Universität Wien

040120 VO Business History (VO) (2015W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Details

max. 200 participants
Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 06.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 06.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 13.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 13.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 20.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 20.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 27.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 27.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 03.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 03.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 10.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 10.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

6 October 2015 Introduction
The structure and performance of modern business

13 October 2015 Corporate ownership, governance, and finance

20 October 2015 Research and development

27 October 2015 Production

3 November 2015 Market structure and firm behavior

10 November 2015 Internationalization and globalization

17 November 2015 Written examination (60 Minutes)

Assessment and permitted materials

Written exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Abe de Jong, Alisa Roeell, and Gerarda Westerhuis
Changing national business systems: Corporate governance and financing in the Netherlands, 1945-2005
Business History Review, 84 (4), 2010, 773-798

James Foreman-Peck and Leslie Hannah
Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control
Business History, 55 (4), 2013, 540-561

Research and development
D.C. Mowery
The relationship between intrafirm and contractual forms of industrial research in American manufacturing, 1900-1940
Explorations in Economic History, 20 (4), 1983, 351-374

D.C. Mowery
Firm structure, government policy, and the organization of industrial research – Great Britain and the United States, 1900-1950
Business History Review, 58 (4), 1984, 504-531

Carsten Burhop
Pharmaceutical research in Wilhelmine Germany: The case of E. Merck
Business History Review, 83 (3), 2009, 475-503

Zorina Khan
Selling ideas: An international perspective on patenting and markets for technological innovations, 1790-1930
Business History Review, 87 (1), 2013, 39-68

Production
D.G.M. Raff
Making cars and making money in the interwar automobile industry. Economies of scale and scope and the manufacturing behind the marketing
Business History Review, 65 (4), 1991, 721-753

K. Williams, C. Haslam, J. Williams, A. Adcroft, and S. Johal
The myth of the line – Ford production of the model T at Highland Park, 1909-16
Business History, 35 (3), 1993, 66-87

M. Schwartz and A. Fish
Just-in-time inventories in old Detroit
Business History, 40 (3), 1998, 48-

James M. Wilson and Alan McKinlay
Rethinking the assembly line: Organisation, performance and productivity in Ford Motor Company, c. 1908-1927
Business History, 52 (5), 2010, 760-778

Market structure and markting
N.F. Koehn
Henry Heinz and brand creation in the late nineteenth century: Making markets for processed food
Business History Review, 73 (3), 1999, 349-393

Garben Bakker
Building knowledge about the consumer: The emergence of market research in the motion picture industry
Business History, 45 (1), 2003, 101-

R. Fitzgerald
Products, firms and consumption: Cadbury and the development of marketing, 1900-1939
Business History, 47 (4), 2005, 511-531

S. Clarke
Closing the deal: GM’s marketing dilemma and its franchised dealers, 1921-41
Business History, 45 (1), 2003, 60-

Internationalization and globalization
Mira Wilkens
Comparative hosts
Business History, 36 (1), 1994, 18-50

Mira Wilkins
European and North American Multinationals 1870-1914: Comparison and contrast
Business History, 30 (1), 1988, 8-45.

Anja Hagen
German direct investment in the U.K., 1871-1918
Business History, 41 (2), 1999, 37-

Anja Hagen
Patents legislation and German FDI in the British chemical industry before 1914
Business History Review, 71 (3), 1997, 351-380


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