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2012
Entrepreneurship Initiatives
Highlights of GCF 2012
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Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives $72.24 This book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. It brings together historical, institutional, and ethnographic approaches and highlights entrepreneurial patterns that result from cu |
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Entrepreneurship $20.81 Entrepreneurship |
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CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP $9.61 CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP |
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Entrepreneurship Quizzes $12.91 Entrepreneurship Quizzes |
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Sports Entrepreneurship $50.18 Sports Entrepreneurship |
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Social Entrepreneurship $110.45 Social Entrepreneurship |
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship $22.82 Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
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Embedded Entrepreneurship $101.88 Embedded Entrepreneurship |
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Effectual Entrepreneurship $108.47 Effectual Entrepreneurship |
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Entrepreneurship Marketing $49.96 Entrepreneurship Marketing |
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Entrepreneurship in Context $85.41 Entrepreneurship in Context |
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African American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership $107.18 New – Starting with the traditions of African American economic systems perpetuated during and after slavery to create their own institutions and enterprises, this study also reviews contemporary major policy initiatives intended to promote African American business ownership. The author uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods to examine the topic and to debunk the myth that African Americans do not have a history of entrepreneurship.The quantitative research in this book is uniq |
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African American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership $158.75 New – Starting with the traditions of African American economic systems perpetuated during and after slavery to create their own institutions and enterprises, this study also reviews contemporary major policy initiatives intended to promote African American business ownership. The author uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods to examine the topic and to debunk the myth that African Americans do not have a history of entrepreneurship.The quantitative research in this book is uniq |
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Beyond Success: Building a Personal, Financial, and Philanthropic Legacy $27.95 How can you build a lasting legacy?The journey begins with Beyond Success.“More than any other book on the intersection of wealth, family, charity, and personal fulfillment, Randy Ottinger’s Beyond Success convincingly illuminates the challenges faced by all who struggle with how best to transform their material success into lives that will bring personal fulfillment to themselves, their families, and their heirs, as well as benefit to the wider world around them. It provides an entirely new framework for thinking about how, at the prime critical junctions over a wealth-generator’s lifetime, he or she can confidently deal with those challenges in ways that bring lasting satisfaction.“In lucid and highly readable prose, informed by the wisdom and experiences of hundreds of real-life individuals, the names of many of whom are widely known, Ottinger has succeeded in producing the best available how-to-do-it playbook for those with any substantial amount of wealth who are grappling with some of the toughest questions anyone ever faces-how and how much to allocate to themselves, their spouses, and their children, as well as how, how much, and how best to devote to efforts that benefit society at large. This book proves that difficult challenges do not require complicated, complex, difficult-to-read manuals, but can be resolved by fresh, clear-headed, evidence-based ideas communicated in the simplest language. I recommend it with great enthusiasm.”-Joel L. Fleishman, author of The Foundation: A Great American Secret-How Private Wealth Is Changing the World, and Professor of Law and Public Policy, Duke UniversityRandall J. Ottinger has been a leader in business, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy for over 25 years. He is a former high-tech executive and a past Senior Vice President for Bank of America in its Private Bank, where he was involved in their family office initiatives. Mr. Ottinger is the founder |
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Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century $31.11 Used – “Business in Black and White” provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that United States government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon’s establishment of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) in 1969. Drawn from a variety of sources, Robert E. Weems, Jr.’s comprehensive work extends the chronology back to the Coolidge |
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Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century $32.29 Business in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon's establishment of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) in 1969. Drawn from a variety of sources, Robert E. Weems, Jr.'s comprehensive work extends the chronology back to the Coolidge Administration with a compelling discussion of the Commerce Departmen's “Division of Negro Affairs.”Weems deftly illustrates how every administration since Coolidge has addressed the subject of black business development, from campaign promises to initiatives to downright roadblocks. Although the governmen's influence on black business dwindled during the Eisenhower Administration, Weems points out that the subject was reinvigorated during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations and, in fact, during the early-to-mid 1960s, when “civil rights” included the right to own and operate commercial enterprises. After Nixon's resignation, support for black business development remained intact, though it met resistance and continues to do so even today. As a historical text with contemporary significance, Business in Black and White is an original contribution to the realms of African American history, the American presidency, and American business history. |
