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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963196003321

Autore

Harper David A

Titolo

Foundations of entrepreneurship and economic development / / David A. Harper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-74154-5

1-134-74155-3

0-429-23071-0

0-203-38021-5

1-280-07242-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Foundations of the market economy

Disciplina

338.04

338/.04

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship

New business enterprises

Economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; The theory of entrepreneurial discovery; Psychological determinants of entrepreneurial alertness; Institutions I: Rule of law, property and contract; Institutions II: Money, political and legal decentralisation and economic freedom; Culture and alertness; The market-process approach to public policy; Empirical testing and conceptual development; Concluding remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This well-written book is the first to deal with entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship from a market-process perspective. David A Harper has produced a volume that analyses why some people are quicker than others in discovering profit opportunities. Importantly, the book also covers the issue of how cultural value systems orient entrepreneurial vision and, in contrast to conventional wisdom, the book argues that individualist cultural values are not categorically superior to group oriented val