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The Business Trip: Maritime Nerworks in the Twentieth Century

Category: Ionian History
Type: Article
Book Title: Η ασφάλιση των γαλαξειδιώτικων πλοίων
Author: Miller B. Michael
Editor: Kiraly K. Bela
Journal: Business History Review
Pages: 1-32
Issue: 1
Volume: 77
Library catalog: Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
Date: Spring 2003
Language: English

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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