The determinants of entrepreneurship
Subtitle: leadership, culture, institutions
By: edited by José L García-Ruiz and Pier Angelo Toninelli
Series: Perspectives in economic and social history -- 7; Perspectives in economic and social history -- 7.
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781848930711; 9781848930728
Subjects: Corporate culture; Leadership; Wirtschaftssoziologie; Führung; Unternehmenskultur; Entrepreneurship
Description: "Entrepreneurship is growing, both as a business phenomenon and as an area for study. This move into the mainstream coincides with an economic need to deal with high unemployment in the West, but is also the result of encouragement by political leaders on both sides of the spectrum as well as the increasingly high profile of a new breed of celebrity entrepreneurs, such as Oprah Winfrey and Richard Branson.This study looks at entrepreneurial history from three angles: Entrepreneurial Typologies, examining which sorts of business enterprise are the most successful; Business Leaders, asking who the entrepreneurs are and where they come from; and Culture or Institutions?, considering what has the most effect on the abundance and quality of entrepreneurship in a given group. The scarcity of material on the history of entrepreneurship makes this collection of eight papers an invaluable resource and should encourage further analysis." -- Publisher's information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- pt. I; title: Entrepreneurial Typologies -- -- 1.; title: Determinants and Typologies of Entrepreneurship in the History of Industrial Italy  -- Franco Amatori -- 2.; title: Entrepreneurial Typologies in a Young Nation State: Evidence from the Founding Charters of Greek Societe Anonymes, 1830-1909  -- Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis -- pt. II; title: The Business Leaders -- -- 3.; title: Italian Entrepreneurship: Conjectures and Evidence from a Historical Perspective  -- Michelangelo Vasta -- 4.; title: Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Approach  -- Ignacio Moral -- 5.; title: Dynasties and Associations in Entrepreneurship: An Approach through the Catalan Case  -- Nuria Puig -- pt. III; title: Culture or Institutions? -- -- 6.; title: Entrepreneurial Culture or Institutions? A Twentieth-Century Resolution  -- Peng Zhou -- 7.; title: Entrepreneurship and Cultural Values in Latin America, 1850-2000: From Modernization, National Values and Dependency Theory towards a Business History Perspective  -- Carlos Davila -- 8.; title: Education and Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century Spain: An Overview -- Jose L. Garcia-Ruiz.