Barcia, M orcid.org/0000-0001-5672-7039 and Kesidou, E orcid.org/0000-0002-5729-8624 (2018) Innovation and entrepreneurship as strategies for success among Cuban-based firms in the late years of the transatlantic slave trade. Business History, 60 (4). pp. 542-561. ISSN 0007-6791
Abstract
This article examines how Cuban-based firms and entrepreneurs circumvented ever- increasing risks in the illegal slave trade. The article sheds light to this question by analyzing new qualitative information of 65 Cuban-based firms against the Slavevoyages database. Our findings indicate that Cuban-based firms were entrepreneurial as they exploited the opportunities arising from the volatility of the slave trade by: (a) internalizing networks of agents which allowed the rapid diffusion of information, (b) diversifying trading goods and expanding the number of partnerships to reduce transaction costs and risk, and (c) adopting technological innovations that modified the design and use of vessels.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Business History on 26 May 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2017.1332044. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Slave trade, Cuban firms, innovation, diversification, entrepreneurship, business agents |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of History (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2017 11:01 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2018 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00076791.2017.1332044 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115038 |