Entrepreneurship and Growth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga

      Pages 1-15

3. A Multinational Approach

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. A Tale of Four Countries: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in England, France, Scotland, and Spain: A Comparative Approach

      • Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga, Ignacio Moral-Arce

      Pages 19-45

4. International Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Entrepreneurs and Businessmen in Greece during the Long Nineteenth Century

      • James Foreman-Peck, Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis

      Pages 49-68

   3. Business Groups in Argentina during the Export-Led Growth Period (1870–1914)

      • María Inés Barbero

      Pages 69-91

   4. Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from the Italian Case (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)

      • Pier Angelo Toninelli, Michelangelo Vasta, Emma Zavarrone

      Pages 92-112

5. The Spanish Case

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century Spain

      • José Luis García-Ruiz, Teodosio Pérez-Amaral

      Pages 115-132

   3. An Approach to Entrepreneurial Success and Its Determinants: The Case of Spain

      • José M. Ortiz-Villajos, Sonia Sotoca

      Pages 133-172

6. Some Local Cases: Minorca and Madrid

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Entrepreneurship and Development: The Minorcan Model (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)

      • Alfons Méndez-Vidal, Juan Hernández-Andreu

      Pages 175-194

   3. Did Spanish High Schools Breed Entrepreneurs? The Madrid Institutos of Cardenal Cisneros and San Isidro, 1860–1936

      • Clara Eugenia Núñez, Begoña Moreno-Castaño

      Pages 195-218

7. Conclusions

   1. Conclusions

      • Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga

      Pages 219-224

8. Back Matter

   Pages 225-248

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A collection of eight articles by 17 specialists, this volume provides very recent research on the factors which contribute to the build up of entrepreneurship. Offers an international, comparative and historical perspective, with a special focus upon the Mediterranean.

• business
• entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurs
• entrepreneurship
• success

• Universidad de Alcalá, Spain

  Gabriel Tortella

• Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  Gloria Quiroga

MARIA INÉS BARBERO Professor of Economic and Business History at the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina JAMES FOREMAN-PECK Professor of Economics at Cardiff University, UK JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA RUIZ Associate Professor of Economic History at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain JUAN HERNÁNDEZ-ANDREU Doctor in Economics and Professor and Director of the Department of Economic History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain ALFONS MENDEZ Associate professor at the Universidad de les Illes Balears, Spain IGNACIO MORAL-ARCE Statistician and researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Ministry of Finance), Spain BEGOÑA MORENO CLARA EUGENIA NÚÑEZ Associate Professor of Economic History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain JOSÉ M. ORTIZ-VILLAJOS Associate Professor of Economic History at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain IOANNA SAPFO PEPELASIS Associate Professor of Economic History at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece TEODOSIO PÉREZ-AMARAL Associate Professor of Econometrics at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain SONIA SOTOCA Associate Professor of Econometrics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain PIER ANGELO TONINELLI Professor of Business and Contemporary History at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy MICHELANGELO VASTA Professor of Economic History at University of Siena, Italy EMMA ZAVARRONE Associate Professor of Applied Statistics at the LiberaUniversità di Lingue e Comunicazione (IULM) in Milan, Italy

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