The Invention Of Enterprise

Author : David S. Landes,Joel Mokyr,William J. Baumol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400833580

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A sweeping global history of entrepreneurial innovation Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs—and their innovations—have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship during a particular period and in an important geographic location. The book chronicles the sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and Colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and the United States, from the medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why entrepreneurial activities are not always productive and may even sabotage prosperity. They examine the institutions and restrictions that have enabled or impeded innovation, and the incentives for the adoption and dissemination of inventions. They also describe the wide variations in global entrepreneurial activity during different historical periods and the similarities in development, as well as entrepreneurship's role in economic growth. The book is filled with past examples and events that provide lessons for promoting and successfully pursuing contemporary entrepreneurship as a means of contributing to the welfare of society. The Invention of Enterprise lays out a definitive picture for all who seek an understanding of innovation's central place in our world.

Author : David S. Landes,Joel Mokyr,William J. Baumol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691154527

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The Invention of Enterprise by David S. Landes,Joel Mokyr,William J. Baumol Pdf

This work provides a sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovation activity in the Western world.

Author : Joel Mokyr David S. Landes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:741250542

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The Invention of Enterprise by Joel Mokyr David S. Landes Pdf

Author : Joe Carlen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231542814

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A Brief History of Entrepreneurship by Joe Carlen Pdf

A Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs often butt up against processes, technologies, social conventions, and even laws. So they circumvent, innovate, and violate to obtain what they want. This creative destruction has brought about overland and overseas trade, colonization, and a host of revolutionary technologies—from caffeinated beverages to the personal computer—that have transformed society. Consulting rich archival sources, including some that have never before been translated, Carlen maps the course of human history through nine episodes when entrepreneurship reshaped our world. Highlighting the most colorful characters of each era, he discusses Mesopotamian merchants' creation of the urban market economy; Phoenician merchant-sailors intercontinental trade, which came to connect Africa, Asia, and Europe; Chinese tea traders' invention of paper money; the colonization of the Americas; and the current "flattening" of the world's economic playing field. Yet the pursuit of profit hasn't always moved us forward. From slavery to organized crime, Carlen explores how entrepreneurship can sometimes work at the expense of others. He also discusses the new entrepreneurs who, through the nascent space tourism industry, are leading humanity to a multiplanetary future. By exploring all sides of this legacy, Carlen brings much-needed detail to the role of entrepreneurship in revolutionizing civilization.

Author : Alain Dieckhoff
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0231127669

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The Invention of a Nation by Alain Dieckhoff Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the various ideologies that constitute Zionism, ranging from Marxist-Zionism to National Religious Zionism to that of the far-right Abba Achimeir. This book makes explicit the debt the Zionists owed to French thinkers and European ideologues, notably those associated with the French Revolution and the Enlightenment.

Author : Peter Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317601357

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker Pdf

How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker’s most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: ‘the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity’. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers. With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello

Author : Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476766676

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The Land of Enterprise by Benjamin C. Waterhouse Pdf

This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedom—but as a search for wealth and prosperity. The Land of Enterprise charts the development of American business from the colonial period to the present. It explores the nation’s evolving economic, social, and political landscape by examining how different types of enterprising activities rose and fell, how new labor and production technologies supplanted old ones—and at what costs—and how Americans of all stripes responded to the tumultuous world of business. In particular, historian Benjamin Waterhouse highlights the changes in business practices, the development of different industries and sectors, and the complex relationship between business and national politics. From executives and bankers to farmers and sailors, from union leaders to politicians to slaves, business history is American history, and Waterhouse pays tribute to the unnamed millions who traded their labor (sometimes by choice, often not) or decided what products to consume (sometimes informed, often not). Their story includes those who fought against what they saw as an oppressive system of exploitation as well as those who defended free markets from any outside intervention. The Land of Enterprise is not only a comprehensive look into our past achievements, but offers clues as to how to confront the challenges of today’s world: globalization, income inequality, and technological change.

Author : Allan Cohen,Pramodita Sharma
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626561687

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Entrepreneurs in Every Generation by Allan Cohen,Pramodita Sharma Pdf

Discover What Makes Family Businesses Beat the Odds and Thrive over Generations Families are complicated; family businesses even more so. Like other companies, family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics that rarely mirror the best practices in the latest Harvard Business Review. Allan Cohen and Pramodita Sharma, scholars with deep professional and personal roots in family businesses, show how enterprising families can transmit the hunger for excellence across generations. Using examples of firms that flourished and those that failed, they describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice that can be tailored to your unique situation.

