LEADER 04814 am 22005773u 450 001 9910158665703321 005 20220530064030.0 010 $a3-653-05851-1 010 $a3-631-69752-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001010805 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4777163 035 $a(OCoLC)967939074 035 $a(ScCtBLL)313b58b4-3fe0-403b-b9b3-8b97d423e7ea 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34880 035 $a(PPN)241723361 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001010805 100 $a20170120h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInstitutions of Hanseatic trade $estudies on the political economy of a medieval network organisation /$fUlf Christian Ewert, Stephan Selzer 210 $cPeter Lang International Academic Publishing Group$d2016 210 1$aFrankfurt am Main, [Germany] :$cPeter Lang Edition,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (198 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a3-631-66183-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Hanse History and Economics ? a New Institutional Economics Perspective on Hanseatic Trade -- Points of Departure -- Hanse Research, the Economy and Economics -- New Institutional Economics and the Hanse ? a Challenge -- Chapter 2: Reputation, Trust and Culture ? the Network Structure of Hanseatic Trade and its Benefits -- Hanseatic Trade and its Historiographical Evaluation -- The Network Structure of Hanseatic Trade -- Coordination of the Network Trade System -- An Economic Assessment of the Hanse?s Network Organisation of Trade -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3: A "Small World" ? Reconstruction and Meaning of the Hansards' Social Networks -- Network Analysis as a Method to Describe Social Structure -- Social Networks within the Hanse ? Examples and Corresponding Sources -- Chapter 4: Bridging Distances and Filling Gaps ? Strategies to Handle Heterogeneous Commercial Environments -- Extension of European Trade to the Baltic Sea ? Merchants and Cities -- Unequal Hanseatic Commercial Settings ? Sources of Heterogeneity -- Bridging and Filling the Gap ? Strategies to Balance the Effects of Heterogeneity -- Success and Failure of Hanseatic Strategies to Cope with Heterogeneity -- Chapter 5: State of Cities, Commercial Trust, or Virtual Organisation? ? Structure and Coordination of the Hanse -- The Paradoxical Outward Appearance of the Hanse -- Structure of the Hanse -- Problems of Coordination and Institutions to Enhance Cooperation -- Chapter 6: Competitive Advantage or Limit to Business? ? Contingency and Path Dependence -- The Context of the Hanseatic Network Organisation -- Economic Effects of the Hanseatic Network Organisation -- The Development of the Hanse?s Network Organisation and Path Dependence -- Chapter 7: Perspectives of Research into Hanseatic Trade ? the Impact of the Model of Network Organisation -- A Short Look Back -- Methodological Advances and Newly Published Sources -- Network Organisation as a Formative Pattern of Pre-modern Trade -- The Hanse as a Political Organisation -- The Structural Change around the Year 1500 -- Insights Relevant to Historical Economics of Trade -- Bibliography. 330 $aThe merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants' commercial exchange by reputation, trust and culture. The institutional economics approach also allows for a comprehensive analysis of coordination problems arising between merchants, towns and the "Kontore". Due to the simplicity and flexibility of network trade the Hansards could bridge the huge gap in economic development between the West and the East. In the changing economic conditions around 1500, however, exactly these characteristics proved to be a serious limit to further retain their trade monopoly. 606 $aHistory / Europe$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 607 $aHansa towns$xHistory 607 $aBaltic Sea Region$xCommerce$xHistory 610 $aHistory 610 $aBruges 610 $aHanseatic League 610 $aLübeck 615 7$aHistory / Europe 615 0$aHistory 676 $a382.09479048 700 $aEwert$b Ulf Christian$f1966-$0951470 702 $aSelzer$b Stephan$f1968- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910158665703321 996 $aInstitutions of Hanseatic trade$92151023 997 $aUNINA