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In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs and executives, achieving extraordinary success in business is attributed to far-sighted individuals who have taken...

Increasingly, the availability of entrepreneurship education is becoming a factor in college choice as fine arts students demand training that helps them create an arts-based career after graduation. Disciplining the Arts explores the policy, programming, and curricular issues in the emerging field of arts entrepreneurship.

Transform the way you work by getting the habits that make your brain work at its best. Enhance your efficiency, productivity and effectiveness by applying the latest insights from neuroscience, presented in a no-nonsense, practical, entertaining format.

This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but among blacks as well. Key factors discussed include the current state of the economy and the influence of public policies.

Get the freedom and fulfilment you crave by working for yourself without going broke, working when and where you want and getting paid to do the things you really want to do.

Explores how to bring commercial investors together with those who are placed to reach the poorest customers. This book challenges the notion that not-for-profit social entrepreneurship is the only sort that can lead to the alleviation of poverty.

The Fashion Designer's Resource Book gives an overview of the fashion industry as a business, combined with an insider's understanding of the creative process and the lifestyle of a fashion entrepreneur. Emerging designers should read this book to get ahead, but it also offers advice for anyone interested in entering the fashion industry.

Keeping this objective in mind the International Conference on Technology Management is organized by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, a leader in research and education in Technology Management for the last several decades.

Drawing on experience from a range of countries, spanning both developed and emerging economies and examining a wide range of interventions, this book deals with strategies for small business development and entrepreneurship, the tools used to promote the small business sector, and methods of evaluating the effectiveness of interventions.

Bringing to the fore new Dictionary of Canadian Biography research on the rise of Canadian entrepreneurialism - one of the least explored yet most important themes in our history - this book showcases Canada's long-running tradition of business innovation and growth.

Based on empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work presents a literature on bureaucracy and innovation. It also offers a model of bureaucracy, capable of both apprehending its functional organization and its continuous and ongoing modifications and changes to adapt to external conditions.

Using institutional theory to explain innovation and merging academic analysis with practical recommendations, this book provides an account of how new products are brought to market. It offers insight into the organization of product innovation processes in the financial services sector and provides guidelines for their improvement.

Inspired by modern physics, the author brings together an evolutionary methodology, along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship.

The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling bureaucratic system is a topic which demands attention since it forms the basis of China's economic development. This text analyses the behaviour of Chinese entrepreneurs and the relations they have with local government that secure long-term business success.

Examines the hurdles and problems that face entrepreneurs and private firms in post-communist nations. The text is an effort in economic analysis and shall be appreciated by all those with an interest in transition economics.

Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In The Search for Social Entrepreneurship , Paul Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest directions for future research.

Investigates how and to what extent the self-employed and micro-enterprise workers can be represented in the social arena. A cross-sector approach to responsibility for government as well as private businesses.

The Quintessence of Strategic Management provides a basic understanding of strategic management. Readers will find the most important strategy tools, how they interact, and a synthesis of the respective original literature on the subject.

'The Intentional Entrepreneur' will help technology professionals and students of business, engineering, or science learn the art of entrepreneurship. David Bodde emphasizes the real-world experience of men and women who are creating new ventures that will survive in the post-bubble economy.

Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.

To give the managers of SMEs in Palestine a realistic chance of success they need training to enable them to meet the challenge of running their enterprises effectively. Drawing on research undertaken within Palestine, this book explores how the challenge is met by enabling and empowering the owners and managers of these pioneering businesses.