Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961Routledge, 2019 M09 30 - 304 páginas Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insurance. |
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... called our attention to some fascinating materials in the Erie County Historical Society's collection. W. Paul Gamble provided us with information on the Black family from the Westminster College Archives. Pat Gainer, John Olson, and ...
... called our attention to some fascinating materi- als in the Erie County Historical Society's collection . W. Paul Gamble pro- vided us with information on the Black family from the Westminster College Archives . Pat Gainer , John Olson ...
... called upon to estimate , with tolerable accuracy , the impor- tance of the specific product , the probable amount of the demand , and the means of its production : at one time , he must employ a great number of hands ; at another , buy ...
... called ' top executives ' or ' top management ' . . . . " Cole then went on to elaborate his definition : In the promotional and survival purposes which entrepreneurship serves relative to individual business units , three processes ...
... called attention to entrepreneurial personality traits , while Cochran and Cole focused on cultural characteristics of entrepreneurship . Ironically , despite the Research Center for Entrepreneurial History's criticisms of Schumpeter ...
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Getting Ahead | 59 |
The Romance of Claims | 81 |
Push This Thing Along The Rise of Erie Insurance | 99 |
The Challenge of the Depression | 127 |
Adversity and Innovation | 163 |
Sales World War II and Managing the Northwest Territories | 197 |
Underwriting And Problems of Growth | 231 |
Questions of Strategy and Rewards | 265 |
Epilogue Samuel P Black Jr Entrepreneurship and Erie Insurance 19611997 | 305 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Appendices | 335 |
Index | 349 |
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr ... Samuel Patton Black,John Paul Rossi Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr ... Samuel P. Black,John Paul Rossi Sin vista previa disponible - 2020 |