Efficient Transactors or Rent-Seeking Monopolists? The Rationale for Early Chartered Trading Companies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4747507 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Richardson Jones (0000-0002-1560-9009, University of Dundee), R H Jones (0000-0001-8238-9379), S R H Jones, Ville (0000-0001-8314-6002, Australian National University), Simon P Ville |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 898-915 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700017514 |
| OpenAlex | W2063607247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 38 |
Although the modern multinational corporation is usually regarded as a product of changes in the scale and nature of business that have occurred since the middle of the nineteenth century, there are examples of large, integrated firms dating back to the sixteenth century. Perhaps the most celebrated of these are the English and Dutch East India companies, established in 1600 and 1602, respectively, with a national monopoly of trade with Asia. Other English companies to be granted trading monopoly charters included the Muscovy Company (1553), the Hudson’s Bay Company (1670), and the Royal African Company (1672), and similar rights were granted to foreign companies by the governments of France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark
Business · Economics · Industrial organization · Microeconomics · Corporate Finance and Governance · Corporate Insolvency and Governance · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
The Enterprise of Empire
Monsters of Protocolonial Economic Enterprise
The Economic Value of British Colonial Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Economic Value of British Colonial Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Networking with a Network
Democracia e plutocracia nas companhias coloniais pombalinas, 1757-1777
Own, Rent, or Rent-Seek
The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation
Theory and history
Opening to the East
Contract Enforcement in the English East India Company
Whatever is, is right’? Economic institutions in pre‐industrial Europe 1
Making Mercantilism Work
Information, institutions et temporalité. Quelques remarques critiques sur l’usage de la nouvelle économie de l’information en histoire
Royal African Company Share Prices during the South Sea Bubble
Convergent evolution towards the joint-stock company
Slavery, capitalism, incorporation and the Close Harbour Company of Jamaica, circa 1800
Transaction costs of early modern multinational enterprise
Beyond convergence
From merchant to merchant-ruler
Business organisation in the Mediterranean Sea
Against Diffusion
Statehood in the digital age1
Agents with Principles
The organization of the grain trade in the early Roman Empire
Malfeasance and the Foundations for Global Trade
Rival empires of trade in the Orient, 1600-1800
The constitution and finance of English, Scottish and Irish joint-stock companies to 1720
Give Us Good Measure
Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market
The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720
Royal African Company
The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660–1760
The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815
Traders, Planters and Slaves
The Merchant-Warrior Pacified
Authority, Efficiency, and Agricultural Organization in Medieval England and Beyond
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade
Agency Problems in Early Chartered Companies
The growth of international business
Bonding and the Agency Problem
Giants of an Earlier Capitalism”
Dutch-Asiatic Trade 1620 – 1740
A History of the Levant Company
The Relative Importance of Slaves and Commodities in the Atlantic Trade of Seventeenth-Century Africa
The Trade between Western Africa and the Atlantic World, 1600–90
The Honourable Company
The Growth of International Business
The Honourable Company
Organizations and Markets
English Shipowning during the Industrial Revolution
Traders, Planters, and Slaves
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The Fur Trade in Canada; an Introduction to Canadian Economic History
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |