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Financing and corporate governance in the 20th century in the Netherlands (BINT / RSM) The way in which businesses in the Netherlands are being managed - their 'corporate governance' - is the result of a set of rules that developed in the past and that are embedded in the culture and society of the country. This project aims at contributing to the debate on corporate governance from an economic-historical perspective, on the basis of a study of the long-term performance of the Dutch business system during the 20th century.
02-01-2010
The Netherlands and Germany, 1870-2000: economic interdependence versus sovereignty, 1870-2000 (ESHCC - Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication) It is the objective of this NWO-funded research project ‘The Netherlands and Germany 1870-2000. Economic interdependence versus sovereignty’, to analyse how, when around 1870 a number of countries unified into the German nation-state, the Netherlands could participate economically in this integration process and nonetheless managed to preserve its sovereignty.
08-12-2009
The Dutch Big Four and Germany: AKU, Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever and Philips, 1890-1960 (ESHCC - Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication) The aim of this multi-case study is to explore the causes and the economic and political consequences of the exceptional huge direct investments of the four largest Dutch multinationals – AKU, Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever and Philips – in Germany in the 1890-1960 period. In the first half of the twentieth century Dutch direct investments played a prominent role in Germany.
07-12-2009
Outport and Hinterland. Rotterdam Business and the Ruhr Industry, 1870-2000 (ESHCC - Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication) This NWO-funded research project aims to explore the development of the economic links between Rotterdam, Rotterdam business and the Rhine mouth ports on the one hand, and the Ruhr district and Ruhr industry on the other in the course of the 1870-2000 period.
06-12-2009
Transnational Rhine Network (ESHCC - Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication) Together with Prof. dr. Werner Plumpe and dr. Ralf Banken of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Prof. dr. Klemann and dr. Wubs venture to build a Transnational Rhine Network. The network explores the different aspects of long-term economic development of the Rhine economy and strives to realise a broad and multidisciplinary research program. The network comprises of economic and business historians as well as historians of technology from various countries along the Rhine, including the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Switzerland.
05-12-2009
 
 
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