This study has focused on the emergence of corporations in the 19th century Ottoman Empire. The general framework of the emergence of corporations was determined by the integration of the Ottoman Empire with the world capitalism and by the process of late capitalist development which was realized in the context of this integration. The integration with capitalism through free trade raised the tradesmen corporations in Ottoman Empire. Tradesmen corporations point to the institutional transformation of tradesmen who has less competitive in the face of free trade. In this study, firstly, the characteristics of these tradesman corporations have been tried to be determined. It is well known that there was a general tendency towards emerging of joint stock corporations in some sectors such as transportation, banking, railways and infrastructure in the second half of the 19th century in Ottoman Empire. The second part of this study is devoted to identifying the general characteristics of these corporations and to highlighting these characteristics' relation with the mode of integration. In sum, this study addresses the emergence of corporations in Ottoman Empire as a state which became more integrated with capitalist system in the 19th century. In this context, it tries to reveal the general characteristics of tradesmen corporations and joint stock corporation

Author Name: Koray R. Yilmaz

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Keywords: Ottoman,capitalist development

ISSN: 2587-2567

EISSN: 2587-2567

EOI/DOI: https://doi.org/10.30586/pek.4

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