Approaching Europe: The merchant networks between Finland and Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Ojala, Jari
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Finland offers a good opportunity to study how international trade contacts were established and how they developed. Having been denied trading rights, several Finnish ports were granted direct access to foreign trade in 1765. The hypothesis is that the old business relations with Stockholm traders, the role played by the shipmaster and the government-based consulate networks were crucial in the development of the merchant network abroad during the eighteenth century. Business networks developed from interpersonal contacts towards interorganisational relationships during the nineteenth century. The business networks were in many cases, especially in the home town and with neighbouring towns, based on kinship or family relations, and they were long-term by nature.
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Ending Page	352
Page Count	30
Starting Page	323
DOI	10.1017/S1361491697000154
Journal	European Review of Economic History
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	1997-12-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	European Review of Economic History History and Philosophy of Science International Trade Foreign Trade
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article