What are the secrets of a successful entrepreneur? When did the origins of enterprise occur? This important two-volume set address such questions by uniting historical case studies of entrepreneurial behaviour from 1200 - 2000. Key features of this collection include a thematic and chronological comparison of relevant studies as well as coverage of a range of industries, including the software industry. The editors have also selected papers which allow for an examination of a range of entrepreneurial backgrounds and personalities, including female entrepreneurs. This topical set will be of great use to both students and academics who will benefit from the ability to contrast case-studies of large-firms and their executives with small firm-start-ups and their founders.
Contents: Volume I: Themes Acknowledgements Introduction Mark Casson and Catherine Casson PART I LOCATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ECONOMY: 1200 - 1700 1. Christopher Dyer (2005), 'A New Middle Ages' 2. Adrian R. Bell and Richard S. Dale (2011), 'The Medieval Pilgrimage Business' 3. R.A. Donkin (1958), 'Cistercian Sheep-Farming and Wool-Sales in the Thirteenth Century' 4. Thomas W. Blomquist (1971), 'The Castracani Family of Thirteenth-Century Lucca' 5. Iris Origo (1937 [1960]), 'Money' 6. Frederic C. Lane (1944 [1967]), 'Old Wealth and New' 7. S.D. Goitein (1967), 'The World of Commerce and Finance: Part A: The Merchants and their Employees' 8. Kathryn L. Reyerson (2002), 'Introduction' 9. Philippe Dollinger (1864 [1970]), 'The Merchants' 10. Oscar Gelderblom (2003), 'The Governance of Early Modern Trade: The Case of Hans Thijs, 1556 - 1611' 11. Wang Gungwu (1990), 'Merchants Without Empire: The Hokkien Sojourning Communities' PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDUSTRIALISING ECONOMIES: 1700 - 2000 A. Family Firms and Business Elites 12. Andrea Colli, Paloma Fernandez Perez and Mary B. Rose (2003), 'National Determinants of Family Firm Development? Family Firms in Britain, Spain, and Italy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' 13. David J. Jeremy (1984), 'Anatomy of the British Business Elite, 1860 - 1980' 14. Franco Amatori (2011), 'Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy: Reconsiderations' B. Technology and Innovation 15. Jonathan Hughes (1973), 'Eli Whitney and American Technology' 16. Christine MacLeod (1999), 'Negotiating the Rewards of Invention: The Shop-Floor Inventor in Victorian Britain' 17. Andre Millard (1990), 'The Business of Innovation' C. Marketing 18. Jennifer Tann (1978), 'Marketing Methods in the International Steam Engine Market: The Case of Boulton and Watt' 19. Andrew Popp (2007), 'Building the Market: John Shaw of Wolverhampton and Commercial Travelling in Early Nineteenth-Century England' 20. Charles Harvey and Jon Press (1986), 'William Morris and the Marketing of Art' PART III THE SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP A. Local Business Networks 21. Jon Stobart (2004), 'Personal and Commercial Networks in an English Port: Chester in the Early Eighteenth Century' 22. Philip Scranton (1993), 'Build a Firm, Start Another: The Bromleys and Family Firm Entrepreneurship in the Philadelphia Region' 23. Jacob M. Price (1967), 'The Rise of Glasgow in the Chesapeake Tobacco Trade, 1707 - 1775' B. Access to Finance 24. Simon Ville (1996), 'Networks and Venture Capital in the Australasian Pastoral Sector before World War Two' 25. Andrew Godley (1996), 'Jewish Soft Loan Societies in New York and London and Immigrant Entrepreneurship, 1880 - 1914' C. Religion and Ethnicity 26. Jacob M. Price (1986), 'The Great Quaker Business Families of Eighteenth-Century London: The Rise and Fall of a Sectarian Patriciate' 27. David J. Jeremy (1991), 'The Enlightened Paternalist in Action: William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight Before 1914' 28. Hazel Petrie (2006), 'Maori Enterprise: Ships and Flour Mills' D. Female Entrepreneurs 29. Hannah Barker (2006), 'The "Public" Face of Female Enterprise' 30. Alison C. Kay (2009), 'Retailing Respectibility' Volume II: Industry Case Studies Acknowledgements Introduction An Introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I Inter-Industry Comparisons A. Textiles and Clothing 1. Christine Jackson (2008), 'Boom-Time Freaks or Heroic Industrial Pioneers? Clothing Entrepreneurs in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Berkshire' 2. Philip Ollerenshaw (2006), 'Innovation and Corporate Failure: Cyril Lord in UK Textiles, 1945 - 1968' B. Metals and Manufacturing 3. M.W. Flinn (1959), 'The Lloyds in the Early English Iron Industry' 4. W.H.B. Court (1938), 'Huguenot Capital in the Black Country Glass Trade' 5. A.E. Musson (1975), 'Joseph Whitworth and the Growth of Mass-Production Engineering' 6. Pe
