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Offers a detailed description of how to start a small business from scratch, with relatively little money, and how that business can give you a comfortable standard of living with little or no risk in the long term. This title helps you discover the simple secrets of effective business planning.

This comprehensive book offers an introduction to social entrepreneurship and a practical resource for implementing and managing social entrepreneurship in public and nonprofit organizations. It combines a theoretical framework based on current research with practical, sector-specific approaches and tools.

Every year, tens of thousands of companies - from industry giants to aspiring upstarts - apply to speak at conferences. What does it take to be chosen to speak, and to rock the mic when given the chance? This book takes you behind-the-scenes of the conference process, showing you how to submit, plan, and deliver a talk that matters.

How to Start a Home-Based Bakery Business is the first book to cover every essential aspect of planning, starting, and running such a business successfully.

Explains how a country's institutional differences and cultural considerations can affect the role that entrepreneurs play in its economy. This book develops an understanding of the origins of entrepreneurs as well as the choices they make and the complexity of their activities across countries and industries.

How do you figure out what to do in a job? How do you get it done? How should you deal with demanding bosses? How can you get the most out of subordinates? What should you do to get along with difficult colleagues and handle powerful interest groups and the media? Just how can you succeed in a world where persuasion rather than direct command is the rule?

What is entrepreneurship? Is it important? What do entrepreneurs actually do? These are a few of the key questions considered in this Very Short Introduction. Paul Westhead and Mike Wright provide a clear guide to all aspects of the process of entrepreneurship, including the diversity of the people involved and the benefits it brings to society.

The finer points of managing information for organizational success is the focus of this volume that addresses the information service continuum from taming information overload to knowledge management.

Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. This book is the first on the market to offer models and approaches to informal entrepreneurship as well as to its prospects for economic development. Offering an in-depth examination of informal entrepreneurship in many different countries, it reveals the motivations for engaging in entrepreneurship in the informal economy, characteristics of informal entrepreneurship, and informal entrepreneurs¿ response to ethical issues. This volume illustrates the relationship between formal and informal economies and the conditions for the benefits of informal entrepreneurship to outweigh its disadvantages. And finally, it gives recommendations about when and how the informal economy can be formalized, which sectors should be formalized, and which ones can remain informal. This book offers much-needed guidance for stakeholders involved in economic development programs and scholars and entrepreneurs interested in the field of informal entrepreneurship as it is developing around the globe.

Entrepreneurs who become intrapreneurs (form a formal relationship with a large organization) will have to learn to function drastically different in their new role. In order to achieve the expected success of bringing together the complimentary strengths of the two participants, several strategic issues will have to be quickly confronted.

This powerful and meticulously researched study explores the role of rural industry and entrepreneurship in the Chinese economic miracle. Linda Grove focuses on one weaving district in North China, exploring the ways in which small industrial firms have accumulated capital, organized their firms, developed nationwide marketing networks, and promoted brands over the last century. Cutting across the conventional divide between studies of "history" and "contemporary economy," the author persuasively shows the links between traditional Chinese business practices and modern economic growth. Based on several decades of archival research, surveys, and fieldwork, A Chinese Economic Revolution provides the first English-language exploration of the business history of small Chinese firms.

The world tries to keep up when JACK WELCH SPEAKS: "Jack Welch has long been one of my heroes. When you read this book you will understand why. " -Warren Buffett Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway.

Women Entrepreneurs offers a collection of over two dozen cases that explore the process by which women become entrepreneurs, and the opportunities and challenges they face in growing their businesses. Each case includes a summary highlighting the themes it covers and a set of questions to guide classroom discussion.

Women Entrepreneurs offers a collection of over two dozen cases that explore the process by which women become entrepreneurs, and the opportunities and challenges they face in growing their businesses. Each case includes a summary highlighting the themes it covers and a set of questions to guide classroom discussion.

The book presents, chapter-by-chapter, evidence for and possible solutions to many of the most evident obstacles to entrepreneurs. It seeks to demonstrate that policy changes can have a significant effect on entrepreneurship in America by reducing barriers that block business creation.

Decision making is a complex phenomenon which normally is deeply integrated into social life. At the same time the decision making process often gives the decision maker an opportunity for conscious planning and for taking a reflective stance with respect to the action considered.

Risk behaviour and risk management in business life influence a wide range of fields in which only a very limited amount of research has been undertaken.

Entrepreneurship is essential for international social and economic well-being, as new ventures are the dominant source of job creation, market innovation, and economic growth in many societies. In The Psychology of Entrepreneurship, a noted group

This book explores the development of the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial learning by bringing together contributions from an international team of researchers, who offer new understanding of its emerging development and its potential scope for the future. Using the three domains of theory, education, and learning-in-practice, this book offers differing and complementary perspectives on entrepreneurial learning: Conceptual work which reviews and summarises prior work in the field and advances theoretical understanding of entrepreneurial learning research, enabling a review of the development of research in this area over time. Applied work around entrepreneurship education which develops understanding of teaching and learning practices in educational and institutional contexts. Exploration of learning in ''real'' business contexts, including new venture creation, family business and small business development, and ''intrapreneurial'' learning in larger organisations. Using global perspectives, originating from the different cultural contexts of the USA, UK, Nordic and Chinese perspectives, the chapters converge to address issues, questions and opportunities for the future development of entrepreneurial learning. This book will be of interest to educators and researchers in the areas of entrepreneurship, enterprise education and entrepreneurial development, as well as policy makers and business advice and support agencies.

Based on the formation and growth problems of High Technology Small Firms (HTSFs) begun in 1993, this body of work maps the evolution of research in this area through academic research and government policy towards a sector that is the key to future prosperity of developed and developing notational economies throughout the world.

With current environmental, social and financial challenges facing society and the economy, there has been a rapid growth in interest in the role of social and sustainable enterprise. This volume seeks to draw together contemporary entrepreneurial research which addresses social and environmental issues.

Fedor Chizhov built the first railroad owned entirely by Russian stockholders, created Moscow's first bank and mutual credit society, and launched the first profitable steamship line based in Archangel. In this valuable book, Thomas Owen vividly illuminates the life and world of this seminal figure in early Russian capitalism.

As governments across the world look to entrepreneurship as a way to increase the wealth and well-being of their countries, this volume brings together leading scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of entrepreneurial activity based on empirical data.

Multinationals from the BRIC countries are a new and powerful force in global competition and are challenging the incumbency of much older global companies from Europe, the USA and Japan. This book examines how this new breed of multinationals has transformed global competition through innovation, foreign investment and overseas acquisitions.

Multinationals from the BRIC countries are a new and powerful force in global competition and are challenging the incumbency of much older global companies from Europe, the USA and Japan. This book examines how this new breed of multinationals has transformed global competition through innovation, foreign investment and overseas acquisitions.

Helps you live the entrepreneurial dream by delivering a proven, straightforward process for starting, growing, and running a business - without the need for an MBA or millions of dollars in funding.