Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Net sellers'

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The study aims to understand the ways in which best-selling autobiographies by Muslim women are produced. As a representative corpus, the books Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Princess, by Jean Sasson/Sultana; and I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb were selected. Using Pierre Bourdieu's methodology – for whom a literary work should not be studied only by its text, but also by its insertion and circulation in various fields (literary, political, social) – the study conjectures that these narratives of life, since manufactured in the West and founded on the logic of the cultural industry of mass production of popular literature, are presented to the public circumscribed by neo-Orientalist discourses of the clash of civilizations. We refer to the discourses displayed in the post-September 11, 2001, which, reiterating the Orientalist discourse criticized by Edward Said, divided the world into superior West versus inferior Middle East. Therefore, we investigate, in the first chapter, the implications of the discourse of War on Terror to the commercial interest in personal narratives of Muslim women. Furthermore, we describe the corpus of narratives in order to characterize the subgenre of best-selling autobiographies of Muslim women, especially with regard to the dichotomies freedom/oppression, subversion/submission. In the second chapter, we analyse the importance of the autobiographical genre and the concepts of truth and authenticity to the rise of these books, as well as the relations of co-authorship present in such narratives. Then, in the third chapter, the focus is on making visible the editorial voices and their contributions to the spectacularization of the topos of the Muslim woman as a victim to be rescued from her society. To do so, the discourses of the peritext (cover, back cover and tabs) of these autobiographies will be examined. Therefore, we seek to question the limits and possibilities of self-representation of the subaltern subject in contexts marked by inequality of forces and intermediations of the speech.
O trabalho objetiva compreender os modos de produção de autobiografias best-sellers de mulheres muçulmanas. Como corpus representativo, selecionamos os livros Infiel, de Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Princesa, de Jean Sasson/Sultana; e Eu sou Malala, de Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb. Usando metodologia de Pierre Bourdieu, para quem uma obra literária não deve ser estudada apenas por seu texto, mas também por sua inserção e circulação nos diversos campos (literário, político, social), parte-se da hipótese de que essas narrativas de vida, uma vez que fabricadas no Ocidente com base nas lógicas da indústria cultural de massa e da literatura de grande produção, são apresentadas ao público circunscritas pelos discursos neoorientalistas do choque de civilizações. Referimo-nos aos discursos veiculados no pós-11 de setembro de 2001, que, reiterando o discurso orientalista criticado por Edward Said, dividiram o mundo em Ocidente superior versus Oriente inferior. Assim sendo, investigam-se, no primeiro capítulo, as implicações dos discursos da Guerra ao Terror para o interesse comercial em narrativas pessoais de mulheres muçulmanas. Além disso, as narrativas do corpus são examinadas no intuito de caracterizar o subgênero de autobiografias best-sellers de mulheres muçulmanas, principalmente no que concerne às dicotomias liberdade/opressão, subversão/submissão. No segundo capítulo, problematizam-se os pressupostos e a importância do gênero autobiográfico e dos conceitos de verdade e autenticidade para a ascensão desses livros, bem como as relações de coautoria presentes em tais narrativas. Depois, no terceiro capítulo, o foco está em tornar visíveis as vozes editoriais e suas contribuições para a espetacularização do topos da mulher muçulmana enquanto vítima a ser resgatada de sua sociedade. Para tanto, serão analisados os discursos peritextuais dessas autobiografias (capa, contracapa e abas). Assim sendo, busca-se problematizar os limites e as possibilidades da auto-representação do sujeito subalterno em contextos marcados pela inequidade de forças e por agenciamentos da fala.

Breve analisi della traduzione e localizzazione del videogioco "The Witcher 3". La tesi si concentra in particolare sui metodi utilizzati dai traduttori per localizzare rime e giochi di parole e sulle difficoltà da loro incontrate. Anche tramite l'uso di articoli e libri di settore viene inizialmente introdotto il mondo della localizzazione videoludica, con particolare riferimento ai passi generalmente necessari pr portare a termine un buon lavoro in questo campo. a parte finale, si concentra, invece, sul videogioco, che dà il titolo alla tesi e sulla successiva disamina riguardante le parti prese in considerazione, al fine di redigere questo lavoro.

