Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Minwoo Kong, Columbia University	"Forging Post-Fordism, Globally: GM-Toyota Joint Venture and the Politics of Industrial Experimentation, 1976–1984"
2026 BHC Meeting	Andrew Konove, University of Texas at San Antonio	"A Kind of Tyranny: The Monopoly of Small Change in Late-Colonial Mexico"
2026 BHC Meeting	Piotr Koryś, University of Warsaw, Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw	"Databasing Industrial Elites: Reconstructing the Manufacturing Networks of Russian Poland, 1904–1911"
2026 BHC Meeting	William Krause, Vanderbilt University	"Stimulating Minds: Industrial Engineers and the Organization of Creativity at Home and Work, 1918-1939"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mathias Krusell, University of Gotheburg	"Corporatizing the Welfare City? Education and Managerial Careers in Swedish Municipally Owned Enterprises"
2026 BHC Meeting	Katrin Schreiter, King's College London, Volodymyr Kulikov, University College London	"Adaptation or Co-creation? The Westen Family Connections in East-Central Europe"
2026 BHC Meeting	Arun Kumar, King College, London	"Agribusiness and D/development: The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the Corporatization of Agriculture in India"
2026 BHC Meeting	Germà Bel, Universitat de Barcelona, Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University	"Pioneering Privatization: The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprises in Meiji Japan"
2026 BHC Meeting	Matti La Mela, University of Uppsala	"Co-creation through Patent Disclosure: French Patents in Sweden, 1885–1914"
2026 BHC Meeting	Josh Lappen, University of Notre Dame	"'Winning the Public': Corporate Contestation of Democratic Legitimacy in the 1920s and the Long Aftershocks of Customer Ownership"
2026 BHC Meeting	Valerie Mock, Centre for Port and Maritime History, Liverpool John Moores University, Mitch Larson, Southwestern Oklahoma State University	"Can Insights into Co-Creation be Gained by Examining Victorian Cotton Brokers in Liverpool?"
2026 BHC Meeting	William Lazonick, Academic-Industry Research Network	"The Penrosian Legacy, the Theory of Innovative Enterprise, and Business History"
2026 BHC Meeting	Tom Learmouth, London School of Economics	"Fresh Capacity for War: The Transformation of Rubber Manufacturing in the Japanese Empire, 1937–1945"
2026 BHC Meeting	Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar	"UPS and the Teamsters: A History Built on Myths"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jessica Levy, Purchase College, SUNY	"Decolonizing GM: Joint Ventures and Globalized Automobile Production in the Late Twentieth-Century"
2026 BHC Meeting	Xin Li, University of Glasgow	"Saving the Industry or Reforms of Pensions? The Wilson Committee, the Regulation and the Investment Strategy"
2026 BHC Meeting	Yujie Li, University of Florida	"From Capitalist Workshops to Socialist Factories in 1950s Shanghai's Bicycle Industry"
2026 BHC Meeting	Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School, Andrea Lluch, University of Los Andes and CONICET, Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School	"Tackling Grand Challenges by Offering an Alternative to the U.S. Business School Model in the Global South: The ILO Management Development Model"
2026 BHC Meeting	Alan Loeb, Independent Scholar	"License to Manufacture: Constructing the GM Mythology, 1919"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jan Logemann, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	"Managing Visibility in Taboo Markets: Divergent Approaches to Funerary Entrepreneurship in the 20th Century"
2026 BHC Meeting	Jessica Lomas, University of Reading	"Sanctity and Solvency: Managing Morality and Money in Renaissance Perugia"
2026 BHC Meeting	Margarita López Antón, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona	"Beyond Big Business. Rethinking the Role of Married Women in Catalonia (Spain) in the First Quarter of the 20th Century"
2026 BHC Meeting	Marcella Lorenzini, University of Milan	"Co-Creating Credit Markets from the Shadows: Women's Agency in Milan's Lending System (19th Century)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sarvnaz Lotfi, Carnegie Mellon University	"The History of R&D Loopholes, Or Why You Pay More Taxes than Amazon"
2026 BHC Meeting	Marieke Louis, SciencesPo Lille	"Legitimizing the Voice of Business within Intergovernmental Organizations: Comparing the International Chamber of Commerce with the International Organization of Employers"