Entrepreneurship, Networks and Modern Business.

Abstract

Part 1 Entrepreneurial and business culture: the entrepreneur - the central issue in business history?, T.A.B. Corley entrepreneurship and business culture, Mark Casson business education and managerial performance - a study comparing Japan and America to France, Germany and England, Robert Lockie engineers as functional alternatives to entrepreneurs in Japanese industrialization, Kenichi Yasumuro. Part 2 Entrepreneurial success and failure in family firms: Quakerism, entrepreneurship and the family firm in North-East England, 1780-1860, Maurice Kirby beyond Buddenbrooks - the family firm and the management of succession in 19th-century Britain, Mary B. Rose entrepreneurship and the growth of the firm - the case of the British food and drink industries in the 1980s, V.N. Balasubramanyam. Part 3 Entrepreneurship and alternatives to the firm: cartels and internalization in the 18th-century copper industry, Robert Read entrepreneurship and product innovation in British general insurance, 1840-1914, Oliver Westall. Part 4 Uncertainty and innovation: success and adversity - entrepreneurship in agricultural engineering, 1800-1939, Jonathan Brown full steam ahead? the British arms industry and the market for warships, 1850-1914, John Singleton.