XIX World Economic History Congress, 2022, Paris

Section: Resources of Entrepreneurship – The Case of East Central Europe (website here)

Organizers: Ágnes Pogány, Judit Klement (ELTE BTK Business History Research Group), with Mária Hidvégi

Presentations:

• Eduard Kubu, Barbora Stolleova (Prague): Beggar Entrepreneur. Beggar production concessions in Bohemia in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Žarko Lazarevic (Ljubljana): Family firms in Slovenia up to World War II - Case of Tönnies family
• Ágnes Pogány, Judit Klement (Budapest): Resources of Entrepreneurship in East-Central Europe − the case of the Hungarian Flour-Milling Industry before 1945 
• Roman Holec (Bratislava): Resources of entrepreneurship: Czech company Baťa compared to Slovak company Pálka (1900−1929)
• Tomasz Olejniczak (Warsaw): Ephemerals? Population ecology of Polish companies in the aftermath of World War I (1918−1921)
• Jan Slavíček (Prague): Between Business, Politics, Self-help and Professional Representation: Cooperatives in the Bohemian Lands in 1918-1938
• Eduard Kubu, Jiri Sousa (Prague): Doing business with a political purpose. From the National Social Workers’ Printing Cooperative to the Melantrich Joint Stock Company
• Mária Hidvégi (Budapest): Innovation capacity as a strategic resource, the influence of the changing institutional environment: the example of Tungsram
• Pál Germuska (Budapest): Entrepreneurial skills of state-owned military industrial enterprises: Business-making in socialist Hungary
• Damian Bębnowski (Lodz): The First 'Treuhandanstalt' in East Germany in 1990

Discussants: Harm Schröter, Andreas Resch (Vienna)