TRANSILVANIA ȘI BRESLELE MEȘTEȘUGĂREȘTI ÎN PERIOADA SECOLELOR XIII – XVII
TRANSYLVANIA AND THE HANDICRAFT GUILDS IN THE 13th-17th CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to mediate a general image of the organization, evolution and role played by the handicraft guilds within the context of the extremely intricate historical evolution of Transylvania, starting with the settlement of the German colonists and grounding of the firsts Saxon settlements, up to the 17th century. There are presented, based on the handicraft specific, all guilds present in the Transylvanian economical landscape, up to the Union from 1600. The purpose of this survey is to outline the picture and the traditional Transylvanian atmosphere at the time of the guilds, in order to extract the characteristic traits, the teachings and the spirit of the settlements of that time, by highlighting the organizational aspects, the moral and ethical values of the entrepreneurship of that times, by underlying the “code” of rules that insured the “sustainability” of the society within the rigors of the age, in order to extract conclusions with ageless validity, transferable to the actual business environment, and sustainability perspectives in the age of globalization.

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