Acercamiento a la figura de Martín López de Isasiempresario gipuzcoano moderno
- 1 Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad del País Vasco
- Elena Acosta Guerrero (coord.)
Publisher: Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria
Year of publication: 2017
Congress: Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana (22. 2016. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
This article analyzes the figure of the entrepreneur Martín López de Isasi (Eibar, 1525-1597), who developed his activity in different economic sectors such as whaling, maritime and land transport, the promotion of metallurgical industries, and the marketing and distribution of products which emerged as a result. Furthermore, with frequent interventions as an intermediary and financial adviser, Isasi became the first modern Guipuzcoan entrepreneur in the Chandlerian sense, i.e., as someone who produces and distributes on a large scale, and who also innovates the management of their business.