The objective of this article is to compare the United States and British systems of business organisation and corporate governance during the last 50 years. Of particular interest is the contrasting relationship between governance systems and the pursuit of diversification and refocusing...

1. Introduction -- 2. Entrepreneur resources : theoretical insights -- 3. Entrepreneur resource profiles -- 4. Entrepreneur resource accumulation : finance -- 5. Entrepreneur resource accumulation : networking and resource orchestration -- 6. Opportunity discovery and creation -- 7. Learning --...