Sabine A. Pitteloud

Sabine Pitteloud is Newcomen Fellow in Business History. She earned her PhD in social and economic history from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and has held visiting positions at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany and at the New School for Social Research, New York. Her research investigates the political and institutional role of multinationals, their coordination efforts within business interest associations, and their ability to deal with political risks in historical perspective. Her new research focuses on the role of business interests in shaping environmental norms.

Book

• Pitteloud, Sabine. Les multinationales suisses dans l'arène politique (1942–1993) [Swiss Multinationals in the Political Arena (1942–1993)]. Genève, Suisse: Librairie Droz, 2022, French ed. View Details

Journal Articles

• Näsman, Mattias, and Sabine Pitteloud. "The Power and Limits of Expertise: Swiss–Swedish Linking of Vehicle Emission Standards in the 1970s and 1980s." Business and Politics (forthcoming): 1–20. (Published online March 4, 2022.) View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Les multinationales comme catégorie politique: les années formatrices (1970-1990)." Special Issue on L'entreprise comme acteur politique. Entreprises et histoire 3, no. 104 (2021): 93–110. View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987." Business History (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 27, 2021.) View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Unwanted Attention: Swiss Multinationals and the Creation of International Corporate Guidelines in the 1970s." Special Issue on Multinational Corporations and the Politics of International Trade. Business and Politics 22, no. 4 (December 2020). View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "‘American Management’ vs ‘Swiss Labour Peace’. The Closure of the Swiss Firestone Factory in 1978." Business History (forthcoming). (Published online: 19 February 2020.) View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Industrie-Holding: Creating a Community of Interest among Swiss 'Multinationals'." Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue suisse d'histoire 69, no. 3 (2019). View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine, and Leo Grob. "Multinationale et fermetures de filiales : les conséquences sociales et politiques de décisions économiques." Entreprises et histoire 2019/4, no. 97 (2019). View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 64, no. 2 (2019). View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "L'autodiscipline en guise de régulation. La stratégie patronale à l'heure de la surchauffe économique en Suisse autour de 1960." Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue d'histoire 24, no. 3 (2017). View Details

Book Chapters

• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s." In Security and Insecurity in Business History: Case Studies in the Perception and Negotiation of Threats, edited by Mark Jakob, Nina Kleinöder, and Christian Kleinschmidt, 111–134. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021. View Details

Book Reviews

• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Book Review of Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rules, by Nicolás M. Perrone. Oxford University Press, 2021." Business History Review 95, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 624–627. View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Moteurs et menteurs: À propos de: Samuel Klebaner, Normes environnementales européennes et stratégies des constructeurs automobiles: Un jeu coopératif aux résultats ambigus, Presses de l’École des mines." La Vie des idées (May 27, 2021). View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. Review of "Benjamin C. Waterhouse: The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States, Simon & Schuster, 2017". Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue d'histoire 26, no. 3 (2019). View Details
• Pitteloud, Sabine. "Review of: Stéphanie Ginalski: Du capitalisme familial au capitalisme financier? Le cas de l’industrie suisse des machines, de l’électrotechnique et de la métallurgie au XXe siècle, Alphil, 2015." Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue suisse d'histoire 68, no. 1 (2018): 190–192. View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials

• Jones, Geoffrey, and Sabine Pitteloud. "K.C. Li: The Tungsten King." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 322-056, February 2022. View Details

Teaching

Overview

Dr. Pitteloud has taught undergraduate and masters courses on a wide range of subjects including Business-Government Relations, European Economic History, Swiss Capitalism and Methods in International Economic History.