Planning3rd International Congress on Business History in FranceUniversité Paris Dauphine-PSL — 23–26 June 2026
Tuesday, 23 June
10:00 – 16:30
Doctoral School — Doctoral Workshop
Faculty: S. Damart, A. David, V. Pouillard, S. Kott, E. Godelier
Participants: A. Mansouri, B. de Saint Florent, E. Angeles, J. Reutzel, K. Yunohk, N. Soucha
17:30
Welcome — Opening of the Congress
President of Paris Dauphine · A. David · E. Godelier
18:00 – 19:30
Inaugural Conference — Round Table
From the Core to the Margins of Business: New Intellectual, Methodological and Practical Challenges
Chairs: E. Godelier & A. David
Glenda Sluga (EUI) · Małgorzata Mazurek (Columbia) · Franck Aggeri (ENS Mines Paris-PSL) · Pierre-Yves Donzé (Osaka)
19:30 – 21:00
Welcome reception
Wednesday, 24 June
8:30
Registration
9:00 – 10:30
Parallel Sessions I
I-A
At the Margins of Shipping Companies: Shore-Based Occupations, Subsidiaries, Tourism
Chair: Angelo Riva | Discussant: Dominique Barjot
J. Debeauvais (CMA-CGM)
V. Harel (French Lines)
S. Charret (CMA-CGM)
F. Crayssac (French Lines)
I-B
EBHA Special Session — At the Margins of Business: Borders, Material Legacies, and Sector Formation
Chair: M. Bertilorenzi | Discussant: V. Fava
I. Yányshev-Nésterova — The Soviet Far Eastern Bank in interwar Republican China
L. Kràtka — Czech IT field in the 1990s
A. Kuznetov & I. Tchalakov — Practical origins of Space Entrepreneurship
I-C
Engineers between Centre and Margins (1)
Chair: F. Le Bot | Discussant: A. Michel
A. Grelon (EHESS) — The transformation of CNAM in the 20th century
A. Pierrel — Apprenticeship engineers
Wen Wen — French engineers in China: the Chollot case (1861–1938)
I-D
Borders and Global Development
Chair: Ben Wubs | Discussant: A. Schneider
J. Yongue (Hosei) — Japan's renewable energy industry
L. Barré (Ghent) — European importers, African retailers (1950–1990)
A. Almaraz — Cross-border business, Tijuana–San Diego (1916–1935)
I-E
Informal Employment, Decent Work and Formalisation of Informal Labour
Chair: D. Barjot | Discussant: L. Hilaire-Perez (TBC)
A. Frontenaud — Informal employment and wage gaps, MENA countries (2010–2025)
E. Baumann — Labour relations in post-Soviet Georgia
M.-P. Chelini — Informal labour in India (Telangana)
I-F
Michelin over Time and Space: Centres, Margins and Third Zones
Chair: Bram Bouwens | Discussant: S. Damart
R. A. Mounecif — Preserving and transmitting Michelin's memory
M.-C. Demain-Frackowiak — Corporate heritage at Michelin
L.-F. Franchet d'Espèrey — Individual and collective memory: digital methods
I-G
Images, Innovation and History
Chair: É. Vasseur | Discussant: M. Le Roux
N. Le Guern (C2RMF) — Karl Schinzel, Kodak and colour film (1936–1951)
È. Lamendour (La Rochelle) — Strikes and disruption in film representations (1904–1913)
A. Barreau & C. de La Barre (BnF) — Collections and business history at the BnF
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Plenary Round Table
Corporate Archives, Heritage and Memory: From the Margins to the Core
Chair: Alain Michel
C. Castanie (AAF) · M. Lacoume (BNP Paribas) · …
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Parallel Sessions II
II-A
Engineers between Centre and Margins (2)
