Anders Houltz

A new special issue of the journal Jewish Culture and History focuses on the intersection between Business history and Jewish studies. As pointed out by guest editors Benito Peix Geldart, Maja Hultman and Anders Houltz in the Introduction, the five included articles discuss different expressions of Jewish entrepreneurship and economic activities, and their effects and constraints, in modern Europe.

The role of industrial heritage in the contemporary city was in focus when the research network Nordic Industrial Heritage Culture in the 2020s conducted its third and final international workshop, in Gothenburg on 10-12 November 2022.

The Nordic-Baltic research network Nordic Industrial Heritage Culture in the 2020s, funded by NOS-HS, organized the second in a series of three workshops in Tampere/Tammerfors, Finland, under the theme: Citizens, societies, and memory organizations, March 24-26 2022.

How has business globalization, digitization and relocation affected our understanding of industrial heritage culture? An international research group has been formed to discuss the relevance of industrial heritage in the information society, during three workshops.

Welcome to a conversation about the history of market gardens in Sweden between Inger Olausson, researcher and senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Conservation, University of Gothenburg, and Anders Houltz, head of research at the Centre for Business History.

Inger Olausson, researcher and senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Conservation, University of Gothenburg, collaborates with the Centre for Business History as a part-time guest researcher.

We are currently living through strange and historic times. The corona virus affects all levels of society, not least business and entrepreneurship. The consequences will be…

We contributed to the exhibition “Flying panels – How concrete panels changed the world” at ArkDes in Stockholm.

Omvandlingar is a new book about Swedish insurance company Skandia, written by the professors Mats Larsson and Mikael Lönnborg. The book focuses on the insurer’s…

The four-year-long project “Gendered spaces” (or “Bekönade rum”, in Swedish) began in the fall of 2016. It’s time for a half-time report.