Entrepreneurship: A Comparative and Historical Study

by Paul H. Wilken and Alan L. Carsrud

Book Overview

This major study of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship focuses on the significance of entrepreneurship in the socioeconomic development of a society, and the economic and noneconomic factors which promote its emergence. Comparatively and analytically, it looks at five societies that achieved industrialization during the 18th and 19th century (England, France, Prussia-Germany, Japan, and the U.S.) and one that did not (Russia).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893910201
• ISBN13: 9780893910204
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"