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(Un)principled agents : monitoring loyalty after the end of the royal African company monopoly
Ruderman, Anne; Waijenburg, Marlous van - In: Business history review 97 (2023) 2, pp. 247-281
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An admiralty for Asia : Isaac le Maire and conflicting conceptions about the corporate governance of the VOC
Gelderblom, Oscar (contributor); Jong, Abe de (contributor);  … - 2010
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An Admiralty for Asia : Isaac Le Maire and Conflicting Conceptions About the Corporate Governance of the VOC
Gelderblom, Oscar - 2010
The Dutch East India Company or VOC in 1602 showed many characteristics of modern corporations, including limited liability, freely transferable shares, and well-defined managerial functions. However, we challenge the notion of the VOC as the precursor of modern corporations to argue that the...
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17561833 the Business of Empire : The East India Company and Imperial Britain Huw V. Bowen
Webster, Anthony - 2014
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Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java : colonial relationships in trade and finance, 1800-1942
Claver, Alexander - 2014
Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver …
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British overseas railway investment and economic development : the Colombian National Railway Company and its impact on the Colombian interior
Primmer, Andrew - In: Business history 65 (2023) 6, pp. 935-958
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The collection of slavery compensation, 1835-43
Anson, Michael; Bennett, Michael D. - 2022
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Underwriting empire : marine insurance and female agency in the French Atlantic World
Wade, Lewis - In: Enterprise & society : the international journal of … 25 (2024) 1, pp. 184-212
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Pacific strife : the great powers and their political and economic rivaltries in Asia and the Western Pacific 1870 - 1914
Dijk, Kees van - 2015
Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa...
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