authors:subjects:- Entrepreneurship.
- Decision making
- New business enterprises -- Management
publishers:- Financial Times Prentice Hall,
ISBN:- 027370642X (pbk.) :
- 9780273706427 (pbk.) :
description:notes:- Previous ed.: 2004.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents Preface to the fourth editionAcknowledgementsGuided Tour Prologue: entrepreneurship in the modern world Part 1 The entrepreneur as an individual Chapter 1 The nature of entrepreneurship 1.1 What is entrepreneurship? 1.2 The entrepreneur's tasks 1.3 The role of the entrepreneur 1.4 The entrepreneur as a person 1.5 Entrepreneurship: a style of management 1.6 The human dimension: leadership, power and motivation Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointsChapter 2 Types of entrepreneur 2.1 Classifying entrepreneurs 2.2 Serial and portfolio entrepreneurship 2.3 Entrepreneurship and small business management: a distinction Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointChapter 3 The entrepreneurial personality 3.1 Personality and entrepreneurship: some theoretical issues 3.2 Schools of thinking on personality 3.3 Entrepreneurship and psychometric testing Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointChapter 4 Entrepreneurship, cognition and decision making 4.1 Cognitive approaches of entrepreneurship 4.2 Entrepreneurship and human decision making 4.3 Entreprenuerial confidence and overconfidence 4.4 Entrepreneurs and the human response to risk Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointChapter 5 Taking the entrepreneurial option 5.1 Who becomes an entrepreneur? 5.2 Characteristics of the successful entrepreneur 5.3 Entrepreneurial skills 5.4 The supply of entrepreneurs 5.5 Influences on the move to entrepreneurship 5.6 The initiation decision 5.7 The initiation process Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion point Part 2 The entrepreneur in the macro-economic environmentChapter 6 The economic function of the entrepreneur 6.1 The entrepreneur in economic theory 6.2 Entrepreneurship: wealth, utility and welfare 6.3 Entrepreneurship and information Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointChapter 7 Entrepreneurship and economic development 7.1 Entrepreneurship, economic performance and economic growth 7.2 National governance and entrepreneurship 7.3 National cultural and entrepreneurial inclination Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointsChapter 8 Not-for-profit and public entrepreneurship 8.1 The conceptual challenge of social entrepreneurship 8.2 Is the social entrepreneur really an entrepreneur? 8.3 Distinguishing the social entrepreneur from the classical entrepreneur Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointsChapter 9 Success, stakeholders and social responsibility 9.1 Defining success 9.2 Success factors for the new venture 9.3 Measuring success and setting objectives 9.4 Success and social responsibility 9.5 Social responsibility and business performance 9.6 Understanding failure Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion points Part 3 The entrepreneurial process and new venture creationChapter 10 The entrepreneurial process 10.1 Making a difference: entrepreneurship and the drive for change 10.2 The entrepreneurial process: opportunity, organization and resources 10.3 The entrepreneurial process: action and the dynamics of success Summary of key ideas Research themes Key readings Suggestions for further reading Selected case material Discussion pointChapter 11
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