Explorations in Enterprise / / ed. by Hugh G. J. Aitken.

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• MitwirkendeR: AITKEN, HUGH G. J.,; Bailyn, Bernard,; Belshaw, Cyril S.,; Chapman, Dennis,; Cochran, Thomas C.,; Cole, Arthur H.,; Easterbrook, W. T.,; Flinn, Michael W.,; Habakkuk, H. J.,; Jenks, Leland H.,; Landes, David S.,; Mathias, Peter,; Mclaughlin, Charles C.,; Minchinton, Walter E.,; Passer, Harold C.,; Pelzel, John,; Rosovsky, Henry,; Schumpeter, Joseph A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Aitken, Hugh G. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- Entrepreneurial Research: The History of an Intellectual Innovation -- PART II POINTS OF VIEW -- Points of View -- An Approach to the Study of Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to Edwin F. Gay -- Economic Theory and Entrepreneurial History -- The Climate of Enterprise -- Approaches to Entrepreneurial Personality -- Role and Sanction in American Entrepreneurial History -- PART III ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY -- Entrepreneurship in the Community -- Cultural Factors in Economic Growth -- The Cultural Milieu of the Entrepreneur -- The Small Industrialist in Japan -- French Business and the Businessman: A Social and Cultural Analysis -- PART IV THE ENTREPRENEUR AS AN INDIVIDUAL -- The Entrepreneur as an Individual -- The Electric Light and the Gas Light: Innovation and Continuity in Economic History -- William Brown of Dundee, 1791-1864: Management in a Scottish Flax Mill -- Sir Ambrose Crowley, Ironmonger, 1658-1713 -- The Stanley Steamer: A Study in Unsuccessful Innovation -- PART V HISTORICAL VARIETIES -- Historical Varieties -- The Merchants in England in the Eighteenth Century -- Kinship and Trade in Seventeenth Century New England -- The Entrepreneur in Brewing, 1700-1830 -- Economic Functions of English Landowners in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- The Serf Entrepreneur in Russia -- NOTES INDEX -- Notes -- Index