Call for papers: Uses of the Past by Enterprises in Central-Eastern Europe (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine October 23–24, 2020)
- Thursday, 22 October, 2020 - Saturday, 24 October, 2020
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The Ukrainian Catholic University and the European Business History Association invite scholars and Ph.D. students of any relevant discipline to submit paper proposals in a broad range of topics related to the uses of the past by firms in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). In the context of this workshop, we wish to approach the past as a resource, which is used or can be used by business organizations for their purposes in the present and the future. We understand history as performative interpretation, a tool that helps actors make sense of the past and present and build towards the future. We focus on uses of the past in CEE; however, case studies on other regions are also welcome in case they deepen our understanding of “uses of the past” by CEE enterprises.
The above understanding of history appears nowadays in more and more, specific areas of the discipline, replacing a traditional interpretation of history as being synonymous with the past. Business organizations also tend to see it now as a symbolic resource available for a wide variety of creative uses such as branding, strategy, and identity creation. However, CEE presents a special case in this respect, since most of the enterprises in the region experienced a discontinuity due to the socialist era and the corresponding processes of nationalization. When the Communist regimes collapsed, new capitalist companies were established, many of them on the premises of former socialist enterprises. They faced the problem of how to handle socialist heritage, which was economically and environmentally unsustainable, and often considered as an uncomfortable past. Read more: https://humaniora.ucu.edu.ua/…/call-papers-uses-past-enter…/

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