Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2026 BHC Meeting Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting Keith Hollingsworth, Morehouse College, Khalil Harper-Arias, Morehouse College "Building Enterprise in a Divided City: Black Women Entrepreneurs in Early 20th-Century Atlanta"
2026 BHC Meeting Matt Hopkins, Academic-Industry Research Network "Hercules, 1912-2007: The Growth of an Innovative Enterprise and Its Financialized Demise"
2026 BHC Meeting Hadar Hoter-ishay, University of Vienna "Hope and Baring in Russia: Sovereign Financing and Commerce at the Making of a New European Order, 1788-1830"
2026 BHC Meeting Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Adelaide University Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting Orsi Husz, Uppsala University "Reimagining Membership. Loyalty Cards, Commercial Surveillance and the Intimate Relationships of Marketing"
2026 BHC Meeting Sergio Infante, Yale University "Bootleg Modernization: Postcolonial Ghana, British Social Science, and the Origins of Informal-Sector Business, 1950–1970"
2026 BHC Meeting Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Vodka Marketing in the Cold War Era U.S.: The Malleable Meanings of a Malleable Spirit"
2026 BHC Meeting Alice Janssens, Erasmus University Rotterdam / University of Southampton "Co-Creation Without Consent: Design Piracy and Reputation Building Within Early 20th Century Fashion Networks"
2026 BHC Meeting Zane Jennings, University of Oxford "The Legal and Political Foundations of Permanent Capital for the English East India Company and the Bank of England"
2026 BHC Meeting Niklas Jensen-Eriksen, University of Helsinki, Anitra Komulainen, AK-Historia Oy "Co-creation and Co-destruction in the Global Telecommunications Industry: Nokia and Its Suppliers"
2026 BHC Meeting Yuan Jia Zheng, International University of Catalonia "China's Lithium Strategy in Latin America: Electric Vehicles, Energy Transition and Environmental Controversy"
2026 BHC Meeting Sveinn Johannesson, University of Iceland "American Autarky: Edward B. Hunt and the Political Economy of Organic State Theories in the Civil War Era"
2026 BHC Meeting Richard John, Columbia University "Town-Born and City Bred: Anti-Monopoly in a Trans-Imperial Age"
2026 BHC Meeting Caroline Johnston, University of Cambridge "Constructing Victimhood: Right-Wing Interest Groups and Institutional Hollowing in the 20th Century"
2026 BHC Meeting Ian Jones, University of Sheffield "Lack of Archives: Methodological Implications from Research on the Ge Family Business"
2026 BHC Meeting Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting Chris Corker, University of York, Ian Jones, University of Sheffield "Cartels and the Co-Creation of Legitimacy: The Case of the National Wrestling Alliance, 1948-88"
2026 BHC Meeting Marrisa Joseph, Henley Business School, University of Reading "Paperback Pioneers: WH Smith, Routledge and The Co-Creation of a Publishing Revolution"
2026 BHC Meeting Robert Kaminski, University of Florida "Froth, Fraud, and the Creation of New Financial Markets: 'The Count of Monte Ciprico' in the Anglo-American Brewery Syndication Craze, 1888-1891"
2026 BHC Meeting Juha Kansikas, University off Jyväskylä "Founder Generation in Business Elite: Early Executive Education of the 20th Century Upper Echelon of the Finnish Society "
2026 BHC Meeting Tim Karayiannides, University of Cambridge "Post-Apartheid Eldorado: Gold Hedging, Black Economic Empowerment and the Making of the Most Unequal Society on Earth "
2026 BHC Meeting Greta Keiper-Blake, Misericordia University "Co-Creation of Fashion: The Pattern-Making Industry and Participatory Fashion Design"
2026 BHC Meeting Matthias Kipping, Schulich School of Business, York University "The Shifting Locus of Innovation and Creation in the Eyewear Industry"
2026 BHC Meeting Niklas Jensen-Eriksen, University of Helsinki, Anitra Komulainen, AK-Historia Oy "Co-creation and Co-destruction in the Global Telecommunications Industry: Nokia and Its Suppliers"