Anne De Jong
Biographic Data
| ID | 135074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne De Jong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | De Jong |
| SIGNATURE | DE JONG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2809-5465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company
In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company. We argue that the bear syndicate members aimed for financial gain from share price declines, while their leader, Le Maire, participated for strategic reasons, that…
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands
We identify all 196 Dutch exchange-listed corporations that halted their operations and ceased to exist between 1903 and 1996. We then explain these terminations using unique hand-collected accounting and governance data and regression techniques suited to long-run comparative analysis. Although Dutch bankruptcy laws remained unchanged across the twentieth century, patterns of corporate exit shifted markedly: shareholder-induced voluntary liquida…
Reflections from a Radical Killjoy: Palestine, Protesting Genocide and the Reemergence of Political Ethnonationalism
This article critically assesses anthropological responses to the Gaza massacre following the October 7, 2023, attacks. I warn against the dangers of a single, reductive narrative and highlight the harmful effects of discourse policing. While terms like "genocide" convey the gravity of the massacre and mobilize support, they also reinforce false binaries, reify distinctions between Palestine and Israel, and disconnect Gaza from the broader Palest…
Born of necessity: The introduction of convertible bonds in The Netherlands
This paper investigates the adoption of convertible bonds in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. These instruments were introduced around the start of the nineteenth century in British canal companies and later adopted by U.S. canal builders. Their value in large infrastructural projects was firmly established when British and American railroads issued bonds which were convertible into shares. In the Netherlands, convertible bonds were fir…
Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi-occupied Netherlands
We examine the Netherlands around the Second World War, where the occupying Nazi regime overhauled the country's corporate tax regime and introduced a profit tax of 55 per cent. We estimate that the new tax regime cost investors at least 300 million guilders, an amount equivalent to 5 per cent of Dutch GDP in 1940. We demonstrate that the tax introduction changed the financing of Dutch businesses. In particular, we find strong evidence that debt …
Going public: Evidence from stock and bond IPOs in Belgium, 1839–1935
We investigate firms' initial stock and bond issues in public capital markets and explain fluctuations in these IPOs over time. We study Belgium from 1839 to 1935, which provides a setting with poor investor protection, no tax distortions, and changing regulations. We find that economic growth induces stock and bond IPOs and that the issuers time offerings such that they coincide with favorable market conditions. Even though in 1873, regulation w…
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century
In the second half of the eighteenth century, Dutch bankers channeled investors' funds to sugar and coffee plantations in the Caribbean, Surinam in particular. Agency problems between plantation owners, bankers, and investors led to an arrangement called negotiaties. Bankers oversaw plantations' cash flows and placed mortgage debt with investors. We demonstrate how this securitization arrangement worked using market-wide data and detailed records…
From free-for-all to self-governing monopoly: Market organization and price information at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 1796–1940
For most of its history Amsterdam securities trading was entirely unregulated and spread over various venues frequented by different social groups, handicapping price transparency. A public price current emerged only in 1796 and then with wide bid-ask spreads to protect margins. To combat the confusion a curious pricing method, the mid-price system, emerged during the nineteenth century. Tied to a market microstructure centring on hoekmannen (mar…
Research in business history: From theorising to bizhismetrics
Empirical work is dominating business history, with a particular emphasis on case research using rich primary sources. I argue that the field of business history would benefit from a balanced combination of theoretical and empirical work. Restoring this balance requires that business historians build theories using their empirical observations. This approach – theorising – may enrich the field of business history and enhance the impact on related…
Exceptional big linkers: Dutch evidence from the 20th century
This article investigates the effects of individual directors for corporate strategies and firm performance over the course of the 20th century for Dutch exchange-listed firms. We apply a multi-method approach on directors with many executive and supervisory roles in multiple firms – so-called big linkers. We first identify exceptional big linkers, board members whose presence is systematically related with firm characteristics. Our approach allo…
Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: A critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict
Describing the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a ‘binary conflict’ is taken as a value-free and academically neutral depiction. This article challenges the objective nature of the notion of binary conflict. Contributing to scholarship that prioritizes subjugated knowledge, this article poses that the depiction of the situation entirely in terms of conflict – and the rigid alterity that such a perspective tacitly tr…
Change of referencing style
We are now inviting manuscripts to be submitted with in-text references from 2018 onwards, as Business History will change its citation format from endnote to in-text author–date from 2019. There w
Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
New business history
This editorial introduces eight articles for the special issue on ‘New business history?’. Following a workshop on this topic, several submissions with discussions on business history methodology and studies with non-standard historical approaches were received and reviewed. In the editorial we provide an overview of recent debates in the discipline and provide a short introduction to the articles accepted for publication in this special issue
Towards a new business history
This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history – dominantly case study analysis – maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to dev…
Militarism and Israeli Society
Any book that aims to critically engage with the theme of militarism and Israeli society is bound to be both thought-provoking and contentious. This is certainly true of a collection of essays auth
The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623
