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21.1 Introduction 21.1 Introduction
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21.2 Origins and Motivation 21.2 Origins and Motivation
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21.3 Culture and Values 21.3 Culture and Values
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21.4 The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship 21.4 The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship
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21.5 Corporate Entrepreneurship 21.5 Corporate Entrepreneurship
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21.6 Financing Entrepreneurship 21.6 Financing Entrepreneurship
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21.7 Conclusions 21.7 Conclusions
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References References
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21 Entrepreneurship
Get accessGeoffrey Jones, Harvard University
R. Daniel Wadhwani is Assistant Professor of Management and Fletcher Jones Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific in the United States. He previously taught at Harvard Business School and the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include entrepreneurship and financial system development in historical perspective. His co‐authored paper with Geoffrey Jones, “Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Approaches to the Study of Entrepreneurship”, won the Best Conceptual Paper Prize from the American Academy of Management's Entrepreneurship Division in 2006.
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Published:02 September 2009
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Abstract
Since the 1980s, entrepreneurship has emerged as a topic of growing interest among management scholars and social scientists. The subject has grown in legitimacy, particularly in business schools. This scholarly interest has been spurred by a set of recent developments in the United States. This article begins by providing a brief introduction to the origins and evolution of historical research on entrepreneurship. It then turns to explore a series of different streams of business-history research that deal with issues of entrepreneurship and historical change. The article highlights the ways in which historical context shaped the structure of entrepreneurial activity, and reveals the wide variation in organizational form and entrepreneurial behavior that historians have found. It concludes by discussing the main contributions of business history to the study of entrepreneurship, and proposes a renewed research agenda.
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