ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the debate about television and its role in shaping cultural attitudes within a broader framework. It focuses on the political and socioeconomic position of entrepreneurship within the British experience. The chapter investigates the ways in which a higher media profile, often driven by television, has altered the political profile and access to policy shapers and makers that these particular entrepreneurs have enjoyed as their celebrity status has increased. In its major examination of entrepreneurship in 2009, The Economist argues that the last 30 years has seen a global sea-change in attitudes towards entrepreneurial activity and characterizes this as part of a wider shift from managerial capitalism to a more entrepreneurial model of capitalism. In his 1996 work Company Man, Anthony Sampson explores the decline of the corporation and its attendant culture that shaped much of the industrial experience of both the United Kingdom and United States for a large part of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
