TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurship in Wiltshire, England, almost 1,000 years ago
AU - McDonald, John
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - In the eleventh-century England, the principal economic activity was agricultural production on manorial estates. The paper exploits the Domesday Survey data, collected in 1086, to investigate the entrepreneurial ability of managers of the main classes of estate, king’s, ecclesiastical and lay estates. Wiltshire data are used to assess whether similar production functions describe production on the three classes of estate. Then, data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods are used to assess whether, after controlling for factors that could have affected efficiency, one class of estate was worked more efficiently. Finally, the Wiltshire results are compared with those from an earlier study of Essex. The Wiltshire analysis confirms the conclusions of the Essex study. In both counties, despite differences in institutional structures, there was little difference between production processes and management performance on the three classes of estate.
AB - In the eleventh-century England, the principal economic activity was agricultural production on manorial estates. The paper exploits the Domesday Survey data, collected in 1086, to investigate the entrepreneurial ability of managers of the main classes of estate, king’s, ecclesiastical and lay estates. Wiltshire data are used to assess whether similar production functions describe production on the three classes of estate. Then, data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods are used to assess whether, after controlling for factors that could have affected efficiency, one class of estate was worked more efficiently. Finally, the Wiltshire results are compared with those from an earlier study of Essex. The Wiltshire analysis confirms the conclusions of the Essex study. In both counties, despite differences in institutional structures, there was little difference between production processes and management performance on the three classes of estate.
KW - DEA
KW - Domesday Book
KW - Manorial efficiency
KW - Production functions
UR - http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11698-014-0113-y.pdf
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939877893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11698-014-0113-y
DO - 10.1007/s11698-014-0113-y
M3 - Article
SN - 1863-2513
VL - 9
SP - 193
EP - 207
JO - Cliometrica
JF - Cliometrica
IS - 2
ER -