Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance - Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961

List of contents

Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
CHAPTER 1
Introduction: Entrepreneurship—Theory and Practice 1
CHAPTER 2
The Motor Age 37
CHAPTER 3
Getting Ahead 59
CHAPTER 4
The Romance of Claims 81
CHAPTER 5
“Push This Thing Along”: The Rise of Erie Insurance 99
CHAPTER 6
The Challenge of the Depression 127
CHAPTER 7
Adversity and Innovation 163
CHAPTER 8
Sales, World War II, and Managing the
Northwest Territories 197
CHAPTER 9
Underwriting and Problems of Growth 231
CHAPTER 10
Questions of Strategy and Rewards
CHAPTER 11
Epilogue - Samuel P. Black Jr
Bibliogrpahy
Appendices
Index

About the author

Samuel P. Black is one of the pioneers of automobile insurance companies. John Paul Rossi is in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at Penn State University.

Summary

First Published in 2001. This study explores the development of automobile insurance through the career of one of the industry's entrepreneurs, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel P. Black, Black Samuel P., John Paul Rossi, Rossi John Paul
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780815329152
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2915-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 566 g
• Series: Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship; Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Automobile Industry, Insurance & actuarial studies, Road vehicle manufacturing industry, Insurance and actuarial studies, Vehicle and transport manufacturing industries