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26946 results in Economic history

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  • IBM's Tiny Peripheral: Finland and the Tensions of Transnationality

  • Petri Paju, Thomas Haigh
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 92 / Issue 1 / Spring 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 March 2018, pp. 3-28
    Print publication:
    Spring 2018

  • IBM Finland, a small national subsidiary, was at once a Finnish business and an interface to much larger networks of technological innovation and knowledge sharing. We contextualize its development within a nested set of institutions and identities: IBM's Nordic operations, its European business, and its World Trade Corporation. Its development was profoundly shaped by Finland's unique geopolitical position during the Cold War. IBM's internal structures anticipated and paralleled those of the European Union, with mechanisms for international cooperation, for the creation of transnational identities, and for the resolution and regulation of disputes between national subsidiaries.

Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920–1980
  • William L. Patch
  • Published online:
    09 March 2018
    Print publication:
    15 March 2018
  • Why has democracy flourished in the Federal Republic of Germany despite that country's troubled past? Exhaustive research in German historical archives illuminates the pivotal role played by the veterans of the Christian trade unions of the Weimar Republic, the only group to participate in both of Germany's most successful political experiments after 1945, a 'Christian Democratic' party to unite Catholics and Protestants, and unified labor unions for workers of all political outlooks. They perceived that feuds between the religious confessions and competition among three rival labor federations had greatly facilitated Hitler's rise, and they resolved to bridge both chasms. Playing an influential role on the left wing of the CDU from the 1950s to the 1970s, Christian laborites alleviated class conflict through new welfare programs and laws to grant workers a powerful voice in management decisions. They took the lead in forging the distinctive 'German Model' for labor relations.

  • The origins of Swiss wealth management? Genevan private banking, 1800–1840

  • Stefano Ugolini
  • Journal:
    Financial History Review / Volume 25 / Issue 2 / August 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 March 2018, pp. 161-182

  • Geneva is host to the most ancient and venerable private banks of Switzerland, but not much is known about the circumstances in which the city allegedly developed an early competitive advantage in wealth management. Using an extraordinary qualitative source (Jacques Mirabaud's papers, and especially his memoirs), this article outlines the microstructure of Genevan private banking at the time of its emergence in the early nineteenth century. It finds that in those years, wealth managers’ ‘raw material’ did not consist of foreign capital, but of a remarkably abundant stock of domestic capital. Financial and social factors were intertwined in producing a very hierarchical division of labour in the origination and distribution of international sovereign loans.

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