Entrepreneurial Vocations: Learning from the Callings of Augustine, Moses, Mothers, Antigone, Oedipus, and Prospero (SCHOLAR'S PRESS STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES SERIES) - Hardcover

Krieger, Martin H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0788502522 ISBN 13: 9780788502521

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2000

Synopsis

Originally Published by Scholars Press
Now Available from Duke University Press

In this interdisciplinary work, Martin H. Krieger examines the entrepeneur in terms of modes and ideal figures drawn from religion and classical studies. In so doing, he provides a means or vocabulary with which entrepreneurs can articulate their experience of risk, commitment, and judgment. In addition, by establishing a comparison between the entrepreneur and the figures he utilizes from religious and classical literature, Krieger generates surprising new ways to look at the careers of such traditional figures as St. Augustine, Moses, Oedipus, Antigone, and the characters of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Both an exercise in the humanities and in the pragmatic world of business, Krieger’s work offers an intriguing methodology for how humanistic learning can be applied to the real world concerns of the entrepreneur. A teaching and self-study guide to Entrepreneurial Vocation is included as an appendix for those wishing to adopt the text as a classroom resource.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0788502522
• ISBN 13: 9780788502521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210