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Introduction: European Economic and Social History as an Object of Research
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DER STEINKOHLENBERGBAU IN DER AACHENER REGION / 1780-1860
Full text linkIn the early 19th century coal mining in the region of Aachen (Prussian Rhine Province) developed to an industrial scale within few decades production was mechanised and new types of industrial organization emerged that allowed for concentration on production and economies of scale. The region hosted two mining areas (the Wurm area and the Inde area) showing rather different patterns of development; while the industry on the Inde was al-ready concentrated at the turn of the century, and industrial modes of production emerged earlier, the industry on the Wurm developed slowly more slowly. Decentralized ownership prohibited scale economics before the mid-1830s. Then, new joint stock companies allowed for concentration of ownership, rationalisation of production and efficient governance. The analysis shows that these different patterns result from different pre-industrial institutional arrangements that were only harmonized during the French occupation of the Rhineland.
The ms. [written in German] containes 189p., 24 figures and maps, 49 tables on regional industrial production; the data is available from the author
Industrial and institutional revolution in the district of Aachen (Aix‐la‐Chapelle), 1800‐1860
Full text linkIn the first half of the 19th century, the industrial district of Aachen was a small dynamic economic
region in the West of the Prussian Rhineland. It was a leading industrial region in terms
of production and a region in which modern economic institutions advanced modern industrial
organizations. The regional institutional arrangements were partly based on the French law:1
During the French Revolutionary Wars, the West of the Rhineland had been a part of France
with the region of Aachen (see maps 1 and 2) forming the Département de la Roer. After the
French defeat in 1814, the Rhineland was integrated as the Rhineprovince into the Prussian
State, but with very few exceptions the French legal system continued. The French code de
commerce rather than the Prussian civil law constructed the norms of business and commercial
activities2 and institutional arrangements that had emerged in the ‘French period’ continued
to influence regional economic development. Not only property rights and civil rights, also
other institutions of French origin like chambers of trade and commerce, commercial courts, or
collective institutions for the settlement of work related conflicts shaped economic behaviour.
3 New Prussian laws did not dramatically influence regional economic development; only
the Railroad Law (1838) and the Prussian Joint Stock Companies Law (Preußisches Aktiengesetz)
of 1843 had a certain impact. Just like the General German Trade Law (Allgemeines
deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch) of 1861, the Joint Stock Company Law was based on French
ideas and aimed at modernizing the Prussian economy. It perhaps helped developing the eastern
parts of Prussia towards a more capitalistic economy; for the region of Aachen it mainly
introduced more oversight from the Prussian State. The Prussian integration of the Rhineland
did, of course, also induce some economically relevant change; this regards e.g. the introduction
of the Prussian currency or the Prussian trade union. These aspects will be discussed later
Scandinavian Economic History Review 2011–2014: A Report
No full textEvery four years a new team of editors takes over Scandinavian Economic History Review (SEHR) on behalf of the Scandinavian Society of Economic and Social History. We have edited the journal since 2011 (vol. 59 no. 2–vol. 63 no. 1) and we want to provide our readers with a brief overview of our work and express our gratitude to those who contributed to the development of the journal
Dynamics of “Overlapping Clusters”: Economic Development in the Industrial Region of Aachen, 1800‐1860
Full text linkThe economic transition characterizing the process of European industrialization in the 19th century was concentrated on regions rather than on states. In the first half of the 19th century, the region of Aachen (in the west of Prussia) pioneered on the territory of the German states and developed to a powerful industrial region. The implementation and diffusion of the factory system and the economic impact of adapted and new institutions make the core of this paper. Reciprocal interconnections between firms of different clusters shaped the region and created economic dynamics. Investments transgressed the boundaries of single industries and new industries emerged. One important feature of the regional production system was cross-sectional knowledge transfer; a second was institutions supportive to this process
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Das "Stahltrust"-Projekt: die Gründung der Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung 1926 - 1933/34
No full textReckendrees A. Das "Stahltrust"-Projekt: die Gründung der Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung 1926 - 1933/34. Schriftenreihe zur Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte ; 5. München: Beck; 2000
Dynamics of Overlapping Clusters: Industrial and Institutional Revolution in the Industrial District of Aachen, 1800‐1860
Full text linkThe economic transition characterizing the process of European industrialization in the 19th century was concentrated on regions rather than on states. In the first half of the 19th century, the region of Aachen (in the west of Prussia) pioneered on the territory of the German states and developed to a powerful industrial district. The implementation and diffusion of the factory system and the economic impact of adapted and new institutions make the core of this paper. Reciprocal interconnections between firms of different clusters shaped the region and created economic dynamics. Investments transgressed the boundaries of single industries and new industries emerged. One important feature of the regional production system was cross-sectional knowledge transfer; a second was institutions supportive to this process
Dinamica de la ≪superposicion de clusteres≫: desarrollo economico de la region industrial de Aachen, 1800-1860
No full textThe economic transition characterizing the process of European industrialisation in the 19th century was concentrated on regions rather than on states. In the first half of the 19th century, the region of Aachen (in the west of Prussia) pioneered this development in the territory of the German states and became a powerful industrial region. The implementation and diffusion of the factory system and the economic impact of adapted and new institutions make up the core of this paper. Reciprocal interconnections between firms of different clusters shaped the region and created economic dynamics. Investments transgressed the boundaries of single industries and new industries emerged. One important feature of the regional production system was cross-sectional knowledge transfer; a second was institutions supportive to this process.La transición económica característica del proceso de industrialización europeo del siglo xix se concentró en regiones, y no en estados. En la primera mitad del siglo xix, la región de Aachen (al oeste de Prusia) fue pionera en el territorio de los estados alemanes y llegó a convertirse en una potente región industrial. Este artículo se centra en la implementación y difusión del sistema de fábricas y el impacto económico de instituciones nuevas y adaptadas. Conexiones recíprocas entre empresas de distintos clústeres industriales moldearon la región y dieron lugar a dinámicas económicas. Las inversiones superaron los límites de sectores industriales, lo que dio lugar al nacimiento de nuevas industrias. Una característica importante del sistema de producción regional fue la transmisión de conocimiento entre sectores y una segunda, las instituciones que apoyaron el proceso
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