1. Vorindustrielle Unternehmer? Ökonomische Akteure und Betriebsformen im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert.
- Author
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Gorißen, Von Stefan
- Subjects
BUSINESS history ,PROTOINDUSTRIALIZATION ,HISTORICAL semantics ,NEW institutionalism (Sociology) ,TRANSACTION cost theory of the firm ,PRODUCTION (Economic theory) ,INDUSTRIAL relations ,TEXTILE industry ,IRON industry ,ECONOMIC history -- 1600-1750 ,ECONOMIC history -- 1750-1918 ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article examines the appropriateness of using terminology that describes phenomena in modern, industrial economies such as business enterprises and entrepreneurship in the context of early modern, pre-industrial economic history. After outlining the historical semantics of these terms, the author proposes an analysis of the history of companies and entrepreneurs in early modern Germany based on a theoretical framework informed by the New Institutional Economics and the transaction cost theory of the firm. He illustrates the processes of protoindustrialization with examples from the production processes and labor relations in the textile and iron industries in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Published
- 2012