Entrepreneurship and Growth

1. Introduction
Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga

Part I. A Multinational Approach

2. A Tale of Four Countries: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in England, France, Scotland, and Spain: A Comparative Approach
Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga, Ignacio Moral-Arce

Part II. International Experience

3. Entrepreneurs and Businessmen in Greece during the Long Nineteenth Century
James Foreman-Peck, Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis

4. Business Groups in Argentina during the Export-Led Growth Period (1870–1914)
María Inés Barbero

5. Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from the Italian Case (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)
Pier Angelo Toninelli, Michelangelo Vasta, Emma Zavarrone

Part III. The Spanish Case

6. Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century Spain
José Luis García-Ruiz, Teodosio Pérez-Amaral

7. An Approach to Entrepreneurial Success and Its Determinants: The Case of Spain
José M. Ortiz-Villajos, Sonia Sotoca

Part IV. Some Local Cases: Minorca and Madrid

8. Entrepreneurship and Development: The Minorcan Model (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)
Alfons Méndez-Vidal, Juan Hernández-Andreu

9. Did Spanish High Schools Breed Entrepreneurs? The Madrid Institutos of Cardenal Cisneros and San Isidro, 1860–1936
Clara Eugenia Núñez, Begoña Moreno-Castaño

10. Conclusions
Gabriel Tortella, Gloria Quiroga

Keywords: Business and Management, International Business, Management, Small Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Organization, Start-Ups/Venture Capital