Annual Meeting Program

2026 BHC Meeting

Thursday, March 26th

Early Career Scholars Book Proposal Workshop (By invitation only - Sponsored by Inquire Capitalism UF), 8:30am - 3:30pm

City and Guilds 747
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Doctoral Colloquium (By invitation only - Sponsored by Cambridge University Press), 8:30am - 3:30pm

Business School LG19A/B

Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh)
Scottish Tea Merchants in China: A Micro-Global History of China’s Modern Transformation in the Nineteenth Century

Diego Cerna-Aragon (MIT)
Mining a Country: The Finance-Geology Nexus and the Future of Peru in the Twentieth Century

Dennis Duennwald (New York University)
Financing of Environmental Protection in the Global North, 1970s–1990s

Lucia Edafioka (Vanderbilt University)
Fashioning the Self: The Slave Trade, Cloths, and Identity in West Africa, 1700–1900

Julia Fine (Stanford University)
Modern Britain, the British Empire, and Environmental History

Aaron Freedman (Columbia University)
The Securities State: Washington, Wall Street and the Financialization of America, 1979–1992

Leila Girschweiler (University of Zurich)
Mothers and Daughters: Swiss Business and the Politics of Corporate Responsibility in Argentina and Brazil, 1964–1985

Ritika Lal (New York University)
The Political Ecology of Information and State Formation: Aramco and the History of Corporate Surveillance, 1930–1969

Léa Meyer (University of Geneva)
Towards a Global Wool Market: Power, Profit and Merchant Capital, 1764–1850

Maia Muller (University of Lausanne)
International Business Associations, International Organizations, and the Efforts to Regulate Multinational Corporations, 1964–1992

Jorge Ortiz (Czech Technical University in Prague)
Colombia’s Arms Purchases from Škoda (1934–1936): Technology Transfer, Business Networks, and Political Controversies

Ka Shing So (SUNY, Binghamton)
Shadow Economy: Smuggling, the Gold Trade, and Everyday Life in Cold War Hong Kong

Qinxian Zhang (University of Glasgow)
Comparison of the Impact of the EU and the US Antitrust Laws on M&A Strategies of Multinational Enterprises in the Digital Economy Era

Early Career Scholars Workshop: Methods and Skills for Business History Scholarship (Sponsored by Business History), 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Business School LG19A
Workshop Details

Registration, 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Foyer

Early Career Scholars Workshop: New Directions in Business History Publishing (Sponsored by Business History), 2:15pm - 3:30pm

Business School LG19A
Workshop Details

Trustees Meeting, 3:30pm - 6:15pm

Salonik Library, Ognisko

Salonik Library, Ognisko, 55 Princes Gate (on Exhibition Road, across from Imperial)

Plenary Lecture, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Sponsored by Winthrop Group

"Would you Publish an Article by an Artificial Historian?"
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Adelaide University

In July 2025, a team at Microsoft research reported a 91% overlap between the activities of historians and the tasks which the AI tool Copilot completed to the satisfaction of users. Arguments for the distinctly human nature of historical methodologies and research followed. Has AI passed the Turing test for writing histories, the media asked? Should we call time and allow AI agents to be recognised as the co-designers or designers of historical research and to contribute papers to academic journals? This keynote explores current issues with artificial historians—many of them amusing, some of them very concerning—and argues for a broader view of the relationship between historians and AI.

Opening Reception, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Foyer

Sponsored by The Business History Initiative and Baker Library at Harvard Business School, in celebration of the 100th-year anniversary of Business History Review, 1926-2026.

Friday, March 27th

Breakfast, 7:30am - 8:30am

Foyer

Registration, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 1, 8:30am - 10:00am

Session 1b: Co-creation in Chinese Business History I
City and Guilds LT640

Chair and Discussant: Elisabeth Koll, University of Notre Dame

Ghassan Moazzin, University of Hong Kong
"From the Coast to the Interior: China's Electrical and Electronics Industries and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945"
Meng Wu, Manchester Metropolitan University
"The Financial Revolution in Republican China: The Case of Indirect Issuance of Banknotes, 1905-1936"
Guting Shen, University of Birmingham
"The Evolution of Department Stores in Semi-Colonial China: Diversity and Innovation, 1880s to 1940s"

Session 1c: Private Finance/Public Works: Material Mobilities and the Making of the Built Environment
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair and Discussant: Elliott Sturtevant, Florida International University

Rachel Eu, Princeton University
"'The Most Magnificent Driveways:' Money and Materiality in the Construction of Eastern Parkway and the Grand Concourse"
Maxwell Smith-Holmes, Princeton University
"Black Wealth, Red Stone: Architectural Co-Creation by the Seneca Sandstone Company and the Freedman's Bank, 1869-1874"
Katie Filek, University of Toronto
"'The Dam Builders from Milan:' On Material Reciprocities in Canada's Postwar Constructions, 1954-1971"
Victoria Maung, Brown University
"From Tokyo to Honolulu to Singapore: Transpacific Circuits of Shopping Tourism"

Session 1d: Constructing the Medical Marketplace: Risk and Regulation in 20th-century Healthcare
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair: Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University

Sharon Murphy, Providence College
"MetLife's 'Better Health Campaign'"
Maki Umemura, Cardiff University
"Coordinating Across Borders: Shaping Regulatory Categories and Sectoral Trajectories in Regenerative Medicine"
Hideki Yoshikawa, Kyoto University
"Ethics of Actuaries: The AIDS Crisis and Insurance Underwriting"

Session 1e: Co-creating Social and Economic Policies: Business-Government Collaboration in International Forums, 1930s–1970s (I)
Business School LT LGS

Chair: Sandra Bott, University of Lausanne
Discussant: Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow

Daria Dyakonova, University of Sapienza
"Communist Women's International Fight for Women's Economic and Labour Integration, 1920-36"
Zoé Seuret, University of Lausanne and Stéphanie Ginalski, University of Lausanne
"How the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (IFBPW) Contributed to Redefine the Boundaries of Women's Work during the Interwar Period"

Session 1f: Restriction, Reform, and Renewal: The Contested Evolution of Market Access and Control
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia

Kalayath Shemil, Centre for Development Studies (affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University), India
"Gatekeeping in the Markets of Indian Small Cardamom in South India (1896–1994)"
Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
"Co-Creation: Bankers and Policymakers Construct the Federal Reserve Act"
Natalie Shibley, Yale University
"M. Moran Weston and Housing Development in Harlem"
Adam Nix, University of Birmingham
"Keeping the Lights On: Reliability and Reform in the UK Electricity Supply Industry"

Session 1g: Building and Contracting in the Americas, 1820–1920
City and Guilds 651/652

Chair and Discussant: Chelsea Spencer, Columbia University

Ultan Byrne, University of Toronto
"Part, Whole, and Plus: The Design of Federal Construction Contracts from the Late Antebellum to the Reconstruction Era"
Pedro Correa Fernández, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
"Calculated Intelligence: Navigating the Abstractions of Building and Civil Contracts in Postcolonial Chile"
Bryan Norwood, University of Texas at Austin
"Measuring and Building Risk: The Labor of Fire Insurance in the Early United States"
Nicolay Duque-Robayo, Columbia University
"Submerged Property: Land, Dispossession and Flooding at the Panama Canal, 1904–1913"

