Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Avi Ackerman, Sapienza Universita di Roma	"A sense of place": Pizzerias in the US, 1950s through the present"
2026 BHC Meeting	Richard Adjei, Johns Hopkins University	"Herbapreneurs: Entrepreneurialism, Creativity, and the Rise of 'Modern' Traditional Healers in Ghana"
2026 BHC Meeting	Nicole Adrian, University of Pennsylvania	Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting	Karlyn Allenbrand, University of Delaware	"Solar Challenger: Energy, Environment, and the Spectacle of Solar Aviation, 1973-1987"
2026 BHC Meeting	Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Universidad	"International Cooperation in Management Training: The ILO and the Turkish Management Development Centre (1968-1974)'"
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	Dimitry Anastakis, University of Toronto	"'Safety Doesn't Sell': A Case of Failed (?) Auto Marketing in Post-Nader America"
2026 BHC Meeting	Stuart Anderson-Davis, Columbia University	"Spinning Cotton, Spinning Slavery: Pro-Confederate Investor-Activists in Britain during the American Civil War"
2026 BHC Meeting	Elin Åström Rudberg, Stockholm University, Klara Arnberg, Stockholm University	"'Have it Your Way': Marketing Expertise and Consumer Culture in the Neoliberal Era"
2026 BHC Meeting	Elin Åström Rudberg, Stockholm University, Klara Arnberg, Stockholm University	"'Have it Your Way': Marketing Expertise and Consumer Culture in the Neoliberal Era"
2026 BHC Meeting	Connor Ka Hei Au Yeung, Purdue University	"Funny Business: Toys as Trans-Pacific Business History"
2026 BHC Meeting	Yally Avrahampour, LSE	"Explaining the Slowdown in UK Occupational Pension Provision (1967 – 1995) "
2026 BHC Meeting	Patryk Babiracki, University of Texas, Arlington	"The Use of History in Business and Tech: What I Learned While Interviewing Industry Professionals"
2026 BHC Meeting	David Baillargeon, University of Texas, Arlington	"Empire of Metals: The Imperial Institute, the British Empire, and the Global Mining Industry in the Interwar Years"
2026 BHC Meeting	Victoria Barnes, Queen's University Belfast	Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting	Nicolas Barreyre, EHESS	"Building American Finance with Public Debt"
2026 BHC Meeting	Marieshka Barton, Durham University Business School	"Ideological Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship: Insights from Chile 1960-2020"
2026 BHC Meeting	Israel García Solares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame	"Produce and Contain: the Growth and the Toxicity of Cyanide Production 1880-1930"
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	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	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	Matthew Bellamy, Carleton University	"Cool Capitalism and the Craft Brewing Revolution in Canada"
2026 BHC Meeting	Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University	"Co-Creating Safety Protocols in Arizona & New Mexico Copper Mines"
2026 BHC Meeting	Hartmut Berghoff, Göttingen University	"Turbulent Growth. The Aviation Industry since the 1990s in the Light of Lufthansa's Recent History"
2026 BHC Meeting	Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Uppsala University	Roundtable presentation