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The Renaissance in Florence was not only a time of extraordinary artistic and philosophical creativity; it also marked a pivotal moment in the invention of new organizational forms that reshaped the city's economic, political, and social life. In Organizational Invention in Renaissance Florence, John F. Padgett distills and synthesizes thirty years of research into how Florentine institutions and social networks developed and transformed over two centuries. Drawing on an unparalleled historical dataset encompassing more than 100,000 individuals, Padgett maps the intricate web of relationships that connected Florence's families, businesses, and political actors between 1300 and 1500.
The book centers on three major arenas of organizational change. First, Padgett traces the evolution of business structures, particularly within the banking sector, focusing on the development of the diversified partnership-system form of business organization. Second, he examines the shifts to Florentine kinship networks, Florentine kinship networks, outlining the formation of patrilineage and its diffusion from upper classes to middle classes. Finally, he charts the shifting terrain of political networks and the transformation of oligarchic elites.
Across all three domains, Padgett demonstrates that organizational change did not occur in isolation. Instead, developments in one arena continually spilled over into others through the dense, cross-cutting social networks that underpinned Florentine society. Elites were rarely confined to a single role: they were merchants, bankers, politicians, and civic leaders simultaneously, moving fluidly among spheres as circumstances shifted. This multivalent identity, he argues, was central to Florence's adaptability and resilience. Organizational Invention in Renaissance Florence ultimately offers a fresh interpretation of the Renaissance, revealing how social networks emerged, transformed, and generated new forms of collective life during a period of intense social, political, and cultural change.
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John F. Padgett is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the co-author of Emergence of Organizations and Markets.
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