Description
The sponsorship of the entrepreneur as an agent of economic growth is now at the centre of a vast promotional industry, involving politicians, government departments and higher education. This book examines the origins of this phenomenon and subjects its mythologies, hero-figures and policies to an empirically based critical examination. PETER ARMSTRONG currently works in the Management Centre at the University of Leicester, having previously held professorships at the Universities of Sheffield and Keele, UK. He is best known for his work in critical accounting, though he has also published on product design, industrial relations and industrial sociology. He is a co-author of Workers Divided (1976), Ideology and Shopfloor Industrial Relations (1981) and White Collar Workers, Trade Unionism and Class (1986).
