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Company Founders

In: Entrepreneurship in Theory and History

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  • Youssef Cassis

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The creators of large companies have carved a niche for themselves in the world of business history. They epitomize the very idea of entrepreneurship, whether one looks at their achievements — the emergence of a large company is usually the result of a major innovation — or at their personality and motivation — risk-taking, audacity, perseverance, but also luck, flair, vision, even creativeness: in short, a genius for business. Entrepreneurs are the heroes of business history, the ones who occasionally give it a romantic dimension. They have been celebrated, and their contribution to economic growth theorized by many an economist, beginning with the most famous of them, Joseph Schumpeter (Schumpeter, 1934).1

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  • Youssef Cassis, 2005. "Company Founders," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Youssef Cassis & Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (ed.), Entrepreneurship in Theory and History, chapter 7, pages 149-161, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52263-3_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230522633_7
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