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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.

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This successful text provides a unique and stimulating approach to the business environment. While the classic 'PESTLE' structure is outlined in Part One, Part Two is used to explore key issues such as globalization, sustainability, equal opportunities, and entrepreneurship. Written in a highly engaging and accessible style, the book introduces students to critical thinking via the 'stop and think' boxes. The coherent themes running throughout the book enable students to gain aholistic understanding of the business environment. Online Resource Centre (ORC)For Students: o Multiple choice questi

Business --- Industries --- Business and social problems --- Business enterprises --- Industrial sociology --- Social responsibility of business --- Trade --- Economics --- Management --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Business. --- Social aspects. --- 331.30 --- 338.040 --- 650 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Economische toestand --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden --- Theorieën en grondbeginselen. Management --- duurzaam ondernemen --- economie, internationaal --- globalisering --- arbeid, gezinnen --- ondernemerschap --- economische integratie, internationaal --- Europese Unie --- Affaires --- Industrie --- Aspect social

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What is the economics of entrepreneurship about? Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation aims at giving a comprehensive answer to this question, claiming that this recently established discipline should focus on the development of a framework of analysis able to integrate the understanding of the determinants and the effects of both entrepreneurship and innovation without forgetting to pay the due attention to the functioning of the inducement mechanisms (institutional frameworks and public policies). For this purpose, the book combines theoretical prescriptions and international empirical evidence. Contributions by some of the best known scholars in the field of the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation enable to investigate whether the interrelationships between the forces that affect firm and industry dynamics and ultimately determine economic growth are subject to change across countries and over time. The analysis of different national cases (including, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, the Netherlands, and the United States) puts forward that the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth (via innovation) is shaped by the context of country-specific institutions and industries, thereby providing hints for industrial and innovation policy. For the above reasons, this book is recommendable reading for all those scholars and students who want to become more familiar with recent theoretical advances and empirical results in the economics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth.

Business. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Leadership. --- Industrial organization. --- Economic growth. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Business and Management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Economic Growth. --- Industrial Organization. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Industries --- Organization --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Trade --- Management --- Commerce --- Entrepreneurship --- 338.040 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden

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The third edition of Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what consequences they have for the workings of the national and international economies. It shows how economic analysis can explain multinationals' activity patterns and how economics can shed conceptual light on problems of business policies and managerial decisions arising in practice. It addresses the welfare problems arising from multinationals' activities and the logic of governments' preferences and choices in their dealings with multinationals. Suitable for researchers, graduates and upper-level undergraduates. The third edition of this highly accessible book incorporates the many additions to our knowledge of multinationals accumulated in research appearing in the past decade.

International economic relations --- Firms and enterprises --- International business enterprises --- 339.9 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338.048 --- 338.040 --- 338.50 --- Business enterprises, International --- Corporations, International --- Global corporations --- International corporations --- MNEs (International business enterprises) --- Multinational corporations --- Multinational enterprises --- Transnational corporations --- Business enterprises --- Corporations --- Joint ventures --- Internationale economische betrekkingen --- Fusies van ondernemingen. Industriële concentratie. --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden. --- Vormen van monopolistische orde (algemeenheden). Economisch malthusianisme. --- International business enterprises. --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden --- Fusies van ondernemingen. Industriële concentratie --- Vormen van monopolistische orde (algemeenheden). Economisch malthusianisme

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Corporations --- Industries --- Social responsibility of business. --- Environmental aspects. --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Business corporations --- C corporations --- Corporations, Business --- Corporations, Public --- Limited companies --- Publicly held corporations --- Publicly traded corporations --- Public limited companies --- Stock corporations --- Subchapter C corporations --- Social responsibility --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Business enterprises --- Corporate power --- Disincorporation --- Stocks --- Trusts, Industrial --- Social aspects --- Social responsibility of business --- Environmental aspects --- E-books --- 338.040 --- 650 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden --- Theorieën en grondbeginselen. Management