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.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Entrepreneurial Typologies
1 Determinants and Typologies of Entrepreneurship in the History of Industrial Italy – Franco Amatori
2 Entrepreneurial Typologies in a Young Nation State: Evidence from the Founding Charters of Greek Société Anonymes, 1830–1909 – Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis
Part II: The Business Leaders
3 Italian Entrepreneurship: Conjectures and Evidence from a Historical Perspective – Pier Angelo Toninelli & Michelangelo Vasta
4 Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Approach – Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga & Ignacio Moral
5 Dynasties and Associations in Entrepreneurship: An Approach through the Catalan Case – Paloma Fernández-Pérez & Núria Puig.
Part III: Culture or Institutions
6 Entrepreneurial Culture or Institutions. A Twentieth Century Resolution – James Foreman-Peck & Peng Zhou
7 Entrepreneurship and Cultural Values in Latin America, 1850-2000: From Modernization, National Values and Dependency Theory towards a Business History Perspective – Carlos Dávila
8 Education and Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century Spain: An Overview – José L García-Ruiz |
