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Associate Archivist at The Coca-Cola Company archives Location: Atlanta, GA - US Position Overview: The Coca-Cola Company archives is the sole repository of the Company and supports global associates and teams as well as external stakeholders with historical research, materials, and experiences. The Associate Archivist will work on processing a variety of collections of memorabilia and records maintained by the Archives department. This will include organizing, arranging and describing, appraising and preserving materials including packaging, paper and booklet collections, marketing and advertising, print, photography, memorabilia, and moving images. Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities: Arrange, describe, and process collections in accordance with established archival practices Support research inquiries from global associates and external requests by providing hands-on research assistance, answering reference questions, and providing access to materials As...

Fast x Slow Fashion: Experiences of Fashionable Consumption, 1720-2020 Call for Papers Symposium at the Leeds City Museum March 13, 2020 Shopping for fashion is about more than economic exchange and the acquisition of material goods. It is about the performance and negotiation of fashionable identity, sensory stimulation and visual pleasure. Fashion retailers provide spaces in which individuals can reinvent themselves and negotiate their relationships to wider society, and consumer desire provides an opportunity for business people to build retail empires that change the dressing habits of nations. Fashion retail is often at the forefront of social and economic change, with the way that publicity, merchandising and spectacle is used to sell fashion evolving in response to changing technologies of fashionable production and communication. Historically, there have been many different sites of fashionable consumption, from street markets to boutiques and spectac...

[From Anne McCants, Valeria Pinchera, and Ellan Spero] Dear Colleagues, We invite you to participate in a workshop "Roots of Production: National Value, Design, and Technology in Historical Perspective" at MIT April 3-4, 2020 ( Deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2020 ).  This workshop is part of a larger collaborative project "Waves of Globalization, Between Tradition and Innovation" shared by Anne McCants, Ellan Spero (MIT), and Valeria Pinchera (University of Pisa). How does the value and associated narrative of “nation” take hold amidst the global challenges of industrialization? What factors (material/immaterial, value, and other differentiators) determine the emergence, consolidation, or even decline of nationally-branded industrial sectors? This workshop invites scholars interested in understanding the intersection of nation, manufacturing, design and technology, and the co-production of these narratives in shaping industrial sector...

Business and Economic History On-Line Editor https://thebhc.org/index.php/search-new-business-and-economic-history-line-editor Overview The Business and Economic History Online (BEH Online) is looking for a new Editor. The BEH Online ( https://www.thebhc.org/beh-online-home ) is an online journal featuring a selection of papers presented at the Business History Conference’s (BHC) annual meeting. The Editor is responsible for the overall quality of the intellectual content of the journal; for overseeing, along with the Co-Editor, the review process to select papers that provide new, original, and important contributions to the field of business history; and upholding the mission and scope of the journal. The primary source of content for the journal is papers presented at the BHC annual meeting. This is an uncompensated position; there is no salary . The new editor can reside in any country. Duties The Editor oversees the mission and scope of the journal in consultation wit...

The Business History Conference announces its search for a new Web Editor to oversee its online presence as an organization. https://thebhc.org/index.php/search-new-bhc-web-editor The new editor will succeed the current editor, Shane Hamilton, who will be permanently stepping down as of March 2020. The new editor's term would officially start in December 2019 (running for four months concurrent with the current editor), runs for three years, and is renewable. The BHC is in a position to budget modest funds to support this position, preferably in conjunction with matching support from an institution. The new editor can reside in any country. The responsibilities of the Web Editor include the following: Posting annual meeting materials. This involves proactively contacting stakeholders for relevant information for the meeting program, and uploading information for attendees in advance of the meeting. These duties, running from approximately December to March, constitute...

Job vacancy: Assistant Professor in Economic History at Bocconi University Deadline for applications is January 7th, 2020 The successful candidate is expected to teach at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Knowledge of Italian is not required.  Applicants should hold or expect a PhD in economic history, economics or equivalent before 1 September 2020. Terms of employment are competitive. The successful applicant will have to demonstrate strong potential in research, and an ability to publish in top international journals in business history and general economic history. Applications should be received by 7 January 2020 via the on-line form using PDF attachments here . Candidates may be invited to give a job talk at Bocconi. To ensure full consideration, applicants must submit : a scientific curriculum vitae; titles, publications, and documents which the candidates intend to submit for this evaluation; the name of at least three highly-qualified academic refere...

Organizing for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal & Resistance University of Hamburg July 2–4, 2020 Hamburg, Germany Sub-theme 31: Intricacies of Organizational Stability and Change: Historical Imprints, Path Dependencies and Beyond Convenors: Christopher Marquis, Cornell University, USA, cmarquis@cornell.edu Georg Schreyögg, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, & University of Graz, Austria, georg.schreyoegg@fu-berlin.de Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, joerg.sydow@fu-berlin.de Call for Papers This sub-theme seeks to bring together researchers from all over the world who study how organizations deal with change when they are confronted with processes that promote stability, including imprinting, path dependence and inertia more generally. The aim is to foster exchange of fresh empirical insights and new theoretical ideas to further understand stabilizing and destabilizing mechanisms in organizations and inter-organizational relati...