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This study inserts itself in the complex field of the discussions about the legitimacy of the public intervention from religious institutions, in the context of national States driven by the principle of the lay secularity. Specifically, it analyzes the public presence of the Catholic Church in discussion spaces on public politics or bills that have the sexuality for their theme. Starting from the affirmation that the legitimacy of the intervention of any institution in the public sphere, is bestowed by the respect to the constitutional principles, expressions of consensus of the society that establish minimum levels of agreements to guarantee the coexistence. In that sense, even in the case of a lay State, it is legitimate for the Catholic Church, as any other social institution, to participate in the public discussions, always and whenever it is guided by those same principles. To question that public performance of the Church was one of the main objectives of the present work. The empirical research had as focus on the public activity of the Catholic Church in Brazil. It was accomplished taking as reference the discussions around the implementation of public politics related to the problem of HIV/AIDS; discussions in the National Congress on the bill 1.151/95 on the civil partnership among persons of the same sex, and on the project of the bio safety bill (11.105/05) that foresaw the regulation and establishment of rules for the research around stem cells. The results of the research, in spite of allowing recognition of the complexity and the contradictions that go through and cross the catholic ecclesiastic activities in those specific cases, point that the position of the Church with regard to homosexuality, their opposition to the research on stem cells and reiterated condemnation of the use of preservatives, end up putting the Church in contradiction with certain social consensus that seem now to be already accepted by the Brazilian society
Este estudo insere-se no campo complexo das discussões sobre a legitimidade da intervenção pública de instituições religiosas, no contexto de Estados nacionais guiados pelo princípio da laicidade. Especificamente, analisa a presença da Igreja Católica em espaços de discussão sobre políticas públicas ou projetos de lei que têm como tema a sexualidade. Partiu-se da afirmação de que a legitimidade da intervenção de qualquer instituição na esfera pública consolida-se no respeito aos princípios constitucionais, expressão de consensos da sociedade, que estabelece patamares mínimos de acordos que garantam a convivência. Mesmo no caso de um Estado laico, é legítimo que a Igreja Católica, como qualquer outra instituição social, participe das discussões públicas, sempre e quando guiada pelos mesmos princípios. Interrogar a atuação pública da Igreja foi um dos objetivos principais do presente trabalho. A pesquisa empírica teve como foco a atuação pública da Igreja Católica no Brasil. Foi realizada tomando como referência as discussões sobre a implementação de políticas públicas relacionadas à problemática do HIV/AIDS; discussões no Congresso Nacional sobre o projeto de lei 1.151/95 que trata da parceria civil entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, e projeto da Lei de Biossegurança (11.105/05) que previa a regulamentação e estabelecimento de regras para a pesquisa sobre células-tronco. Os resultados da pesquisa, apesar de permitirem reconhecer a complexidade e as contradições da atuação católica nesses casos específicos, mostram que a forma como a Igreja se manifesta em relação à homossexualidade, sua oposição às pesquisas com células-tronco, e a reiterada condenação do uso do preservativo colocam-na em contradição com certos consensos sociais que parecem atualmente já presentes e consolidados na sociedade

Over the past century the phenomenon of thanatourism, or dark tourism, has become increasingly popular, with tourists now able to encounter death at a wide range of sites across the world. While much scholarship has focused on tourism at sites of disaster and atrocity, less research has taken place into thanatourism in a museum context. This thesis investigates how Gotlands Museum is offering its visitors a dark tourism experience by adopting thanatourism theming in its exhibitions and programmes. It explores the ways the museum presents Gotland’s dark history, asks how and why the museum has adopted thanatourism as a thematisation strategy, and considers whether this strategy is helping the institution achieve future sustainability. This study is based on in-depth interviews with current staff members at the museum, who have been involved with creating exhibitions and presenting programmes related to Gotland’s dark history. Detailed observation of the exhibitions Medieval Gotland and 1361 – The Battle for Gotland, as well as the guided city tour The Bloody Summer, also provide additional data. The study finds that Gotlands Museum has harnessed the ‘purposeful Otherness’ of death through implementing thanatourism theming in both its permanent exhibitions and public programming in order to reach new and wider audiences. It also finds that this is an example of the museum embracing new museology and adopting the customer-centric focus of the tourism industry by presenting thrilling exhibitions and programmes to attract more visitors. The study suggests that by implementing popular thanatourism-themed exhibitions and programmes, Gotlands Museum has been able to be economically, socially and culturally sustainable by attracting visitors, educating diverse groups, telling diverse stories and preserving Gotland’s history for future generations.

