'Entrepreneurship and product innovation in British general insurance, 1840-1914' in J Brown & M Rose (eds), Entrepreneurship, Networks and Modern Business
Details:
- Author(s) Westall, Oliver M
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1993
- Pages pp191-208
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Entrepreneurship inc cultural influences, opportunity, etc
- Name Corporate culture issues
- Name Risk taking, risk management & other issues [currently subject to editing]
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Investigates entrepreneurship and product innovation, notably the creation of accident as a new class of insurance by a group of relatively small and specialist businesses and not by the dominant fire insurance businesses; the growth of accident to challenge the importance of fire insurance and the response of the fire offices in buying up accident businesses; analyses of the behaviour of the fire offices' reluctance to innovate which is ascribe to a corporate culture adverse to risk. A discussion paper under the same title is held in the British Library