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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Organizational History Network is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Newsround: Join the AIB historical approaches to International Business Research webinar Also: ANU’s 70 years of business history research, CfP (Post)Colonial Business History Stephanie Decker FAcSS FBAM Oct 12   READ IN APP   Contents AIB Journals Webinar: Historical Approaches to IB Australia National University celebrates 70 years of business history research CfP: Beyond Centres New Perspectives on (Post)Colonial Business History Workshop, Vienna, Austria 1. AIB Journals Webinar: Integrating Historical Approaches in International Business 26 October @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm UTC Register now Date & Time: 26 October 2026, 13:00 UTC (View Local Time) Hosts: Journal of International Business Studies and AIB Research Methods Shared Interet Group Point of Contact: Carl Fey (cfey@fas.harvard.edu) Event Recording Access: Current AIB members will be able to access a recording of this event in the “AIB Video Archive” section of our login portal. New webinar recordings are typically posted within five business days of the original event date. Event Overview: Join us for a stimulating webinar on the potential of historical research and historical methodologies to contribute to international business theory. To do so, we will be discussing three recent publications from a special issue of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) on this topic. Each publication approached the integration of a historical perspective in a different way, providing inspiration for future research seeking to bridge history and international business. The webinar will be introduced by series moderator Carl Fey (BI Norwegian Business School and Harvard) and moderated by guest moderator Stephanie Decker (University of Birmingham) and will take the following format: An author of each article will present the highlights of their article. Guest editors will also be present at the webinar to comment on the novelty of each paper and how the author teams approached and resolved the challenges of interdisciplinary research. At the end of the webinar, we will have a panel discussion where the audience can ask questions to the paper presenters. This webinar is part of the JIBS/JIBP Webinar Series, which is currently run by Carl Fey from BI Norwegian Business School and Harvard and Stephanie Wang from Indiana University. ARTICLES TO BE DISCUSSED Kano, L., Ciravegna, L., Johnston, A. et al. Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild (2026). Journal of International Business Studies, 57, 477–498. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-025-00786-y Silva, A.F., Gomes, E., Vendrell-Herrero, F. et al. (2026). Revisiting the Uppsala model from a history-to-theory perspective: New lessons on network positioning from a global electric company . Journal of International Business Studies, 57, 577–596. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-026-00863-w Zhang, S., Lu, J.W. (2026). Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa. Journal of International Business Studies, 57, 536–554. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-025-00772-4 2. Celebrate 70 years of business history research at the Australian National University Tuesday 20 October 2026, McDonald Room, ANU Menzies Library, 5:00-6:30pm You are invited to a celebration of the study of business history at the ANU. Join the ANU Noel Butlin Archives Centre and the ANU Centre for Economic History for a celebration of the study of business history at the ANU. In 1950 Noel Butlin started research at Joseph Schumpeter’s Research Centre in Entrepreneurial History at Harvard University in 1950. At the Centre he developed a firm-perspective on Australia’s economic history. After Butlin took up an academic position at ANU in 1951, he started the acquisition of the first historical records of Australian companies. In 1956, now 70 years ago, Butlin published the booklet Business Records at the Australian National University. It identified the purpose and requirements of a repository of business records at the ANU. At that time, Butlin’s ideas for a repository were riding a wave. Australian companies mobilised historians like Geoffrey Blainey to write their histories. Firms saw value in learning from their past. The Business Archives Council of Australia had been established in 1954. At the ANU, Noel Butlin’s repository became the Archives of Business and Labour and after Noel’s passing in 1991 the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC). By the 1960s, ANU business historians such as Alan Barnard, Alan Hall and Helen Hughes published seminal studies. 70 years later, the NBAC has become an institution at the ANU and in Australia. Its many treasures tell stories that contribute to shaping Australia’s heritage. The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre supports its work and accepts tax-deductible donations that help preserve the NBAC collection of company records for posterity. On Tuesday 20 October 2026, join us at the ANU Menzies Library for three events: up to 5:15pm: explore the NBAC-curated exhibition on Australian shipping company Burns Philp; 5:15pm-5:45pm: Andrew Leigh MP launches the recently published book Global Enterprise in Australia: International Business Down Under since Federation. The book draws on the NBAC record holdings and is co-authored by Australia’s business historians Simon Ville, Pierre van der Eng, André Sammartino, David Merrett and Monica Keneley; 5:45-6:30pm: three business historians will celebrate Noel Butlin’s initiative and provide an overview of 70 years of business history in Australia and at the ANU: Professor Simon Ville (University of Wollongong), Professor Mark Wilson (ANU) and Associate Professor Pierre van der Eng (ANU). After 6:30pm, join us for discussion and drinks in the newly re-opened Fellows Garden of ANU University House and/or a meal at the ANU University House bistro. Location: McDonald Room, Menzies Library, 5:00pm - 6:30pm Organisation: ANU Noel Butlin Archives Centre and ANU Centre for Economic History Everyone welcome. No participation fees, but please register your participation via Humanitix. Hard copies of the book Global Enterprise in Australia: International Business Down Under since Federation will be for sale. Or order your copy online. 