Guildsmen, Entrepreneurs and Market Segments
The Case of the Garment Trades in Antwerp and Ghent (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9969269 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harald Deceulaer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859098000017 |
| OpenAlex | W2127334559 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The present essay links the social, institutional and cultural approaches of guilds and guildsmen with their daily economic practice. Using as the point of departure a case study of the Antwerp and Ghent garment trades during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, a preliminary model is presented, stressing the interrelatedness between divergent strategies, behavioural practices and specific market segments. It is argued that the choice of artisans for a certain market segment implied path dependency and, hence, influenced their investment patterns, their labour relations, their attitude towards the guild, and their personal representation in daily life
Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Guild · Investment (military · Market economy · Path dependency · Point (geometry · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Wine Industry and Tourism
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2009 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |