All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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The Hansa as a Virtual Organisation: Some Historical Remarks on the Network Paradigm
| The concepts of network organisation and virtual organisation in the literature are commonly thought to apply only to modern businesses. Not only modern technologies capable to process vast amounts of information within a very short period of time are believed to be an indispensable prerequisite for network businesses and virtual organisations, these organisational designs are also assumed to be the most efficient solution in highly innovative market processes. As the merchants of the Hansa formed business networks during the late Middle Ages and their exchange relations can be described in terms of virtual organisation, it can be concluded from this medieval example, that some of the assumptions made in modern organisation theory have to be relaxed. Virtual organisations are also a highly efficient solution in a world of very little information which in addition is transmitted extremely slowly. Moreover, in the case of the Hansa it was primarily the network design of cooperation that prevented its merchants from adopting innovative trading technologies and that also can be seen as a major cause of the Hansa’s failure at the turn of the 15th century to enter the then new transatlantic trade.
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