1st Edition

Entrepreneurship in Spain A History

210 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The figure of the entrepreneur has become a relevant factor that explains the process of growth and economic development. Rising unemployment rates have generated among institutional and private agents, a significant interest in promoting entrepreneurship as a formula to eradicate this social scourge of unemployment. Active policies that favor business culture and initiative are being promoted in... Read more

1. Entrepreneurship and the History of Company

 Mariano Castro Valdivia

2. Entrepreneurship, strategy andnetworks: the development of commercial and financial companies in Early Modern Castile

David Carvajal

3. Windmills, not giants. Competition and monopoly on the Reinosa route

Rafael Barquín

4. Lacave & Echecopar: Strategies and businesses in the second half of the nineteenth century

María Vázquez-Fariñas

5. The Sociedad Azucarera Antequerana, a successful company in late nineteenth-century Spain

Mercedes Fernández-Paradas and José Francisco García-Ariza

6. Small, Medium and Large Companies in the Supply of Water in Spain (1840-1940)

Juan Manuel Matés-Barco

7. Credit companies, merchant-bankers and large national banks. The case of Andalusia (1800-1936)

María José Vargas-Machuca

8. The private period of Spanish railways 1848-1941: a liberal project to modernise Spain

Miguel Muñoz Rubio and Pedro Pablo Ortúñez Goicolea

9. The Spanish travel agency business in the early years of the Franco regime

Carlos Larrinaga

10. The international expansion of the Spanish insurance company MAPFRE

Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas

11. Spanish entrepreneurs and the two Transitions (1975-1986)

Jorge Lafuente del Cano

12. From the sector to the automobile cluster of Castilla y León. Its study through the history of Lingotes Especiales

Pablo Alonso-Villa and Pedro Pablo Ortúñez-Goicolea

Biography

Juan Manuel Matés-Barco is Professor of Economic History at the University of Jaen, Spain. 

Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas is Professor at the University of Granada, Spain.