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Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Business Philanthropy: Cotton Textiles in the British Industrial Revolution (Autumn 2019)

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The article analyzes the relationship between entrepreneurial philanthropy and the competitive process. Competitive conditions interacted significantly with entrepreneurial responses to ethical problems posed by the rapid emergence of factory production following the British Industrial Revolution. Entrepreneurs’ attitudes toward regulation and the labor process are used to identify the major differences and similarities in competitive behavior. These variations are explored using nineteenth-century case studies highlighting examples of philanthropy and competitive behavior. The analysis leads to a typology showing that entrepreneurial philanthropic behavior is conditioned by business strategy variables: specifically, combinations of technological and labor resources controlled by individual entrepreneurs and their businesses.

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Article Charles Harvey; Mairi Maclean; Roy Suddaby (Autumn 2019) Historical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy. Business History Review (pp. 443-471). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ashworth, William J.
Casson, Catherine
Holden, Roger N.
Casson, Mark
Cohen, Michael R.
Cooke, Anthony
Journals
Business History Review
Brussels Economic Review
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
Economic History Review
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Science as Culture
Publishers
Bloomsbury Academic
Boydell Press
Manchester University Press
New York University Press
Oxford University Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Industrial revolution
Business and commerce
Cotton and cotton industry
Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
Regulation
Business history
People
Black, Joseph
Boyle, Robert
Newcomen, Thomas
Roberts, Richard
Smith, Adam
Watt, John
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
Russia
Switzerland
Scotland
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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