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The Business Trip: Maritime Nerworks in the Twentieth Century
Abstract:[1] Global maritime business networks channeled the flows of people and goods for modern production and consumption societies. The principal instrument for constructing and sustaining these networks was the business trip. In the course of their travels, shipping-company and trading-company executives founded new commercial networks, established new routes and services, inspected agents, gathered business intelligence, and promoted new contacts and connections.... Personal relationships remained fundamental to the networking process, despite a bureaucratization of business structures....
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