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Managing an early modern giant: Issues and initiatives at the Dutch East India Company.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Managing an early modern giant: Issues and initiatives at the Dutch East India Company./
Author:	van Lent, Wim.
Description:	150 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
Subject:	Management. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3724901
ISBN:	9781339086729

Managing an early modern giant: Issues and initiatives at the Dutch East India Company.
van Lent, Wim.

Managing an early modern giant: Issues and initiatives at the Dutch East India Company. - 150 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--ESSEC Business School (France), 2014.

The recent financial crisis has reinvigorated an academic interest in the precepts upon which "rational" economic behavior is based. Answering to the need for a better understanding of capitalism's fundaments, this dissertation takes a historical perspective on a number of core managerial issues, including raising capital, controlling agents and improving reliability / efficiency. It does so by means of multiple longitudinal analyses of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie -- VOC), which operated during the first wave of globalization and pioneered modern management principles. Together, the chapters cover all of the Company's three important domains of activity: the Asian branch, the metropolitan upper echelons and the shipping between Europe and Asia. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data and drawing on agency theory and institutionalism, the dissertation depicts the VOC as an actively governed organization that consciously addressed trade-offs and dilemmas. Elaborating how social and organizational processes contributed to the modernization of international business, the dissertation suggests that the roots of capitalism and "rational" economic coordination, which are often assumed to obey an autonomous economic logic, can be found in pragmatism and social construction. As such, the VOC's struggle to reconcile long-term goals with short-term exigencies speaks to current strategic issues in dynamic or emerging industries and feeds into the debate on the factors (culture or political) that have contributed to the current state of western capitalism.

ISBN: 9781339086729Subjects--Topical Terms:

516664
Management.

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