The Richard Robinson Business History Workshop at Portland State University has been made possible by a bequest from Richard Robinson.
Richard Joseph Robinson, who passed away in May 2014, was Professor Emeritus of Management and former Chair of Management in the School of Business Administration at Portland State University. He received the BS from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1949 and the MBA from the same institution the following year. In 1965 he earned the Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Washington. Hired by Portland State University in 1962, he retired at the end of 1989. His publications include:
- Co-authored with Wendell L. French, "Collective Bargaining by Nurses and Other Professionals: Anomaly or Trend?" Labor Law Journal, vol. 11, no. 10 (Oct. 1960), pp. 903-910, 944.
- "How Should Business Behave?" in McGuire, Joseph William, ed., Interdisciplinary Studies in Business Behavior (Cincinnati: South-Western Pub Co, 1962), pp. 207-224.
- "Personnel Practices in Denmark and Holland: An Environmental Analysis," DBA diss., University of Washington, 1966.
- United States Business History, 1602-1988: A Chronology (Westport, Conn: Greenwood P, 1990).
- Business History of the World: A Chronology (Westport, Conn: Greenwood P, 1993).
The Richard Robinson Business History Workshop has held small workshops on particular themes in business history since 2012.