The role of Old Believers’ enterprises : evidence from the nineteenth century Moscow textile industry

Raskov, Danila; Kufenko, Vadim

The role of Old Believers’ enterprises : evidence from the nineteenth century Moscow textile industry

dc.contributor.author	Raskov, Danila	de
dc.contributor.author	Kufenko, Vadim	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:49:49Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:49:49Z
dc.date.created	2014-05-22
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	The early accumulation of capital and the pioneering of capitalist enterprise have been undertaken in many countries by heterodox religious communities. The role of the Old Believers (further OB) in the early development of Russian industry and trade was noted by many economic historians (Blackwell, 1965; Gerschenkron, 1970; Beliajeff, 1979; Stadnikov, 2002; Kerov, 2004; Raskov, 2012); however, empirical and statistical research on the topic is still scarce. Therefore one of our goals is to analyze the role of the OB entrepreneurship in a dynamic dimension using statistical data. Taking advantage of official censuses of 1850, 1857 and, what is more important, 15 archive sources for confessional data for 1808 - 1905 and 7 industrial reports, we analyze the role of the OB firms in the Moscow textile industry for the period of 1832 - 1890. We find that the share of the OB firms in turnover and employment was over-proportionate prior to 1879, which hints at a higher propensity to entrepreneurship. The turnover per worker of the OB firms was significantly higher only in the wool sub-sector. Additionally, the OB firms tended to employ more labor. We capture the continuous process of the rise and fall of the OB entrepreneurship, especially in cotton-paper and wool weaving sub-sectors. Bearing in mind cyclical waves of repressions against the OB, we can state, that the performance of their firms was impressing. We discuss the Weber thesis and the Petty-Gerschenkron argument, and state that various factors contributed to their success: working ethics and minority status; social capital, networking and access to interest free financing; own informal institutions and reputation mechanisms; human capital and literacy.	en
dc.identifier.swb	406529353
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5812
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-9791
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung; 40
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject	Economic history of Russia	en
dc.subject	The Old Believers	en
dc.subject	Religious minority	en
dc.subject	Minority entrepreneurship	en
dc.subject	Textile industry	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Textilindustrie	de
dc.subject.gnd	Entrepreneurship	de
dc.subject.gnd	Russland	de
dc.title	The role of Old Believers’ enterprises : evidence from the nineteenth century Moscow textile industry	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Raskov2014, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5812}, author = {Raskov, Danila and Kufenko, Vadim}, title = {The role of Old Believers’ enterprises : evidence from the nineteenth century Moscow textile industry}, year = {2014}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Raskov, Danila and Kufenko, Vadim
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local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	979
local.series.issueNumber	40
local.series.title	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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