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Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Business Philanthropy: Cotton Textiles in the British Industrial Revolution

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Alice Shepherd  and
Steven Toms
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Abstract

The article analyzes the relationship between entrepreneurial philanthropy and the competitive process. Competitive conditions interacted significantly with entrepreneurial responses to ethical problems posed by the rapid emergence of factory production following the British Industrial Revolution. Entrepreneurs’ attitudes toward regulation and the labor process are used to identify the major differences and similarities in competitive behavior. These variations are explored using nineteenth-century case studies highlighting examples of philanthropy and competitive behavior. The analysis leads to a typology showing that entrepreneurial philanthropic behavior is conditioned by business strategy variables: specifically, combinations of technological and labor resources controlled by individual entrepreneurs and their businesses.

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British Industrial Revolutioncotton textile industrybusiness regulationentrepreneurshipphilanthropybusiness ethics
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Research Article
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Business History Review , Volume 93 , Issue 3: Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy , Autumn 2019 , pp. 503 - 527
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2019 

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Footnotes

We would like to thank the issue editors, three anonymous reviewers, and also participants at the PDW held in Glasgow, June 2017, at the European Business History Association Vienna meeting, August 2017, and at a seminar held at Newcastle University Business School, November 2017, for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article.

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