American entreprener [electronic resource] : the fascinating stories of the people who defined business in the United States
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
American Management Associatio ,
c2010
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Entrepreneurs : the essence of enterprise
- 2. European settlement and business enterprise in the New World
- 3. Entrepreneurs in the new nation : 1787-1840
- 4. The entrepreneurial explosion : 1820-1850
- 5. The rise of managers : 1850-1880
- 6. Entrepreneurs in the age of upheaval : 1850-1880
- 7. The big business backlash : 1870-1920
- 8. The emergence of a consumer market : 1880-1920
- 9. Deliverance and despair : 1920-1939
- 10. Business in war and postwar America : 1940-1960
- 11. Business's winter of discontent : 1960-1982
- 12. Business in renaissance : 1982-1989
- 13. The new economy : the 19902
- 14. Americans and the global market
- 15. Epilogue : the recession returns