Bram Bouwens is researcher at the Department of History and Art History of Utrecht University. He published widely on competition and concentration especially on business interest associations, cartels, mergers and acquisitions. He participated in the Dutch business history project that focused on the Varieties of Capitalism during the 20th century. The results of this research project were published in several articles and books (see for example: K. Sluyterman (ed.), Varieties of Capitalism and Business History; Routledge 2015) In commissioned research projects Bram wrote studies on the history of the paper and board industry, Heineken, Tata Steel and very recently a book on Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM). In 2018 he co-edited (with Takafumi Kurosawa and Pierre-Yves Donzé the volume Industries and global competition; a history of business beyond borders (Routledge).

Pierre-Yves Donzé is a professor of business history at Osaka University, Japan, and a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where he received his PhD. in 2005, before doing research stints in Japan and in the US. He was appointed associate professor and hakubi scholar at Kyoto University in 2012, and moved to Osaka University in 2015. Since 2017, he his a member of the council of the Business History Society of Japan. His research focuses on the business and economic history of medicine, on the business history of luxury and fashion, and on the history of multinational enterprises. His recent publications include Industries and Global Competition: A History of Business Beyond Borders (Routledge, 2017, co-edited with Bram Bouwens and Takafumi Kurosawa) and articles in Business History, Business History Review, and Enterprise & Society.
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Maiju Wuokko is University Researcher at the Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki, Finland. She defended her PhD thesis at the University of Helsinki in 2016. Her research focuses on ‘political business history’ i.e. on the history of business and employer associations and business political activity, as well as on the history of industrial relations and the development of employer policies. She has published in journals such as Scandinavian Journal of History, Scandinavian Economic History Review, Business History, and Economic and Industrial Democracy. Her ongoing research projects examine, e.g., the history of Finnish development co-operation and the role of business actors in it.

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Eric Godelier is a Professor of Business History and management at Ecole Polytechnique (French Best School of Engineers). Between 2002 and 2017, he was the Dean of the Humanities and Social Science Department. He was in charge of developing and coordinating management and business history courses. He has been educated at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, in economics and management studies. He has made a Phd in History at EHESS on the French steel corporation Usinor (1948-1986). Since 2018, He is the president of the French Association for Business History (AFHE, Association Française pour l’Histoire des Entreprises) and member of Entreprises et Histoire editorial committee. Since 2020, He is a member of the BHC board of Trustees. Since 2022, He is the Director of the BHC Doctoral Colloquium. In the Ecole Polytechnique research center on Social Sciences, he is studying the conception and diffusion processes of management tools and models in an historical and anthropological perspective. He was the president of the steering committee of the 2023 Paris international congress on French Business History in Paris. With 3 colleagues (P. Mioche, P. Raggi and I.Kharaba), He has edited a Dictionnary of the History of French Steel Industry published in 2022 by the Presses Universitaires de Provence. The book contains 280 entries written by nearly 120 French and Foreign authors.