Dr Andrew Perchard, Department of Strategy and Organisation, has been awarded The Betty Sams Christian-Mellon Fellowship in Business History for the second year in a row. This will allow him to return to pursue research into the Reynolds Metals Company at the Virginia Business History Center in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr Perchard's collection on the Global Tin Industry, jointly edited with History and Strategic Raw Materials Initiative (HSRMI) co-founders, Drs Mats Ingulstad and Espen Storli of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, will be published as part of the Routledge International Studies in Business History series.
In his preface for the book, Isidor Straus Professor of Business at Harvard Business School (HBS) and Chair of the HBS Business History Initiative, Geoffrey Jones, has this to say about A History of the Global Tin Industry, 1850 - 2000: The Devil's Metal: 'This book brings an impressively new perspective to the history of globalization… the primary achievement is the impressively global perspective, and the concern to provide a holistic account of the industry from producer to consumer worldwide. The multi-disciplinary and global approach of the book is a role model for an emergent history of capitalism in which business enterprises and markets are firmly located as actors within a broad economic, social and political environment.'
The collection arose from an international conference and seminar at HBS and SBS in 2012 and 2013 respectively, which received support from HBS, SBS and the Norwegian Research Council. It follows on the back of three recent books by the HSRMI co-founders about the global aluminium and bauxite industries. More details about HSRMI can be found here.