Author : William J. Baumol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400835225

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The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship by William J. Baumol Pdf

An authoritative look at the microeconomics of entrepreneurship Entrepreneurs are widely recognized for the vital contributions they make to economic growth and general welfare, yet until fairly recently entrepreneurship was not considered worthy of serious economic study. Today, progress has been made to integrate entrepreneurship into macroeconomics, but until now the entrepreneur has been almost completely excluded from microeconomics and standard theoretical models of the firm. The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship provides the framework for introducing entrepreneurship into mainstream microtheory and incorporating the activities of entrepreneurs, inventors, and managers into standard models of the firm. William Baumol distinguishes between the innovative entrepreneur, who comes up with new ideas and puts them into practice, and the replicative entrepreneur, which can be anyone who launches a new business venture, regardless of whether similar ventures already exist. Baumol puts forward a quasi-formal theoretical analysis of the innovative entrepreneur's influential role in economic life. In doing so, he opens the way to bringing innovative entrepreneurship into the accepted body of mainstream microeconomics, and offers valuable insights that can be used to design more effective policies. The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship lays the foundation for a new kind of microtheory that reflects the innovative entrepreneur's importance to economic growth and prosperity.

Author : Andy Serwer
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588344977

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American Enterprise by Andy Serwer Pdf

What does it mean to be an American? What are American ideas and values? American Enterprise, the companion book to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, aims to answer these questions about the American experience through an exploration of its economic and commercial history. It argues that by looking at the intersection of capitalism and democracy, we can see where we as a nation have come from and where we might be going in the future. Richly illustrated with images of objects from the museum’s collections, American Enterprise includes a 1794 dollar coin, Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 telephone, a brass cash register from Marshall Fields, Sam Walton’s cap, and many other goods and services that have shaped American culture. Historical and contemporary advertisements are also featured, emphasizing the evolution of the relationship between producers and consumers over time. Interspersed in the historical narrative are essays from today’s industry leaders—including Sheila Bair, Adam Davidson, Bill Ford, Sally Greenberg, Fisk Johnson, Hank Paulson, Richard Trumka, and Pat Woertz—that pose provocative questions about the state of contemporary American business and society. American Enterprise is a multi-faceted survey of the nation’s business heritage and corresponding social effects that is fundamental to an understanding of the lives of the American people, the history of the United States, and the nation’s role in global affairs.

Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 9780300238259

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Free Enterprise by Lawrence B. Glickman Pdf

An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how the idea first gained traction in American discourse and was championed by opponents of the New Deal. Those politicians, believing free enterprise to be a fundamental American value, held it up as an antidote to a liberalism that they maintained would lead toward totalitarian statism. Tracing the use of the concept of free enterprise, Glickman shows how it has both constrained and transformed political dialogue. He presents a fascinating look into the complex history, and marketing, of an idea that forms the linchpin of the contemporary opposition to government regulation, taxation, and programs such as Medicare.

Author : Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674974159

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Cycles of Invention and Discovery by Venkatesh Narayanamurti Pdf

Using Nobel Prize–winning examples like the transistor, laser, and magnetic resonance imaging, Venky Narayanamurti and Tolu Odumosu explore the daily micro-practices of research and show that distinctions between the search for knowledge and creative problem solving break down when one pays attention to how pathbreaking research actually happens.

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226726342

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen Pdf

"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.

Author : Simon Marginson,Mark Considine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 052179448X

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The Enterprise University by Simon Marginson,Mark Considine Pdf

Throughout the industrialised world, universities have undergone remarkable changes since the mid-1980s. In Australia, interest has been intense, and publication of The Enterprise University was very timely. First published in 2001, it was the first systematic study of the Australian system since the momentous Dawkins reforms ten years earlier. The book is grounded in case studies of most of the major Australian universities: the authors interviewed a large number of senior managers. They also have taken account of global trends and have prepared the book in the light of international research on the university as an institution. The authors contend that the modern university can be understood as an 'enterprise university', characterised by corporate-style executive leadership. In a hard-hitting conclusion they propose novel policies and directions for Australia's higher education system.

Author : David J. Adams,John Clifford Sparrow
Publisher : Scion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biotechnology
ISBN : 1904842364

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Enterprise for Life Scientists by David J. Adams,John Clifford Sparrow Pdf

"Enterprise for Life Scientists" is a new text designed to stimulate and develop entrepreneurial skills in the life science community. The book embraces the wide range of approaches and skills integral to the promotion of enterprise learning at an advanced level.