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Page contents > Visitors | Professor Toshiaki Kumuzawa (Meiji University), who is working on small and medium-sized business in Britain and Japan, has extended his visit for a further year with effect from 1 April 2008. | Stewart Fleming (former journalist, Financial Times) is joining the Unit as a visitor with effect from 1 September 2008. He is researching Trans-Atlantic relations in the 1970s and 1980s, with particular reference to the dollar stabilisation crisis of the late 1970s.

New Research Project

We are pleased to announce that Drs Gourvish and Coopey have been awarded an ESRC research grant to study 'Enterprise and Creativity: The British Popular Music Industry 1950-1975'. The project began on 1 April 2008.

Occasional Paper

The BHU's latest occasional paper is part of the research effort for the Leverhulme-supported project on 'The Performance of European Business in the Twentieth Century' . The title is Finnish Big Business in the 20th Century: Performance, Structure and Top Management, and the authors are Andrea Lorenz-Wende and Janne Itkonen. It is available from the Unit priced at £10.

Visitors

Professor Toshiaki Kumuzawa (Meiji University), who is working on small and medium-sized business in Britain and Japan, has extended his visit for a further year with effect from 1 April 2008.

Stewart Fleming (former journalist, Financial Times) is joining the Unit as a visitor with effect from 1 September 2008. He is researching Trans-Atlantic relations in the 1970s and 1980s, with particular reference to the dollar stabilisation crisis of the late 1970s.