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Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century $24.44 Used – “Business in Black and White” provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that United States government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon’s establishment of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) in 1969. Drawn from a variety of sources, Robert E. Weems, Jr.’s comprehensive work extends the chronology back to the Coolidge |
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Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa $131.87 Much writing about 19th-century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as by more insidious racist ideologies. Humanitarian lobbies throughout Western Europe, strongly influenced by positivist ideas, and campaigning to highlight the ravages of the slave trade, condemned Africa in their writings and propaganda to the periphery, outside universal history. Africa was reduced to a continent of slavery, in which the market, entrepreneurship and free wage labour could not exist. These ideas penetrated scholarly works and still survive in some guises. The consequence is that a variety of initiatives and forms of labour organization associated with the long distance trades in ivory and imported cloth have been overlooked by scholars, while the slave paradigm received widespread attention. Utilizing the conceptual tool of crew culture Rockel documents a large-scale African migrant labour system. Nyamwezi caravan porters from the interior, as well as coastal Zanzibaris and Waungwana, forged a unique way of life in which market values and experience of wage labour and the caravan safari combined with customarystandards and notions of honour derived from innovative reconceptualizations of tradition. The safari experience, commercial change, and interactions with peasant and pastoral communities along the trade routes, all contributed to the emergence of a unique East Africa modernity. This book can be read on various levels. It is a journey, a labour history, a story of African initiative and adaptation to modernity, and a contribution to a history of Tanzania and East Africa that gives due attention to intersocietal linkages, and networks. Rockelutilizes a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches derived from neo-Marxist and postcolonial perspectives, as well as Africanist innovations in oral historiography and labour and gender studies. Drawing on such insights, Carriers of Culture develops and expands our understandi |
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Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA $49.81 Used – Comparative Entrepreneurial Initiatives offers a unique investigation in to the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. Written by leading scholars with intimate knowledge of each country, it brings together historical, institutional, cultural, and case study approaches and shows how the institutional context plays a key role in facilitating entrepreneurship. The contributors draw out the intersection of individual and group experiences with the historical and inst |
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Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA $49.81 New – Comparative Entrepreneurial Initiatives offers a unique investigation in to the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. Written by leading scholars with intimate knowledge of each country, it brings together historical, institutional, cultural, and case study approaches and shows how the institutional context plays a key role in facilitating entrepreneurship. The contributors draw out the intersection of individual and group experiences with the historical and insti |
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Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA $71.26 New – Comparative Entrepreneurial Initiatives offers a unique investigation in to the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. Written by leading scholars with intimate knowledge of each country, it brings together historical, institutional, cultural, and case study approaches and shows how the institutional context plays a key role in facilitating entrepreneurship. The contributors draw out the intersection of individual and group experiences with the historical and insti |
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Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA $105 Chikako Usui (Editor),Hardcover,Series: Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series, English-language edition,Pub by Palgrave Macmillan |
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Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA $73.78 Used – Comparative Entrepreneurial Initiatives offers a unique investigation in to the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. Written by leading scholars with intimate knowledge of each country, it brings together historical, institutional, cultural, and case study approaches and shows how the institutional context plays a key role in facilitating entrepreneurship. The contributors draw out the intersection of individual and group experiences with the historical and inst |
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Corporate Entrepreneurship And Venturing $88.82 The common theme in Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing is how and why corporate entrepreneurship and corporate venturing can contribute to innovation and strategic renewal in large established companies. In particular it explores ways to balance exploitation and exploration in established companies. The issue is how the locus of entrepreneurship affects the way corporate entrepreneurship addresses the exploitation/exploration challenge. One stream of research focuses on the entrepreneurial culture in large companies and how they can create an environment in which intrapreneurs (entrepreneurs within large companies) can blossom. In this view entrepreneurial initiatives can emerge throughout the organization and this type of entrepreneurship has been labelled as ‘dispersed corporate entrepreneurship’. Two related chapters fit into that stream of research. The other three chapters address the challenge of corporate venture capital programs. These programs have funds to invest in start-ups (external ventures) and the corporate parent want to benefit from the technology, new products or new competences developed in these start-ups. In this case they have separated the locus of entrepreneurship from the main line of business operations, which has been labelled ‘focused corporate entrepreneurship’. In this ‘focused corporate entrepreneurship’ stream the issue is not so much the motivational factors and supportive culture to entrepreneurial initiatives, but the creation and development of linkage mechanisms between the start-ups and the parent company in order to create new combinations based on competences from both the start-up and the parent company. Although the challenges in these two streams of literature are different, they both address the strategic issue of balancing exploitation and exploration.Tom Elfring Tom Elfring is full Professor in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Social Sciences Faculty of |
