Family Firms, Global Networks and Transnational Actors. The Case of Alexander Fraser (1816-1904). Merchant and Entrepreneur in the Netherlands Indies, Low Countries and London
Alexander Fraser (1816-1904) was a Scots businessman and entrepreneur who operated among international commercial and financial networks in Europe and Southeast Asia (with an excursion into the Antipodes) for virtually half a century between the 1840s and the 1890s. His importance to the historian – and the business historian in particular – stems from a number of factors. Not least, discussion of his career helps fill – in however modest a way – some of the lacunae in business history’s relative neglect (as Cristof Dejung has recently remarked) of ‘economic actors conducting trading operation... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 133, Iss 2 (2018) |
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Schlagwörter: | History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26800808 |
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