Congress

BHSJ Congress and Fuji Conference

BHSJ Congresses, which meet at universities around Japan for two days every fall, feature research presentations for 50 minutes, panel discussions for 180 minutes, and a plenary for 180 minutes. Since the 50th Congress at Bunkyo Gakuin University, the gathering has also included an international session every other year, inheriting the Fuji Conference tradition. BHSJ has been discussing several significant, up-to-date issues relating to business history in the plenary sessions—topics not specific to Japan but rather applicable to the global community. See below for details.

Past plenary sessions

2019 The modern entrepreneur group from Keio University: The relationship between educational background and career path

2018 Situating business history: Going beyond national, disciplinary, and methodological boundaries

2017 Local companies in global market: The case of the Fukui prefecture

2016 Comparative studies on general electrical manufacturers in Japan, Germany, and the United States

2015 The evolution on railway technology in East Asia

2014 New horizons in business history

2013 Marketing and manufacturers in business history

2012 The impact of the financial system change on corporate management after the World War II

2011 From local to global

2010 Entrepreneurship in the frontier region

2009 Tradition & innovation: The message from Kyoto companies

2008 What was the “distribution revolution” in the high-growth period of Japan?

2007 Entrepreneurship and regional regeneration

2006

2005 Organizational capabilities of multinational enterprises in Japan after World War II

2004 Transitions in customer-oriented management from the perspectives on demand and consumption creation

2003 The competition between big businesses and SMEs