The Age of Entrepreneurship : Business Proprietors, Self-employment and Corporations Since 1851 (Hardcover)

Part 1: New methods to interpret historical trends; 1. Entrepreneurship over time; 2. Current understanding; 3. New insights from historic big data; Part 2: Overview of Trends 4. Business numbers, aggregate trends and sector change; 5. Business size, organisation and structure; Part 3: Understanding and interpreting entrepreneurship; 6. Explaining entrepreneurship: Economic change, correlates of entrepreneurship and decision models; 7. Gender and the family firm; age and life cycle; succession; 8. Geography, urbanisation, clusters and regional patterns of change; 9. Migrants as drivers of change? 10. Portfolio businesses; 11. Conclusion; Appendix: methods and sources; References