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This paper replicates a 2001 ranking of the greatest entrepreneurs and businesspeople in American business history. In 2011, we surveyed forty-one experts who collectively ranked Henry Ford at the top of the poll with Apple’s Steve Jobs landing in the top ten as a new entry.
The authors review the historical nature and role of the entrepreneur as revealed in economic literature from the 18th century to the present. This survey shows the ambiguous nature of a concept that, due to
significance of entrepreneurs within the wider context of economic and institutional structures. The study of entrepreneurship has had a checkered recent history. In the 1950s, Harvard's Research Center in Entrepreneurial History sought to develop a conceptual model of entrepreneurship as a way of reorganizing and revitalizing economic history.
This working paper suggests that there are now exciting opportunities for renewing the research agenda on entrepreneurship, building on the strong roots already in place, and benefiting from engaging with advances made in the study of entrepreneurial behavior and cognition.
In 1985, Peter Drucker, the late management expert, defined entrepreneurship as “the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth,”¹ among the most specific and meaningful definitions of the term. More literally, the words “entrepreneurship” and “enterprise” both derive from the Old French word for “an undertaking,” entrependre.
national entrepreneurial styles, on patterns of mobility, and on the acceptance of entrepreneurial authority in America; a fine series of case studies on 19th-century entrepreneurial groups and their roles in economic development; and pioneering work on the history of big business and scientific management.
Sherman Antitrust Act meant that the classical American entrepreneur of the new giant enterprises had, potentially, the federal nonmarket control in his future, should his organizational thinking be delinquent.