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As formas das empresas trabalharem e se relacionarem com o mercado vêm mudando com o passar do tempo, focando no contexto de geração de valor, apoiado na Lógica Dominante de Serviço (LDS). Na LDS, destaca-se a cocriação de valor, que se dá através dos processos de interação que acontecem entre stakeholders em prol de valorizar um negócio e torná-lo mais competitivo. Esta pesquisa apresenta a figura do vendedor como um stakeholder cocriador de valor, e quais são os antecedentes e consequentes da cocriação para ele e para organização onde está inserido. Para isso, desenvolveu-se um modelo teórico contemplando os construtos Comunicação Aberta, Orientação para Aprendizagem, Habilidade de Cocriar, Intenção de Cocriar, Cocriação, Criação de Valor Relacional, Desempenho em Vendas e Criação de Novos Produtos. Posteriormente, realizou-se uma coleta de dados quantitativos através de um levantamento (survey) com uma amostra de 415 vendedores que atuam no mercado B2B na indústria têxtil a fim de investigar os aspectos mencionados anteriormente. A análise dos dados foi feita com base em estatísticas multivariadas e utilizou-se da técnica de Modelagem de Equações Estruturais para testar o modelo e investigar a relação entre os construtos que compõem o estudo. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam que a Cocriação é antecedida pelo processo de Comunicação Aberta, Orientação para Aprendizagem, Habilidade e Intenção de Cocriar, e a partir do momento em que é feita, assume (em partes) o papel de um construto mediador, e então, gera maior valor relacional, melhor desempenho em vendas e criação de novos produtos, uma vez que se aproveita o conhecimento que o vendedor detém em suas experiências de venda, e consegue-se criar, transformar e entregar soluções e agregação de valor para o mercado
The way companies work and interact with the market has changed over the last years. The constant preoccupation with profits has lost strength and has made room for the context of generation of value, supported by the Service Dominant Logic (SDL). Within the SDL, among various premises, the one that deals with the cocreation of value stands out, occurring as a result of the processes that take place among stakeholders, in the interest of valuing a business and making it more competitive. This research addresses the seller as a stakeholder and cocreator of value. In addition, the study investigates the antecedents and the consequents of cocreation. For that purpose, a theoretical model was developed, contemplating the constructs of Open Communication, Learning Orientation, Ability of Cocreating, Intention to cocreate, Cocreation, Creation of Relational Value, Perfomace in Sales, and New Products Creation. Hence, a survey was conducted with 415 sellers acting in the B2B market in the textile industry. An analysis of this data was made based on multivariate statistics, making use of Structural Equation Modeling in order to test the model and investigate the relation between the constructs that integrate this study. Findings support the constructs of Open Communication, Learning Orientation, Ability, and Intention as antecedents of Cocreation. As soon as it is applied, cocreation assume a mediation role, and generates more relational value, improve the performance in sales, and the new products creation, since the knowledge acquired by a seller through their experience of selling is fully utilized. In addition, it is made possible for one to create, change and contribute with solutions and added value to the market.

碩士
國立中央大學
財務金融學系碩士在職專班
99
This paper invistigates the price impact of the listed stocks from the foreign investors'' over bought/over sold activities in the stock market. In this reserch, TSMC, Hon Hai, Chunhwa Telecom, and Cathay Financial Holding are adopted as the sample. We try to figure out how much is the impact on the domestic individual investors and institional investors effected by the sizable trading/holding behavior of the foreign investors. During the study period from 2006/1/1 to 2008/12/31, this study aims at four stocks with the bigest market value in Taiwan, adopting a static analysis model to observe different foreign investors'' trading/holding five days before and after the specific target date to see the impact of the related changes in stock price. The empirical result shows that all four stocks prices were influenced by the forgign investors: overbought-up, and oversold-down. But the domestic individual and institional investors perform reversly, either in short or long market.

