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Schumpeter's entrepreneurs in the 20th century: The Tucker automobile

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze Schumpeter's concept of entrepreneurship applied to the example of Preston Tucker, the American automobile designer who conceived the Tucker 48, which was briefly produced in Chicago in the late 1940s.

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  • Nunes, Luís Beato, 2016. "Schumpeter's entrepreneurs in the 20th century: The Tucker automobile," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 14-20.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:102:y:2016:i:c:p:14-20
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.02.021
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