Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/01/2019

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00:07:24 1 Company name, logo, and flag
00:09:49 2 History
00:09:59 2.1 Origins
00:14:14 2.2 Formation, rise, and fall
00:14:25 2.2.1 Formative years
00:20:06 2.2.2 Growth
00:27:25 2.2.3 Reorientation
00:38:52 2.2.4 Decline and fall
00:46:43 3 Organizational structure
00:54:19 4 Shareholder activism at the VOC and the beginnings of modern corporate governance problems
00:57:28 5 Main trading posts, settlements, and colonies
00:57:41 5.1 Europe
00:57:49 5.1.1 Netherlands
00:58:12 5.2 Africa
00:58:20 5.2.1 Mauritius
00:58:38 5.2.2 South Africa
00:58:52 5.3 Asia
00:59:01 5.3.1 Indonesia
00:59:13 5.3.2 Indian subcontinent
00:59:52 5.3.3 Japan
01:00:14 5.3.4 Taiwan
01:00:47 5.3.5 Malaysia
01:01:04 5.3.6 Thailand
01:01:18 5.3.7 Vietnam
01:01:39 6 Conflicts and wars involving the VOC
01:03:14 7 Historical roles and legacy
01:07:44 7.1 Institutional innovations and impacts on modern-day global business practices and financial system
01:15:39 7.2 Impacts on social, economic, financial, political, and military history of the Netherlands
01:21:28 7.3 Roles in the history of the global economy and international relations
01:27:18 7.4 Artistic, scientific, technological, and cultural legacies of the VOC World
01:27:34 7.4.1 VOC World as an information/knowledge exchange network in the Dutch maritime world-system
01:31:02 7.4.2 Influences on Dutch Golden Age art
01:32:35 7.4.3 Formation of early modern religious communities and ethnic groups within the VOC World
01:32:51 7.5 Contributions in the Age of Exploration
01:33:53 7.5.1 iHalve Maen'/is exploratory voyage and role in the formation of New Netherland
01:37:23 7.5.2 Dutch discovery, exploration, and mapping of mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and various islands
01:43:26 7.5.3 VOC-sponsored inland exploration and mapping of Southern Africa
01:43:39 8 Criticism
01:44:18 8.1 VOC colonialism, monopoly policy and uses of violence
01:44:32 8.2 Dutch slave trade and slavery under the VOC colonial rule
01:50:38 9 Cultural depictions of people and things associated with the VOC
01:55:31 10 VOC world etymologies
01:55:43 10.1 Places and things named after the VOC and its people
01:59:23 10.2 Places and things named by VOC people
02:00:50 11 Populated places established by VOC people
02:02:46 12 Important heritage sites in the VOC World
02:03:46 13 VOC buildings and structures
02:04:33 14 VOC archives and records
02:05:33 15 Field of VOC World studies
02:09:03 15.1 VOC World archaeology
02:09:14 16 VOC timeline and historical firsts
02:10:16 16.1 Proto-VOC period (with the establishment of the ivoorcompagnieën/pre-companies/i)
02:13:47 16.2 VOC era (with the amalgamation of the ivoorcompagnieën/pre-companies/i)
02:30:19 17 See also



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The Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC) was an early megacorporation, founded by a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies (voorcompagnieën) in the early-17th century. It was originally established, on 20 March 1602, as a chartered company to trade with India and Indianized Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. The Company has been often labelled a trading company (i.e. a company of merchants who buy and sell goods produced by other people) or sometimes a shipping company. However, the VOC was in fact a proto-conglomerate company, diversifying into multiple commercial and industrial activities such as international trade (especially intra-Asian trade), shipbuilding, both production and trade of East Indian spices, Formosan sugarcane, and South African wine. The Company was a transcontinental employer and an early pioneer of outward foreign direct invest ...