Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Andrew Smith, University of Birmingham	"Confronting the Issue of Modern Slavery in International Supply Chains in the UK, 1897 to 1997"
2026 BHC Meeting	David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University	"The Early Modern Offshore and the Business of Smuggling: Gangs, Merchants and Druggists"
2026 BHC Meeting	Maxwell Smith-Holmes, Princeton University	"Black Wealth, Red Stone: Architectural Co-Creation by the Seneca Sandstone Company and the Freedman's Bank, 1869-1874"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ka Shing So, State University of New York, Binghamton	"Co-creating Informal Economies: Gold Trade and the Transnational Business Networks in Cold War Hong Kong"
2026 BHC Meeting	Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian Business School	"Associative Capitalism in the Age of Corporations: The Fall of a Powerful Norwegian Industrial Group 1895-1939"
2026 BHC Meeting	Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School , Majda Soumane, Africa Business School	"Collective Granaries and the Genealogy of Management Practices: Beyond the Grain, Beyond Oral Histories"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jeff Fear, University of Glasgow, Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Independent Scholar	"Co-Creating The Kohner Agency: A Paul Kohner Production 1920-1955"
2026 BHC Meeting	Marte Stoffers, Radboud University Nijmegen	"What kind of manner and policy of correspondence this is, I leave it to you to consider": Origins and Resolution of Conflicts Among Merchants in the Early Modern Low Countries"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sabine Pitteloud, UniDistance Suisse, Espen Storli, NTNU	"The Aluminium Industry and the Environment: Tackling Industrial Pollution in Switzerland, Scotland and Norway, 1890-2000"
2026 BHC Meeting	Holly Swenson, Northwestern University	"What Value Empire? Commercial Cultural Exports Within and Beyond the British Empire"
2026 BHC Meeting	Anders Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School	"Facts and Fiction – Taking Inspiration from the Novel"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ying Jia Tan, Wesleyan University	"State Forestry Research and the Birth of Taiwan's Plastic Industry"
2026 BHC Meeting	Shigehiro Nishimura, Kobe University, Yunting Xie, Uppsala University, Fredrik Tell, Uppsala University	"Gadelius and Swedish Business in Japan: Co-creating Global Business as a Patent Agent "
2026 BHC Meeting	Alexander Tertzakian, University of Glasgow, Xuesheng You, Cardiff University	"The Career Progression of Child Labourers in the English Cotton Industry, 1834-1857"
2026 BHC Meeting	Morten Tinning, Copenhagen Business School, Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School	"Craft as Memory Filter: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Ambivalent Legacies of Family Business"
2026 BHC Meeting	Spencer Tompkins, Fordham University	"Negotiating Industrial Decline: Embraer's Push into US Markets and the Politics of Commercial Diplomacy, 1972-1983"
2026 BHC Meeting	Henry Tonks, Kenyon College	"Risky Business: Industrial Policy and the Origins of the Democratic Party's Alliance with Silicon Valley, 1979-1992"
2026 BHC Meeting	Daniela Pirani, University of Liverpool Management School, Beatrice Toti, University of Parma	"Pleasure in Food: From Counterculture to Critical Food Consumption"
2026 BHC Meeting	Blaise Truong-Loï, European University Institute, Alexia Yates, European University Institute	"Bondholder Associations and the Creation of the French International Investor (1860s–1920s)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ho Nam Dexter Tse, Trinity College Dublin	"Insurance: A Solution or an Obstacle to Piracy Suppression in Early 20th-Century Hong Kong?"
2026 BHC Meeting	Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School	"Contingent-Sea: Mariners' Responsiveness in the British Atlantic"
2026 BHC Meeting	Oner Tulum, Academic-Industry Research Network	"The Tension between Innovation and Financialization in the U.S. Biopharmaceutical Industry: Merck, Sharp & Dohme Co."
2026 BHC Meeting	Maki Umemura, Cardiff University	"Coordinating Across Borders: Shaping Regulatory Categories and Sectoral Trajectories in Regenerative Medicine"
2026 BHC Meeting	Alina Utrata, University of Oxford	"Territorializing the Corporate: Spatiality and Divisions of Public and Private"
2026 BHC Meeting	Joris van den Tol, Radboud University	"Practitioners' Solutions: Practical Problems and the co-creation of Economic Policy in the Early Modern Dutch Republic"