Projects

I have always tried to relate my ongoing research to projects initiated and run by colleagues or by myself. In the following projects I took part in actively (the following list does not include just book-projects.) 

Research projects

• A Special Kind of Business: the Cooperative movement 1950 – 2010… and beyond (chairs: Prof. Battilani, Bologna, Prof. Schröter, Bergen)
  (running 2009 – 2012)
• New views on cartelization (chair: Prof. Schröter, Bergen)
  (running since 2009) 
• Foreign Direct Investment in Electric Utilities - a World Survey, 1880-1980
  (running since 2000)
• Results? Have 50 years of integration created a European enterprise?
  (running 2005-2007)
• International Business and Central Europe, 1918 - 1939 
  (funding: Social Science Research Council, London, running 1978-1981)
• Scandinavia and the Great Powers, 1905 -1945 
  (Copenhagen, funding: Riksbanks Jubileumsfonden, Stockholm, running 1981-1983)
• Die Interdependenz politischer und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in der Innen- und Außenpolitik des Versailler Staatensystems 1919 - 1939 
  (funding: Stiftung Volkswagenwerk, Hannover, running 1980-1984)
• Der Boom 1948 - 1973. Gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Folgen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in Europa 
  (funding: Free University of Berlin, running 1986-1988)
• The Economic History of Europe between the Wars 
  (Paris, funding: European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, running 1987-1989)
• Wirtschaftliche Strukturveränderungen, Innovationen und regionaler Wandel in Deutschland nach 1945 
  (funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, running 1992-1996)
• The Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789 - 1939
  (funding: European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, running 1993-1997)
• Small Developed States in the International Economy
  (funding: various, running: since 1988)
• Americanization and the Problem of Cultural Transfers in Economic Institutions
  (funding: CNRS, Paris, Meltzer-Fond, Bergen; Ruhrgas, Oslo, running 1999- 2002)
• Silicon Valley in Europe? Attempts to Transfer "Silicon Valley" to European Countries
  (running 1999-2003)
• Northern European Knowledge Network of Excellence (NEKON) for Research on Transition, Modernization and Sustainability in Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea Area
  (funding: Krupp-Stiftung, running 2002-2003)
• Globalabkommen. Die Verträge zur Wiedergutmachung zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den Westeuropäischen Staaten
  (running 2000-2005)
• Mapping Corporate Europe - strategies, structures and ownership in Europe, 1957-2007 (chairs: Prof. Colli, Milan, Prof. Iversen, Copenhagen, Prof. Schröter, Bergen, Prof. Wilson, Lancashire, funding: Copenhagen Business School)
  (running 2006-2009)
• Cartels in Europe1900-2000 (chairs: Prof. Fellman, Helsinki, Prof. Bouwens, Rotterdam, Prof. Dankers, Utrecht)
  (running 2006-2010)

•  Performance. Understanding Economic Performance of Enterprises during the 20th Century in Europe
  

• CARIS (Competitive Advantages of Regions: Comparative Studies in Industries in Global Perspective (chair: Prof. Kurosawa, Kyoto, running since 2010)
• - Research group for transnational history and cultural encounters, 1850 – present (chair: Prof. Hoffmann, running since 2008)

  - Transfer of information within organizations (chair: Prof. Andresen, Bergen, running 2008-2015)

  - The Rhine-basis in its international context, 1850-2010, (chair: Prof. Kleman, Rotterdam, Prof. Plumpe, Frankfurt running since 2009)

  - New views on cartelization (chair: Prof. Schröter, Bergen, running 2009-2013)

  - A Special Kind of Business: the Cooperative movement 1950 – 2010… and beyond (chairs: Prof. Battilani, Bologna, Prof. Schröter, Bergen, running 2009 – 2012)

   

  - CARIS (Competitive Advantages of Regions: Comparative Studies in Industries in Global Perspective (chair: Prof. Kurosawa, Kyoto, running since 2010)

  - Business Groups (chair: Prof. Hikino, Kyoto, running since 2013)

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• Monitoring stopped 2015