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Faculty member
Christopher KOBRAK
Ph.D. in Business History
HDR (French Qualification for Ph.D. Supervisor)
Professor
Finance
Campus : Paris
Tel : +33 1 49 23 22 39
Publications
Books
KOBRAK C., (2008), Die Deutsche Bank und die USA : Geschäft und Politik von 1870 bis heute, Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Heidrun Homburg und Thorsten Schmidt, München, 654 p.
KOBRAK C., (2007), Banking on Global Markets : Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present, Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise, Cambridge University Press, New York, 484 p, Die Deutsche Bank und die USA : Geschäft und Politik, 1870 bis Heute, Beck, 2008.
KOBRAK C., HANSEN P. H. (eds), (2004), European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945, Berghahn Books, New York, 261 p.
KOBRAK C., (2002), National Cultures and International Competition. The Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 394 p.
KOBRAK C., CAUSSE G., CHEVALIER A., EGLEM J.-Y., SPIESER P., THIRY B., FOMKINA V., PANAGUSHIN V., (1997), Financial Management for Engineers, tome 3, The engineer's business series, TACIS, Bruxelles, 301 p.
Book chapters
KOBRAK C., BREAN D. J. S., (2007), "Corporate Governance in the twenty-first Century", in KIRTON J., FRATIANNI M., SAVONA P. (eds), , Corporate, Public and Global Governance: The G8 Contribution, Global Finance Series, Ashgate Publishing, pp 55-75, 21 p.
KOBRAK C., (2006), "From Kant to Liar's Poker: History and Business Ethics", in TEICHMAN, E. (ed.), , Archives and Corporate Culture, European Association for Banking and Financial Histroy, pp 7-31, 25 p.
KOBRAK C., SCHNEIDER A., (2004), "Big Business and the Third Reich: An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments", in STONE D. (ed.), , The Historiography of the Holocaust, MacMillan Publishing, 592 p.
KOBRAK C., KOPPER C., HANSEN P. H., (2004), "Business, Political Risk and Historians in the Twentieth Century", in KOBRAK C., HANSEN P. (eds), , European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk 1920-1945, Berghahn Books, pp 3-21, 19 p.
Published articles
KOBRAK C., WILKINS M., (2011), "The 2008 Crisis in an economic history perspective : looking at the twentieth century", BUSINESS HISTORY, April, Vol.53, Issue 2, pp 175-192, 18 p.
KOBRAK C., SCHNEIDER A., (2011), "Varieties of business history : Subject and methods for the twenty-first century.", BUSINESS HISTORY, June, Vol.53, Issue 3, pp 401-424, 24 p.
FEAR J. R., KOBRAK C., (2010), "Banks in German and American Corporate Governance, 1870-1914", Business History Review, Winter, Vol.84, pp 703-736, 34 p.
KOBRAK C., (2010), "Review of G.Enderle-Burcel, P.Franaszek, D.Stiefel, A.Teichova (eds), gaps in the Iron Curtain: Economic Relations between Neutral and Socialist Countries in Cold War Europe", BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW , Vol.84, Issue 2, pp 420-423, 4 p.
KOBRAK C., (2010), "Review of M.Dahlem, management: Studies in the Institutional Structure of German Banks in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914", BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW, Vol.84, Issue 3.
KOBRAK C., (2009), "Family Finance: Value Creation and the Democratization of Cross-Border Governance", ENTERPRISE AND SOCIETY , March, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp 38-89, 52 p.
KOBRAK C., (2009), "Review of Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse by Malcolm Salter", BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW , Spring, Vol.83, Issue 1, pp 173-177, 5 p.
KOBRAK C., (2009), "The Use and Abuse of History as a Management Tool: Comments on Eric Godelier's view of the French Connection", ENTERPRISE AND SOCIETY, December, Vol. 10, Issue 4, pp 808-815, 8 p.
KOBRAK C., WÜSTENHAGEN J., (2007), "The politics of globalization : Deutsche Bank, german property and political risk in the United States after World War II", ENTREPRISES ET HISTOIRE, La Propriété, décembre, n° 49, pp 53-77, 25 p.
FEAR J. R., KOBRAK C., (2006), "Diverging Paths: Accounting for Corporate Governance in America and Germany", BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW, Spring, pp 1-48, 49 p.
KOBRAK C., WÜSTENHAGEN J., (2006), "International Investment and Nazi Politics: The Cloaking of German Assets Abroad: 1936-1945", BUSINESS HISTORY, pp 399-427, 29 p.
KOBRAK C., (2004), "Review of TEICHOVA A., MATIS H. (eds), Nation, State, and the Economy in History, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 450 p.", BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW, Spring, pp 175-177, 3 p.
KOBRAK C., (2003), "Review of STIEFEL D. (ed), Die politische Ökonomie des Holocaust: Zur Wirtschaftlichen Logik von Verfolgung und 'Wiedergutmachung', Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna, 2001", PATTERNS OF PREJUDICE, Winter.
