Browsing by Author "Jones, Geoffrey"

Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of the North Face’s Doug Tompkins and Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard

Jones, Geoffrey G.; Gettinger, Ben (2017-03-23)

This working paper examines the impact of two entrepreneurs who offered alternative paths to reach their shared goal of a more sustainable world. Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins were respective founders of the prominent ...

Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850

Jones, Geoffrey G. (2016-01-06)

Diversified business groups are well-known phenomenon in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often explained by the prevalence of institutional voids or the nature of government-business relations. It ...

Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

Jones, Geoffrey G. (2017-09-08)

This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the gap in incomes between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing ...

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Jones, Geoffrey G. (2014-01-13)

This working paper examines the evolution of concepts of the responsibility of business in a historical and global perspective. It shows that from the nineteenth century American, European, Japanese, Indian and other ...

Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization

Jones, Geoffrey G.; Pitelis, Christos (Elsevier, 2015)

This article explores the role of entrepreneurial imagination on the international expansion of multinational enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The ...

Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica

Jones, Geoffrey G.; Spadafora, Andrew (2017-03-28)

Between the 1970s and the 2000s Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the ...

Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850

Jones, Geoffrey G. (2013-05-22)

This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa was slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic ...

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Colpan, Asli M.; Jones, Geoffrey G. (2014-12-08)

This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This enterprise was an important actor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the ...

Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

Jones, Geoffrey G. (2012-09-04)

This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of entrepreneurial ...

Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the “Dynamics” in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework

Jones, Geoffrey G.; Wadhwani, R. Daniel (2017-01-20)

This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how historical models of change can contribute to theory and research on the competitive advantage of firms ...