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… one excludes a priori the identification of potential developments in a set of partnership types that existed in a specific place. Still, such changes would most likely have occurred, as altering political circumstances, professional contacts with foreign merchants and new economic opportunities may have encouraged entrepreneurs to modify their existing corporate instruments into more suitable ones. Likewise, the ideal-type approach presented us with a distorted image of early modern private … choice is motivated by the attested acquaintance of the city’s entrepreneurs with the idea of private partnerships (Gelderblom 2010). Secondly, there is the prosperity of the Amsterdam economy during the seventeenth century which attracted numerous foreign entrepreneurs from abroad. Such an influx presumably coincided with the transfer of innovative legal ideas, VIDI-project Dr. Bram Van Hofstraeten 5 Funded by: which renders the city into a suitable case to challenge the assumed chronological … 78), Deventer, 2010. J. Puttevils (2012), The ascent of merchants from the Southern Low Countries. From Antwerp to Europe. 1480-1585, Unpublished doctoral dissertation (University of Antwerp), Antwerp, 2012. J. Puttevils (2015), Merchants and trading in the sixteenth century (Perspectives in economic and social history 38), New York, 2015. M.J.G.C. Raaijmakers (2015), “De ‘institutionele opvatting’: grondslag en inhoud?”, Ondernemingsrecht 28/5 (2015). J.C. Riemersma (1952), “Trading and …