Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow	"Fiduciary Duty, Shareholder Value, and Anti-Apartheid Activism among US Public Pension Funds"
2026 BHC Meeting	Zsuzsanna Vargha, ESCP Business School	"'Identify Your Profitable Customers': Individualization As Rationalized Embedding in 1990s Academic Marketing and Technology Fields "
2026 BHC Meeting	Paula Vedoveli, Fundação Getulio Vargas	"A Narrative of Conviction: The Rise of Indicators of Economic Growth in Authoritarian Brazil, 1960s–1970s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Natalya Vinokurova, Lehigh University	"If You Build It, Will They Come? Adoption of Digital Public Infrastructure in India in the 2010s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech	"Organizational Syntheses, New/Professional-Managerial Classes, and the Politics of Resentment"
2026 BHC Meeting	Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California	"Technology as Tragedy: Educational Utopias and Organizing for Disappointment"
2026 BHC Meeting	Louise Walker, Northeastern University	"Unpaid Debts in Litigation and Law: Economic Transformation in 19th-Century Mexico"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mattie Webb, Virginia Military Institute	"'On our terms': Economic Sanctions and a Vision for the Post-Apartheid Workplace"
2026 BHC Meeting	Wyatt Wells, Auburn University Montgomery	"'Past It': The Case of Borax Limited"
2026 BHC Meeting	Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology	"A Blue Economy: Horseshoe Crabs, Ocean Ecologies, and Biomedicine"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sophia Wigglesworth, York University	"U.K. Regulatory Frameworks for Prepaid Funerals: Influence on Market Development and Product Delivery since the 1980s "
2026 BHC Meeting	Raul Wildbolz-Gallego, UniDistance Suisse	"Navigating Structural Holes: Bankers, Notaries, and the Circulation of Capital in the Nineteenth Century"
2026 BHC Meeting	Daniel Levinson Wilk, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology	"Hotels Killed Household Servitude and No One Noticed"
2026 BHC Meeting	Phil Withington, University of Sheffield	"'Dutchification', Co-creation, and England's Intoxicant Economy, c. 1550–1750"
2026 BHC Meeting	Tsz Ho Wong, University of Edinburgh	"The Money Wormhole: Hong Kong and the Yen Bloc During the Pacific War"
2026 BHC Meeting	Nicholas Wong, Northumbria University	"Reflecting on the Historical Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship in a Global Context"
2026 BHC Meeting	Meng Wu, Manchester Metropolitan University	"The Financial Revolution in Republican China: The Case of Indirect Issuance of Banknotes, 1905-1936"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ben Wubs, Erasmus University Rotterdam	"Multinationals and Corporate Taxation: The Co-evolution of Global Business and Governance"
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	Feyza Yagci, Istanbul Technical University	"Printed and Prefabricated: Timber Catalogues in Istanbul at the Turn of the Century"
2026 BHC Meeting	Shaun Yajima, University of Tokyo / Freiberg University of Mining and Technology	"Media as a Mechanism of Cartel Governance: Germany 1890–1914"
2026 BHC Meeting	Narusa Yamato, Stanford University	"The Making of a Japanese Milkopolis: Milk, Vaccines, and Public Health in Late Nineteenth-Century Tokyo"
2026 BHC Meeting	Chen Yang, University of Southampton, UK, Zi Yang, Queen's University Belfast, UK	"Co-creation of Global Banking: HSBC's Transnational Evolution Between and Beyond China and the UK"
2026 BHC Meeting	Chen Yang, University of Southampton, UK, Zi Yang, Queen's University Belfast, UK	"Co-creation of Global Banking: HSBC's Transnational Evolution Between and Beyond China and the UK"
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)"