Paul Rijkens built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Paul Rijkens as Dutch entrepreneur (1888-1965).
Paul Rijkens was born at Rotterdam in 1888. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
He worked as entrepreneur.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
That the business was built from Netherlands shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Paul Rijkens died in 1965, aged 77. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
