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TY - JOUR
T1 - Driving through change at speed
T2 - Opportunity conditions and entrepreneurial responses in the history of the express industry
AU - Gil-López, Águeda
AU - Román, Elena San
AU - Jack, Sarah
AU - Zozimo, Ricardo
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Department of Economic History and Institutions, Policy and World Economy. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/3/22
Y1 - 2021/3/22
N2 - History encompasses some singular sequences of events and conditions that create entrepreneurial opportunities. This paper looks at the historical settings of the second and third waves of industrialization to consider the emergence and evolution of the express industry, whose origins date from mid-nineteenth century America. By using sequential historical rea-soning, this work determines how these different settings created entrepreneurial opportunities and how entrepreneurs in the express industry exploited them through innovative responses that went on transforming the nature of the industry through time.
AB - History encompasses some singular sequences of events and conditions that create entrepreneurial opportunities. This paper looks at the historical settings of the second and third waves of industrialization to consider the emergence and evolution of the express industry, whose origins date from mid-nineteenth century America. By using sequential historical rea-soning, this work determines how these different settings created entrepreneurial opportunities and how entrepreneurs in the express industry exploited them through innovative responses that went on transforming the nature of the industry through time.
KW - Delivery services
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Express industry
KW - Industry change
U2 - 10.1344/rhi.v30i81.31636
DO - 10.1344/rhi.v30i81.31636
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85103237351
VL - 30
SP - 21
EP - 53
JO - Revista de Historia Industrial
JF - Revista de Historia Industrial
SN - 1132-7200
IS - 81
ER -