This paper examines the responses of Indigenous nations and European companies to new trading opportunities: Cree nations and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and Khoe nations and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). This case study is important because of the disparate outcomes: within a few...

In this study, I implemented data scraping and textual analysis to parse corporate data from the 10-K filings on SEC EDGAR. Textual analysis is used to measure a company’s risk aversions and hedging strategies when confronted with exchange rate exposures. I selected data of trading companies...

Historians explain the eighteenth-century origin of European colonialism in Asia either with the profile of the merchants or an argument about uneven power. This Element suggests that the environment was an important factor, too. With India (1600-1800) as the primary example, it says that the...

"Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousand of people in and around its settlements in Bengal. Focusing on boatmen and silk reelers...

Inequality in different forms has existed throughout history, however, with the passage of time, there is increasing awareness of its human cost even when there is little agreement on the causes of inequality or the strategies that may be adopted to address it. This chapter focuses on factors...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to create a generic competency model based on the entry-level positions' requirements of human resource managers in trading companies operating in the Czech Republic. The proposed model should define an optimal set of key competencies that a competent graduate...

On 16 January 2015, Zohaib Akhtar, the company secretary and PA to the CEO of Ji Trading Company was analysing what went wrong during the day. Ji Trading Company imported heavy machinery from China for its clients in Pakistan. This year the company tried to attract more investment from their...

In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) traded sappanwood, a source of red dye for textiles, in both its Dutch-Asiatic and intra-Asian trade routes. The voyage and cargo records kept by the VOC's bookkeeper-general in Batavia reveal a small but convenient trade that...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to create a generic competency model based on the entry-level positions’ requirements of human resource managers in trading companies operating in the Czech Republic. The proposed model should define an optimal set of key competencies that a competent graduate...

"Through the histories of English trading companies -- the Levant Company, the East India Company, and the Royal African Company -- this book shows how non-European peoples in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Western India used their control over these companies to shape the...

"A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard conditions, foreign encounters, islands and ports of call, the waters of the Atlantic itself. McAleer portrays these as essential to the understanding of the Company as an...

Verlagsinfo: Der deutsche Kolonialismus entstand im Zusammenspiel von Kaufleuten, Bankiers und Reedern, für die der außereuropäische Handel seit Langem eine ihrer wichtigsten Einnahmequellen war. Gerade Hamburg und Bremen spielten eine bedeutende Rolle: Ohne die hanseatischen Unternehmer...

"Company Politics offers a new interpretation of political economy, imperialism, and the history of the corporation in the age of the French Revolution. The book focuses on the history of the Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes, the final iteration of the French East India Company, interweaving...

Editorial NoteAcknowledgementsList of FiguresPrologueIntroduction to the Contents of the Deshima Dagregisters of 1641-1660Deshima, the Dutch Factory in Nagasaki: A Brief IntroductionDagregister of Opperhoofd Maximiliaen Le Maire: 9 June-31 October 1641Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq:...

In this article we have discussed several aspects as companies are concerned. Thus, we will focus in particular on the limited liability company, which can either be single-person or multi-person. We consider it appropriate to highlight the facilities granted to those students who wish to set up...

In this article we have discussed several aspects as companies are concerned. Thus, we will focus in particular on the limited liability company, which can either be single-person or multi-person. We consider it appropriate to highlight the facilities granted to those students who wish to set up...

Trading companies and travel writing: an introduction / Aske Laursen Brock, Guido van Meersbergen and Edmond Smith -- Part One. Managing information -- Mapping travel knowledge: the use of maps on the first Dutch voyages to Asia / Djoeke van Netten -- Writing that travels: the Dutch East India...

Reciprocity and Dispossession: Processes of Transformation -- Monopoly and Competition: Contests over Indigenous Peoples’ Labour and Land -- Honour and Duplicity: Debts of Rivals, Dreams of an Aristocrat -- Servitude and Independence: The Settler Colonial “Experiment” Begins -- Menace and...

The overall purpose of this thesis is to understand how and why networks played a significant role for the merchants and company traders of the Danish Asiatic Company (DAC) in their trade in China. To explore this, the following research questions will be answered:  From the perspective of...

"This book directs its main focus to the Guinea Company and its members, aiming to understand the genealogy of several major changes taking place in the English Atlantic and in the Anglo-Africa trade in the 17th century and beyond. Little focus has been directed at the companies that preceded...

"Die aus Rechnungsbüchern und Korrespondenzen bestehende Buchführung is der wichtigste Quellenbestand für unternehmerisches Handeln in der orindustriellen Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Mit der Darstellung der Kooperation zwischen den Augsburger Handels- und Bankgesellschaften von Anton Welser und...

"Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for...

"This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact...