MATÉS-BARCO, Juan Manuel y CARUANA DE LAS CAGIGAS, Leonardo (eds.) (2021): Entrepreneurship in Spain. A History, New York-London, Routledge. 210 págs. ISBN: 97803676449227.
Thefigure of the entrepreneur has become a relevant factor that explains theprocess of growth and economic development. Rising unemployment rates havegenerated among institutional and private agents, a significant interest inpromoting entrepreneurship as a formula to eradicate this social scourge ofunemployment. Active policies that favor business culture and initiative arebeing promoted in all areas.
Inthe university world, academic research has multiplied the work onentrepreneurship, a term that includes a triple meaning: the figure of theentrepreneur, the business function and the creation of companies. Thisversatile meaning must be based on a consistent theory about the company andthe entrepreneur. This book presents specific cases of companies andentrepreneurs that have had their role throughout the history of Spain. Theintention is to show the techniques and learning acquired by those agents,which have allowed a considerable advance in the knowledge of the structure andbusiness development.
This book brings together the research carried out by its authors with primary sources and makes it accessible to a wide audience—Spanish and Latin American—and will be of value to researchers, academics, and students with an interest in Spanish entrepreneurship, business, and management history.
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