Companies in the Early Modern World: A Review of Recent Literature

Erik Odegard

doi:10.1017/S0165115322000158

Companies in the Early Modern World: A Review of Recent Literature

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chartered companies provided one solution for the problems posed by long-distance trade in the early modern world. Accordingly, these organisations have been studied exhaustively. Yet the field is by no means depleted, as the books reviewed here attest. These six books cover questions ranging from whether the chartered companies acted as real business organisations or rather as appendages of state power, the relations between companies and states, the institutional development of the corporate form, and the nature of some of these companies as “company-states.” In addition, two edited volumes deal with specific aspects of the chartered companies and with noncorporate forms of merchant organisation. The works raise new questions and engage in ongoing debates. The review also raises a number of issues which could be addressed in future research, including the dominance of the East India Companies in our understanding of the corporate form as a whole.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)	1-11
Tijdschrift	Itinerario
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115322000158
Status	Gepubliceerd - 14 nov. 2022

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