Chair: A. Michel | Discussant: A. Grelon
M. Efmertova (CTU Prague) — From Kolben to Sousedík
I. Gouzevitch (CMH/EHESS) — The professional careers of an Enlightenment engineer
M. Mille (EPHE-SAPRAT) — A. Brongniart at the Sèvres porcelain manufactory (1800–1845)
J.-P. Williot (Sorbonne) — The first generation of École Centrale graduates
II-B
Firms and Entrepreneurs at the Margins: Databases and Data Banks
Chair: R. Congost Colomer | Discussant: S. Poublanc
B. Deschanel (Avignon) — Identifying peripheral entrepreneurs in the Uzès region (18th c.)
N. Marty (Perpignan) — Iron masters of the eastern Pyrenees
F. Minel (Lyon 3) — Financing wool entrepreneurs (1680–1780)
II-C
Brownfields: Industrial Margins and Aluminium (1)
Chair: V. Nègre | Discussant: L. K. Morisset
S. Dégeorges (CAUE 74) — The Forges de Cran, an emblematic industrial heritage
O. Lambert & L. Rémy (AMU/IHA) — The aluminium technical centre, Paris 15th
É. Vieux — The Musée des Gueules rouges, memory of French bauxite
II-D
French Steel (1): The Historical Origins of Current Difficulties
Chair: J.-P. Birat | Discussant: J.-P. Passaqui
É. Godelier (École Polytechnique) — A programmed disappearance?
Ph. Mioche (Aix-Marseille) — State or market: nationalisation or privatisation
H. Joly (CNRS/Lyon) — Are Polytechniciens steel makers?
II-E
Crossed Trajectories: Italy vs France — Special "Italy" Session
Chair: M. Martini | Discussant: J. Dankers
G. Centanaro — Two shareholders and two countries at war (BFISA)
C. Veggia — Developmental States and steel modernisation, France & Italy (1947–1953)
L. Segreto — Italians and the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (1932–1945)
II-F
Religion at the Margins of Business?
Chair: S. Pitteloud | Discussant: S. Pitteloud
M.-E. Chessel (Sciences Po/CNRS) — French Catholic industrialists and the Moral Rearmament (1947–1955)
S. Dolbeau (EFR) — Management techniques in French Catholicism
A. Jusseaume (Artois) — Nuns in business (late 19th–early 20th c.)
S. Kott (Geneva/NYU) — Moralising the firm: responsible religious investment (1970–1990)
II-G
Organising and Thinking Organisation
Chair: P.-Y. Donzé | Discussant: F. Aggeri
R. Hachana & P. Gilormini — Thinking crisis: a dialogue between Höhn and Sloan
V. Pouillard — Philips in Africa (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, 1950–1980)
E. Sánchez — Spain 1992: French multinationals in major public works
II-H
Assets and Capital in Globalization
Chair: A. Schneider | Discussant: A. Almaraz
A. Hefetz (HBS) — Banking, Empire, and Capitalist Zionism
R. Castro (UAM) — Intellectual Property Rights in MNEs over the Long Run
A. Riva & A. Secchi (INSEEC/Paris 1) — Capital structure, French firms (1900–1950)
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
Parallel Sessions III
III-A
French Steel (2): Disappearance or Transformation?
Chair: É. Godelier | Discussant: Ph. Mioche
J.-P. Passaqui (IHMC) — The last fires of French steel?
S. Edelblutte (Lorraine) — Steel landscapes
J.-P. Birat (IF-Steelman) — Where is steel heading?
III-B
Between Private and Public: The Cooperative Sector?
Chair: Y. Cassis | Discussant: J.-Ph. Bouilloud
C. Le Corroller (Caen) — The cooperative narrative: Acome members in Normandy
L. Andrien (Sciences Po) — Privatisation of the medico-social sector
A. Blin (Sorbonne Nouvelle) — American cooperatives in Wisconsin (1870–1940)
III-C
The Aluminium Centenary: Hall, Héroult and Innovation Strategies (2)
Chair: D. Barjot | Discussant: M. Reverdy
M. Bertilorenzi (Padova) — Paul T. Héroult: patents and international careers
O. Lambert (AMU/IHA) — The aluminium technical centre
L. Morisset (UQAM) — Charles Martin Hall, one hundred years of eternal youth
III-D
Tourism (1): Forms and Evolutions of a Growing Sector (19th–21st c.)
Chair: L. Tissot | Discussant: A.-M. Granet
M. Hoummad — Digital tourism economy and marginalised actors in Morocco
É. Faugier (Lyon 2) — Tourism and motoring
J. Vincent (Angers) — Local tourism planning in the Vendée
É. Galasso (Sorbonne) — Hotel chains and public policy in France (1960–1990)
Ch. Bouneau (Bordeaux Montaigne) — The Montreux-Oberland railway (1901–1945)
III-E
Legitimacy and Status
Chair: K. Yago | Discussant: R. Nougaret
E. Jamet (Paris 1) — The Société des dépôts et comptes courants in the 19th c.
M. Nefti & G. Gond (Tours) — Accountants and environmental reporting (1990s)
III-F
Towards the Formalisation of Labour?
