Doing business with a political purpose. From the National Social Workers' Printing Cooperative to the Melantrich Joint Stock Company
2022
Abstract
The paper presented at the XIX. World Economic history Congress in Paris demonstrates politics as a driving force of its business strategy.
It explains how the political party maintained and reproduced its influence in the company. The temporal interpretation is limited to the constitutive period of 1898 (the establishment of the firm as a cooperative) to 1924 (the transformation of the cooperative into a joint stock company).