Session 1h: Innovation in Peripheral Economies in the Long 20th Century
City and Guilds LT664

Chair: Bernardita Escobar Andrae, University of Valparaiso

Veronique Pouillard, University of Oslo
"Analyzing Innovation through a Historical Patent Database: The Case of the Colonial Congo Patent System (1888-Early 1960s)"
Matti La Mela, University of Uppsala
"Co-creation through Patent Disclosure: French Patents in Sweden, 1885–1914"
Martin Monsalve, University of the Pacific
"Engineers, Expertise, and Innovation: The Dual Role of Peruvian Technocrats in Patent System Formation (1893–1930)"

Session 1i: Co-Creating Failure and Forgetting in Business and Entrepreneurial Histories
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair and Discussant: Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia

Niall MacKenzie, University of Strathclyde
"Past Futurology and Entrepreneurial Failure: The Case of the Bennie Railplane"
Morten Tinning, Copenhagen Business School and Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
"Craft as Memory Filter: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Ambivalent Legacies of Family Business"
Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California and Amal Kumar, California State University
"Technology as Tragedy: Educational Utopias and Organizing for Disappointment"

Session 1j: The Evolution of Entrepreneurship: Case Studies from the 14th to the 20th Century
Business School LG19B

Chair: Peter Miskell, University of Reading
Discussant: The Audience

Mark Casson, University of Reading and Catherine Casson, University of Manchester
"Property and Protest: Bury St Edmunds, 1300-1450"
Jessica Lomas, University of Reading
"Sanctity and Solvency: Managing Morality and Money in Renaissance Perugia"

Session 1k: Doing Business with Animals: Livestock, Commodities, and Capitalist Innovations
Business School LT LGR

Chair: Shane Hamilton, University of York

Nathan Norris, Cornell University
"Sheep Circuits in Rapa Nui and Southern Patagonia: Aesthetics of the Pastoral and the Industrial"
Olivia Paschal, University of Virginia
"Agrarians or Modernizers? Poultry and Politics in Postwar Arkansas"
Narusa Yamato, Stanford University
"The Making of a Japanese Milkopolis: Milk, Vaccines, and Public Health in Late Nineteenth-Century Tokyo"

Coffee and Networking Break, 10:00am - 10:30am

Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 2, 10:30am - 12:00pm

Session 2a: Bridging the Gaps: Intermediaries and the Co-Creation of Capitalism (18th–19th Centuries)
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair and Discussant: Joseph Slaughter, Wesleyan University

Léa Meyer, University of Geneva
"Financing the Spanish Wool Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century: The Case of Dutari Hermanos"
Raul Wildbolz-Gallego, UniDistance Suisse
"Navigating Structural Holes: Bankers, Notaries, and the Circulation of Capital in the Nineteenth Century"

Session 2b: Co-creation in Chinese Business History II
City and Guilds LT640

Chair: Stephanie Decker, University of Birmingham
Discussant: John Wong, University of Hong Kong

Ian Jones, University of Sheffield
"Lack of Archives: Methodological Implications from Research on the Ge Family Business"
Bingbing Ge, Lancaster University
"Patriotic Entrepreneurship: On Jian Zhang's Entrepreneurial Journey in China"
Hailin Lu, University of Birmingham
"The Historical Legacy of Colonialism on Modern Corporate Philanthropy: The Case of Ningbo Merchants"
Adam Frost, University of Southern Denmark
"The Gilded Cage: Agency and Structure in Strategic Uses of the Past"

Session 2c: Banking: Narratives about Crisis, Internationalization and Empire
Business School LT LGR

Chair: Christy Chapin, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Per H. Hansen, Copenhagen Business School
"'JUMP! You F**kers!' Narratives About Bankers in the Aftermath of Financial Crises"
Jamieson Gordon Myles, University of Geneva
"Internationalising the French Franc: Trade Finance, Banking Networks, and the Paris Acceptance Market, 1928-1936"
Lucy Newton, Henley Business School
"New Zealand Banking Iconography in London: Co-Creating Wealth In The Context Of Colonalism and the British Empire"
Chen Yang, University of Southampton, UK and Zi Yang, Queen's University Belfast, UK
"Co-creation of Global Banking: HSBC's Transnational Evolution Between and Beyond China and the UK"

Session 2d: Playing with Methods and Form
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair and Discussant: Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anders Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School
"Facts and Fiction – Taking Inspiration from the Novel"
Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Copenhagen Business School
"Shaped by Metal – Objects As Company Co-creators"
Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School
"Collaboration, or Collaborators?"
Allison Marsh, University of South Carolina
"A Project that Emerged from Spite"

Session 2e: Co-creating Social and Economic Policies: Business-Government Collaboration in International Forums, 1930s–1970s (II)
Business School LT LGS

Chair: Stéphanie Ginalski, University of Lausanne
Discussant: Nikolas Glover, Uppsala University

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, University of Lausanne
"Cold War Battles at the International Labor Organization (ILO): the Role of US Business in Co-Creating International Labor Standards (1947-1989)"
Sandra Bott, University of Lausanne
"From Boardroom to Negotiating Table: Alusuisse, UNCTAD, and the Politics of Technology and Resources in the 1970s"
Marieke Louis, SciencesPo Lille
"Legitimizing the Voice of Business within Intergovernmental Organizations: Comparing the International Chamber of Commerce with the International Organization of Employers"

Session 2f: Structure, Strategy, and Survival: Shipbuilding Across Three Centuries
Business School LG19A

Chair: Valerie Mock, Centre for Port and Maritime History, Liverpool John Moores University

Session 2g: Bittersweet Enterprise: Coffee as a Global Business
City and Guilds LT664

Chair and Discussant: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois

Sabrina Sigel, University of Geneva
"Deforesting for Progress? Environmental Debates and the Coffee Economy in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1889"
Daniel Sanchez Ordonez, Paris School of Economics
"(Un-)Persistent Conflict? The Effects of First Globalization Coffee Boom in Colombia"
Christian Robles-Baez, Stanford University
"Bitterness and Power: The Transformation of Coffee into a U.S. Staple"

Session 2h: Pluralizing Response: Business in the Face of Crisis in the Long 1970s
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair: Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar

Leila Girschweiler, University of Zürich
"Swiss Multinationals Facing Attacks in Argentina and Brazil 1968-1978"
Maia Müller, Université de Lausanne
"'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once': International Business Associations, Multinational Corporations and Regulation Attempts in the 1970s"
Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow
"Exploring Business Influence and Business Power: The British Chamber of Commerce in the Argentine Republic in the Aftermath of the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War"
Dennis Duennwald, New York University
"The Financing of Environmental Protection in the Global North, 1970s-1990s"

Session 2i: Co-Creating the Past: Craft, Marketing and Food Consumption
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair: Hamid Foroughi, University of Warwick
Discussant: The Audience

Giovanni Favero, Venice School of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
"In Search of Lost Craft: Artisanal Skills in the Ceramic District of Nove and Bassano Between Art and Industry, 1600-2000"
Daniela Pirani, University of Liverpool Management School and Beatrice Toti, University of Parma
"Pleasure in Food: From Counterculture to Critical Food Consumption"
Camilla Ferri, Copenhagen Business School
"Branding Craft: Historical Uses of 'Craft' in Marketing Discourses"
Matthew Bellamy, Carleton University
"Cool Capitalism and the Craft Brewing Revolution in Canada"

