Entrepreneurship and growth : an international historical perspective / edited by Gabriel Tortella and Gloria Quiroga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tortella Casares, Gabriel.

Quiroga Valle, María Gloria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Corporations--Growth.

Corporations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

This volume provides up-to-date research on the factors which contribute to the build-up of entrepreneurship. It also provides an international, comparative and historical perspective, with a special focus on Mediterranean countries including Spain, Italy and Greece. The authors take a quantitative approach in their exploration of these, as well as many other countries including England, Scotland and Argentina. Whilst several chapters explore entrepreneurial success as their main dependent variable and study the factors that explain it, others deal with a variety of topics such as education, innovation, immigration, kinship links, the role of investment, geographical factors, and macroeconomic variables. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I A Multinational Approach

1 A Tale of Four Countries: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in England, France, Scotland, and Spain: A Comparative Approach / Gabriel Tortella Tortella, Gabriel, Gloria Quiroga Quiroga, Gloria, Ignacio Moral-Arce Moral-Arce, Ignacio 19

Part II International Experiences

2 Entrepreneurs and Businessmen in Greece during the Long Nineteenth Century / James Foreman-Peck Foreman-Peck, James, Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis Pepelasis, Ioanna Sapfo 49

3 Business Groups in Argentina during the Export-Led Growth Period (1870-1914) / Maria Inés Barbero Barbero, Maria Inés 69

4 Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from the Italian Case (Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries) / Pier Angelo Toninelli Toninelli, Pier Angelo, Michelangelo Vasta Vasta, Michelangelo, Emma Zavarrone Zavarrone, Emma 92

Part III The Spanish Case

5 Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century Spain / José Luis García-Ruiz García-Ruiz, José Luis, Teodosio Pérez-Amaral Pérez-Amaral, Teodosio 115

6 An Approach to Entrepreneurial Success and Its Determinants: The Case of Spain / José M. Ortiz-Villajos Ortiz-Villajos, José M., Sonia Sotoca Sotoca, Sonia 133

Part IV Some Local Cases: Minorca and Madrid

7 Entrepreneurship and Development: The Minorcan Model (Eighteenth-Twentieth Centuries) / Alfons Méndez-Vidal Méndez-Vidal, Alfons, Juan Hernández-Andreu Hernández-Andreu, Juan 175

8 Did Spanish High Schools Breed Entrepreneurs? The Madrid Institutos of Cardenal Cisneros and San Isidro, 1860-1936 / Clara Eugenia Núñez Núñez, Clara Eugenia, Begoña Moreno-Castaño Moreno-Castaño, Begoña 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.

ISBN:

9781137033345

1137033347

OCLC:

809561457