Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from Ōmi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors....

This paper quantifies the impact of the 1630-1631 Italian plague on the business activities of the Florentine merchant-bank Saminiati & Guasconi. Employing AI for handwriting recognition on over 6,000 bank letters we show that letters and goods transactions decreased by two-thirds when a...

The article discusses the advancement of timber traders and former middlemen in Riga's timber trade during the second half of the 19 th and early 20 th century. Using methods from spatial history, statistical data on the Riga timber trade and archival documents from the timber trade files in the...

This paper quantifies the impact of the 1630-1631 Italian plague on the business activities of the Florentine merchant-bank Saminiati & Guasconi. Employing AI for handwriting recognition on over 6,000 bank letters we show that letters and goods transactions decreased by two-thirds when a...

Companies depend on the trust and confidence of the general public to thrive. The integrity of financial reporting practices plays a pivotal role in establishing and sustaining stakeholders' confidence. This trust serves as a foundational cornerstone in managerial decision-making processes and...

The trade in Mitrowitz in the period following the signing of the commercial treaty of Passarowitz between Austria and the Ottoman Empire in 1718 was lively. It reflected the characteristics of both domestic and border trade, but Mitrowitz also served as a transit region. Commercial activities...

Early Modern historians have long been fascinated by the mercantile world of the late medieval and early modern periods. The reason for their fascination can be ascribed to the wealth, cosmopolitism, social capital and political clout that many of these merchants (mostly men) projected onto...

Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from Ōmi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors....

The trade in Mitrowitz in the period following the signing of the commercial treaty of Passarowitz between Austria and the Ottoman Empire in 1718 was lively. It reflected the characteristics of both domestic and border trade, but Mitrowitz also served as a transit region. Commercial activities...

Early Modern historians have long been fascinated by the mercantile world of the late medieval and early modern periods. The reason for their fascination can be ascribed to the wealth, cosmopolitism, social capital and political clout that many of these merchants (mostly men) projected onto...

The article addresses how merchants and wine producers interacted while oscillating between competition and collaboration in their internal relations. Spanning a period of more than a century, it addresses three chronological periods: 1900-1940, 1940-1994, and 1994 to the present. In the first,...

When Government of India on November 8th 2016 announced that currency of five hundred & one thousand will be no more in legal tender, the whole nation were, at the moment stunned & the people were amazed of government’s abrupt move. People could find difficulty in meeting their daily needs;...

As in many developing economies, cash is still widely used in Colombia, even among merchants who accept payment cards. Indeed, 60% of these merchants use dissuasive strategies to make their clients pay with cash. This paper presents estimates of merchant card fees that are optimal according to...

Exporters differ markedly in export-market performance. We document that this heterogeneity is not strongly reflected in workforce education or occupations but closely relates to the presence of a few workers with prior export experience. We employ a novel identification strategy to isolate how...

"Based around research into marketing education and marketing practice, Marketing Skills in Practice: Developing a Successful Marketing Career helps students embarking on their career to develop their professional identity, as well as the key skills required by employers in the industry. Divided...

"Roman merchants, artisans, and service providers faced substantial prejudice. Contemporary authors labeled them greedy, while the man on the street accused merchants of lying and cheating. Legally and socially, merchants were kept at arm's length from respectable society. Yet merchants were...

Chapter 1. Salesforce Fundamentals and Architecture -- Chapter 2. Objects and data management -- Chapter 3. Salesforce Automatization Tools -- Chapter 4. Apex Programming -- Chapter 5. Triggers and Bulk Processing -- Chapter 6. SOQL and SOSL -- Chapter 7. Salesforce Lightning -- Chapter 8....

Accounting professionals experience client-initiated workplace aggression, and prior research suggests the mechanisms used to cope with workplace aggression can influence the extent to which such aggression detrimentally affects work quality. We survey 163 accounting professionals to examine the...

The aim of the article is to evaluate the level of basic knowledge of accounting issues of students of the School of Business Administration in Karviná (SBA) in the Czech Republic and verify the existence of dependence of their knowledge on gender, secondary education, aspects of their...

"Provides a corrective to a neglected aspect of Jewish history in the South. Diane Catherine Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who settled in what we today call Upstate South Carolina. Like other parts of the so-called New South, Upcountry South Carolina was a center of...