Article ID: CBB468730902

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
Holden, Roger N.
Nuvolari, Alessandro
MacLeod, Christine
Dodgson, Mark
Hellman, Jacob
Sean Bottomley
Concepts
Industrial revolution
Cotton and cotton industry
Technological innovation
Technology
Business history
Textile industry
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Wales
Scotland
United States
Birmingham (England)
England
Institutions
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (Great Britain)
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