The Stanley Steamer: A Study in Unsuccessful Innovation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. PART I INTRODUCTION
5. Entrepreneurial Research: The History of an Intellectual Innovation 3
6. PART II POINTS OF VIEW
7. Points of View 23
8. An Approach to the Study of Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to Edwin F. Gay 30
9. Economic Theory and Entrepreneurial History 45
10. The Climate of Enterprise 65
11. Approaches to Entrepreneurial Personality 80
12. Role and Sanction in American Entrepreneurial History 93
13. PART III ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY
14. Entrepreneurship in the Community 115
15. Cultural Factors in Economic Growth 123
16. The Cultural Milieu of the Entrepreneur 139
17. The Small Industrialist in Japan 163
18. French Business and the Businessman: A Social and Cultural Analysis 184
19. PART IV THE ENTREPRENEUR AS AN INDIVIDUAL
20. The Entrepreneur as an Individual 203
21. The Electric Light and the Gas Light: Innovation and Continuity in Economic History 210
22. William Brown of Dundee, 1791-1864: Management in a Scottish Flax Mill 221
23. Sir Ambrose Crowley, Ironmonger, 1658-1713 241
24. The Stanley Steamer: A Study in Unsuccessful Innovation 259
25. PART V HISTORICAL VARIETIES
26. Historical Varieties 275
27. The Merchants in England in the Eighteenth Century 278
28. Kinship and Trade in Seventeenth Century New England 296
29. The Entrepreneur in Brewing, 1700-1830 309
30. Economic Functions of English Landowners in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 327
31. The Serf Entrepreneur in Russia 341
32. NOTES INDEX
33. Notes 373
34. Index 411