Session 2j: Global Histories of Management Education and Training (I): New Directions
Business School LG19B

Chair: Núria Puig, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Discussant: Pasi Nevalainen, University of Jyväskylä

Charles Harvey, Newcastle University and Mairi Maclean, University of Bath
"Field Emergence from Diverse Origins: History, Heterogeneity, and the Evolution of UK Business Schools"
Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School and Andrea Lluch, University of Los Andes and CONICET and 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"
Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Universidad
"International Cooperation in Management Training: The ILO and the Turkish Management Development Centre (1968-1974)'"
Arun Kumar, King's College London
"Agribusiness and D/development: The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the Corporatization of Agriculture in India"

Session 2k: Technological Infrastructures in Transition
City and Guilds 651/652

Chair: Maki Umemura, Cardiff University

David Foord, University of New Brunswick
"From Telegraphs to Telephones: Tracing the Socio-technical Transition in Canadian Telecommunications from 1846-1980"
Mila Davids, Eindhoven University of Technology
"Sustainability Challenges and Co-Creation in the Semiconductor Industry"
Niklas Jensen-Eriksen, University of Helsinki and Anitra Komulainen, AK-Historia Oy
"Co-creation and Co-destruction in the Global Telecommunications Industry: Nokia and Its Suppliers"
Natalya Vinokurova, Lehigh University
"If You Build It, Will They Come? Adoption of Digital Public Infrastructure in India in the 2010s"

Business Historians in Business Schools Lunch, 12:00pm - 1:25pm

Ognisko Ballroom

55 Princes Gate (Exhibition Road)

Lunch On Your Own, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 3, 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Session 3a: Co-Creating the Cotton Industry in 19th-Century Britain
Business School LG19A

Chair: Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame

Alexander Tertzakian, University of Glasgow and Xuesheng You, Cardiff University
"The Career Progression of Child Labourers in the English Cotton Industry, 1834-1857"
Emma Diduch, University of Cambridge
"Reconstructing a Factory Workforce: The Strutt Mills of Belper, 1881–1911"
Peter Maw, University of Leeds
"Reassessing Productivity and Technological Change in British Cotton Spinning during the Industrial Revolution from Business Records"

Session 3b: Globalizing Hong Kong Business History: Commerce, Capital, and Empire from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Cold War
Business School LT LGR

Chair: Man-Sing Cheung, University of Oxford
Discussant: Elizabeth Ingleson, London School of Economics and Political Science

Timothy Cheuk Yin Chan, University of Manchester
"Managing a State Business: The Establishment of the Hong Kong Mint and its Transnationality"
Ho Nam Dexter Tse, Trinity College Dublin
"Insurance: A Solution or an Obstacle to Piracy Suppression in Early 20th-Century Hong Kong?"
Tsz Ho Wong, University of Edinburgh
"The Money Wormhole: Hong Kong and the Yen Bloc During the Pacific War"
Connor Ka Hei Au Yeung, Purdue University
"Funny Business: Toys as Trans-Pacific Business History"

Session 3c: Colonial and Post-Colonial Relations in Global Banking
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair: Ghassan Moazzin, University of Hong Kong

Damian Clavel, University of Zurich
"Banking on Resistance: A Financial History of Araucanía, 1860s-1870s"
Bryna Goodman, University of Oregon
"Colonial Finance and Co-Creation of Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Stock Exchanges"
Adam Hefetz, Harvard University
"Capitalist Visions of a Jewish Palestine"
Kondwani Ngoma, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
"Navigating Sanctions and Apartheid: The Role of Global Banks in South Africa"

Session 3d: What Happened to the Organizational Synthesis in American History?
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair: Richard John, Columbia University
Discussant: Gareth Davies, University College London

Casey Eilbert, Johns Hopkins University
"Historicizing the Organizational Synthesis "
Caroline Johnston, University of Cambridge
"Constructing Victimhood: Right-Wing Interest Groups and Institutional Hollowing in the 20th Century"
William Krause, Vanderbilt University
"Stimulating Minds: Industrial Engineers and the Organization of Creativity at Home and Work, 1918-1939"
Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
"Organizational Syntheses, New/Professional-Managerial Classes, and the Politics of Resentment"

Session 3e: Between State and Market: Co-Creating Capitalism in France and the United States
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair and Discussant: Alexia Blin, Sorbonne Nouvelle

Chloé Gaboriaux, University of Poitiers
"Co-Producing Market Boundaries: For-Profit and Non-Profit Organisations Before the Law in Nineteenth-Century France"
Netta Green, Humboldt University
"Inherited Wealth and State Curiosity in Nineteenth-Century France"
Sveinn Johannesson, University of Iceland
"American Autarky: Edward B. Hunt and the Political Economy of Organic State Theories in the Civil War Era"

Session 3g: Databasing Co-Creation from Structured and Unstructured Historical Sources
City and Guilds LT640

Chair: Susanna Fellman, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Ian Jones, University of Sheffield

Victoria de Lorenzo, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London
"Co-(Re)Creating Global South Connections in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: ConnectingThreads.co.uk"
Katrin Schreiter, King's College London and Volodymyr Kulikov, University College London
"Adaptation or Co-creation? The Westen Family Connections in East-Central Europe"
Piotr Koryś, University of Warsaw and Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw and Szymon Talaga, University of Warsaw
"Databasing Industrial Elites: Reconstructing the Manufacturing Networks of Russian Poland, 1904–1911"

Session 3h: Not-So-Small Business
Business School LT LGS

Chair: Sean Patrick Adams, University of Florida
Discussant: Susan V. Spellman, Miami University

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"
Giacomo Gabbuti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
"Italian businesswomen in the twentieth century: data and sources"
Avi Ackerman, Sapienza Universita di Roma
"A sense of place": Pizzerias in the US, 1950s through the present"

Session 3i: Co-Creation, Innovation, and Piracy in the Fashion Industry
City and Guilds LT664

Chair: Thomas Buckley, University of Sussex

Greta Keiper-Blake, Misericordia University
"Co-Creation of Fashion: The Pattern-Making Industry and Participatory Fashion Design"
Alice Janssens, Erasmus University Rotterdam / University of Southampton
"Co-Creation Without Consent: Design Piracy and Reputation Building Within Early 20th Century Fashion Networks"
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Leeds
"Synthetic Style on the London Catwalk: The Artificial Silk Exhibitions at Holland Park"
Matthias Kipping, Schulich School of Business, York University
"The Shifting Locus of Innovation and Creation in the Eyewear Industry"

Session 3j: Global Histories of Management Education and Training (II): Domestic Business Elites and Management Education and Training
Business School LG19B

Chair: Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
Discussant: Mairi Maclean, University of Bath

