Royal African Company Networks

Purchasing Strategies: The Case of the Royal African Company*

This paper considers the choices a company faces in purchasing intermediate goods for production. It examines the case of the Royal African Company for which there is detailed purchase data available for 1672-1699. Empirical analysis indicated that the company purchased from more suppliers when it had higher demands, and purchased relatively more from a supplier with whom it had a longer relati...

Agent Opportunism and the Role of Company Culture: The Hudson's Bay and Royal African Companies Compared

Concurrent with growth of long-distance trade in Britain in the seventeenth century was the use of the chartered company as the mechanism by which such trade with Africa, Asia, Russia, and North America was conducted. Indeed, these trading companies were analogs of modern multinationals with factories and agents located overseas. Because of their hierarchical structures, these companies faced p...

Company Networks Analysis

This book is dealing with some approaches to analysis of specific social networks called company networks. These company networks emerge from interactions between companies, where a lot of these interactions are recorded by publicly accessible sources. Our work is designing and implementing methods of heterogeneous sources’ cleansing, aggregation and integration into comprehensive data model of...

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Social networks in African elephants

Some of the most highly social animals-including elephants, and some primates, cetaceans, and social carnivores-live in “fission-fusion” societies where social groups divide and re-form over the course of hours, days, or weeks. These societies are thought to respond adaptively to changes in the physical and social environment, and are thus ideal for testing hypotheses about the evolutionary for...