Thomas David

Biographic Data

ID112390
NAMEThomas David
GIVEN NAMESThomas
FAMILY NAMEDavid
SIGNATUREDAVID T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lausanne
ORCID0000-0002-8070-3173
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS193
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Pan-European Economic Spaces in the Cold War: An Introduction

    Open AccessAngela Romano, Sandrine Kott et al.ARTICLEContemporary European History2026

    The articles in this special issue makes three important contributions to New Cold War History. First, they strengthen the interpretations highlighting the multiplicity and fluidity of the Cold War, which extended well beyond the interactions between superpower and formal bloc-to-bloc divisions to include a diverse array of national actors, including non-European ones such as Japan. Second, they underscore the significance of international organi…

  • The International Chamber of Commerce and the Creation of a Pan-European Economic Space During the Cold War

    Open AccessThomas David, Pierre Eichenberger et al.ARTICLEContemporary European History2026

    We examine the construction of a pan-European economic space from the perspective of the activities of the Liaison Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce with the Chambers of Commerce of the Socialist Countries. We make three important contributions. First, we show that the Cold War does not mark the end of economic exchanges between Eastern and Western Europe but is part of a longer history in which Eastern Europe was an economic per…

  • Is Global History Global? Convergences and Inequalities

    Open AccessThomas David, Anne-Isabelle Richard et al.ARTICLEItinerario2023References: 9

    Over the last twenty years, global history has experienced a considerable boom, breaking with traditional historical approaches that privileged the national framework and very often adopted a Eurocentric perspective. This triumphalist discourse about the field of global history should not, however, obscure the local and national specificities of this field of research, be they epistemological, institutional, thematic, or historiographical, nor th…

  • Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development

    Open AccessAnn-Kristin Bergquist, Thomas DavidARTICLEThe Business History Review2023Cited by: 7References: 14

    This article examines the role of business interests in shaping the structures of global environmental governance between the United Nations (UN) Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992. It demonstrates how the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) managed to establish itself as a key partner for the UN while articulating a neoliberal vision that emphasized the…

  • A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century

    Thomas David, Pierre EichenbergerARTICLEBusiness History2023Cited by: 2References: 48

    This article investigates the contribution of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), founded in Paris in 1920, to transnational business networks and communities. It is based on a prosopographic study of the 43 presidents of the ICC until 2000 and research in the archives of the ICC. Our results show that these men represented firms that were amongst the most powerful of their time. Furthermore, we show that the ICC presidents displayed het…

  • In the interest of your bank and our country: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce

    Open AccessYi-Tzu Lin, Thomas David et al.ARTICLEModern Asian Studies2023Cited by: 1References: 42

    This article examines China's path to joining the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), a private international organization founded in Paris in 1920, of which China was a member from 1931-1949 and from 1994 onwards. The article charts the actors and debates behind two meaningful encounters. The first took place while the Nanjing government was raising funds for economic reconstruction, and the ICC aimed to mediate China's fundraising efforts …

  • Histoire(s) globale(s): Convergences et inégalités

    Thomas David, Anne-Isabelle Richard et al.ARTICLEMonde(s2022

    Distribution électronique

  • L’histoire globale est-elle globale

    Thomas David, Pierre SingaravélouARTICLEMonde(s2022

    International audience

  • From Quiet to Noisy Politics: Transformations of Swiss Business Elites' Power

    Open AccessA Mach, Thomas David et al.ARTICLELatin American Politics and Society2021Cited by: 18

    During most of the twentieth century, it was possible to consider Switzerland a coordinated market economy, characterized by dense interfirm networks and the strong role of business associations. Thanks to their cohesion and collective organization, in a context of quiet politics and informal institutions, business elites could largely self-regulate major socioeconomic issues in the shadow of politics. However, since the end of the twentieth cent…

  • Business and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: A Corporatist View

    Thomas David, Pierre EichenbergerARTICLEDiplomatica2020

  • Le recrutement des hauts dirigeants d'entreprises suisses (1910-1980)

    Isabelle Lucas, Stéphanie Ginalski et al.ARTICLELe Mouvement social2019Cited by: 2

    Jusqu'à une période récente, les rares études qui se sont intéressées aux dirigeants d'entreprises en Suisse aux XIX e et XX e siècles ont eu tendance à célébrer la figure du self-made man, parti de rien et parvenu à la fin de sa vie aux plus hautes positions de pouvoir. Cet article, qui porte sur l'origine sociale et la formation de plus de 800 hauts dirigeants des plus importantes entreprises suisses, actifs entre 1910 et 1980, s'inscrit en fau…

  • Elites in Switzerland: The Rise and Fall of a Model of Elite Coordination

    Open AccessFelix Bühlman, Marion Beetschen et al.ARTICLETempo Social2017Cited by: 4

    O objetivo do artigo é entender as transformações recentes das elites suíças com base em um banco de dados sobre elites políticas, econômicas e administrativas que abrange todo o século xx. A partir desse conjunto de informações investigamos a origem social, educação e mecanismos de concertação das elites suíças. Detectamos que, por um longo tempo, mantiveram seu poder através da combinação de um restrito recrutamento social e de um modelo de con…

  • Geneva's philanthropists around 1900: A field made of distinctive but interconnected social groups

    Thomas David, Alix Heiniger et al.ARTICLEContinuity and Change2016

    This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social and cultural) and were involved in philanthropic activities related to their social status. Together, those philanthropists formed a social field. They were connected to each other and even need…

  • Transatlantic Influence in the Shaping of Business Education: The Origins of IMD, 1946–1990

    Open AccessThomas David, Thomas J David et al.ARTICLEThe Business History Review2015Cited by: 11References: 8

