Thursay 9 December

1.30 pm – 2 pm: Welcome coffee and registration

2 pm – 2.30 pm: Welcome Muriel Le Roux, Senior Researcher, CNRS-Maison Française

Eric Godelier (École Polytechnique), Muriel Le Roux, Albert David (Université Paris IX Dauphine) and Gilles

Garel (Université Paris-Est-Marne-La-Vallée) : Introduction  

12.30 pm – 5 pm: Emergence of a French Management 
Chair: Pr Eric Godelier

Speakers:

Hervé Le BRET, Société d’études Saint-Simoniennes (Paris), The Saint-Simonisme, Doctrine and Practice of Management

Nicolas GUILHOT, Université Lyon 3, From Mercy to Activity based Profitability: Chronicle of the Management Switch of the Hospital of Beaujeu (1705-1960) 

Eugénie BRIOT, Université Paris-Est, “To Sell Quantity” or “To Sell Expensive”? French Perfumery in the XIXth Century, the Making of a Luxury Industry 

Simona DE IULIO, Université de Strasbourg, Notes for a History of Advertising to Children: theories, methods and practices in France (1900-1970) 

Philippe MIOCHE, Université de Provence, History of Management at the Tilery  « des Milles » (South of France), 1882 – 2006

Comments: Marc Ventresca, Lecturer Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Fellow of Wolfson College, Associate Fellow of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS)

Jacqueline McGLADE, Georges Washington University (USA), Advancing Camaraderie Through Chemistry: The Role of French Corporate Partnership in Du Pont’s Development of Rayon”

Daniel BENAMOUZIG, CNRS-Maison Française, Economics at The Bedside of French Medicine (1950-1970)

Danièle FRABOULET, Université Paris 13, Robert Pinot's Action and The Social Policy of The Metalworking Industry Employers 

Antoine BERNARD de RAYMOND, INRA Dijon, Standardizing Fruit and Vegetable in Colonial Algeria: for a political history of management

Comments: Javier Lezaun, James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance, Fellow at Kellogg College

5 pm: Keynote Lecture

Professor Leslie HANNAH, London School of Economic, Contrasts in Business

Development in the US, Europe and Japan

6 – 6.30 pm Dialogue with the floor
 

Friday 10 December

9.30 am – 1 pm: Object Matters, Methods and Doctrines, a French Specificity?  
Chair: Pr Albert David 

Speakers: 

Edoardo ALTAMURA, Youssef CASSIS, Université de Genève, The Optimal Capital Structure and Financing Behaviour: A Brief Historical Review and New Evidences

Henri ZIMNOVITCH, Université Paris-Sud 11, An Unknown Aspect of the History of Cost Calculation 

Sébastien RICHEZ, Comité pour l’Histoire de La Poste, An Administration as a « Big Enterprise »: the Different Ways of Management in the French Post Office Before 1914 

Magali ROBELET, Benoît CRET, Université Lyon 3, Two Unconventional Organizational Forms Facing Institutional Isomorphism Within The Disabled Sector (1945-1965) 

Béatrice TOUCHELAY (Université Paris 12), Régis BOULAT (Université Paris 12-Université de Franche-Comté),

Clotilde DRUELLE-KORN (Université de Limoges), A Loose Managerial Conglomeration, Step by Step

Loïc LEROUGE, Université Bordeaux IV, The Right For The Protection of Mental Health in Workplace 

Ines DE LAVILLE, Université de Poitiers-CEPE, French Toys Makers and Their Social Responsibility with Childhood

Comments: Marc Thompson, Fellow in Strategy and Organisation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Academic Tutor and Fellow, Green Templeton College

12.30 pm:  Debate with the floor