Juha Kansikas, University off Jyväskylä
"Founder Generation in Business Elite: Early Executive Education of the 20th Century Upper Echelon of the Finnish Society "
Pasi Nevalainen, University of Jyväskylä
"Who Holds the Power? Changing Backgrounds of Board Members in Finnish State-Owned Companies, 1930s to Present"
Núria Puig, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Maria Fernandez-Moya, CUNEF Universidad
"Management Education and Domestic Business Landscapes: Insights from Spain, 1950s–1970s"
Mathias Krusell, University of Gothenburg
"Corporatizing the Welfare City? Education and Managerial Careers in Swedish Municipally Owned Enterprises"

Session 3k: Innovation through Co-creation
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair: John Cantwell, Rutgers University
Discussant: Chris Colvin, Queen's University Belfast

Shigehiro Nishimura, Kobe University and Yunting Xie, Uppsala University and Fredrik Tell, Uppsala University
"Gadelius and Swedish Business in Japan: Co-creating Global Business as a Patent Agent "
Bernardita Escobar Andrae, University of Valparaiso
"The Business Cycle of Innovators: A Tale from the Chilean Patent System, 1877-1910"
Marco Martinez, University of Pisa and Valeria Pinchera, University of Pisa
"Trademarking Innovation: Exploring the Role of Intellectual Property in Italy's Fashion industry, 1861–1939"

Coffee and Networking Break, 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 4, 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Session 4a: Economic Justice: Fairness, Debt and Wealth in Early Modern Economic Transformations
Business School LG19A

Chair and Discussant: Mischa Suter, Geneva Graduate Institute

Julia McClure, University of Glasgow
"Changing Concepts of Economic Justice in the Transition to Colonial Capitalism"
Adriana Chira, Emory University
"Popular Credit Instruments, Financialization, and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Havana"
Louise Walker, Northeastern University
"Unpaid Debts in Litigation and Law: Economic Transformation in 19th-Century Mexico"

Session 4b: Imagining New Markets in Neoliberal Africa
Business School LG19B

Chair: Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School

Sandy Peeples, Johns Hopkins University
"Banking on Socialism: Theorizing Credit under Ujamaa in the 1970s"
Afua Quarshie, Johns Hopkins University
"Kitting Out the Nursery: Mothercare Shops and Mothering Technologies in Neoliberal Ghana"
Richard Adjei, Johns Hopkins University
"Herbapreneurs: Entrepreneurialism, Creativity, and the Rise of 'Modern' Traditional Healers in Ghana"

Session 4c: Capital in Times of Revolution
City and Guilds LT664

Chair: Alexia Yates, European University Institute

Martin Giraudeau, Sciences Po
"Revolution as Enterprise: On Beaumarchais the Entrepreneur"
Andrew Edwards, University of St Andrews
"Money and the Making of the American Revolution"
David Shorten, Harvard Business School
"Business and the Mexican Revolution: Rivalries and Co-Creation"

Session 4d: Interactive Roundtable on AI's Impact on Business History
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair: Xaq Frohlich, Auburn University

Stephanie Decker, University of Birmingham
Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Adelaide University

Session 4e: Business and Capital in Socialist Enterprise
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair: Katrin Schreiter, King's College London

Marcus Dietrich, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
"Unintentionally Co-creating the International Financial System? Soviet-owned Banks, Eurodollar Markets and Socialist Financial Infrastructure During the Cold War"
Krisztina Fehervary, University of Michigan
"State-socialist TV Commercials: Between Consumer Engineering and Capitalist Realism"
Emilija Cvetković, Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade
"The McDonald's-Genex Joint Venture in Yugoslavia, 1979-1991"
Libor Zidek, Masaryk Univerzity
"From Path-Dependency to Co-Creation: Enterprise Survival during Post-Socialist Transformation in Central Europe"

Session 4f: Networks of Influence: Power, Conflict, and Trust in Transnational Enterprise
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair: Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, University of Lausanne

Otis Edwards, University of Hong Kong
"From Conflict to Collaboration: Anglo-American Financial Innovation in the Nineteenth Century China Trade"
Alvaro Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics and Pedro Neves, SEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management
"The African Connection: Business and Power in a Polycrisis Period (1890-1930)"
Jeff Fear, University of Glasgow and Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Independent Scholar
"Co-Creating The Kohner Agency: A Paul Kohner Production 1920-1955"
Nikolas Glover, Uppsala University and Thomas David, University of Lausanne
"Organising Capital in the 'Rich Man's Club': The Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD"

Session 4g: Cartels: Creativity and Governance
Business School LT LGS

Chair: Adam Nix, University of Birmingham

Susanna Fellman, University of Gothenburg and Martin Shanahan, University of South Australia
"Co-Creating the Market: Governments, International Cartels and Creative 'Reconstruction'"
Shaun Yajima, University of Tokyo / Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
"Media as a Mechanism of Cartel Governance: Germany 1890–1914"
Wyatt Wells, Auburn University Montgomery
"'Past It': The Case of Borax Limited"
Chris Corker, University of York and Ian Jones, University of Sheffield
"Cartels and the Co-Creation of Legitimacy: The Case of the National Wrestling Alliance, 1948-88"

Session 4h: Making Modern Markets in the 19th and 20th Centuries
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair: Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian School of Business

Valerie Mock, Centre for Port and Maritime History, Liverpool John Moores University and Mitch Larson, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
"Can Insights into Co-Creation be Gained by Examining Victorian Cotton Brokers in Liverpool?"
Marrisa Joseph, Henley Business School, University of Reading
"Paperback Pioneers: WH Smith, Routledge and The Co-Creation of a Publishing Revolution"
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"
Rachel Gross, University of Colorado Denver
"The Problem of U.S. Military Surplus After World War II"

Session 4i: Demand, Identity, and Trust: Culture, Language, and the Work of Advertisements
City and Guilds LT640

Chair: Pamela Laird, University of Colorado Denver

Jennifer Black, Misericordia University and Jeff Stephens, St. John Fisher University
"Finding America's Commercial Vocabulary: Considering the Language of Advertising and Business through Longitudinal Computer-Aided Analysis"
Rahima Schwenkbeck, College of Southern Nevada
"From Trances to Talk Shows: Advertising Psychic Practices in the United States"
Jeffrey Rubel, New York University
"In Search of Love: The Business of Personal Ads in Late 20th Century America"

Session 4j: Women’s Entrepreneurship in Global Perspective
Business School LT LGR

Chair: Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Marcella Lorenzini, University of Milan
"Co-Creating Credit Markets from the Shadows: Women's Agency in Milan's Lending System (19th Century)"
Alberto Rinaldi, University of Modena and Maria Carmela Schisani, University of Naples Federico II
"Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Italy (1800–1913): Evidence from a Large Historical Database"

Session 4k: Innovation, Strategy, and Industry Transformation in the 20th Century
City and Guilds 651/652

Chair and Discussant: Natalya Vinokurova, Lehigh University

Andrew C. Godley, University of Sussex
"The Making of the Modern Supermarket: Self-Service Adoption in British Food Retailing, 1950-1975"
Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon
"Industry Composition, Technology Evolution and Changing User Preferences: The Case of the Music Synthesizer"
Hartmut Berghoff, University of Goettingen
"Turbulent Growth. The Aviation Industry since the 1990s in the Light of Lufthansa's Recent History"
Sungshin Cho, Doshisha University
"The New Phase of Asian Shipbuilding (1970–2005): Market Structures and the Diverging Paths of Japan and South Korea"

Coffee and Networking Break, 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Foyer

