Ana Sofia Ribeiro

Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe

Cooperation and the case of Simon Ruiz

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe discusses the importance of reciprocity mechanisms, trust and reputation in the context of early modern business relations, using network analysis methodology, combining quantitative data with qualitative information. It considers how cooperation and prevention could simultaneously create a business relationship, and describes the mechanisms of control, policing and punishment used to avoid opportunism and deception among a group of business partners. Using bills of exchange and correspondence from Simon Ruiz's private archive, it charts the evolution of this business network through time, debating which criteria should be included or excluded from business networks, as well as the emergence of standards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781848935372
• ISBN-10: 1848935374
• Artikelnr.: 43549345

Autorenporträt

Ana Sofia Ribeiro is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Évora, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. A model for the study of historic business cooperation 2.
The evolution of the Simon Ruiz network and partner choice criteria 3. The
proximity to power 4. Endogamy in early modern trade: a necessity? The case
of the Simon Ruiz network 5. Mechanisms of economic cooperation and
competition between Simon Ruiz and his agents in Portugal, 1557-1580 6.
Informal promoters of merchant cooperation: the power of trust, gossip and
reputation