Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, presenting new insights into the personal characteristics of successful business people and deepening our understanding of the roots of industrialization and economic growth.



Autorentext
Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, UK, based jointly in the Department of Economics and the Henley Business School. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship (2006) and the author of Entrepreneurship: Theory, Networks, History (2010).

Catherine Casson is Research Fellow at the Winton Institute of Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK and Teaching Fellow in the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. She is currently researching property rents and prices c.1450-c.1914 and reputation and economic performance in English medieval towns.


Inhalt
Preface and Acknowledgements 1. A New Research Agenda 2. Perspectives on Entrepreneurship 3. The Historical Significance of the Entrepreneur 4. Case Studies: The Entrepreneur in Context 5. The Social Embeddedness of Entrepreneurship
Titel
The Entrepreneur in History
Untertitel
From Medieval Merchant to Modern Business Leader
EAN
9781137305824
ISBN
978-1-137-30582-4
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
04.06.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
0.68 MB
Anzahl Seiten
139
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch