This book gives small business owners specific, concrete steps to successfully manage their businesses. It zeros in on the handful of critical factors that really shape and determine your business`s destiny - unlike other books that lump together every kind of business task, from buying office stationery to developing international sales

This book offers insight and perspective on entrepreneurship from the foremost academic leaders in the field. Taking a contemporary approach to entrepreneurial processes, the book considers how the convergence of individual, opportunity, and environment ultimately leads to success or failure, while illuminating the true relationship between entrepreneurship and technological and social issues

Entrepreneurship For Dummies brings everything the reader needs to get started in business into one package. From developing an opportunity and coming up with a concept to actually creating the company, this book guides readers step-by-step

This volume looks at the intersection of people and entrepreneurship. Taking a broad view of entrepreneurship as a form of human action, chapters in this volume identify the current state of the art in academic research with respect to cognitive, economic, social, and institutional factors that influence people's behavior with respect to entrepreneurship

The book introduces you to key elements of social entrepreneurship and equips you to become more effective as a social entrepreneur. In each chapter, you will find concise explanations of core concepts, as well as practical tools for applaying the concepts

This book will take you on a whirlwind tour of the start-up process and help you to build a solid foundation for your new venture, whether it is a small business, or a venture capital funded enterprise. Irrespective of the size or type of business, the underlying principles are the same

This volume urges a reconsideration of Hayek's theory of evolution and aims to explore the relevance of Hayek's theory for its own sake and for evolutionary economics more generally

Entrepreneurship relates actual experiences while combining concepts and cases to present the latest theories. The concepts cover what "would-be entrepreneurs" need to know to start and grow their businesses. Additionally, the cases illustrate how real entrepreneurs have gone out and succeeded. The authors cover all stages of the entrepreneurial process from searching for an opportunity to shaping it into a commercially attractive product or service, launching the new venture, building it into a viable business, and eventually harvesting it. Any student, "would-be entrepreneur" or not, will benefit from the lessons in this text

This book will provide you with the tools you will need to become a succesful enterpreneur. You will learn about it takes to go into business for yourself and what enterpreneurship is and about your potential to become an enterpreneur

In this book Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, childhooddiseases, and an impending worldwide shortage of clean water