博士
國立高雄第一科技大學
管理研究所
98
This dissertation performs three tests: (1) to investigate the short-term and long-term relationships between institutional net buys/sells and returns in the Taiwan stock index futures market and stock markets; (2) to explore the information content of net buys/sells for the three primary institutional investors in the Taiwan stock index futures market and stock markets; and (3) to examine the returns for the strategy of individual investors taking a long(short) position on trading day following large institutional net buys(sells). The existing studies seldom focus on the impacts of institutional net buys/sells types on stock returns, and only a few papers investigate the relationships between the institutional net buys/sells and returns in the Taiwan futures market owing to the lack of source data. A dummy variables model is introduced to distinguish between individual institutional net buys/sells and simultaneous net buys/sells for all institutions in order to reflect the information homogeneous and heterogeneous between institutions. This dissertation introduces the variables to response the intensity of net buys/sells and lagged variables to explore the short (long)-term relationships between net buys/sells and returns. Finally, this study examines the impact of institutional net buys/sells on stock index futures. The results are presented as follow: (1) The impacts of large (small) simultaneous net buys/sells on contemporaneous returns are significant in the stock index futures and stock markets. (2) In the stock index market, large individual net buys of foreign institutions and large simultaneous net buys of all three primary institutions both seem to reveal bullish message, and an permanent asymmetric impact on subsequent returns exists between large net buys of foreign and domestic institutions. As for stock market, this dissertation suggests a significant relation between price down in the long term and the large simultaneous net sells of all three primary institutions, seeming to compound bearish message. As for the OTC market, this study find significant price down in long term after large individual net sells of foreign institutions and large simultaneous net sells of all three primary institutions, both seeming to reveal bearish message, and a permanent asymmetric impact on subsequent returns exists between large net sells of foreign and domestic institutions. (3) This dissertation finds evidence of significantly positive holding period returns on nearby stock index futures contracts for the strategy of taking a long position on the day after two types of large net buys: individual net buys of foreign institutions and simultaneous net buys of all three institutions. Additionally, investors have a chance to get significantly positive returns by taking short position on the day after a signal of simultaneously large net sells of all three institutions. The above results hold, no matter the returns are calculated by settlement or open prices. As for the stock exchange, investors have a chance to get significantly positive returns by taking long (short) position on the day after a signal of individually large net buys of foreign institutions (simultaneously large net sells of all three institutions). The above results hold, no matter what the returns are calculated on the basis of closing or opening prices. The performance is, however, better on the basis of closing price for the strategy of following the pace of large net buys for dealer institutions. As for the OTC market, investors have a chance to get significantly positive returns by taking short position on the day after a signal of two types of large net sells: individual net sells of foreign institutions and simultaneous net sells of all three institutions. The above results both hold, no matter what the returns are calculated on the basis of closing or opening prices. The performance is, however, better on the basis of opening prices for the strategy of following the pace of simultaneously large net buys for all three primary institutional investors.

碩士
國立彰化師範大學
商業教育學系在職進修專班
89
Abstract This research aims to discuss whether the QFII Net Buys-Sells would be influenced by the company’s market value, the Stockholder’s Equity, accumuled profit, rewards rate ,amount of dealing and QFII’s remaining amount of stocks investment, six factors. This research studies the eletronic stocks in Taiwan Stock Market from 1997 to 1999. It applies simple regression, multiple regression, stepwise regression analysis, and two stage least sequare approach. It discusses the relation between QFII Net Buys-Sells action and the characteristic of stocks. The research discovers: Ⅰ.The QFII Net Buys-Sells action has apparent positive relation with the company’s market value. Owing to the obvious existence of Information Asymmetry between the investors and the marketing company, the QFII favors the large company with more open information. It also has obvious buying action toward single stocks with bigger market values. Ⅱ.The QFII Net Buys-Sells action has apparent positive relation with the company’s stockholder’s equity. QFII would take greater buying action to have stronger keeping will if the single stock has greater stockholder’s equity. Ⅲ.The QFII Net Buys-Sells action has apparent positive relation with the company’s accumuled profit. The single stock with greater accumuled profit would make QFII take greater buying action. Ⅳ. The QFII Net Buys-Sells action has apparent positive relation with the stock’s reward rate. The single stock’s high reward rate would cause the QFII to have obvious buying action. The single stocks low reward rate,however,would cause the QFII to have obvious selling actions. So we could prove that the QFII take pursue-raise and quit-fall positive investing policy. Ⅴ.The QFII Net Buys-Sells action has apparent positive relation with the amount of dealing. The higher the deal is, the transaction more prosperous, the higer rate of circulation, the stronger rotation, and the fund could have more flexible application. Thus, the QFII would like to hold stocks with greater amount of dealing. Ⅵ.The QFII Net Buys-Sells has apparent positive relation with the remaining amount of stock investment. The greater the remaining amount is, the higher intention it would want to buy. The smaller the amount is,the less intention. Key Words: The QFII Net Buys-Sells, Information Asymmetry, Two Stage Least Sequare approach

