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The Social Dimensions Of Entrepreneurship
Schumpeter's canonical depiction of the entrepreneur as an agent of social and economic change implies that entrepreneurs are especially sensitive to the social environment. We use an organizing framework based on institutional economics, in combination with lessons from cross-cultural psychology, to consider the social dimensions of entrepreneurship. The level and...
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Simon Winchester. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]12.99. xxv + 260 pages. ISBN 0-19-860702-4. As with all national institutions, one takes the OED for granted. There it is: a magnificent work of scholarship comprising far more than the definition...
British Student Entrepreneurs Receive Mentoring, Compete over Business Plans.
By Jenny Little, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 13--Student entrepreneurs are to be celebrated at a special event this month, and some could even be in line for a top prize of UKpound 20,000. Venturefest...
God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860. (book review)
Edited by MARK NOLL. Oxford University Press. 312 pp. $21.95 paper. Move over Max Weber. Yes, there was a Calvinist connection, but it had nothing on antebellum Methodists and Baptist revivalists who were exuberantly successful in making religion itself a source of capitalist enterprise....
Former Congressman and U.S. Ambassador Named to Board of Surety's Holding Company
Business Editors Bob Krueger, who is a distinguished economist, entrepreneur, educator and public servant, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Surety Capital Corp. (OTCBB:SRYP), the holding company of Surety Bank, N.A. Over the course of almost two decades, Mr. Krueger has served as a U.S....
The Entrepreneurial Event Revisited: Firm Formation in a Regional Context
This paper outlines the development of an entrepreneurial culture in the US Capitol region and the formation of a regional industrial cluster. The conditions that the literature associates with entrepreneurship lag rather than lead the development of the cluster. Supportive social capital, venture capital and entrepreneurial support services, as well...
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY FOR A COMPUTER AGE.
Brian Harrison explains how a national institution is being updated. WE ALL NOWADAYS expect a wealth of information at our fingertips without always realising just how novel this situation is. Only through patient and painstaking labour were the great reference books produced...
Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)
Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 269. $55.00.) Based on his 1994 dissertation of the same tide, this is the author's first book. It bears...
Get your business off the ground at Venturefest 2000.
M2 PRESSWIRE-8 May 2000-RUBICON COMMUNICATIONS: Get your business off the ground at Venturefest 2000 C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05052000 Those looking for the chance to showcase a business start-up idea now have the ideal opportunity by entering the Oxford University...
RUBICON COMMUNICATIONS: Oxford to host major new business fair.
M2 PRESSWIRE-24 February 1999-RUBICON COMMUNICATIONS: Oxford to host major new business fair C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220299 A major new international event presenting Oxford as a showcase for innovation and entrepreneurs is being staged in the city this summer. ...
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