Country Studies in Entrepreneurship A Historical Perspective [Hardcover]

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. This book, from leading specialists, combines historical archive-based work and synthetic theoretic surveys, to reflect the current state and 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 IndexFRANCO AMATORI Associate Professor of Economic History, Universit? Bocconi, ItalyHARTMUT BERGHOFF Director, Institut f?r Wirtschafts - und Sozialgeschichte, Universit?t G?ttingen, GermanyGEORGE BITROS Professor, Athens University of Economics, GreeceHUBERT BONIN Professor of Contemporary Economic History, Institut d'?tudes politiques de Bordeaux, Universit? Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, FranceRAJ BROWN Reader in Asia Pacific Business Expertise, Royal Holloway School of Management, University of London, UKROY CHURCH Professor of Economic and Social History, University of East Anglia, UKANDREA COLLI Assistant Professor of Economic History, Universit? Bocconi, ItalyWILL HAUSMAN Chancellor Professor of Economics, The College of William and Mary, USAANASTASSIOS KARAYIANNIS Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, Greece