Krooss Dissertation Prize Plenary, 5:15pm - 6:45pm

City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair: Ghassan Moazzin, University of Hong Kong

Finalists:

Lillian Tsay - "Sweetening the Empire: Sugar and Western-style Confectionery in Modern Japan and Taiwan" (Ph.D. 2025, Brown University; Advisor: Kerry Smith)

Yuanxie Shi - "Mao's Clever Hands: Export Lacemaking and the Socialist Flexibility in the Cold War, 1949-1980s" (Ph.D. 2025, University of Chicago; Advisor: Jacob Eyferth)

Cody Patton - "Nature's Brew: An Environmental History of the Modern American Brewing Industry" (Ph.D. 2023, The Ohio State University; Advisor: Bart Elmore)

Emerging Scholars Reception, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Ognisko Ballroom

55 Princes Gate (Exhibition Road)

Sponsored by Charles Wilson and Rowena Olegario

Saturday, March 28th

Breakfast, 7:30am - 8:30am

Foyer

Registration, 8:00am - 11:00am

Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 5, 8:30am - 10:00am

Session 5a: Science and Commerce in the Early Republic and Antebellum United States
Business School LG19A

Chair: Jennifer Black, Misericordia University
Discussant: Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University

Laura Clerx, Boston College
"'Improving… Our Countrymen': University Science, Mechanics Institutes, and Agricultural Societies in the United States, 1820-1850"
Alexis McCrossen, Southern Methodist University
"Capitalist Timekeeping before Hourly Wages: The Fiscal Year, The Tax Year, Yearly Labor Contracts, Maturity Dates, and Reckoning Days in Antebellum America"
Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School
"Freeman Hunt and Commercial Civilization in Antebellum America"

Session 5b: Rationalizing Chinese Management across the Public-Private Divide, 1930s–1950s
Business School LG19B

Chair and Discussant: Peter Hamilton, University of Bristol

Buyun Gong, University of Bochum
"Taylorization of the Government: The Chinese Administrative Efficiency Movement in the 1930s"
Victor Seow, Harvard University
"Fit under Fire: Industrial Psychology in Wartime China"
Yujie Li, University of Florida
"From Capitalist Workshops to Socialist Factories in 1950s Shanghai's Bicycle Industry"

Session 5c: Business Taxation, Double Taxation and Corporate Strategy: Business History Perspectives
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair and Discussant: Jan-Otmar Hesse, University of Bayreuth

Simon Mollan, University of York
"The Union Corporation, Taxation, and Corporate Strategy"
Neil Forbes, Coventry University
"'Immunity from Taxation'? The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, British Industry and Double Taxation After 1918"
Mark Billings, Exeter University
"The Business Response to Increased Taxation of Business Profits: The United Kingdom During and After the First World War"
Sarvnaz Lotfi, Carnegie Mellon University
"The History of R&D Loopholes, Or Why You Pay More Taxes than Amazon"

Session 5d: Oral History Methodologies and Memory in Business History
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair: Rory Miller, University of Liverpool
Discussant: The Audience

Beatriz Rodríguez-Satizábal, Universidad del Pacífico
"Interviewing Entrepreneurs and Managers in the Andean Region: Learning Business while Doing History"
Patryk Babiracki, University of Texas, Arlington
"The Use of History in Business and Tech: What I Learned While Interviewing Industry Professionals"
Laurent Beduneau-Wang, Africa Business School and Majda Soumane, Africa Business School
"Collective Granaries and the Genealogy of Management Practices: Beyond the Grain, Beyond Oral Histories"
Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos, Universidad EAFIT and José-Alejandro Cruz-Giraldo, Universidad EAFIT
"Applied Business History and the Integration of Research, Education, and Practice: The Experience of Universidad EAFIT, Colombia"

Session 5e: Exploring the Contested Public-Private Boundary: A Multidisciplinary Critical Analysis
City and Guilds 651/652

Chair: Daniel Rowe, University of Oxford
Discussant: The Audience

Alina Utrata, University of Oxford
"Territorializing the Corporate: Spatiality and Divisions of Public and Private"
Connor O'Brien, University of Cambridge
"Normative Co-optation and Debt Relief for Post-Invasion Iraq"
Tim Karayiannides, University of Cambridge
"Post-Apartheid Eldorado: Gold Hedging, Black Economic Empowerment and the Making of the Most Unequal Society on Earth "
Josh Lappen, University of Notre Dame
"'Winning the Public': Corporate Contestation of Democratic Legitimacy in the 1920s and the Long Aftershocks of Customer Ownership"

Session 5f: Spin, Marketing, and Corporate Image
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair and Discussant: David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sarah Elvins, University of Manitoba and Katherine Parkin, Monmouth University
"The New 'Made in Japan': Car Manufacturers and Shifting Perceptions of Japanese Production in the 1960s and 1970s"
Daniel Robinson, Western University
"Biting Back: Philip Morris, Hans Haacke, and Corporate Art Sponsorship, 1965-1990"
Dimitry Anastakis, University of Toronto
"'Safety Doesn't Sell': A Case of Failed (?) Auto Marketing in Post-Nader America"

Session 5g: Co-creation Through Conflict: Law, Labor, and the Forging of New Economic Structures
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair: Jan Logemann, University of Bonn

Erik Peinert, Boston University
"Ententes and National Champions in Postwar France"
Evan Brown, Columbia University
"From Scrutiny to Subsidy: Sport, the State, and Making New Monopolies"
Brian Callaci, Open Markets Institue
"From Antimonopoly to Union-Busting: Franchisees Since 1980"
Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia
"The 21st Century 'New Economy': A Legal and Business History of Vertical Disintegration"

Session 5h: The Making and Unmaking of an Agrarian Administrative State: Co-Creation and U.S. Agribusiness in the 21st Century
Business School LT LGR

Chair: Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University London

Ashton Merck, Independent Scholar
Robert Ferguson, Arizona State University
Nicole Adrian, University of Pennsylvania
Nathanael Mickelson, University of Georgia

Session 5i: Trade Catalogues as Joint Affairs in the Design Business (1900–1939)
Business School LT LGS

Chairs: Roxanne Goldberg, ETH Zurich and Damla Gore, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Gregorio Astengo, IE University

Michael Golec, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"The Business of Cataloguing Visual Acuity in Design"
Feyza Yagci, Istanbul Technical University and Semra Horuz, Bilikent University
"Printed and Prefabricated: Timber Catalogues in Istanbul at the Turn of the Century"
Dorotea Petrucci, London Metropolitan University
"Italy's First National Trade Catalogues for the US Market (1939) and the Emergence of the 'Made in Italy' Brand"

Session 5j: The Historical Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship I
City and Guilds LT640

Chair: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Nicholas Wong, Northumbria University

Mairi Maclean, University of Bath and Charles Harvey, Newcastle University
"Social Entrepreneurship and the Social Economy of Victorian and Edwardian Britain"
Mike Bull, Manchester Metropolitan University and Thomas Davis, Manchester Metropolitan University
"Urban Regeneration and Social Entrepreneurship: A Microhistorical Study of a Community Land Trust"
Mia Clarke, University of Glasgow and Shannon Harris, University of St Andrews
"Dealing with Jokers in the Pack: Social Enterprise and the State in Scotland, 1965-1999"

