Partners, Servants, or Entrepreneurs? Banians in the Nineteenth-Century Bengal Economy
| Autor: | Michael Aldous |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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knowledge
History 060106 history of social sciences Ecology (disciplines) corporate governance 0507 social and economic geography India 050701 cultural studies intermediaries Intermediary organizational forms Political science Business forms 0601 history and archaeology Business and International Management Corporate governance 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Economy BENGAL Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Nexus (standard) |
| Zdroj: | Aldous, M 2021, ' Partners, Servants, or Entrepreneurs? Banians in the Nineteenth-Century Bengal Economy ', Business History Review, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 675-697 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680520000689 |
| ISSN: | 2044-768X 0007-6805 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0007680520000689 |
| Popis: | Banians acted as intermediaries for European merchants in Bengal. They were highly influential in the eighteenth century but their importance waned thereafter. This article reexamines their role in the nineteenth century and argues that their importance persisted but evolved in response to changes in the Bengal economy and issues of contracting and governance. It shows that the banians remained a nexus between the local and global economies, facilitating a bidirectional transfer of knowledge. They enabled the development of innovative Indian business forms and contributed to the emergence of a diverse ecology of organizational forms and ownership in Bengal at the end of the nineteenth century. |
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