With their legal personhood, permanent capital, transferable shares, separation of ownership and management, and limited liability, the Dutch and English colonial trading companies VOC and EIC are considered institutional breakthroughs. We analyze the VOC's business operations and financial policy and show that its novel corporate form owed less to foresight than to piecemeal engineering to remedy design flaws. The crucial feature of managerial l…
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Human Rights, Activism and Academic Neutrality
This article addresses two ethical challenges that, over the past decade, have become particularly prominent for any scholar conducting fieldwork research in contested spaces or on contested research themes. These are, first, the role researchers choose to adopt in the field and, second, the ways in which research is theoretically positioned. This article contributes to these debates by looking at binary constructs in Israel and the Occupied Pale…
Mapping strategy, structure, ownership and performance in European corporations: Introduction
This paper is the introduction to the Business History special issue on European Business Models. The volume presents results of the international project about mapping European corporations, within the strategy, structure, ownership and performance (SSOP) framework. The paper describes the historical developments of the SSOP framework and introduces the contributions to the special issue
Towards a new business history
This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history – dominantly case study analysis – maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to dev…
Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623
With their legal personhood, permanent capital, transferable shares, separation of ownership and management, and limited liability, the Dutch and English colonial trading companies VOC and EIC are considered institutional breakthroughs. We analyze the VOC's business operations and financial policy and show that its novel corporate form owed less to foresight than to piecemeal engineering to remedy design flaws. The crucial feature of managerial l…
Mapping strategy, structure, ownership and performance in European corporations: Introduction
This paper is the introduction to the Business History special issue on European Business Models. The volume presents results of the international project about mapping European corporations, within the strategy, structure, ownership and performance (SSOP) framework. The paper describes the historical developments of the SSOP framework and introduces the contributions to the special issue
Exceptional big linkers: Dutch evidence from the 20th century
This article investigates the effects of individual directors for corporate strategies and firm performance over the course of the 20th century for Dutch exchange-listed firms. We apply a multi-method approach on directors with many executive and supervisory roles in multiple firms – so-called big linkers. We first identify exceptional big linkers, board members whose presence is systematically related with firm characteristics. Our approach allo…
New business history
This editorial introduces eight articles for the special issue on ‘New business history?’. Following a workshop on this topic, several submissions with discussions on business history methodology and studies with non-standard historical approaches were received and reviewed. In the editorial we provide an overview of recent debates in the discipline and provide a short introduction to the articles accepted for publication in this special issue
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Human Rights, Activism and Academic Neutrality
This article addresses two ethical challenges that, over the past decade, have become particularly prominent for any scholar conducting fieldwork research in contested spaces or on contested research themes. These are, first, the role researchers choose to adopt in the field and, second, the ways in which research is theoretically positioned. This article contributes to these debates by looking at binary constructs in Israel and the Occupied Pale…
Change of referencing style
We are now inviting manuscripts to be submitted with in-text references from 2018 onwards, as Business History will change its citation format from endnote to in-text author–date from 2019. There w
Reflections from a Radical Killjoy: Palestine, Protesting Genocide and the Reemergence of Political Ethnonationalism
This article critically assesses anthropological responses to the Gaza massacre following the October 7, 2023, attacks. I warn against the dangers of a single, reductive narrative and highlight the harmful effects of discourse policing. While terms like "genocide" convey the gravity of the massacre and mobilize support, they also reinforce false binaries, reify distinctions between Palestine and Israel, and disconnect Gaza from the broader Palest…
Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi-occupied Netherlands
We examine the Netherlands around the Second World War, where the occupying Nazi regime overhauled the country's corporate tax regime and introduced a profit tax of 55 per cent. We estimate that the new tax regime cost investors at least 300 million guilders, an amount equivalent to 5 per cent of Dutch GDP in 1940. We demonstrate that the tax introduction changed the financing of Dutch businesses. In particular, we find strong evidence that debt …
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century
In the second half of the eighteenth century, Dutch bankers channeled investors' funds to sugar and coffee plantations in the Caribbean, Surinam in particular. Agency problems between plantation owners, bankers, and investors led to an arrangement called negotiaties. Bankers oversaw plantations' cash flows and placed mortgage debt with investors. We demonstrate how this securitization arrangement worked using market-wide data and detailed records…
Mapping strategy, structure, ownership and performance in European corporations: Introduction
This paper is the introduction to the Business History special issue on European Business Models. The volume presents results of the international project about mapping European corporations, within the strategy, structure, ownership and performance (SSOP) framework. The paper describes the historical developments of the SSOP framework and introduces the contributions to the special issue
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Human Rights, Activism and Academic Neutrality
This article addresses two ethical challenges that, over the past decade, have become particularly prominent for any scholar conducting fieldwork research in contested spaces or on contested research themes. These are, first, the role researchers choose to adopt in the field and, second, the ways in which research is theoretically positioned. This article contributes to these debates by looking at binary constructs in Israel and the Occupied Pale…
Militarism and Israeli Society
Any book that aims to critically engage with the theme of militarism and Israeli society is bound to be both thought-provoking and contentious. This is certainly true of a collection of essays auth
The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623