Session 5k: Shared Visions, Divergent Ends: Co-Creation and the Making of Technological Futures
City and Guilds LT664

Chair: Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware
Discussant: The Audience

Karlyn Allenbrand, University of Delaware
"Solar Challenger: Energy, Environment, and the Spectacle of Solar Aviation, 1973-1987"
Jacob Bruggeman, Johns Hopkins University
"Skill Capture: Hackers, Honeypots, and the Co-Creation of Cybersecurity"
Ethan Cowan, University of Delaware
"We Have an Electronic Brain: Technology, Corporate Communication, and Collective Labor in Israel, 1948-1973"
Clarissa Fontaine , University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"The Bedroom Programmers: How A Community of Hobbyists Built the Online Gaming Industry"

Coffee and Networking Break, 10:00am - 10:30am

Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 6, 10:30am - 12:00pm

Session 6a: The Business of Co-Creation in the Early Modern World
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair: Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Ellen Nye, Purdue University

Andrew Konove, University of Texas at San Antonio
"A Kind of Tyranny: The Monopoly of Small Change in Late-Colonial Mexico"
Ellen Paterson, University of Oxford
"Female Spinners and City Merchants: Anti-Monopoly Agitation in Early Stuart England"
Joris van den Tol, Radboud University
"Practitioners' Solutions: Practical Problems and the co-creation of Economic Policy in the Early Modern Dutch Republic"
Edmond Smith, University of Manchester
"The Corporations are Dead! Long Live Corporate Institutions: The Evolution of Business Culture in Britain After the Decline of Monopoly Privileges"

Session 6b: Multinational Corporations and Co-Creation in Post-Colonial Contexts
City and Guilds 651/652

Chair: Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jessica Levy, Purchase College, SUNY
"Decolonizing GM: Joint Ventures and Globalized Automobile Production in the Late Twentieth-Century"
Elisa Grandi, Université Paris Cité
"Co-creating Development: The TVA Model in Colombia, Iran, and Italy"
Alanna O'Malley, Erasmus University
"Global Order INC. The Secret History of How Corporate Power in the Global South Shaped Global Order"

Session 6c: Ventures in Capital: The Political and Legal Institutions of Modern Financial Markets
Business School LT LGR

Chair and Discussant: William Childs, The Ohio State University

Susannah Glickman, Stony Brook University
"The Co-Creaton of the Small Business and Venture Capital Model"
Mols Sauter, University of Maryland
"ERISA's Plan Asset Rule and the Institutionalization of Venture Capital, 1974-1986"
David Sicilia, University of Maryland
"Securitizing Litigation: The Rise – and Perils – of Third-Party Funding"

Session 6d: Applied History in Professional Services
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair: Michael Weatherburn, Imperial College London
Discussant: Patryk Babiracki, University of Texas, Arlington

Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford
Laurence Mussio, Schulich School of Business
Victoria Barnes, Queen's University Belfast
Matthew Ford, Swedish Defence University

Session 6e: Fabricating the Market: Narratives of State Control, Reform, and Resistance
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair: Hartmut Berghoff, University of Goettingen

Germà Bel, Universitat de Barcelona and Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University
"Pioneering Privatization: The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprises in Meiji Japan"
Mingke Ma, University of Oxford
"Banking Centralisation in Warlord Northeast China: Financialisation and Late-Development, 1917-1931"
Paula Vedoveli, Fundação Getulio Vargas
"A Narrative of Conviction: The Rise of Indicators of Economic Growth in Authoritarian Brazil, 1960s–1970s"
Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University
"China's First Foreign Factory Director: A German Manager and the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in 1980s China"

Session 6f: Organizations, Governance, and Ownership in Europe and India
Business School LG19B

Chair: Ellan Spero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Zane Jennings, University of Oxford
"The Legal and Political Foundations of Permanent Capital for the English East India Company and the Bank of England"
Knut Sogner, BI Norwegian School of Business
"Associative Capitalism in the Age of Corporations: The Fall of a Powerful Norwegian Industrial Group 1895-1939"
Pallavi Singh, Queen's University Belfast
"From Bazaars to Corporations: Community in Listed Joint Stock Firms in India (1920s-1970s)"
Jeppe Nevers, University of Southern Denmark
"Novo Nordisk and Foundation Ownership"

Session 6g: Extractive Industries, Governments and the Co-creation of Environmental Governance
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair: Michael Aldous, Queen's University Belfast

Yuan Jia Zheng, International University of Catalonia
"China's Lithium Strategy in Latin America: Electric Vehicles, Energy Transition and Environmental Controversy"
Israel García Solares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame
"Produce and Contain: the Growth and the Toxicity of Cyanide Production 1880-1930"
Sabine Pitteloud, UniDistance Suisse and Espen Storli, NTNU
"The Aluminium Industry and the Environment: Tackling Industrial Pollution in Switzerland, Scotland and Norway, 1890-2000"
Marco Forero, EAFIT University and Andrew Primmer, EAFIT University
"Excavating Global Capitalism: British Mining Enterprise in Colombia as conduits of Early Globalisation — An Internalisation Theory Case Study, 1824–1899"

Session 6h: Preserving U.S. Hegemony: Global Challenges, Tenuous Compromises, and the Making of a New Order, 1970s-1980s
Business School LG19A

Chair and Discussant: Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech

Minwoo Kong, Columbia University
"Forging Post-Fordism, Globally: GM-Toyota Joint Venture and the Politics of Industrial Experimentation, 1976–1984"
Zev Miklethun, Princeton University
"Voices of Business: Business-Class Consciousness, Trade Politics, and the NAM-Chamber of Commerce Merger That Never Was"
Ella Coon, Columbia University
"All in the Family: Lao Family, Control Data, the Reagan Administration's efforts to Build a Hmong Diaspora in the American Heartland"
Spencer Tompkins, Fordham University
"Negotiating Industrial Decline: Embraer's Push into US Markets and the Politics of Commercial Diplomacy, 1972-1983"

Session 6i: Marketing in the Market Era: Historical Perspectives on Individualization, Segmentation and Choice
City and Guilds LT664

Chair: Klara Arnberg, Stockholm University
Discussant: The Audience

Eli Cook, University of Haifa
"'Let Your Taste Decide:' The Pepsi Challenge, Choice Experiments and the Making of a Neoclassical Self"
Orsi Husz, Uppsala University
"Reimagining Membership. Loyalty Cards, Commercial Surveillance and the Intimate Relationships of Marketing"
Elin Åström Rudberg, Stockholm University and Klara Arnberg, Stockholm University
"'Have it Your Way': Marketing Expertise and Consumer Culture in the Neoliberal Era"
Zsuzsanna Vargha, ESCP Business School
"'Identify Your Profitable Customers': Individualization As Rationalized Embedding in 1990s Academic Marketing and Technology Fields "
David Clampin, History of Advertising Trust
"Functional versus Image Advertising in Britain 1950 to 1989 and the Extent of the 'Creative Revolution'"

Session 6j: The Historical Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship II
City and Guilds LT640

