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Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in pre-independence India

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Gupta, Bishnupriya, Mookherjee, Dilip, Munshi, Kaivan and Sanclemente, Mario (2019) Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in pre-independence India. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1189). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

We argue that community networks played an important role in the emergence of Indian entrepreneurship in the early stages of the cotton textile and jute textile industries in the late 19th and early 20th century respectively, overcoming the lack of market institutions and government support. From business registers, we construct a yearly panel dataset of entrepreneurs in these two industries. We find no evidence that entry is affected by prior trading experience or price shocks in the corresponding upstream sector. Firm directors exhibited a high degree of clustering of entrepreneurs by community. The dynamics of entry is consistent with a model of network-based dynamics

Item Type: Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Cotton textile industry -- History -- India -- 19th century, Cotton textile industry -- History -- India -- 20th century, Jute fiber
Series Name: Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS)
Publisher: University of Warwick. Department of Economics
Place of Publication: Coventry
ISSN: 0083-7350
Official Date: January 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
January 2019Published
Number: 1189
Number of Pages: 40
Institution: University of Warwick
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Unpublished
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 12 March 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 12 March 2018
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDEconomic Development and Institutions network UNSPECIFIED

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