Chair: S. Kott | Discussant: M.-P. Chelini
Y. Nakamatsu (Hokkai-Gakuen) — Informal labour in Nîmes silk industry (18th c.)
D. Eve — Cistercian iron-making in Champagne and Burgundy
III-G
Territories, Profit and Agriculture
Chair: L. Hilaire-Perez (TBC) | Discussant: A. Riva
M.-P. Vaslet (Tours) — Wine merchants of Meymac-près-Bordeaux
Y. Altukhova-Nys (Reims) — Profit, agrarianism and peasant accounting (1920s)
A. Hurova (Perpignan) — Wine territories in post-crisis Europe
III-H
Is Public History Still at the Margins of Academic and Business History? (1)
Chair: C. Brice | Discussant: A. Michel
S. Noiret (IDHE.S/EUI) — Public history entrepreneurs internationally
T. Cauvin (Luxembourg) — A transatlantic perspective on public history
P. Le Clere & R. Mounecif (Perles d'Histoire) — Historical engineering and heritage
17:30 – 19:00
Visit to the Management Museum, Paris-Dauphine PSL (A. David) — in English, 25 places
Thursday, 25 June
8:30
Registration
9:00 – 10:30
Parallel Sessions IV
IV-A
Engineers between Centre and Margins (3)
Chair: A. Grelon | Discussant: F. Le Bot
E.-S. Mouret — Road surveyors in the 19th century
B. Cabot (Sciences Po) — Mining engineers and extractive overflows (1880–1920)
A. P. Michel (IDHE.S, Évry) — "Sidelining" as a paradoxical creative practice
IV-B
Metallurgy Firms
Chair: J. Dankers | Discussant: H. Joly
E. H. Mark (Erasmus/Bonn) — Northern Operations: American finance and Napoleonic naval reconstruction
M. Degraeve (VUB) — Parisian plumbers: small-scale business and urban change (c. 1850–1940)
C. Dondeyne (UBO) — Naval repair industry in Brest
IV-C
The Margins of Mining: Firms between France and Italy (19th–20th c.)
Chair: M. Santoro | Discussant: M. Martini
F. Sanna (Toulouse 2) — Mediterranean mining slag in the 19th c.
J.-P. Passaqui (IHMC) — Mining waste: inventory and exploitation
M. Astore, M. Perugini & M. Santoro — Extractive industries in Fascist Italy (1934–1940)
M. Bertilorenzi — The myth of self-sufficiency: Italian raw materials sector (1930s)
IV-D
At the Edges of Globalisation
Chair: É. Mathis | Discussant: V. Pouillard
S. Abou El Alla (Meknès) — Industrial margins and innovation in globalisation
M. Ferre — Individual firms at the confluence of economic, social and institutional forces
D. Barjot (Sorbonne) — Réunion: entrepreneurial spirit as a crisis recovery lever
IV-E
Public Networks, Private Networks
Chair: J.-Ph. Bouilloud | Discussant: C.-F. Mathis
T. Irmer (Berlin) — Large firms and SMEs in Berlin's electrical industry (~1900)
S. Kihm (ISTEC) — Renault and the false starts of electric vehicles (1972–2020)
S. Ramirez Perez (ULB) — French state-owned firms at CEEP (1961–1991)
IV-F
Developing New Assets
Chair: K. Yago | Discussant: Y. Cassis
F. Cezar (Mines Saint-Étienne) — Organisational history of French professional football
A. Riva & A. Secchi — Parisian investors, Belle Époque to Great Depression
K. Yunohk (IDHE.S) — French luxury brands in South Korea (1960–1990)
IV-G
Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Innovators
Chair: F. Aggeri | Discussant: R. Buquet
S. Le Tollec-Moreau (HT2S, Cnam/CNES) — Is European New Space at the margins of the space sector?
G. Garel & L. Petitgirard (Cnam) — The invention of the bicycle
P. Mounier-Kuhn (CNRS/ISHS) — The early calculating machine industry (1820–1920)
IV-H
Tourism (2): Forms and Evolutions of a Growing Sector (19th–21st c.)