Chair: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School

Marieshka Barton, Durham University Business School
"Ideological Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship: Insights from Chile 1960-2020"
Léna Prouchet, Copenhagen Business School
"Connecting the Dots: Business History Research on Social Entrepreneurship in the Global South"
Nicholas Wong, Northumbria University
"Reflecting on the Historical Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship in a Global Context"

Session 6k: More-Than-Human Co-Creation of Business
Business School LT LGS

Chair and Discussant: Gregory Hargreaves, Hagley Museum and Library, University of Delaware

Cody Patton, Montana State University Billings
"Aquatic Concerns: Water and the Rise of the Chain Brewery"
Kristin Brig-Ortiz, Washington University in St. Louis
"Slippery Industry: Water Scarcity and Commercial Activity in British Colonial South African Port Towns, 1860-1900"
Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology
"A Blue Economy: Horseshoe Crabs, Ocean Ecologies, and Biomedicine"
Brigid Prial, University of Pennsylvania
"Constructing Chimpanzee Value: The Improvement of Nature in Robert Yerkes' Anthropoid Laboratory, 1913 – 1938"

Women in Business History Lunch, 12:00pm - 1:25pm

Ognisko Ballroom

55 Princes Gate (Exhibition Road)

Lunch On Your Own, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 7, 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Session 7a: Early Modern Business Practices
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair: Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge University
Discussant: Edmond Smith, University of Manchester

Hannah Knox Tucker, Copenhagen Business School
"Contingent-Sea: Mariners' Responsiveness in the British Atlantic"
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"
Scott C. Miller, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
"The Special(ized) Ones: The Rise of Commercial Specialization in the Post-Revolutionary American Economy"

Session 7b: Natural Resources, Technology, and Knowledge in 20th-Century Asia
City and Guilds 651/652

Chair: Shigehiro Nishimura, Kobe University
Discussant: David Edgerton, Kings College London

Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University
"Manufacturers Plantation Investment and Early Global Rubber Chains: the Case of Pirelli in Java"
Tom Learmouth, London School of Economics
"Fresh Capacity for War: The Transformation of Rubber Manufacturing in the Japanese Empire, 1937–1945"
Ying Jia Tan, Wesleyan University
"State Forestry Research and the Birth of Taiwan's Plastic Industry"

Session 7c: Pension Power: Governance, Investment, and Political Economy in Late Twentieth-Century Britain and America
Business School LG19B

Chair: Victoria Barnes, Queen's University Belfast
Discussant: Janette Rutterford, Open University

Xin Li, University of Glasgow
"Saving the Industry or Reforms of Pensions? The Wilson Committee, the Regulation and the Investment Strategy"
Yally Avrahampour, LSE
"Explaining the Slowdown in UK Occupational Pension Provision (1967 – 1995) "
Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow
"Fiduciary Duty, Shareholder Value, and Anti-Apartheid Activism among US Public Pension Funds"

Session 7d: Co-Creation in Business History: Reinterpreting Sources, Cultures and Governance for a Sustainable Future
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chair: Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York

Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
"When does a new source enable a business historian to reopen a problem?"
Andrea Schneider-Braunberger, GUG - Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V.
"The Significance of Sources and the Historian in the Construction of Knowledge"
Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique
"Culture, Work and Management in Business History"
Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
"Alternative Paths to Industrialisation: The Co-creation of Standards and Systems"
Ben Wubs, Erasmus University Rotterdam
"Multinationals and Corporate Taxation: The Co-evolution of Global Business and Governance"

Session 7e: Private Interests, Public Power
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair: Adoracion Alvaro-Moya, CUNEF Universidad

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"
Dhananjaya Premauden, University of Pennsylvania
"Colleges in Panic: How College Trustees Gambled with Native Land"
Adam Mestyan, Harvard University
"The Entente Cordiale As A Business Event - Privatizing the Daira Sanieh Company in Egypt, 1904"

Session 7f: Public and Corporate Relations in the Automotive Industry
Business School LT LGR

Chair: Jessica Levy, Purchase College, SUNY
Discussant: Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University

Alan Loeb, Independent Scholar
"License to Manufacture: Constructing the GM Mythology, 1919"
David Gindis, University of Warwick and Ernie Englander, George Washington University
"Stakeholder Populism, Campaign GM, and the Economic Education of the Public"
Christoph Nitschke, University of Stuttgart
"German-Italian Motor Vehicle Relations: NSU Neckarsulm and Fiat Turin, 1928-1948"

Session 7g: Negotiating Neoliberalism: Business, Social Policy, and the Many Paths to Privatization, 1970-1996
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair and Discussant: Daniel Rowe, University of Oxford

Julia Fournier, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"'Kentucky Fried Children': For-Profit Child Care and the Politics of Family Policy in the 1970s"
Henry Tonks, Kenyon College
"Risky Business: Industrial Policy and the Origins of the Democratic Party's Alliance with Silicon Valley, 1979-1992"
Brooke Depenbusch, University of Illinois Springfield
"Making a Virtue of Austerity: Defunding the Safety Net and Rewriting the Boundaries of Public/Private Responsibility in 1990s America"

Session 7h: Towards a New Economic Order? Understanding Internationalism from the Periphery
Business School LG19A

Chair: Simon Mollan, University of York

Vivien Chang, Dartmouth College
"The Great Marketplace: African Development in a Neoliberal World"
Jack Guenther, Yale University
"'A First-Class Partner?' Making and Contesting the Atlantic Order in 1970s Hamburg"
Mattie Webb, Virginia Military Institute
"'On our terms': Economic Sanctions and a Vision for the Post-Apartheid Workplace"
Sergio Infante, Yale University
"Bootleg Modernization: Postcolonial Ghana, British Social Science, and the Origins of Informal-Sector Business, 1950–1970"

Session 7i: Race and the Business of Hospitality
Business School LT LGS

Chair: Elizabeth Manley, Xavier University

Christopher Ewing, Purdue University
"Making the World of Gay Travel: From Sex Tourism to Gay Cruises in the Global South at the End of the Twentieth Century"
Mars Plater, University of Connecticut, Stamford
"Integrating Commercial Green Spaces in Nineteenth-Century New York City"
Joan Flores-Villalobos, University of Southern California
"Intimate Hospitality: Black Boarding-House Keepers in U.S. Empire"

Session 7j: Unexpected Histories of Commercial Education: Origins and Diffusion in an Age of Imperialism
City and Guilds LT640

Chair: Arun Kumar, King's College London
Discussant: Richard Longman, The Open University

Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
"The Business of American Business Education: Nineteenth-Century American Commercial Colleges"
Paul Sinclair, University of Regina and Adrien Jean-Guy Passant, ISTEC Business School
"Before Hegemony – Early Americanization of Japanese Commercial Education: The Story of Tokyo Business College (1875–1885)"
Deonnie Moodie, University of Oklahoma
"Civilizing Business: The Imperial Origins of U.S. Business School Education and its Use in India"
Joseph Gladstone, Washington State University
"Historical Memory and Economic Sovereignty: How the IRA Reoriented Native Economic Traditions"

Session 7k: The Penrosian Legacy and Business History
City and Guilds LT664

Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Discussant: Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School

Michael Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell
"Knowledge Creation in the Learning Firm: Penrose's Enduring Contribution "
William Lazonick, Academic-Industry Research Network
"The Penrosian Legacy, the Theory of Innovative Enterprise, and Business History"
Matt Hopkins, Academic-Industry Research Network
"Hercules, 1912-2007: The Growth of an Innovative Enterprise and Its Financialized Demise"

