Gerben Bakker

Lecturer in Economic History and Management
Room C214
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7047
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730
g.bakker@lse.ac.uk

Office hours: Friday 8.30-9.30am (except LT 2010 Week 5, Wednesday 8.30-9.30)

The historical analysis of the interaction between markets, industries, firms and strategies and their impact on economic growth and development.
Applied industrial economics; strategic management; history of multinational enterprise; innovation and productivity growth in services; creative industries; motion pictures; music; pharmaceuticals; software; methodology; philosophy of history.

Refereed

‘The Making of a Music Multinational: PolyGram and the International Music Industry, 1945-1998’ in: Business History Review, Vol. 80 No. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 81-123.
'The Decline and Fall of the European Film Industry: Sunk Costs, Market Size and Market Structure, 1895-1926' in Economic History Review, Vol. 58 No. 2 (May 2005), 310-351.
‘Selling French films on Foreign Markets. The International Strategy of a Medium-Sized Film Company’ in Enterprise and Society Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 2004), pp.45-76.
‘Building Knowledge about the Consumer. The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry’ in: Business History, Vol. 45 No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 101-127. Reprinted in: Andrew Godley and Roy Church eds., The Emergence of Modern Marketing (London, Frank Cass, 2003).
‘Stars and Stories. How Films Became Branded Products’ in: Enterprise and Society, Vol. 2 No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 461-502.

Other

'The European Film Industry in the United States,' and 'How Films Became Branded Products,' in J.Sedgewick and M. Pokorny (eds.) An Economic History of Film. (London and New York, Routledge, 2004) 24-47, 48-85.
‘America’s Master. The Decline and Fall of the European Film Industry in the United States, 1907-1920’, in: Luisa Passerini ed., Across the Atlantic (Brussels, Presses Inter-Universitaires Européennes / Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 213-240.
‘Entertainment Industrialised. The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940’, Ph.D. summary, Enterprise and Society, Vol. 4 No. 4 (December 2003), pp. 579-585.

£99,455: Advanced Institute of Management/ ESRC: Ghoshal Research Fellowship (2006).
£51,741: AIM/EPSRC: ‘The Unintended and Indirect Effects of Performance Measurement and Regulation on UK Productivity’ (collaborative research project with Universities of Exeter, Leeds, Loughborough and Nottingham, 2005-2006).
€106,772: European Commission: ‘Evolution of the European Entertainment Industry: Sunk Costs, Market Size and Market Structure, 1945-2000’ (2001-2003).
€46,173: Total of various smaller grants (1997-2001).

Economic History Review, Business History Review, Business History, Enterprise & Society, Industry and Innovation, Journal of Critical Management Studies, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave MacMillan, Political Studies, Post-Scriptum and Pearson Education

Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Prize for the best Ph.D. in European Economic History, awarded by the European Historical Economics Society, Madrid, 26 July 2003;
Herman E. Krooss Dissertation Prize for the best Ph.D. in Business History, awarded by the Business History Conference (US), Lowell, MA, 28 June 2003;
Coleman Prize for the best Ph.D. defended in 2001 dealing with British business history (awarded by the Association of Business Historians)
Prize for the best Ph.D. of the Department of History of the European University Institute during 1998-2001.
New Researchers’ Prize for ‘The social savings of the film industry,’ at the Annual Conference of the Economic History Society, Glasgow, April 2001.

Business History (13); Enterprise and Society (3), Financial History Review (1), BMGN (1), Economic History Review (1)

“Between Europe and America. The Battle for Silent Film”, web-based seminar of four sessions focusing on the question how the European film industry initially could be highly successful in economic terms but subsequently collapsed. Fathom-consortium, Enterprise LSE, London School of Economics, http://fathom.lse.ac.uk/.
‘The Enclosed Economy. How Public Goods Splinter into Private Properties,’ in: EUI Review, Spring 2001, pp. 20-26.
‘American Dreams. The European Film Industry from Dominance to Decline,’ in: EUI Review, Summer 2000, pp. 28-36

Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Frisian, Greek & Latin (classical).

CV (PDF)