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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... manager , secretary , district sales manager , vice - president and board director . Black helped build a service- oriented culture at Erie Insurance in his thirty - four full - time years with the company ( he continued on as a board ...
... managers who embraced his emphasis on customer service and continual innovation . Through all these activities , Sam Black helped make Erie Insurance an entrepreneurial firm . As a result of the work by Black and the company's co ...
... Managers describe entrepreneurship with such terms as innovative , flexi- ble , dynamic , risk taking , creative , and growth oriented . The popular press , on the other hand , often defines the terms as starting and operating new ...
... manager ; that is , he bore the risks taken by his enterprise since he owned it or shares in it , and his capital was at stake . Ownership , however , was not central to the entrepreneurial function as Say defined it ; an entrepreneur ...
... manager / decision - maker . " Indeed , the innovative function was very different from routine leadership functions in business . Schumpeter highlighted the difference , noting there were " two types of individuals : " mere managers ...
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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 |