(Instituto Rocasolano, CSIC, Serrano, 119, Madrid, 30th and 31st October 2008)

(Preconference of a session in the XVth World Economic History Congress Utrecht 2009)

Organisers: Gabriel TORTELLA (University of Alcala), Jose L. GARCIA-RUIZ (Complutense University),

Youssef CASSIS (University of Geneva) and Pierangelo TONINELLI (University of Milano-Bicocca)


Phone number of the Instituto Rocasolano: (+34) 91 561 94 00. Free admission.

Contact email for papers: José Luis García Ruíz

8:30 Welcome address

9:00 Entrepreneurship and Business Performance: Europe in the Twentieth Century,

Youssef Cassis (University of Geneva)

10:00 Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy: a Reconsideration,

Franco Amatori (Bocconi University)

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 The Determinants of Entrepreneurship in 20th Century Spain: an Empirical Analysis,

Jose L. Garcia-Ruiz (Complutense University)

12:30 A Regional Approach to Entrepreneurship. Family Capitalism and the Construction

of a Regional System of Innovation in Catalonia, Paloma Fernandez (University of Barcelona)

and Nuria Puig (Complutense University)

13:30 Lunch

16:00 Nature or Nurture? Factors of Entrepreneurship: a Comparative Approach, Gabriel Tortella

(University of Alcala), Gloria Quiroga (University of Alcala) and Ignacio Moral (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica)

17:00 Mapping Italian Entrepreneurs: a Quantitative Approach, Pierangelo Toninelli

(University of Milano-Bicocca) and Michelangelo Vasta (University of Siena)

18.00 End of the first session

9:00 Entrepreneur(ship) in the Nascent Corporate Sector of Greece, 1830-1930: Typology,

Strategy and Economic Agency, Ioanna P. Minoglou (Athens University of Economics and Business)

10:00 Muslim Entrepreneurs, Uncertainty and Interest Rates in the Ottoman Empire and

Qajar Iran, Gad G. Gilbar (University of Haifa)

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Entrepreneurship and Values in Latin American Culture, 1850-2000. From Modernization

and Dependency Theories Toward an Economic and Business History Perspective,

Carlos Davila (University of the Andes)

12:30 Entrepreneurial Culture or Institutions? A Twentieth Century Resolution, James Foreman-Peck

(Cardiff Business School) and Peng Zhou

13:30 Lunch

16:00 The Role of Financial Conglomerates in Industry Formation: Evidence from Meiji Japan,

1868-1912, John Tang (University of California, Berkeley)

17:00 Entrepreneurial India: Reengineering West or Rediscovering Self, Vipin Gupta (Simmons

College School of Management, Boston)

18:00 Closing remarks