Bibliograph

Boss lady, how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century, Edith Sparks

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Boss lady, how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century, Edith Sparks

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Boss lady

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

960276813

Responsibility statement

Edith Sparks

Series statement

The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy

Sub title

how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century

Summary

" ... The careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth

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