Summer School: Mittelstand goes Global - Local Roots and Internationalization Pathways of SMEs

The Institute for Economic and Social History of the Faculty of Business and Economics is organizing a summer school titled "Mittelstand goes Global: Local Roots and Internationalization Pathways of SMEs" from August 27 to September 1, 2018 in Göttingen. 35 students from over 20 countries are taking part.



Participants will tackle the challenges that globalization poses to mid-sized companies in Germany and other European countries, and investigate how such businesses operate in foreign markets.

In addition to the organizers from Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff and Dr. Jan Logemann, other professors from the Faculty of Business and Economics as well as researchers from Germany and abroad will also participate. There will also be excursions to local companies with public talks, for example, with Prof. Hans Näder, Managing Director of Ottobock GmbH on August 29th in the Adam-von-Trott-Saal room of the Alte Mensa at Wilhelmsplatz.

The complete programme of the summer school is available here.

The summer school takes place in the framework of the Erasmus joint master’s degree programme "Global Markets, Local Creativities" (GLOCAL). The Institute of Economic and Social History offers the programme in collaboration with the universities of Glasgow, Barcelona, and Rotterdam. Students can complete the English-language master’s programme “History of Global Markets” in two years. The programme begins in Glasgow. In the second semester, students move to Barcelona, and the last two semesters can be spent in either Göttingen or Rotterdam.

The interdisciplinary master’s programme is dedicated to understanding the historical genesis of globally integrated markets. Production factors are being increasingly allocated in a competitive way across national borders, whether it be capital, labour, or knowledge. Businesses and consumers will be connected to each other through a global network of market relationships. Where will these developments grow from and how will they be understood?
The degree programme combines the teaching of economic history and analytical skills along with teaching core skills in the fields of economics, social, or economic history. The main focus in economic history is in global history, corporate history, and consumer history.