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hidvegim@ceu.edu
Mária Hidvégi received her PhD in Comparative Cultural and Social History from the University of Leipzig in 2015. She had research fellowships at the University of Konstanz. Her research focused on the development of leading firms and cartels in the electrotechnical and machine-building industry and the history of electrification in Central Europe. 2019-2023 she worked as historian for Tungsram. 2022-2025 she was a research fellow (AdR) in the ERC Horizon 2020 project Spoils of WAR at Bocconi University Milan, which investigated the economic consequences of World War I in Central Europe.
Selected publications
Book, book chapters
International cartels and national legislation: Cartels of the electro-technical and machine-building industry in Hungary, in: Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman (eds.), A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies, and Anti-Competitive Behavior. Routledge, New York, 2022, 122-146.
Hungary, in: Alison Turton (ed.), Business Archives in International Comparison. Section on Business Archives, International Council of Archives, 3rd Ed. ICA, Paris, 2021, 42-47.
Hálózat, hierarchia, nemzetközi piaci integráció: a Tungsram részvétele nemzetközi kartellekben [Network, hierarchy, international market integration: The participation of Tungsram in international cartels], in: György Kövér, Ágnes Pogány and Boglárka Weisz (eds.), Hálózat és Hierarchia. Magyar Gazdaságtörténeti Évkönyv 2020 [Network and Hierarchy. Hungarian Economic History Yearbook 2020], Hajnal István Alapítvány/ MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont, Budapest, 2020, 389-410. http://real.mtak.hu/118302/1/Gazd_t%C3%B6rt_2020_K%C3%96NYV_2020_10_15_online.pdf
Anschluss an den Weltmarkt. Ungarns elektrotechnische Leitunternehmen 1867-1949. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2016 (414 p.)
with Török, Borbála Zsuzsanna, Grundlagen des modernen Regierens. Wissensaggregierung und Wissenslücken der ökonomischen statistischen Werke in Ungarn, 1770–1848, in: Gunhild Berg, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török and Marcus Twellmann (eds.), Berechnen/Beschreiben. Praktiken statistischen (Nicht)Wissens 1750‒1850. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2015, 97-120.
Articles
With Balaban, Milan and Vonyó, Tamás, Survival through globalization: Innovation, internationalization, and the endurance of big business in Central Europe, Business History, Special issue on Economic nationalism, published online: 15 October, 2025. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2025.2566483
Globalization and Industrial Development in East Central Europe: The Example of Tungsram 1945-1989, Comparativ 34 (2024) 1-2, 25-54. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2024.01-02.02
Land, People, and the Unused Economic Potential of Hungary. Knowledge Transfer in the Context of Cameralism and Statistics 1790-1848, History of Political Economy 53 (2021) 3, 571-594. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-8993414
Crises and Responses: Government Policies and the Machine-building Cartels in Hungary, 1919‒1949, Enterprise and Society 20 (March 2019) 1, 89-131. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2018.4
with Wolf, Nikolaus, Power Failure: The electrification of Central Eastern Europe in the interwar period, 1918-1939, European Review of History/ Revue européenne d’histoire 26 (2019) 2, 219-242. DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2018.1428533
A Ganz-Jendrassik dízel-motorkocsik Argentínában [The Ganz-Jendrassik diesel rail cars in Argentina], AETAS 29 (2014) 4, 45-64.
