Dr Andrew Perchard, lecturer in business history and strategy, who joined the Department of Management in late January, has co-organised a conference on tin and the global economy at Harvard Business School later this month.Dr Andrew Perchard, lecturer in business history and strategy, who joined the Department of Management in late January, has co-organised a conference on tin and the global economy at Harvard Business School later this month.
Dr Rodolphe Desbordes, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Strathclyde, will also be presenting. This conference forms part of an initiative organised by Dr Perchard - alongside colleagues at HBS and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) - to explore raw materials and business-government relations. He has also organised a related panel at this year's European Business History Association - Business History Society of Japan joint conference in Paris in August.
Dr Andrew PerchardDr Perchard will see his monograph on the aluminium industry - Aluminiumville: Government, Global Business & the Scottish Highlands – published soon. Also out in the next few months is Dr Perchard's essay on relations between the aluminium industry and the UK government in edited collection, From Warfare to Welfare: Business-Government Relations in the Aluminium Industry (Tapir Akademisk Førlag).
This is to be followed in Spring 2013 by a second piece in another international edited collection, Bauxite, State and Society in the Twentieth Century (University of British Columbia Press). The last two collections arise from panels at the European Business History Association conference in Bergen in Summer 2008, and the XVth World Economic History Congress in Utrecht in 2009.