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Entrepreneurship: theory, networks, history

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In this important new book, Mark Casson argues that the fundamental significance of entrepreneurship requires it be fully integrated into core social science disciplines such as economics and sociology, as well as into economic and business history. This book shows how this can be done. It formalizes the role of the entrepreneur as innovator, risk-taker and judgemental decision-maker, and relates these functions to the size and growth of the firm. Mark Casson discusses entrepreneurship as a form of strategic networking, showing how entrepreneurs gain access to established networks in order to source information, and then create their own networks to exploit this information. Applying these insights to historical evidence leads to a radical re-interpretation of key issues in economic and business history, including the emergence of trading companies, the spread of empires, the rise of the modern corporation and the globalisation of the firm. This authoritative book by an established scholar is essential reading for economists, social scientists, historians, as well as business and management scholars.

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Series Title

Industrial dynamics, entrepreneurship and innovation

Call Number

338.04 CAS e

Publisher

enk : Edward Elgar., c2010

Collation

viii, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781849800396

Classification

338.04

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Entrepreneurship

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