Resumen
The entrepreneur is the soul of economic development. For this reason, active policies that promote business culture and entrepreneurship are encouraged. In the university world, work on entrepreneurship has multiplied. This chapter analyses the perception that the great economists had of this figure, while at the same time it looks at, through various texts, the process of formation of the entrepreneur’s current notion and how a company should function. This knowledge has given rise to an academic discipline, the History of the Company. Therefore, knowing the historiographic development of this subject, at an international as well as a national level, is essential in order to know how to foster business culture in society, which would generate entrepreneurship and make possible a sustainable economic growth.Citación
Castro-Valdivia, Marino. 2021. The Influence of the Entrepreneur as a determining factor in the History of the Company, in M. Vázquez-Fariñas, P. P. Ortúñez Goicolea y M. Castro-Valdivia (Eds.), Companies and Entrepreneurs in the History of Spain: Centuries Long Evolution in Business since the 15th century. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 1-16. ISBN: 978-3-030-61317-4.
