Entrepreneurial Families. Business, marriage and life in the early nineteenth century
Details:
- Author(s) Popp, Andrew
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2012
- Pages 188pp
- Publisher Pickering & Chatto
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Family & personal capitalism
- Name Entrepreneurship inc cultural influences, opportunity, etc
- Name Business & related networks, exc mercantile networks
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account dealing with entrepreneurship in the context of family business. Constructed around the case study of the family firm of John Shaw & Sons and focuses on the influence of social relations within the family unit. Chapters include: ''Did you really think your letter would prove too long''; 'John Shaw in business'; 'John and Elizabeth in love'; ''Our present adventure'' - India and beyond; ''To work hard for a larger family'' - managing work and family; ''The whole circle of our acquaintance'' - networks and sociability; ''Happiness (in earthly things)'' - getting and having