Abstract
The study of business leaders and commercial leadership has been a far greater preoccupation for management scholars than for historians of business. Few historians who have been interested in leadership have noted it as a field in business history prior to the twentieth century. Historians of seventeenth-century corporations have concentrated less on the leadership of those bodies and more on their civic, participatory cultures.
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Pettigrew, W.A., Brock, A.L. (2017). Leadership and the Social Agendas of the Seventeenth-Century English Trading Corporation. In: Pettigrew, W., Smith, D. (eds) A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5_2
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