Chair: É. Galasso | Discussant: L. Tissot (TBC)
É. Faugier (Lyon 2) — Tourism and motoring
J. Vincent (Angers) — Local tourism planning in the Vendée
Ch. Bouneau (Bordeaux Montaigne) — The Montreux-Oberland railway (1901–1945)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Parallel Sessions V
V-A
Is Public History Still at the Margins of Academic and Business History? (2)
Chair: T. Cauvin | Discussant: A. Michel
F. Julien (Paris 8) — Underground industrial heritage
M.-K. Schaub (UPEC) & M.-E. Rakuzin (BNP Paribas) — (title TBC)
Ph. Mioche (Aix-Marseille) — Coexisting memories at the Les Milles tileworks
V-B
Peripheral Industrial Landscapes: Firms, Territories and Strategic Infrastructures in Interwar Central Europe
Chair: S. Kott | Discussant: M. Mazurek
J. Bassetta (CTU Prague) — CELDIT: productive resilience and frontier industry
D. Kyselka (CTU Prague) — Czechoslovakia's aviation industry in the 1920s–1930s
M. Hrtus (CTU Prague) — Power companies and modernisation in interwar Czechoslovakia
V-C
Innovation Dynamics at the Margins of Aerospace and Space (1960s–Present)
Chair: M. Le Roux | Discussant: C. Radtka
R. Buquet (ISAE-SUPAERO) — SpaceX and ArianeGroup: innovation from the margins
C. Juilliet (HT2S, Cnam) — Hydrogen for civil aviation
S. Le Tollec-Moreau (HT2S, Cnam/CNES) — European New Space
V-D
On the Border of Home and Business: The Legal Status of the Business Owner's Spouse (17th–21st c.)
Chair: M. Nicolas | Discussant: C. Dondeyne
A. Ballot-Léna (UBO)
G. Goffaux Callebot (Orléans)
V. Le Breton-Blon (Nanterre/IDHE.S)
V-E
Business under Tension: Geographical, Social and Technological Margins in the Interwar Period
Chair: D. Barjot | Discussant: V. Fava
J. Rodriguez (COLEF/CTU Prague) — Locomotives ordered by Colombia from Škoda (1928–1929)
A. Mansouri (CTU Prague) — The Bata empire in Zlín (1918–1945)
E. Angeles (CTU Prague) — Hydroelectric landscapes in Bohemia (1918–1939)
V-F
The Chemical Industry Centered on the Rhine and its "Margins"
Chair: S. Pitteloud | Discussant: N. Marty
C. Marx (IfZ Munich) — Site selection and business policy at Bayer (1960s–1980s)
N. Denzer (UniDistance Suisse/UZH) — Chemical industry and the 1976 Rhine pollution treaty
P. Turberg (Lausanne) — Swiss and West German pharmaceutical firms in UN debates (1960–1980)
V-G
End(s) of Cycle: The Marginalisation of Productive Activities in the Alps
Chair: L. Tissot | Discussant: Ch. Bouneau
A. Dalmasso (Grenoble Alpes) — Electric Alps: from margins to energy core and back (1880–2025)
A.-M. Granet (Grenoble Alpes) — Invisibilisation, marginalisation, heritagisation in the Alps
L. Lorenzetti (USI) — Industrialisation, concealment, naturalisation in Ticino (20th c.)
V-H
Capitalism's Favorite Child: Global Fashion Business since 1850
Chair: J. Dankers | Discussant: C. Depeyre
P.-Y. Donzé (Osaka)
B. Wubs (Erasmus)
V. Pouillard (Oslo)
G. Garel (Cnam)
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Plenary Round Table — Meet the Editors
Writing and Publishing in Business History
Participants: A. Rouquet (RFG) · R. Castro Balaguer & E. Sanchez (Revista de Historia Industrial) · N. Marty (Entreprises et Histoire) · B. Wubs (TBC)
Chairs: N. Marty, A. David
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00
Closing Session
Doctoral students' synthesis · Closing Keynote: "At the Margins of Capitalism"
Leslie Hannah (London School of Economics)
19:00
Closing reception · Dinner (reservation recommended before 23 June)
Friday, 26 June
10:00 – 16:00
Visits and Archives
Visit 1 — Air and Space Museum11:00 · 40 places
Visit 2 — Musée des Arts et Métiers / CNAM15:00 · 20 places
Visits 3A & 3B — Maison Chaumet10:30 & 14:00 · 2×20 places
Visit 4C — Management Museum, Dauphine10:30 · 25 places
Visit 5 — BnF Archives11:15 · 30 places
Pre-registration required
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