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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 word was borrowed into English in the mid-19th century— perhaps the golden age of the entrepreneur—when the number of new economic niches was exploding and the hand of government was at its lightest in history.
9 Νοε 2015 · Entrepreneurship is deeply woven into the fabric of America’s history, its economy, and its cultural beliefs. As Alexis de Tocqueville observed in his 1836 classic Democracy in America, “The Americans always display a free, original and inventive power of mind.”
By the 1940s, a number of historians, inspired in large part by the Schumpeterian concept of entrepreneurship as an agent of change in the economy, began to push empirical business history beyond the earlier biographical studies of entrepreneurs to higher levels of conceptualization.
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.
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.
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.