With their legal personhood, permanent capital, transferable shares, separation of ownership and management, and limited liability, the Dutch and English colonial trading companies VOC and EIC are considered institutional breakthroughs. We analyze the VOC's business operations and financial policy and show that its novel corporate form owed less to foresight than to piecemeal engineering to remedy design flaws. The crucial feature of managerial l…
Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
New business history
This editorial introduces eight articles for the special issue on ‘New business history?’. Following a workshop on this topic, several submissions with discussions on business history methodology and studies with non-standard historical approaches were received and reviewed. In the editorial we provide an overview of recent debates in the discipline and provide a short introduction to the articles accepted for publication in this special issue
Towards a new business history
This article calls for a discussion about business history research. We advocate that the current typical approach in business history – dominantly case study analysis – maintains its prominent position, but the purpose and relevance of this type of research in the scientific method for business history is made more explicit. Moreover, the article proposes the application of additional approaches in business history, which specifically aim to dev…
Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: A critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict
Describing the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a ‘binary conflict’ is taken as a value-free and academically neutral depiction. This article challenges the objective nature of the notion of binary conflict. Contributing to scholarship that prioritizes subjugated knowledge, this article poses that the depiction of the situation entirely in terms of conflict – and the rigid alterity that such a perspective tacitly tr…
Change of referencing style
We are now inviting manuscripts to be submitted with in-text references from 2018 onwards, as Business History will change its citation format from endnote to in-text author–date from 2019. There w
Exceptional big linkers: Dutch evidence from the 20th century
This article investigates the effects of individual directors for corporate strategies and firm performance over the course of the 20th century for Dutch exchange-listed firms. We apply a multi-method approach on directors with many executive and supervisory roles in multiple firms – so-called big linkers. We first identify exceptional big linkers, board members whose presence is systematically related with firm characteristics. Our approach allo…
From free-for-all to self-governing monopoly: Market organization and price information at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 1796–1940
For most of its history Amsterdam securities trading was entirely unregulated and spread over various venues frequented by different social groups, handicapping price transparency. A public price current emerged only in 1796 and then with wide bid-ask spreads to protect margins. To combat the confusion a curious pricing method, the mid-price system, emerged during the nineteenth century. Tied to a market microstructure centring on hoekmannen (mar…
Research in business history: From theorising to bizhismetrics
Empirical work is dominating business history, with a particular emphasis on case research using rich primary sources. I argue that the field of business history would benefit from a balanced combination of theoretical and empirical work. Restoring this balance requires that business historians build theories using their empirical observations. This approach – theorising – may enrich the field of business history and enhance the impact on related…
Going public: Evidence from stock and bond IPOs in Belgium, 1839–1935
We investigate firms' initial stock and bond issues in public capital markets and explain fluctuations in these IPOs over time. We study Belgium from 1839 to 1935, which provides a setting with poor investor protection, no tax distortions, and changing regulations. We find that economic growth induces stock and bond IPOs and that the issuers time offerings such that they coincide with favorable market conditions. Even though in 1873, regulation w…
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century
In the second half of the eighteenth century, Dutch bankers channeled investors' funds to sugar and coffee plantations in the Caribbean, Surinam in particular. Agency problems between plantation owners, bankers, and investors led to an arrangement called negotiaties. Bankers oversaw plantations' cash flows and placed mortgage debt with investors. We demonstrate how this securitization arrangement worked using market-wide data and detailed records…
Born of necessity: The introduction of convertible bonds in The Netherlands
This paper investigates the adoption of convertible bonds in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. These instruments were introduced around the start of the nineteenth century in British canal companies and later adopted by U.S. canal builders. Their value in large infrastructural projects was firmly established when British and American railroads issued bonds which were convertible into shares. In the Netherlands, convertible bonds were fir…
Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi-occupied Netherlands
We examine the Netherlands around the Second World War, where the occupying Nazi regime overhauled the country's corporate tax regime and introduced a profit tax of 55 per cent. We estimate that the new tax regime cost investors at least 300 million guilders, an amount equivalent to 5 per cent of Dutch GDP in 1940. We demonstrate that the tax introduction changed the financing of Dutch businesses. In particular, we find strong evidence that debt …
Reflections from a Radical Killjoy: Palestine, Protesting Genocide and the Reemergence of Political Ethnonationalism
This article critically assesses anthropological responses to the Gaza massacre following the October 7, 2023, attacks. I warn against the dangers of a single, reductive narrative and highlight the harmful effects of discourse policing. While terms like "genocide" convey the gravity of the massacre and mobilize support, they also reinforce false binaries, reify distinctions between Palestine and Israel, and disconnect Gaza from the broader Palest…
The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company
In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company. We argue that the bear syndicate members aimed for financial gain from share price declines, while their leader, Le Maire, participated for strategic reasons, that…
Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands
We identify all 196 Dutch exchange-listed corporations that halted their operations and ceased to exist between 1903 and 1996. We then explain these terminations using unique hand-collected accounting and governance data and regression techniques suited to long-run comparative analysis. Although Dutch bankruptcy laws remained unchanged across the twentieth century, patterns of corporate exit shifted markedly: shareholder-induced voluntary liquida…
Economics (13 works) · Business (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (8 works) · Business history (6 works) · Finance (6 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (6 works) · Accounting (5 works) · Accounting (5 works)