Authors have compiled this book focusing on entrepreneurship from three different perspectives: people, process, and place. This volume examines place. Here place refers to a wide and diverse range of contextual factors that influence the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial process

Authors have compiled this book focusing on entrepreneurship from three different perspectives: people, process, and place. This volume examines the entrepreneurial process. The book proceeds through the life cycle of a new venture start-up. Chapter authors tackle several key steps in the process, ranging from idea, to opportunity, team building, resource acquisition, managing growth, and entering global markets

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

This edition of this timeless text has an updated view of financial markets and monetary policy, and it covers the following current topics: gasoline taxes and rationing, executive compensation, the cost of the war in Iraq, the poverty trap, financial globalization etc. This edition also continues to emphasize the Analytical Core of Economics with particular attention to economic growth and analyses of market economics

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

Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical prose, Matthiessen describes the wildlife he encounters and the region it inhabits, along with historical information regarding the greatest pioneers and adventurers who preceded him

This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on teaching English for academic purposes. It covers a wide range of topics, both comprehensively and thoroughly. This book is certain to become key reading for students, teachers and researchers with an interest in the teaching of English for academic purposes