The document discusses representations of pirates and their relationship to early international business. It notes that pirates historically emerged at the beginning of international trade and were only eliminated once states and businesses formed alliances. Pirates are portrayed as operating in unclear boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate violence early on, when ventures like the East India Company were small investment gambles. The document examines how pirates have been depicted in works like Pirates of the Caribbean in relation to early global corporations that had military forces.

1. Pirates, merchants and anarchists: Representations of international business
Management & Organizational History , Volume 4, Issue 2, 2009
Martin Parker
University of Leicester.
Presented by
Shilabarata Karmakar
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2. Captain Jack Sparrow….
Pirates make money for other people,
not just themselves.
The merchant in the port,
the smuggler,
the innkeeper,
the governor who turns a blind eye,
the monarch who accepts the tribute, and for
the popularisers of pirate mythology as well (Martin Parker)
….Robinson Crusoe….

3. Merchants(of Venice)……
the biggest historical irony is that
the golden age pirate emerges at
the beginnings of international business, and is
only wiped out
when the state and the businessman strike an alliance
that lasts to the present day.

4. Elizabeth referring to Sir Francis Drake as
(Patronized by executives)….
‘my dear pirate’.
An advantage of
the monarch of the costs of maintaining a large standing navy (Earle 2004, 23).
At the start of the golden age, it seems that
the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate violence, or
profit and crime, were unclear.

5. Privateers(alternative organization)…..
The French West India Company,
The Dutch East India Company,
The Royal African Company and many others
…..were initially small investment gambles
on a ship and a captain.

6. Representation of International Business
the third Pirates of the Caribbean film,
Jack’s enemy is the
East India Company……..
one of the world’s first global corporations, and with its own army and navy………

7. Bibliography
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 Burl, A. 2006. Black Barty: Bartholomew Roberts and his pirate crew 1718–1723. Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
 Burnett, J. 2003. Dangerous Waters. New York: Plume.
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 London: Flamingo.
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 Maritime Press.
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 Land, C. 2007. Flying the black flag. Management and Organizational History 2(2): 169–192.
 Langewiesche, W. 2006. The Outlaw Sea. London: Granta.
 Lapouge, G. 2004. Pirates and buccaneers. London: Hachette Illustrated.
 Lewis, J., eds. 2006. The mammoth book of pirates. London: Robinson.
 Linebaugh, P., and M. Rediker. 2000. The many-headed hydra. Boston: Beacon Press.
 Osborne, L. 1998. A pirate’s progress. Linguafranca 8(2) [Online] http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9803/
 Osborne.html
 Parish, J. 1995. Pirates and seafaring swashbucklers on the Hollywood screen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
 Parker, M. 2008. Heroic Villains: The Badlands of Economy and Organization. In
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8. For more…..
 Three early modern utopias, ed. S. Bruce. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bruce, S. 1999. ‘Introduction’. In
 Sodomy and the pirate tradition. New York: New York University Press. Burg,
B. 1985.
 Black Barty: Bartholomew Roberts and his pirate crew 1718–1723. Stroud:
Sutton Publishing. Burl, A. 2006.
 Dangerous Waters. New York: Plume. Burnett, J. 2003.
 Word virus: The William Burroughs reader, ed. J. Grauerholz and I.
Silverberg. Burroughs, W. 1999.
 War incorporated’. Paper presented at Critical Management Studies 5
conference, Chwastiak, M. 2007. ‘
 Life among the pirates. London: Abacus. Cordingly, D. 1999.
 Pirate utopias. Do or Die Do or Die. 1999. 8: 63–78 [Online] www.eco-

9.  Bruce, S. 1999. ‘Introduction’. In Three early modern utopias, ed. S. Bruce. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 Burg, B. 1985. Sodomy and the pirate tradition. New York: New York University Press.
 Burl, A. 2006. Black Barty: Bartholomew Roberts and his pirate crew
 Burnett, J. 2003. Dangerous Waters. New York: Plume.
 Cordingly, D. 1999. Life among the pirates. London: Abacus.
 Do or Die. 1999. Pirate utopias. Do or Die 8: 63–78 [Online] www.eco-action.org/dod/no8/pirate.html
 Earle, P. 2004. The pirate wars. London: Methuen.
 Exquemelin, A. 2000. The Buccaneers of America. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
 Lamborne Wilson, P. (1995) Pirate utopias. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.
 Land, C. 2007. Flying the black flag. Langewiesche, W. 2006.
 The Outlaw Sea.
 Lapouge, G. 2004. Pirates and buccaneers. London: Hachette Illustrated.
 Lewis, J., eds. 2006. The mammoth book of pirates. London: Robinson.
 Linebaugh, P., and M. Rediker. 2000. The many-headed hydra. Boston: Beacon Press.
 Osborne, L. 1998. A pirate’s progress. Linguafranca 8(2) [Online] http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9803/
 Osborne.html
 Parish, J. 1995. Pirates and seafaring swashbucklers on the Hollywood screen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
 Parker, M. 2008. Heroic Villains: The Badlands of Economy and Organization. In

10. And still the pirates lives in
Bangladesh..
Nigeria..
Somalia…
And Indonesian border…….