New Momentum

[Andrew Ross]

Business History Scholars,

Although Canadian business history is alive and well in a scholarly sense, the community has loosened over the last few years. In a bid to open channels of communication for scholarly discussion, we are reviving this listserv, and will also be setting up a related website to contain information that will be useful to scholars. Please feel free to forward this to scholars and students who may be interested.

1. Thanks to all those who were able to make the Canadian Historical Association meeting last week in Waterloo. We had a productive discussion about future directions of business history in Canada, and several concrete proposals will be acted upon. We will be inaugurating a seminar once a semester that will feature works-in-progress for discussion and commentary, and we will also be looking to sponsor some panels at next year's CHA meetings. We also discussed other venues for our work (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Business History Conference, European Group for Organization Studies, etc.) for which Calls for Papers will be publicized.

2. A message from Matthias Kipping (York) regarding a recent HBS business history teaching survey:

"Just wanted to follow up regarding the business history teaching survey carried out by people at the Harvard Business School...  It would be great... to get people to send a synopsis of their courses (following the attached samples) plus the full course outlines directly to Walter Friedman at HBS (wfri...@hbs.edu) by 15 June. Apologies for the short notice."

3. Please encourage all business historians to join the listserv by visiting our site at Google Groups. (Canadian Business Historians/historiens des affaires canadiens) (There is no requirement to be a member of the CHA or other formal organization to participate in the group.)

Let's keep our momentum going!

Andrew Ross 

List Moderator

University of Guelph