The Entrepreneur

Sérgio Oliveira Birchal
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Sérgio Oliveira Birchal: UNA School of Business

Chapter 2 in Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, 1999, pp 21-67 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the debate about the entrepreneur in the Brazilian economic historiography. It aims at challenging the widely accepted view that the paulista and, to a lesser extent, carioca* experiences can be applied to other parts of Brazil. The work compares the social background and origin of the capital of mineiro, carioca, and paulista entrepreneurs in nineteenth-century Brazil. The analysis of the mineiro entrepreneur reveals that, in contrast with their counterparts in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, they were mainly recruited from the local élite constituted basically by Brazilians. Furthermore, although the sources of capital (mainly agriculture and trade) used by mineiro entrepreneurs were not very distinct from those used by their paulista and carioca counterparts, they differed in their nature with coffee and import-export activities playing a smaller role.

Keywords: Coffee Planter; Textile Mill; Mata Zone; Major Shareholder; Local Entrepreneur (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27115-3_2

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