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

Shepherd, Alice (Author)
Toms, Steven (Author)

Business History Review
Volume: 93
Issue: 3
Pages: 503-527
Publication date: Autumn 2019
Language: English

DOI: 10.1017/S0007680519000692

URI: http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/entrepreneurship-strategy-and-business-philanthropy-cotton-textiles-in-the-british-industrial-revolution/1165679FDDF3AA56BC981F5F8AE8C68F

Publication Date: Autumn 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy

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Social sciences Industrial revolution Philanthropists Regulation Cotton and cotton industry Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship Business and commerce Ethics 18th century 19th century Great Britain

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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