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In the past, marketing researchers have proposed the use of simple net present value analyses to assess customer lifetime values (CLVs). However, simple net present values disregard two important aspects: (1) environmental risks affecting customer cash flows and (2) a firm's flexibility in reacting to these risks. Consequently, they are inappropriate for assessing CLVs in relationships, in which risks affect customer cash flows and suppliers are able to react. This paper suggests a typology of CLV models in accordance with the degree of environmental risk and the supplier's flexibility. The paper thus contributes to a more differentiated customer lifetime valuation and, consequently, to a more accurate basis for decision making in relationships. The use of real options analysis is recommended for relationships which are affected by environmental risks and in which suppliers are flexible. By applying real options analysis to customer lifetime valuation, the paper offers a new methodological approach, thus merging financial valuation methods with key marketing concepts.

碩士
朝陽科技大學
財務金融系碩士班
94
Security market is a leading indicator of economic development in a country. The government opened QFII to invest domestic securities in the late of 1990 and the Financial Holding Company (FHC) to set up in November, 2001. It is said that “volume leads price”, that is, the volume of stock will react in advance compared to stock price. Therefore, QFII Net buys/sells whether will be the leading indicator of stock price is a hypothesis to investigate and verify in this study. We apply TEJ selected from July 1,2005 to June 1,2006 to investigate price-volume relationship between QFII Net buys/sells and Financial Holding Company. We inspect the property of time series by ADF and PP Unit Root test and Vector Autoregression Model (VAR) to analysis the price-volume relationship. The empirical results are as follows: First, time series of QFII Net buys/sells and stock price of FHC are both stationary series. Second, the Granger Causality test of Chinatrust, Taishin, Mega, Waterland and China Development FHC exist lead-lag while Cathay, First and Hua Nan FHC exist insignificance. The stock price of E.Sun, SinoPac, Fubon and Shin Kong FHC lead QFII Net buys/sells, but QFII Net buys/sells of Huhwa FHC leads stock price. Third, from the empirical results of VAR, we can find QFII Net buys/sells and stock price of FHC exist bi-directional relationship in most FHC. Both QFII Net buys/sells and stock price of FHC are affected by lag intervals itself, especially the change of Shin Kong FHC is significant. Forth, when autonomous disturbance occur on the stock price of FHC, QFII Net buys/sells will react immediately and the affection is short-term. The impulse tend to be gradual after the sixth, the seventh, the eighth and the ninth periods.

