Entrepreneurship: A Comparative and Historical StudyThis major study of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship focuses on the significance of entrepreneurship in the socioeconomic development of a society, and the economic and noneconomic factors which promote its emergence. Comparatively and analytically, it looks at five societies that achieved industrialization during the 18th and 19th century (England, France, Prussia-Germany, Japan, and the U.S.) and one that did not (Russia). |
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Conditions Influencing the Emergence | 5 |
Summary | 22 |
The Nature of Entrepreneurship | 56 |
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achieved banks Bessemer process Britain British entrepreneurs capital supplies changes characteristics Cochran conditions for entrepreneurship cost cotton industry degree economic and noneconomic economic growth economic opportunity conditions emergence of entrepreneurship enterprises entrepre entrepreneurial role example factors of production favorable opportunity conditions foreign entrepreneurs foreign entrepreneurship France French entrepreneurs German entrepreneurs Gould greater growth and development heavy industry Hirschmeier important improved increased industrial entrepreneurs industrial entrepreneurship industrial growth influence initiated investment involved iron Japan Kindleberger Landes legitimacy of entrepreneurship machine mainstream major manufacturing marginal Meiji Meiji government Meiji period metallurgy need-achievement neurship nineteenth century noneconomic factors Old Believers output Palmade percent period positive causal significance potential preneurs preneurship production promoted putting-out system railroad rate of industrial raw materials Redlich regarding relatively risks Russia samurai sector serfs Siemens-Martin process significance of entrepreneurship situation six societies social mobility sociocultural Strassman technological innovations textile industry tion unfavorable United workers zaibatsus