20th - 21st, 2012

Venue:

Glasgow, UK
University of Glasgow, Melville Committee Room

Organizer:

BEAT (Center for humanity, Utrecht University)

Facilitator:

Center for Business History, University of Glasgow

Joined Organization:

1． CARIS
2．Gesellscahft fur Unternehmensgeschichte（GUG）

Contents:

Program
Participants

CARIS Workshop (Paris)

Date:

September 2nd (Sun.), 2012

Venue:

Paris L’hotel Bel-Ami, “Salon Maupassant”

Contents:

Program
1.Discussion with domestic members on management of research activities in collaboration with European partners.

Best Paper Prize Awarded at the 2012 annual conference of EBHA-BHSJ, in Paris

In the first joint conference of EBHA(European Business History Association) and BHSJ (Business History Society of Japan) held on August 30th through September 1st, 2012, Best Paper Prize was presented to Pierre-Yves Donzé, one of our KAKENHI Project partners.

Photograph: Awarding Ceremony at the joint conference of EBHA and BHSJ in Paris P.Y. Donzé, Associate Professor, Kyoto University and Yoshitaka Suzuki, Chairman, Selection Committee of the prize in the joint association of Europe and Japan

EBHA-BHSJ 16th Annual Conference 2012 in Paris

Date:

August 30th (Thu.) – September 1st (Sat.), 2012

Venue:

Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Contents:

Please refer to the official website of the meeting.
Presentations were conducted on KAKENHI Project as follows;

Session 3.D: The Contradictory Effects of World Wars

>Comparing organizational change of Swiss and Anglo-Dutch multinationals as a result of the two world wars - Ben Wubs, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University

Session 4.G: Nationalisation of the Railways Reconsidered: Some Approaches to the Modern Business Organisation and its Adjustment to Globalisation and Regionalisation (Room 3) - chair: TBA, discussant: Pierre-Yves Donze, Kyoto University

>What Caused the Failure of Nationalisation of the Railway System in Germany? : Malfunction of the German Imperial Railway Office (Reichseisenbahnamt) in the 1870s and 1880s.- Ayumu Banzawa, Osaka University

Session 6.A: Patenting: Different Scales of Knowledge Management

>European Patent Control: How did MNEs organize technology flows across the Atlantic Ocean? - Shigehiro Nishimura, London School of Economics and Political Science, Kansai University

Session 7.F: Branding: Same Name, Different Consumers

>Knitting Seamless on the Successive Waves of Globalisation: The Evolution of Shima Seiki, Wakayama, Japan 1962-2012. - Eugene Choi, Ritsumeikan University

Session 7.I: Public Utilities as Agents of Globalization (Room 62) - Chair TBA discussant : Takeo Kikkawa, Hitotsubashi University

Session 8.G: Variants of the Corporate Form

>Small Business Finance in Japan from the Pre-World War II Period to the High Growth Period: from the Perspective of International Comparison of the Financial History of Small Businesses - Imajoh Toru, Hannan University

Session 9.A: European Luxury Goods and Services for Asian Markets: a Perspective on Production, Distribution and Insurance Systems (Yellow Room) - Chair: Eugene Choi, Ritsumeikan University discussant: Francesca Polese, Università Bocconi

>The global value chain and the shift towards luxury in the Swiss watch industry: a focus on the Swatch Group (1990-2010) - Pierre-Yves Donzé, Kyoto University
>Expanding Luxury Market in Japan: How did the Department Stores Contribute to Increase the Sales of European Luxury Brand? - Rika Fujioka, Kansai University

Session 9.I: Multinationals: Adapting to Diversity (Room 10) - Chair: Adriana Castagnoli, University of Turin discussant : Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University

Session 10.G: Bridging the Gap between Local and Global : Experiences of Japan and China under Modernization and Globalization

>Bridging the gap between local and global: Dual economic functions attributable to Shibusawa Eiichi's “Gappon-shugi” in Japan's modernization - Takeo Kikkawa, Hitotsubashi University

Session 10.H: Technology Transfers 2: Multiple Impacts

>Technology Transfer and Chain of Spinoffs in a Supporting Industry:The Chinese “Spring Washer Town” and the Japanese and Taiwanese Screw Clusters - Atsushi Kondo - Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University

The 2012 Annual Meeting of BHC (participated by Kurosawa, Donzé, and Yongue)

Date:

March 29th – 31st, 2012

Venue:

Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia

Contents:

Please refer to the official website of the meeting.

BEAT Workshop I 〔Utrecht〕

Official Title:

Changing business systems and economic performance in Europe and Asia during the 20th century

Date:

March 22nd & 23rd, 2012

Venue:

Center for Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Organizer:

BEAT

Joined Organization:

1．CARIS
2．Center for Business History, University of Glasgow
3．Gesellscahft fur Unternehmensgeschichte（GUG）

Contents:

Program / Participants

New Title Publication February, 2012 (Takeo Kikkawa)

“Build-up of Japanese Petroleum Industry’s Competitiveness”
「日本石油産業の競争力構築 」

 

Takeo Kikkawa　(著)

Independent book: 350 pages
Publisher: The University of Nagoya Press
Release date: Feb. 29th, 2012
Size: 22×16× 2.9 cm

New Title Publication January, 2012 (Martin Iversen)

Global Shipping in Small Nations: Nordic Experiences After 1960

 

Edited by Martin Jes Iversen, Stig Tenold, Even Lange

Martin Jes Iversen, the overseas research partner, newly published the title.

EBHA 15th Annual Conference 2011 in Athens
Joint Session of Europe and Japan ”Competitive Advantage of Regions”

Date:

August 25th -27th, 2011（20a: 14:00－16:00, 20b: 16:30－18:30）

Venue:

Hellenic Open University, Athens

Contents:

The official website
【Session 20a/20b ”Competitive Advantage of Regions”】
The joint session of Europe and Japan, CARIS=BEA was organized on the first day of the meeting.
Panel Session Proposal
《Program》

【Part I】14:00-16:00

Chair:Julia Yongue (HōseiUniversity)
Discussant: Harm G. Schröter(Universityof Bergen)

Takafumi Kurosawa(Kyoto University)

Industry-specific Time and Space: Research Methodology, Concepts, and Implications in Japanese Studies on Industrial History

Keetie Sluyterman and Bram Bouwens (Utrecht University)

Longevity in regional specialisation: the Dutch dredging industry

Takeo Kikkawa(Hitotubashi University)

Beyond Product Lifecycleor Flying Geese:International Competitiveness of East Asian Region and the Japanese Position Within

【Part2】16:30-18:30

Chair:Bram Bouwens(Utrecht University)
Discussant: Tomoko Hashino(Kobe University)

Stig Tenold(Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)and
Martin Jes Iversen(Copenhagen Business School)

The International Competitiveness of Nordic Shipping, 1960-2010

Yuki Nakajima(Toyo University)

The role of SMEs in the development of Japanese consumer electronics industry after WWII”

Pierre-Yves Donzé(JSPS/Osaka University)

"Kill the Japs!":The Comeback of the Swiss Watch Industry on the World Market

EBHA Conference Glasgow, 2010

Date:

August 26th – 28th, 2010

Venue:

University of Glasgow, UK

Contents:

Conference Program