碩士
國立高雄第一科技大學
金融系碩士班
106
How trades of qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) affect stock returns have always been a matter of concern to practitioners and researchers. Using a sample consisting of the listed stocks on the Taiwan Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2015, we employ the technique of FEVD (forecast error variance decomposition) in the VAR (vector autoregression model) to estimate the predictive power of the net buys/sells of QFII over the variability of stock prices. This study also examines the relationships between stock characteristics (including P/B ratio, cash dividend yield, equity market value, liquidity, foreign ownership ratio and industrial classification) and the driving force of QFII net buys/sells on the stock returns by regression models. The results indicate that the predictive power of the net buys/sells of QFII over the variability of prices is profound in stocks with larger P/B ratio, cash dividend yield, equity market value, liquidity, and foreign ownership ratio. Additional, there is no significant impact of financial and electronics sectors on the predictive power of the net buys/sells of QFII over the variability of stock prices. Keywords: Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII), Stock Market, VAR Model.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New School for Social Research, 2003.
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碩士
國立臺灣大學
財務金融學系研究所
86
This thesis employs the methodology of "Event Study" to research into whet her QFII (qualified foreign institutional investors) large net buys/or net sel ls trading behavior on the Taiwan Securities Exchange (TSE) implies informatio n content, and then to analyze how their trading influence stock prices. Furt hermore, this thesis explores whether QFIIs'' trading reveals different informa tion effects when examined by the following seven factors: the market trend, p roportion of QFII holdings, the size of enterprises, the electronics industry or not, the margin utilization rate, the short-to-long ratio, and the turnover rate. This thesis also discusses what factors will affect stock prices by means of cross regression analysis of CAR (Cumulative Average Residual), and f urther finds out factors that will reverse the original price movement trend. Factors that determine the proportion of QFII holdings are also discussed in this section.The conclusions of this thesis are summarized as follows:1) QFII s net buys/sells in a large amount do imply information content. The stock pr ices and trading volumes of these stocks which QFIIs hugely net buy will respo nd to QFII''s trading behavior.2) QFII net buys/sells in a large amount have t he parallel signal effect, and the market will respond to this for no longer t han two days. As a result, this information seldom bring about abnormal retur n. Furthermore, QFIIs often net buy or sell a large amount of shares after st ock prices have soared for a while, and usually the market over-reacts to huge QFII net sells.3) In comparison with QFII net buys, QFII net sells exhibit a n more conspicuous information spill-over.4) The results of the analysis of Q FII net buys/sells in this thesis'' sample companies are as follows:4 .1.1. In AR (t=0, +1), the information effects of a bull market, electronics stocks and stocks with a high turnover rate are greater than that of overall Q FII net buys.4.1.2. Higher CAR can be detected in a bull market, high proport ion of QFII holdings, small-sized companies, electronics stocks, and the high margin utilization rate, the high short-to-long ratio and the high turnover ra te.4.2.1. In AR (t=0, +1), the negative information effects are mo re obvious in small-sized companies, electronics stocks and high short-to-long ratio than QFII net sells.4.2.2. In a bull market, shares prices tend to move in a reverse direction in large electronics companies with QFII net sel ls, a low QFII holdings, a low margin utilization rate, a low shor t-to-long ratio or a high turnover rate. After QFII net sells, share pric es tend to go on drifting lower in small companies, stocks with high QFI I holdings, a high margin utilization rate or a high short-to-long ratio.5) E mpirical results of cross regression analysis of CAR are as follows:5.1. Shar e prices of companies with a high turnover rate and a high short-to-long ratio tend to soar, boosted by QFII net buys in a huge amount. Prices may also be raised, but only slightly, by a high revenue growth rate or by a bull market. However QFII net buys have an insignificant influence on electronics shares'' movements.5.2. Only share prices of companies with a high turnover rate will be able to maintain high abnormal return after QFII net sells in a huge amount . Further, those with a high short-to-long ratio tend to plummet. In a bull market, shares prices of electronics companies with a high revenue growth rate s tend to move reversely after QFII net sells in a big amount.6) High growth rates of ROA, net asset value per share or a bull market will boost QFII holdi ngs, and vice versa. QFIIs may have higher holdings in electronics companies o r companies with high revenue growth rates, but not significantly.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New School for Social Research, 2003.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-258). Also available in electronic format on the World Wide Web. Access restricted to users affiliated with the licensed institutions.

The topic of this diploma thesis is the Commemorative Book of Prague Nydrlak, whose origins date back to the 17th century in the Prague New Town. The records in the book were written mainly by the merchants who travelled to Prague to trade. Most of those merchants were most likely involved in the international trade with marine fish that were imported from the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Due to the representative role of commemorative books, the majority of the merchants received their illuminations from professional artists. The introductory chapters of the thesis describe contemporary practice of business of the given period, specifics of Nydrlak in the context of the practice, the commemorative book culture of the 16th and 17th century, but also the fortunes of Nydrlak before its depositing into the Prague City Archives. A pivotal part of the paper is dedicated to the merchants themselves who would left some information about their lives in the book. Based on this source and several other archival documents, the thesis assesses the confessional, societal, regional, and proprietary stratification of the community that was assembled around Prague Nydrlak.