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Theories fo Entrepreneurship: Historical Development and Critical Assessment

Category: Ionian History
Type: Standard
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship
Author: Ricketts Martin
Editor: Casson Mark, Yeung Bernard, Basu Anuradha, Wadeson Nigel
Pages: 33-58
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Library catalog: K.S.P.
Date: 2008
Location: Oxford

Abstract:

[37] It was, however, the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries that finally produced the modern multi-faceted image of the entrepreneur. As rulers gradually submitted to constitutional constraints on their power, and property rights became more secure within the nation states, entrepreneurial energy was released at a historically unprecedented rate. ....


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