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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... result of the work by Black and the company's co - founder and long - time president ( 1931-1976 ) , H. O. Hirt , Erie Insurance earned an enviable reputation in the industry which endures today . The company's automobile and homeowners ...
... result from their employment the reconstitution of the entire capital that he utilizes , and the value of the wages , the interest , and the rent which he pays , as well as the profits belonging to himself.23 In order to successfully ...
... result , noted American economist James H. Stauss in 1944 , was that " a hiatus " emerged " in the classical definition of the entrepreneur . " 28 In part , as a result of historical changes in business enterprise , " the main cur- rent ...
... result is . . .mainly valued as an index of success and as a symptom of victory . " 4 Whatever the motive , the economic fruits of innovation yielded what Schumpeter termed " entrepreneurial profit . " In the case of an established ...
... result , supe- riority in pricing and output was : the outstanding feature of the typical large - scale unit of control , though mere size is neither necessary nor sufficient for it . . . . [ I ] n many cases of decisive importance they ...
Contenido
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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 |