Companies in the Early Modern World
A Review of Recent Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14636609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Ødegård (0000-0002-2675-3647, International Institute of Social History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 439-449 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Itinerario (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-1153 • E-ISSN: 2041-2827 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0165115322000158 |
| OpenAlex | W4308893975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Chartered companies provided one solution for the problems posed by long-distance trade in the early modern world. Accordingly, these organisations have been studied exhaustively. Yet the field is by no means depleted, as the books reviewed here attest. These six books cover questions ranging from whether the chartered companies acted as real business organisations or rather as appendages of state power, the relations between companies and states, the institutional development of the corporate form, and the nature of some of these companies as “company-states.” In addition, two edited volumes deal with specific aspects of the chartered companies and with noncorporate forms of merchant organisation. The works raise new questions and engage in ongoing debates. The review also raises a number of issues which could be addressed in future research, including the dominance of the East India Companies in our understanding of the corporate form as a whole
Business · Economics · Management · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Accounting
Corporate Constitutionalism and the Dialogue between the Global and Local in Seventeenth-Century English History
Recapitalization or Reform? The Bankruptcy of the First Dutch West India Company and the Formation of the Second West India Company, 1674
The VOC as a Company-State
Niels Steensgaard and the Europe-Asia Trade of the Early Seventeenth Century
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |