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