Katja Tikka

• Juris Doctor
• University of Helsinki

The COST EU-PoTaRCh Action establishes a network focused on the past, present, and future significance, production, and use of major forest by-products in Europe and beyond. The Action centers around forest by-products—primarily potash, tar, resin, and charcoal (PoTaRCh), along with plant extracts—which have been produced and utilized for over 100,...

This chapter addresses the dilemma that emerges in examining the first Swedish trading companies in terms of migration. During the seventeenth century, the young King Gustavus II Adolphus began his reign by launching remarkable reforms. Most of them promoted economic growth to strengthen the position of Sweden as a leading northern Empire. In this...

The article illustrates the importance of business diplomacy practised by free agents, who navigated and negotiated between northern European empires for widespread commercial, legal and administrative developments. Abraham Cabiljau’s career is an example from the early modern Swedish empire, which stands on the threshold of a new era. In the Swedi...

The doctoral dissertation examines the earliest Swedish Trading Companies and their administrative practices during the seventeenth century. The study focuses on two main company types: Copper Companies and Tar Companies, which represent two different and comparative entities. The objective is to understand the development of the trading companies...

The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland provides a broad perspective on recent research into the history of North European commercial law in a comparative and international framework. The book brings together themes that have previously been considered largely from a national perspective. Despite Sweden's and Finland's peripheral...

In this chapter, I inspect the selling of tar in the novel and highly controlled system called tar company. The establishment of the company was part of the state developing of Sweden and reflected country’s need to sell tar as efficient as possible. This chapter wanders through the evolution of these different tar company models, which were improv...