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European Entrepreneurship*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Edgar Salin
Affiliation:
University of Basle

Extract

The task of discussing sociological changes in the field of European enterpreneurship is not an easy one, mainly because of the scarcity of historical data of the earliest period and the fact that there has been comparatively little individual biographical research relating to that period. These changes can perhaps best be illustrated by attempting to define the individual typifying the entrepreneur in each of the three economic periods that Sombart has designated as early, middle or mature, and late capitalism.

Type
Origins of Modern Business Enterprise
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1952

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References

1 Every scholar will notice that this paper could not have been written without the basis of the historical work of Werner Sombart, the sociological work of Max Weber, and the theoretical analysis of Joseph A. Schumpeter. My own contributions to the subject—in the historical and in the sociological field—are partly listed in my Geschichte der Volkswirtschaftslehre (4th ed.; Berne and Tübingen, 1951)Google Scholar.