The study of entrepreneurship has become an expanding subject of scholarship over the last decade. Yet there has been little interaction between economists and historians and most historical studies of entrepreneurship lack a theoretical and comparative approach. For the first time, a single volume combines a comparison of seven national experiences, spanning three continents. Leading specialists combine historical archive-based work and synthetic theoretic surveys that reflect the current state as well as new directions in research.
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Introduction; Y.Cassis & I.Pepelasis Minoglou
The Liberating Power of Entrepreneurship in Ancient Athens; G.Bitros & A.Karayiannis
PART 2: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES
Entrepreneurship in the United States: Defining the Field, Its History and an Empirical Model of Long-Term Trends; W.Hausman
Perspectives on Theory and the Study of Entrepreneurship in Britain; R.Church
A Short History of Entrepreneurship in France: From 1870 up to Today; H.Bonin
Entrepreneurship under Cooperative Capitalism: The German Case; H.Berghoff
Models of Entrepreneurship in a Latecomer Country: Italy; F.Amatori & A.Colli
State Entrepreneurship in Singapore: Prospects for Regional Economic Power?; R.Brown
Index
YOUSSEF CASSIS is Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He has published extensively on business and financial history. His latest book, Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1997), was awarded the 1998 Wadsworth Prize for Business History. He is co-founder editor of Financial History Review, and a member of the editorial board of Contemporary European History, Entreprises et Histoire, and Enterprise and Society.
IOANNA PEPELASIS MINOGLOU is a graduate of Harvard University, USA, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is an Assistant Professor of Economic History at the Athens University of Economics, Greece. She has published many articles on industrialization, entrepreneurship, international business and finance. In 2003, she was awarded a prize by the Ottoman Bank Archive for her article on nineteenth-century Greek Diaspora Bankers in Constantinople (Financial History Review, 2002). She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Maritime History and is involved in a research project on the formation of joint stock companies and business elites in Greece.
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The study of entrepreneurship has become an expanding subject of scholarship over the last decade. Yet there has been little interaction between economists and historians and most historical studies of entrepreneurship lack a theoretical and comparative approach. For the first time, a single volume combines a comparison of seven national experiences, spanning three continents. Leading specialists combine historical archive-based work and synthetic theoretic surveys that reflect the current state as well as new directions in research.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Introduction; Y.Cassis & I.Pepelasis Minoglou
The Liberating Power of Entrepreneurship in Ancient Athens; G.Bitros & A.Karayiannis
PART 2: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES
Entrepreneurship in the United States: Defining the Field, Its History and an Empirical Model of Long-Term Trends; W.Hausman
Perspectives on Theory and the Study of Entrepreneurship in Britain; R.Church
A Short History of Entrepreneurship in France: From 1870 up to Today; H.Bonin
Entrepreneurship under Cooperative Capitalism: The German Case; H.Berghoff
Models of Entrepreneurship in a Latecomer Country: Italy; F.Amatori & A.Colli
State Entrepreneurship in Singapore: Prospects for Regional Economic Power?; R.Brown
Index
Authors
YOUSSEF CASSIS is Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He has published extensively on business and financial history. His latest book, Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1997), was awarded the 1998 Wadsworth Prize for Business History. He is co-founder editor of Financial History Review, and a member of the editorial board of Contemporary European History, Entreprises et Histoire, and Enterprise and Society.
IOANNA PEPELASIS MINOGLOU is a graduate of Harvard University, USA, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is an Assistant Professor of Economic History at the Athens University of Economics, Greece. She has published many articles on industrialization, entrepreneurship, international business and finance. In 2003, she was awarded a prize by the Ottoman Bank Archive for her article on nineteenth-century Greek Diaspora Bankers in Constantinople (Financial History Review, 2002). She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Maritime History and is involved in a research project on the formation of joint stock companies and business elites in Greece.
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