Company Founders

Youssef Cassis

Chapter 7 in Entrepreneurship in Theory and History, 2005, pp 149-161 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The creators of large companies have carved a niche for themselves in the world of business history. They epitomize the very idea of entrepreneurship, whether one looks at their achievements — the emergence of a large company is usually the result of a major innovation — or at their personality and motivation — risk-taking, audacity, perseverance, but also luck, flair, vision, even creativeness: in short, a genius for business. Entrepreneurs are the heroes of business history, the ones who occasionally give it a romantic dimension. They have been celebrated, and their contribution to economic growth theorized by many an economist, beginning with the most famous of them, Joseph Schumpeter (Schumpeter, 1934).1

Keywords: Twentieth Century; Large Company; Family Firm; Early Career; Business Leader (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230522633_7

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