Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830-1900

The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 211-242

  Casson, Mark ^a   Godley, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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