Entrepreneurship and Growth : An International Historical Perspective

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 A Tale of Four Countries: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in England, France, Scotland, and Spain: A Comparative Approach....Pages 19-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Entrepreneurs and Businessmen in Greece during the Long Nineteenth Century....Pages 49-68 Business Groups in Argentina during the Export-Led Growth Period (1870–1914)....Pages 69-91 Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from the Italian Case (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)....Pages 92-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century Spain....Pages 115-132 An Approach to Entrepreneurial Success and Its Determinants: The Case of Spain....Pages 133-172 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 Entrepreneurship and Development: The Minorcan Model (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)....Pages 175-194 Did Spanish High Schools Breed Entrepreneurs? The Madrid Institutos of Cardenal Cisneros and San Isidro, 1860–1936....Pages 195-218 Conclusions....Pages 219-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-248 Up-to-date research on the factors which contribute to the build-up of entrepreneurship. This volume 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. -- Publisher's description