ISBN:
0-8263-0504-0
,
978-0-8263-0504-6
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 373 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [15]
Series Statement:
A _School of American Research Book [15]
Keywords:
Unternehmenskultur Amerika
;
Georgia
;
Wisconsin
;
Mexiko
;
Nicaragua
;
Peru
;
China
;
Indien
;
Seychellen
;
Kulturvergleich
Abstract:
This book is a collection of essays on business behavior that examine the relationships between business enterprises and family networks. The essays deal with universal subjects that describe the effects of marriage, death, and birth upon the individual and corporate enterprise. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword, Douglas W. Schwartz, editor -- Preface, Robert T. Aubey and Arnold Strickton -- Part 1. Intoduction -- 1. Studies in Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Review and Introduction, Sidney M. Greenfield, Arnold Strickon, Robert T. Aubey, and Morton Rothstein -- Part 2. Entrpreneurs, choices, and decisions -- 2. Entrepreneurship and Dynasty Building in the Portuguese Empire in the Seventeenth Century: The Career of Salvador Correia de Sá e Benavides, Sidney M. Greenfield -- 3. The Changing Social Networks and Investment Behavior of a Slaveholding Elite in the Ante Bellum South: Some Natchez "Nabobs," 1800-1860, Morton Rothstein -- 4. Kinship and Friendship in the Emergence of a Family-Controlled Southern Enterprise: Life Insurance Company of Georgia, 1891-1950, Jack Blicksilver -- 5. Multiple Enterprise in the Central Highlands of Peru, Norman Long -- 6. Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Rural Wisconsin, Arnold Strickon -- 7. Entrepreneurship in the State Sector: CONASUPO of Mexico, William P. Glade -- Part 3. Results and outcomes: social patterns and groups - 8. Capital Mobilization and Patterns of Business Ownership and Control in Latin America: The Case of Mexico, Robert T. Aubey -- 9. Nicaragua's Grupos Econdmicos: Scope and Operations, Harry W. Strachan -- 10. Barley, Compadres, and Fiestas: Investment and Confidence in a Mexican Regional Elite, Gerald L. Gold -- 11. Family Firms and Firm Families: A Comparison of Indian, Chinese, and Creole Firms in Seychelles, Burton Benedict -- Part 4. New directions -- 12. Entrepreneurship and Social Change: Toward a Populational, Decision-Making Approach, Sidney M. Greenfield and Arnold Strickon -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 351-366"This book resulted directly from a seminar sponsored by the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1975, entitled "The Economic Anthropology of Investment Behavior in the Americas" (Preface)Enthält 12 Beiträge
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