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Ideally, one should begin with a universally acceptable definition of the concept of entrepreneurship, but it is a peculiarity of this branch of economic history that it has been plagued with almost as many essays discussing the function of the entrepreneur as with detailed case-studies of his actual role at different periods of time.
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Payne, P.L. (1988). The Entrepreneur: Role and Function. In: British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century. Studies in Economic and Social History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09976-4_2
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