KOBRAK C., (2003), "The Foreign-Exchange Dimension of Corporate Control in the Third Reich: the Case of Schering AG", JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY, June, pp 33-46, 14 p.
KOBRAK C., (2002), "Foreign-Currency Transactions and the Recovery of German Industry in the Aftermath of World War I", ACCOUNTING, BUSINESS & FINANCIAL HISTORY, March, pp 25-42, 18 p.
KOBRAK C., (2002), "Politics, Corporate Governance and the Dynamics of German Managerial Innovation: Schering AG between the Wars", ENTERPRISE AND SOCIETY, September, pp 429-461, 33 p.
KOBRAK C., (2002), "Review of FELDMAN G., Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945, Cambridge University Press, 2001", ENTERPRISE AND SOCIETY, December.
KOBRAK C., (2002), "Review of JAMES H., Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews, Cambridge University Press, 2001", ENTERPRISE AND SOCIETY, December.
KOBRAK C., SAUSSOIS J.-M. (eds), (1999), "Editorial: Europe, America, and the History of Corporate Governance", ENTREPRISES ET HISTOIRE, Le gouvernement d'entreprise, juin, pp 4-28, 25 p.
KOBRAK C., OESTERLE M.-J., (1999), "Nationalism and Internationalism in Corporate Governance: The Case of Daimler Chrysler", ENTREPRISES ET HISTOIRE, juin, pp 70-89, 20 p.
Conference proceedings
KOBRAK C., FEAR J. R., (2008), "Banks on Board: Banks in German and American Corporate Governance, 1870-1914", Proceedings of the Business History Annual Conference, 'Expanding Connections for Business History', 2008, April 10-12, Sacramento, California.
KOBRAK C., FEAR J. R., (2008), "Banks on Board: Banks in German and American Corporate Governance, 1870-1914", Proceedings of the European Business History Association (EBHA) 12th Annual Conference, 'Transactions and Interactions - The Flow of Goods, Services and Information', 2008, August 21-23, Bergen, Norway, Web Link.
KOBRAK C., (2006), "From Kant to Liar's Poker", Archives and Corporate Cuture, Proceedings of the History and Business Ethics Conference of the Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, 2004, September 21, European Association of Banking and Financial History.
KOBRAK C., (2004), "Diverging Paths: American and German Financial Reporting in the 1920s and 30s", Proceedings of the European Business History Association Conference, 2004, September 16-18, Barcelona, Web Link.
KOBRAK C., BREAN D. J. S., (2003), "Corporate Governance in the Twenty-First Century", Proceedings of the G8 Pre-Summit conference `Governing Globalization: G8, Public and Corporate Governance', Insead, Fontainebleau, 2003, May 27, Ashgate Publishing, Web Link.
KOBRAK C., (2003), "Notes on the Equity Revolution and Accounting Systems: A comparison of Germany and the United States", Actes des 9es Journées d'histoire de la comptabilité et du management `Le gouvernement d'entreprise : perspectives historiques', AFC-CREFIGE, Université de Paris IX-Dauphine, 2003, 20-21 mars, Web Link.
KOBRAK C., (2000), "Foreign currency transaction and the recovery of German industry in the aftermath if World War I: the case of Schering AG", Proceedings of the 12th Accounting Business and Financial History Conference, 2000, September.
KOBRAK C., (2000), "Zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Internationalismus: Globalisierung und Unternehmenskultur aus historischer Sicht", POHL M. (ed.), , Deutsche Unternehmer in der Welt, Proceedings of the Colloque `Deutsche Unternehmer in der Welt. Von der Internationalisierung zur Globaliserung', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2000, April 6, Berlin, FAZ Institut, pp 15-43, 29 p.
KOBRAK C., DESTERLE M.-J., (1997), "International Issues in Corporate Governance: the case of Daimler-Benz", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual EIBA (European International Business Association) Conference, 'Global Business in the Information Age', 1997.
KOBRAK C., (1996), "Issues in German Corporate Culture: a note on the history of Schering AG and the culture of German capitalism", Proceedings of the 2nd Annual EIBA Conference, 1996, December, Stockholm, Suède.
SAUSSOIS J.-M., KOBRAK C., (1994), "Creating a Network Organization in Europe: The Case of Fat-Away", Proceedings of the 20th Annual EIBA Conference, 1994, December 11-13, Warsaw, Pologne.
Research reports - Working papers
KOBRAK C., (2010), "The G20 and the future of financial regulation", Shared Growth Beyond Crisis, Proceedings of The G20 Seoul Sumit, pp 50-52, 3 p.
Dissertations
KOBRAK C., (2005), "Réflexion sur les Variétés et sur la Méthodologie de l'Histoire des Affaires", mémoire d'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches , Université de Toulouse.
KOBRAK C., (1999), "Between Nationalism and Internationalism : The History of Schering AG", Doctoral Dissertation in Business History , Columbia University.
