TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erikson,Emily
TI  - Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757 
T2  - Princeton Analytical Sociology Series
SN  - 9780691159065
AV  - HF486.E6 E75 2017
U1  - 382.0941 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Business & Economics
KW  - International
KW  - Economics
KW  - General
KW  - Reference
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Corn laws (Great Britain)
KW  - Free trade
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Europe
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Tariff
KW  - Colonies
KW  - America
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Asia
KW  - Asian commercial institutions
KW  - Asian merchants
KW  - Asian ports
KW  - Asian trading ports
KW  - Court of Directors
KW  - English East India Company
KW  - English trade patterns
KW  - Industrial Revolution
KW  - alternative explanations
KW  - analytical sociology
KW  - choosing ports
KW  - commercial networks
KW  - comparative analysis
KW  - corruption
KW  - decentralization
KW  - decentralized market exchange
KW  - decentralized organizational structure
KW  - decentralized ports
KW  - early modern period
KW  - eastern ports
KW  - economic development
KW  - economic theory
KW  - financial networks
KW  - foreign trade institutions
KW  - global trade
KW  - historical change
KW  - individual-level actions
KW  - market structure
KW  - merchant capitalism
KW  - micro-level behavioral patterns
KW  - militarization
KW  - modernity
KW  - monopoly
KW  - multilateral commercial network
KW  - new markets
KW  - new organizational forms
KW  - nineteenth century
KW  - operational decisions
KW  - opportunity structures
KW  - organizational background
KW  - organizational characteristics
KW  - organizational context
KW  - organizational incentive structures
KW  - other East India companies
KW  - overseas trade expansion
KW  - overseas trade
KW  - patterns of innovation
KW  - private trade allowances
KW  - private trade
KW  - small-scale commercial actors
KW  - social networks
KW  - trade networks
KW  - trading decisions
KW  - trading partnerships
KW  - trading ships
KW  - underdevelopment
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Merchant Capitalism and the Great Transition --; 3. The European Trade with the East Indies --; 4. Social Networks and the East Indiaman --; 5. Decentralization, Corruption, and Market Structure --; 6. The Eastern Ports --; 7. Eastern Institutions and the English Trade --; 8. Conclusion --; Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why England experienced rapid economic development and how the relationship between Europe and Asia shifted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Though the Company held a monopoly on English overseas trade to Asia, the Court of Directors extended the right to trade in Asia to their employees, creating an unusual situation in which employees worked both for themselves and for the Company as overseas merchants. Building on the organizational infrastructure of the Company and the sophisticated commercial institutions of the markets of the East, employees constructed a cohesive internal network of peer communications that directed English trading ships during their voyages. This network integrated Company operations, encouraged innovation, and increased the Company's flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness to local circumstance.Between Monopoly and Free Trade highlights the dynamic potential of social networks in the early modern era
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