Entrepreneurship and Growth: An International Historical Perspective

by Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349441464
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARIA INÉS BARBERO Professor of Economic and Business History at the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina JAMES FOREMAN-PECK Professor of Economics at Cardiff University, UK JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA RUIZ Associate Professor of Economic History at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain JUAN HERNÁNDEZ-ANDREU Doctor in Economics and Professor and Director of the Department of Economic History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain ALFONS MENDEZ Associate professor at the Universidad de les Illes Balears, Spain IGNACIO MORAL-ARCE Statistician and researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Ministry of Finance), Spain BEGOÑA MORENO CLARA EUGENIA NÚÑEZ Associate Professor of Economic History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain JOSÉ M. ORTIZ-VILLAJOS Associate Professor of Economic History at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain IOANNA SAPFO PEPELASIS Associate Professor of Economic History at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece TEODOSIO PÉREZ-AMARAL Associate Professor of Econometrics at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain SONIA SOTOCA Associate Professor of Econometrics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain PIER ANGELO TONINELLI Professor of Business and Contemporary History at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy MICHELANGELO VASTA Professor of Economic History at University of Siena, Italy EMMA ZAVARRONE Associate Professor of Applied Statistics at the LiberaUniversità di Lingue e Comunicazione (IULM) in Milan, Italy

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; G.Tortella & G.Quiroga PART I: A MULTINATIONAL APPROACH A Tale of Four Countries: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in England, Scotland, France, Spain: A Comparative Approach; G.Tortella, G.Quiroga & I.Moral-Arce: PART II: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES Entrepreneurs and Businessmen in Greece during the Long Nineteenth Century; J.Foreman-Peck & I.S.Pepelasis: Business Groups in Argentina during the Export-led Growth Period (1870-1914); M.I.Barbero Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from the Italian Case (Nineteenth and Twentieth-centuries); P.Toninelli, M.A.Vasta & E.Zavarron PART III: THE SPANISH CASE Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-century Spain; J.L.García-Ruiz & T.Pérez Amaral An Approach to Entrepreneurial Success and its Determinants: the Case of Spain'; J.M.Ortiz-Villajos & S.Soa PART IV: SOME LOCAL CASES: MINORCA AND MADRID Entrepreneurship and Development: The Minorcan Model; J.Hernández-Andreu & A.Méndez Did Spanish High Schools Breed Entrepreneurs? The Madrid Institutos of Cardenal Cisneros and San Isidro, 1860-1936; C.E.Núñez & B.Moreno Conclusions; G.Tortella & G.Quiroga Notes Bibliography Index