Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Michael Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell	"Knowledge Creation in the Learning Firm: Penrose's Enduring Contribution "
2026 BHC Meeting	Mark Billings, Exeter University	"The Business Response to Increased Taxation of Business Profits: The United Kingdom During and After the First World War"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jennifer Black, Misericordia University	"Finding America's Commercial Vocabulary: Considering the Language of Advertising and Business through Longitudinal Computer-Aided Analysis"
2026 BHC Meeting	Regina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Leeds	"Synthetic Style on the London Catwalk: The Artificial Silk Exhibitions at Holland Park"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sandra Bott, University of Lausanne	"From Boardroom to Negotiating Table: Alusuisse, UNCTAD, and the Politics of Technology and Resources in the 1970s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Kristin Brig-Ortiz, Washington University in St. Louis	"Slippery Industry: Water Scarcity and Commercial Activity in British Colonial South African Port Towns, 1860-1900"
2026 BHC Meeting	Evan Brown, Columbia University	"From Scrutiny to Subsidy: Sport, the State, and Making New Monopolies"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jacob Bruggeman, Johns Hopkins University	"Skill Capture: Hackers, Honeypots, and the Co-Creation of Cybersecurity"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mike Bull, Manchester Metropolitan University	"Urban Regeneration and Social Entrepreneurship: A Microhistorical Study of a Community Land Trust"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ultan Byrne, University of Toronto	"Part, Whole, and Plus: The Design of Federal Construction Contracts from the Late Antebellum to the Reconstruction Era"
2026 BHC Meeting	Brian Callaci, Open Markets Institue	"From Antimonopoly to Union-Busting: Franchisees Since 1980"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos, Universidad EAFIT, José-Alejandro Cruz-Giraldo, Universidad EAFIT	"Applied Business History and the Integration of Research, Education, and Practice: The Experience of Universidad EAFIT, Colombia"
2026 BHC Meeting	Marie Carpenter, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School	"Cisco Systems: Loss of Global Leadership As Innovation Turns to Financialization"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mark Casson, University of Reading	"Property and Protest: Bury St Edmunds, 1300-1450"
2026 BHC Meeting	Timothy Cheuk Yin Chan, University of Manchester	"Managing a State Business: The Establishment of the Hong Kong Mint and its Transnationality"
2026 BHC Meeting	Vivien Chang, Dartmouth College	"The Great Marketplace: African Development in a Neoliberal World"
2026 BHC Meeting	Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore County	"Co-Creation: Bankers and Policymakers Construct the Federal Reserve Act"
2026 BHC Meeting	Qiuyang Chen, Loughborough University	"Informal Credit and Rural Women: Micro-Financial Crises in Reform-Era China"
2026 BHC Meeting	Huirong Cheng, University of Edinburgh	"War and the Co-creation of State–Market Relations: The Collapse of China's Tea Industry during the Second World War"
2026 BHC Meeting	Adriana Chira, Emory University	"Popular Credit Instruments, Financialization, and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Havana"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sungshin Cho, Doshisha University	"The New Phase of Asian Shipbuilding (1970–2005): Market Structures and the Diverging Paths of Japan and South Korea"
2026 BHC Meeting	David Clampin, History of Advertising Trust	"Functional versus Image Advertising in Britain 1950 to 1989 and the Extent of the 'Creative Revolution'"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mia Clarke, University of Glasgow, Shannon Harris, University of St Andrews	"Dealing with Jokers in the Pack: Social Enterprise and the State in Scotland, 1965-1999"
2026 BHC Meeting	Damian Clavel, University of Zurich	"Banking on Resistance: A Financial History of Araucanía, 1860s-1870s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Laura Clerx, Boston College	"'Improving… Our Countrymen': University Science, Mechanics Institutes, and Agricultural Societies in the United States, 1820-1850"