Coffee and Networking Break, 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 8, 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Session 8a: "The Spice Must Flow:" Legal and Illegal Market-Making in the Early Modern World
City and Guilds LT664

Chair: Ellen Nye, Purdue University
Discussant: Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge University

Phil Withington, University of Sheffield
"'Dutchification', Co-creation, and England's Intoxicant Economy, c. 1550–1750"
Scott Reynolds Nelson, University of Georgia
"Oceans of Drugs: Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, Tobacco and the Reconstruction of the International Slave Trade, 1500-1880 AD"
David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
"The Early Modern Offshore and the Business of Smuggling: Gangs, Merchants and Druggists"

Session 8b: Markets in the Shadows: State, Business, and informality in Twentieth-Century East Asia
City and Guilds 649/650

Chair: Adam Frost, University of Southern Denmark
Discussant: Yitong Qiu, University College London

Huirong Cheng, University of Edinburgh
"War and the Co-creation of State–Market Relations: The Collapse of China's Tea Industry during the Second World War"
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"
Qiuyang Chen, Loughborough University
"Informal Credit and Rural Women: Micro-Financial Crises in Reform-Era China"

Session 8c: Co-Creating Finance, Banking, and the State in 19th-Century Europe
Business School LG19A

Chair: Christoph Nitschke, University of Stuttgart

John Handel, Baylor University
"The British Financialization of American Slavery, 1820s–1840s"
Charlotte Robertson, Harvard Business School
"Capital Anxiety: France, Germany, and the Politics of Foreign Investment before 1914"
Blaise Truong-Loï, European University Institute and Alexia Yates, European University Institute
"Bondholder Associations and the Creation of the French International Investor (1860s–1920s)"
Teddy Paikin, McGill University
"Banking Monopoly or Pluralism: Michel Chevalier's War Against the Banque de France (1855–1867)"

Session 8d: Multinationals and the Co-Creation of Our Modern World
City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

Chairs: Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School and Sabine Pitteloud, UniDistance Suisse
Discussant: The Audience

Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Uppsala University
Boris Gehlen, Stuttgart University
Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Freelancer/BHC
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
Rory Miller, University of Liverpool
Pierre Eichenberger, University of Lausanne

Session 8e: Structuring Presence: Business, Politics, and the Nineteenth-Century U.S. State
City and Guilds 651/652

Chair: Sharon Murphy, Providence College

Nicolas Barreyre, EHESS
"Building American Finance with Public Debt"
Stuart Anderson-Davis, Columbia University
"Spinning Cotton, Spinning Slavery: Pro-Confederate Investor-Activists in Britain during the American Civil War"
Richard John, Columbia University
"Town-Born and City Bred: Anti-Monopoly in a Trans-Imperial Age"
Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University London
"Railroad Regulation as Industrial Policy"

Session 8f: Publishers and Publicists: Middle Figures and the Marketing of National and Imperial Products in the Mid Twentieth Century
Business School LG19B

Chair: Vicki Howard, University of Essex
Discussant: Andrew Cohen, University of Kent

David Baillargeon, University of Texas, Arlington
"Empire of Metals: The Imperial Institute, the British Empire, and the Global Mining Industry in the Interwar Years"
Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Edward Bernays and His Indian Clients: Race, Nation and the Failures of International Public Relations in the 1950s"
Holly Swenson, Northwestern University
"What Value Empire? Commercial Cultural Exports Within and Beyond the British Empire"

Session 8g: The Co-Creation of Funerary Capitalism: Doing Business in a Taboo Market
City and Guilds 747/748

Chair: Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo

Julie Rugg, University of York
"The Commodification of Grave Sales in 19th Century England"
Jennifer Ford, University of Mississippi
"'Big Days for the Progressive Funeral Director': The 1922 Tri-State Funeral Directors Convention and the Co-Creation of a Business Identity"
Jan Logemann, University of Bonn
"Managing Visibility in Taboo Markets: Divergent Approaches to Funerary Entrepreneurship in the 20th Century"
Sophia Wigglesworth, University of York
"U.K. Regulatory Frameworks for Prepaid Funerals: Influence on Market Development and Product Delivery since the 1980s "

Session 8h: Widows, Lovers, and Mothers: Entrepreneurs of Necessity and Opportunity
Business School LT LGR

Chair and Discussant: Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles

Rachel Greenfield, Independent Scholar
"Leveraging Expectations: Rose Knox, Building a National Business as a Wife and Mother in the Early 20th Century"
Keith Hollingsworth, Morehouse College and Khalil Harper-Arias, Morehouse College
"Building Enterprise in a Divided City: Black Women Entrepreneurs in Early 20th-Century Atlanta"

Session 8i: Global Encounters and Alcohol Marketing in the American Century
City and Guilds 750/751

Chair and Discussant: Thomas Tunstall Allcock, University of Manchester

Ian Seavey, University of Texas, Rio Grand Valley
"Government House Grog: Rum, Mercantilism, and the New Deal in America's Caribbean Empire"
Kaete O’Connell, Southern Methodist University
"Occupation to Oktoberfest: American GIs, German Beer, and the Business of Postwar Festivity"
Lisa Jacobson, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Vodka Marketing in the Cold War Era U.S.: The Malleable Meanings of a Malleable Spirit"

Session 8j: Conflict, Co-Creation, and Concealment: Unearthing Hidden Histories of Labor
Business School LT LGS

Chair: Elizabeth Shermer, University of Georgia

Daniel Levinson Wilk, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology
"Hotels Killed Household Servitude and No One Noticed"
Marc Levinson, Independent Scholar
"UPS and the Teamsters: A History Built on Myths"
Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University
"Co-Creating Safety Protocols in Arizona & New Mexico Copper Mines"
Andrew Smith, University of Birmingham
"Confronting the Issue of Modern Slavery in International Supply Chains in the UK, 1897 to 1997"

Session 8k: The Theory of Innovative Enterprise and Business History
City and Guilds LT640

Chair: Daniel Raff, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Alice Lam, School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway University of London

Marie Carpenter, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
"Cisco Systems: Loss of Global Leadership As Innovation Turns to Financialization"
Oner Tulum, Academic-Industry Research Network
"The Tension between Innovation and Financialization in the U.S. Biopharmaceutical Industry: Merck, Sharp & Dohme Co."
Mustafa Sakinc, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
"'Running It Like a Business': How Boeing's Managers Dismantled Its Productive Capabilities in the MSV Era"

Emerging Scholars Ice Cream Social, 5:00pm - 5:45pm

Foyer

Sponsored by Hagley Museum and Library

Presidential Address, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

City and Guilds LT200 Lecture Theatre

"Co-Creation: Who Counts as Creators?"

Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford

Cocktail Reception, 7:00pm - 7:45pm

Foyer

Sponsored by Business History

Award Ceremony and Banquet, 7:45pm - 9:45pm

Queens Tower

Wednesday, April 1st

BHC membership meeting, 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Wednesday, April 1st, 1:30pm to 2:30pm, Eastern time (USA)

Held via zoom. Invitation will be emailed to membership prior to the conference.