    The history of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, highlights the role of multinationals in establishing business education in Europe and the problem of legitimacy. The creation of IMD's predecessors CEI and IMEDE by Alcan and Nestlé also illuminates the role of Harvard Business School in their development and the reciprocal influences of American and European ma…

  • The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations

    Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David et al.BOOKThe Invention of Race2014

    Introduction: The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations of from Linnaeus to the Ethnic Shows Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, and Dominic Thomas Part I: The Genealogy of in the 18th Century 1. Biologization of and Racialization of the Human: Bernier, Buffon, Linnaeus Thierry Hoquet 2. Cranial Varieties in the Human and Orang Utan Species Miriam Claude Meijer 3. The Creation of the Negro at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Petr…

  • The Power of Corporate Networks

    Frans Stokman, Thomas David et al.BOOKThe Power of Corporate Networks2014Cited by: 70

  • The Invention of Race

    Dominic Thomas, Nicolas Bancel et al.BOOKThe Invention of Race2014

  • Les mondes de la charité se décrivent eux-mêmes. Une étude des répertoires charitables au XIX e et début du XX e siècle

    Stéphane Baciocchi, Thomas David et al.ARTICLERevue d’histoire moderne et…2014Cited by: 3

    Tout au long du XIX e et au début du XX e siècle ont été publiés de nombreux « répertoires charitables » qui donnaient des listes et de brèves descriptions des œuvres de bienfaisance à l'échelle d'une ville (sont étudiées ici Londres, New York, Paris et Genève). Ces documents, dans lesquels les mondes charitables se décrivent eux-mêmes, constituent une source très intéressante et rarement utilisée. Dans cet article, la source devient l'objet même…

  • Cosmopolitan Capital and the Internationalization of the Field of Business Elites: Evidence from the Swiss Case

    Open AccessFelix Bühlmann, Thomas David et al.ARTICLECultural Sociology2013Cited by: 36References: 24

    The aim of this contribution is to explore how the recent internationalization and the increasing importance of 'cosmopolitan capital' has impacted on the structure and character of the field of the Swiss business elite. For this purpose we will develop the notion of cosmopolitan capital and comparatively investigate the field of the Swiss business elite in 1980, 2000 and 2010 with multiple correspondence analysis. We can show that in this period…

  • Political and Economic Elites in Switzerland

    Open AccessFelix Bühlmann, Thomas David et al.ARTICLEEuropean Societies2012Cited by: 8References: 10

    As a legacy of the early stages of its state building process, Switzerland continues to be characterised by a cohesive elite whose members simultaneously occupy political and economic positions. Whereas sectoral analyses of the economic or political elite are widespread, few researchers have scrutinised the connections between business and politics. Therefore, this paper focuses on the linkages between the economic and political fields. Based on …

  • The Swiss business elite (1980–2000): How the changing composition of the elite explains the decline of the Swiss company network

    Felix Bühlmann, Thomas David et al.ARTICLEEconomy and Society2012Cited by: 28References: 7

    In this paper we analyse the decline of the Swiss corporate network between 1980 and 2000. We address the theoretical and methodological challenge of this transformation by the use of a combination of network analysis and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). Based on a sample of top managers of the 110 largest Swiss companies in 1980 and 2000 we show that, beyond an adjustment to structural pressure, an explanation of the decline of the networ…

  • La fragilité des liens nationaux: La reconfiguration de l'élite du pouvoir en Suisse, 1980-2010

    A Mach, Thomas David et al.ARTICLEIRIS2011

    Pendant la majeure partie du XXe siècle, la forte cohésion des élites économiques helvétiques s’est appuyée sur leurs interrelations très denses au sein des conseils d’administration, leurs liens étroits avec les champs politique et militaire ainsi que sur leur appartenance à des institutions de socialisation et de légitimation nationales. Au cours des trente dernières années, sous l’effet de la globalisation économique et de la financiarisation,…

  • Swiss Conservatives and the Struggle for the Abolition of Slavery at the End of the Nineteenth Century

    Open AccessThomas David, Janick Marina SchaufelbuehlARTICLEItinerario2010

    This article examines the Swiss anti-slavery movement during the last third of the nineteenth century. Despite being a country without colonies, Switzerland actively participated in international anti-slavery networks, often linked to the armed conquest of Central Africa. Through an analysis of the socio-political affiliations of the leaders of these abolitionist campaigns in Switzerland, the authors show how the Swiss conservative protestant eli…

  • Transformations de l'autorégulation et nouvelles régulations publiques en matière de gouvernement d'entreprise en Suisse (1985‐2002)

    Open AccessA Mach, Gerhard Schnyder et al.ARTICLESwiss Political Science Review2006References: 6

    La Suisse a toujours connu une forte tradition d'autorégulation par les acteurs privés dans les sphères économiques au détriment d'un cadre légal très étendu. Cela s'avère particulièrement vrai en matière de gouvernement d'entreprise, notamment en ce qui concerne le droit des sociétés, la surveillance des marchés boursiers ou le droit comptable. En raison du caractère très général de la législation, divers mécanismes de gouvernance privée ont gén…

  • Muslim-Christian Polemic during the Crusades: The Letter from the People of Cyprus and Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī’s Response

    Rifaat Ebied, Thomas DavidBOOKMuslim-Christian Polemic during…2005

    This volume comprises an edition and English translation of the response in Arabic made by the fourteenth century scholar Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī to a Letter sent to him by anonymous Christians from Cyprus. The Christian letter was also sent to al-Dimashqī’s contemporary Ibn Taymiyya, and this response is thus a parallel to Ibn Taymiyya’s Al-jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ. In their Letter the Christians subtly suggest that the Qur’an supports Christian doctrin…