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Corporate Entrepreneurship And Venturing $115 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing is positioned at the crossroads of the strategy and entrepreneurship fields. The common theme is how and why corporate entrepreneurship and corporate venturing can contribute to innovation and strategic renewal in large established companies, in particular it explores ways to balance exploitation and exploration in established companies. The issue is how the locus of entrepreneurship affects the way corporate entrepreneurship addresses the exploitation/exploration challenge. In some chapters corporate entrepreneurship is dispersed across the organization and they examine the key elements of an entrepreneurial culture and the organizational conditions that are favorable to entrepreneurial initiatives. The other chapters contribute to the discussion on the potential role of corporate venturing which is separated from the main parts of the organization. They examine the advantages and disadvantages of corporate venture capital programs as particular forms of focused corporate entrepreneurship. |
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Creative Memories: The 10 Timeless Principles Behind the Company That Pioneered the Scrapbooking Industry $15.12 THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn inspiring story of a phenomenal business leader—and how to make her tactics work for youHow did an unemployed single mother turn a simple business idea into a 450 million-dollar multi-national corporation? She followed her instincts, formed a strategy, and found a way to transform a vision into a home-grown direct-selling empire called Creative Memories. This astonishing self-made success story is a prime example of entrepreneurship at its best. Now the co-founder of Creative Memories shows today’s business leaders how to recognize growth opportunities, turn passions into profits, and reach even higher levels of personal and profession success. You’ll learn how to: Make sound, consistent business decisions Create checks and balances for all company practices Define your own leadership style and direction Protect your relationships with customers and colleagues Develop new ideas and initiatives that encourage business growth “An easy-to-follow roadmap for continued success…a must-read for any organization.” —John C. Maxwell, bestselling author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership“A great example of the vast diversity of opportunity that exists in the direct selling industry today.” —Dick Bartlett, Vice Chairman, Mary Kay Inc.; former board chairman, Direct Selling Association (DSA)“[An] inspirational book.” —David M.R. Covey, President, International division, Franklin Covey CompanyCheryl Lightle is cofounder of Creative Memories, a $500 million direct-selling business specializing in scrapbooking and memory preservation. The company has more than 90,000 consultants in eleven countries, has been featured in numerous television, radio, and print media, and was voted the top consumer choice for albums, supplies and career opportunity five years in a row..Heidi L. |
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Entrepreneurs $8.78 Audience: Business Link/Tec market, responsible for implementing government initiatives on entrepreneurship and running programmes to encourage new businesses. Trade market. Courses on entrepreneurship and SMEs. |
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Entrepreneurs Inside $74.61 Entrepreneurs Inside: Accelerating Business Growth with Corporate Entrepreneurs was inspired by an extraordinary group of individuals who stepped up to the challenge of building new growth businesses in their organizations. Building a new business inside an existing organization is a daunting task. It takes a unique combination of competencies to lead these initiatives. The book describes the competencies of successful corporate entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders. It also reveals the obstacles and hidden barriers these executives encountered as they created the entrepreneurial culture necessary for success. Most valuably, the book offers a practical look at corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, and execution. |
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Entrepreneurs Inside $63.12 Entrepreneurs Inside: Accelerating Business Growth with Corporate Entrepreneurs was inspired by an extraordinary group of individuals who stepped up to the challenge of building new growth businesses in their organizations. Building a new business inside an existing organization is a daunting task. It takes a unique combination of competencies to lead these initiatives. The book describes the competencies of successful corporate entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders. It also reveals the obstacles and hidden barriers these executives encountered as they created the entrepreneurial culture necessary for success. Most valuably, the book offers a practical look at corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, and execution. |
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Entrepreneurship And Local Economic Development $54.59 Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development delves into the current thinking on local entrepreneurship development programs and evaluates ways in which practitioners can implement successful entrepreneurship practices. The discussion begins with a broad overview of the changing role of entrepreneurship initiatives in local economic development strategies, proceeds to examine major components of these programs, and concludes with important considerations in starting a local entrepreneurship initiative. |
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Entrepreneurship And Local Economic Development $34.95 Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development delves into the current thinking on local entrepreneurship development programs and evaluates ways in which practitioners can implement successful entrepreneurship practices. The discussion begins with a broad overview of the changing role of entrepreneurship initiatives in local economic development strategies, proceeds to examine major components of these programs, and concludes with important considerations in starting a local entrepreneurship initiative. |
