Analyzes the interplay between accountability andentrepreneurship with specific focus on the British industrial revolution. Amodel of entrepreneurship is proposed that includes tacit knowledge, publicgood knowledge, private rent, profit, and monitoring cost. Based on this model,a knowledge-based...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; PART I: The discipline of business history; 1 Introduction; 2 Business history: Agendas, historiography and debates; 3 A revisionist historiography of business history: A richer past for...