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Innovative entrepreneurs are the prime movers of the economy. They establish the companies that move innovations to the market place and drive economic growth. This book introduces economic analysis that helps to explain the activities of innovative entrepreneurs.

Women and Entrepreneurship comes from two authors with especially rich experience in this field of research. Beatrice Avolio and Mirjana Radovi?-Markovi? profile women entrepreneurs and consider their motivations, together with the obstacles and challenges that they face and often overcome.

This book presents an approach to designing added value for businesses, non-profit organizations, end-users and society. It shows how organizations can capture value for themselves in a business ecosystem that cares for people and the planet at the same time.

This analysis of the quality of entrepreneurial management, innovation, and economic development in Latin America takes a microeconomic view, identifying potential obstacles and ways in which the region's businesses can increase productivity and innovation.

Value-Based Working Capital Management analyzes the causes and effects of improper cash flow management between entrepreneurial organizations with varying levels of risk.

The potential of storytelling as a research tool for enhancing the understanding of knowledge creation, acquisition and conversion into innovation and innovative business activities is the methodological underpinning of this book's narrative approach.

We need to transform our increasing creativity into real progress for mankind. We must create the proper climate and culture to develop strong entrepreneurial drive. But, more than ever, we must give this entrepreneurial drive its ethical and societal dimensions. This book has the power to shift accepted norms in the ways of doing business.

In this exciting work, Link and Scott summarize more than a decade of their research on public support of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms, concluding public R&D investments, primarily funded by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, are indeed bending the arc of innovation.

A growing wave of "social intrapreneurs" are using the power of large companies to create solutions to address societal problems. Distilling insights from 40 social intrapreneurs this book brings to life how business can be more than just profit-maximizing.

Emphasising that firms face uncertainties and unknowns, this book argues that the core of strategic thinking and processes rests on the organization and its leaders developing newly imagined solutions to the opportunities that these uncertainties open up. It presents new approaches for managers, consultants, strategy teachers and students.

The Lost Leaders presents the personal stories of women who achieved success in corporate leadership, but have chosen to abandon their careers, providing a fascinating glimpse of the culture that exists in the contemporary corporation.

The 10 Principles of Open Business is a practical guide to organizational design for the Twenty-First Century. Using case studies, the authors define the 10 principles of open business that organisations must adopt to both survive and thrive, and provide a practical method to assess the reader's own organization.

Iran is estimated to have the third largest informal sector in the MENA region a major source of income for many low-income households whose numbers are growing as sanctions tighten. Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran provides insight into the role of informal networks in employment creation in Iran from a gender perspective.

This text tells the story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. It describes in detail the rise of one of the US's largest and most powerful family-owned businesses from its beginnings in 1840 to its heyday in the 1940s when their products were known worldwide.

Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity for business, with a focus on new business models and the personalisation of products and services. This book is an important resource for business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as students.

This book is designed to help people, whether in large corporations or the smallest of enterprises, to venture with confidence into cyberspace.

This is a "toolkit" for the educators of the future. It offers information, skill development, examples and questions to guide school leaders when competing in the educational marketplace.

Rich in resources and insights, this book tells the fascinating stories of a diverse group of successful minority business women who combine doing well with doing good. It shows that women who become entrepreneurs are often guided by caring values - thus providing impetus for a more caring way of living - and earning a living for us all.

Reviews the life of Houck from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. This title tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through ""Swampeast Missouri"".

This insightful practical guide argues that the traditional business plan may not be appropriate for many new ventures and presents an alternative, effectual approach that encourages flexibility and development through exploration and experience. 10 principles demonstrate how to respond better to uncertainty during the business development process.

Juxtaposes the explosion in entrepreneurial growth within China against the struggles to build an entrepreneurial community in Japan, or the enlightened public policy leadership in Singapore against the crisis-driven developments in Korea. This book uncovers the Chinese model of gradual transition, the Royal Cambodian model, and others.