Company Founders

Abstract

The creators of large companies have carved a niche for themselves in the world of business history. They epitomize the very idea of entrepreneurship, whether one looks at their achievements — the emergence of a large company is usually the result of a major innovation — or at their personality and motivation — risk-taking, audacity, perseverance, but also luck, flair, vision, even creativeness: in short, a genius for business. Entrepreneurs are the heroes of business history, the ones who occasionally give it a romantic dimension. They have been celebrated, and their contribution to economic growth theorized by many an economist, beginning with the most famous of them, Joseph Schumpeter (Schumpeter, 1934). 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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