3. Call for Papers: Beyond Centres New Perspectives on (Post)Colonial Business History Organisers: Anka Steffen (University of Vienna) | Gijs Dreijer (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Location: Vienna (Austria), 15-17 April 2027 The business history of colonialism, imperialism and decolonisation has largely been written from the perspective of the centres of the “classical” colonial powers, rather than from territories that are not usually associated with colonial rule. As a result, the (post)colonial dimensions of businesses based in, for example, Central European regions stretching eastwards from the Oder-Neisse and Moldau rivers to the Balkans, or in parts of Central Asia, have received comparatively little attention. Many of these regions were themselves under foreign rule or subject to strong forms of occupation and external influence. In practice, a growing body of literature on the business history of colonialism in the early modern period has focused on major chartered companies such as the Dutch and English/British East India Companies. For the modern period, the British Empire has often served as the proverbial gold standard against which other cases have been measured. In recent years, however, historians have increasingly moved beyond these established cases by highlighting the transnational dynamics of European colonialism and imperialism between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as its aftermath in the postcolonial period. Nevertheless, this (post)colonial business history still tends to overlook the many cases in which actors – entrepreneurs and their businesses – from the so-called “margins”, “hinterlands”, or “peripheries” contributed to, facilitated, or profited from colonial and/or imperial expansion. This workshop seeks to broaden this debate and to rethink what may constitute (post)colonial/imperial business history beyond the established framework of the “classical” colonial empires, particularly Britain, France, (West) Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium and their activities in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. It explicitly asks whether, and in what ways, entrepreneurs and businesses located outside the conventional centres of colonial power can be integrated into the study of (post)colonial business history. We therefore welcome paper proposals that explore (post)colonial/imperial business histories from “noncentres”, broadly understood. This may include actors from “smaller” states who participated in the well-studied processes of European (post)colonialism/imperialism in the Global South. It may also include actors in or from regions and countries that are not commonly understood as (post)colonial/imperial in mainstream academic debates, such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, or Central Asia. Papers may be empirical, based on specific case studies, or theoretical, for example addressing the question of what should be understood as “(post)colonial”. We particularly welcome contributions that challenge established geographical, conceptual, or historiographical boundaries. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, or Central Asia and their business and entrepreneurial relationships with (post)colonialism and imperialism, and/or the region’s relationship with its own history from below, including the legacy of serfdom, as well as its imperial heritage; Business actors from smaller states/understudied regions in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, or Central Asia operating within, and in relation to, (post)colonial/imperial structures of other powers; The applicability of the concepts of (post)colonialism beyond the Global South, including the concept of “(post)colonial business history”, and its potential development; Decolonisation and its impact on actors and institutions located in the “noncentres” of global economic systems; Historiographical and theoretical interventions into the conceptualisation of (post)colonialism and imperialism, including questions of how these concepts can be applied beyond their conventional geographical and historiographical frameworks. Practical information To facilitate discussion and ensure that all participants have the opportunity to engage with each other’s work, the workshop will be kept small, with approximately 10–12 participants. Participants will be asked to submit a draft paper approximately one month before the workshop, by 15 March 2027. We may also invite senior scholars to serve as discussants for individual sessions. The workshop organisers envisage that selected papers will be developed for submission as a special issue to a leading journal specialising in global and/or imperial history. Further information will be provided during the workshop. The workshop will take place at the University of Vienna, Austria. Accommodation and refreshments during the workshop will generally be covered by the organisers. In some cases, we may also be able to contribute towards participants’ travel expenses. Priority for travel funding will be given to participants from underrepresented backgrounds and from the Global South. Applicants who wish to be considered for travel funding should indicate this in their submission and provide an approximate estimate of the amount required. Please submit an abstract of 300–350 words together with a brief biographical statement by 10 December 2026 to the organisers, Anka Steffen (anka.steffen@univie.ac.at) and Gijs Dreijer (dreijer@eshcc.eur.nl). Applicants will be notified of the outcome by 10 January 2027. Key dates Submission of abstracts: 10 December 2026 Notification of acceptance: 10 January 2027 Full paper due: 15 March 2027 Workshop: 15–17 April 2027 Thanks for reading History in Organizations! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share You're currently a free subscriber to History in Organizations. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid   Like Comment Restack   © 2026 Stephanie Decker Unsubscribe