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

By:

Sparks, Edith

Series: Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policyPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]Description: xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781469633015 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781469633022 (pbk : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.092/520973 23

LOC classification:

HD6054.4.U6 S67 2017

Contents:

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

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

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

"... 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.

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