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Effectual Entrepreneurship $158.99 Whether you come to this book as an entrepreneurship student, a corporate manager or a seasoned creator of new ventures, you already know that entrepreneurship is becoming the de facto engine of growth, innovation and that most delicious of personal freedoms a " financial self-reliance. What you will discover is that there is a science to entrepreneurship a " a common logic we have observed in expert entrepreneurs across industries, geographies and time. The underlying principles are the same ones that enabled Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century shape a pottery business into an enduring brand, helped Earl Bakken transform his college job into MedTronic, and allowed Mohammed Yunus to transform the lives of millions of women in Bangladesh. You will come face-to-face with some common misconceptions about entrepreneurship, as well as fears faced by every entrepreneur. You will find four core principles plus a fifth overarching view that expert entrepreneurs have learned in the process of creating new ventures, products and markets: 1. Start with your means. 2. Set affordable loss. 3. Leverage contingencies. 4. Form partnerships. 5. Create opportunities. When you start a new venture a " for-profit or not, individually or within existing organizations a " you are not only trying to make a good living, you are engaged in expanding the horizon of valuable new economic opportunities. This book is designed to help you do that start to finish. And, in form and content, the book embodies the expert entrepreneursa (TM) logic a " bold, systematic, pragmatic, and at all times full of energy, mischief and fun.

Entrepreneurship: An International Introduction $24.69 Entrepreneurship means different things to different people, but the entrepreneurial personality is a critical success factor to any new business. These traits are also increasingly in great demand at established multinational corporations.   This groundbreaking textbook differs from its competitors by placing an emphasis both on the core processes and practices of entrepreneurship, as well as demonstrating the impact of complex, local environments in shaping the processes of entrepreneurship. Topics include:   Main processes of entrepreneurial venture creation, innovation and growth Operational steps characterizing processes of entrepreneurship Establishing and realizing entrepreneurial ventures Core processes and practices of entrepreneurship   With case studies and interviews with entrepreneurs from across the globe, Entrepreneurship’s international approach makes it stand out from other titles, providing students and practitioners alike with a unique perspective on this subject.   A companion website featuring: a lecturer’s guide, with extra assignments and links to videos, PowerPoint slides for teaching uses and a questionnaire with detailed feedback for students, is available at: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415561204/

Innovation and Entrepreneurship $70.2 Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Technology Entrepreneurship $90.2 Technology Entrepreneurship

Islamic Entrepreneurship $156.75 Islamic Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Marketing $147.25 Entrepreneurship Marketing

Entrepreneurship and Organization $123.5 Entrepreneurship and Organization

Strategic Entrepreneurship $92.02 Strategic Entrepreneurship

Organizing Entrepreneurship $59.8 Organizing Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship in Context $118.75 Entrepreneurship in Context

Zen Entrepreneurship $17.15 Zen Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship & Innovation $39.55 Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Social Entrepreneurship $85.5 Social Entrepreneurship

Embedded Entrepreneurship $142.5 Embedded Entrepreneurship

A Guide to Risks: Including Gambling, Adventure, Emotional Risks, and Career Risks $18.71 Used – In this book you will read all about risks. The first chapter is an overview on what the word risk means. The second chapter is on gambling and covers things like casino games, parimutuel betting, sports betting, and more. The next chapter is on adventure and covers things like bungee jumping and sky diving. Then there is a chapter on emotional risks like engagements and breakups. Finally there is a chapter on career risks that covers the arts and entrepreneurship. Project Webster represe

A Guide to Risks: Including Gambling, Adventure, Emotional Risks, and Career Risks $16.68 Used – In this book you will read all about risks. The first chapter is an overview on what the word risk means. The second chapter is on gambling and covers things like casino games, parimutuel betting, sports betting, and more. The next chapter is on adventure and covers things like bungee jumping and sky diving. Then there is a chapter on emotional risks like engagements and breakups. Finally there is a chapter on career risks that covers the arts and entrepreneurship. Project Webster represe

A Pioneering And Independent Spirit $32.19 A Pioneering and Independent Spirit chronicles the history of San Jos State University’s School of Library and Information Science as it evolved from a small school-library training program established in 1928 into the largest MLIS degree program in the world. Set within the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, the School’s history reflects the dramatic social, economic, and educational changes resulting from the information revolution in the 20th century. From the use of closed circuit television in the 1950s to microfilmed course readings in the 1970s to the delivery of courses on the World Wide Web, the School harnessed these new technologies to keep librarianship relevant as a profession and to make education for the field as widely available as possible. In March 2009, they took another bold step by going completely online. This means that now they are not only the world’s largest MLIS program, but the first wholly virtual one. Based on extensive research in the university’s records, Dr. Hansen shows how the School’s tradition of entrepreneurship and innovation shaped its development between 1928 and 2009 and pays tribute to the administrators, faculty, and students who contributed to the School’s success.

A Pioneering And Independent Spirit $22.25 A Pioneering and Independent Spirit chronicles the history of San Jos State University’s School of Library and Information Science as it evolved from a small school-library training program established in 1928 into the largest MLIS degree program in the world. Set within the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, the School’s history reflects the dramatic social, economic, and educational changes resulting from the information revolution in the 20th century. From the use of closed circuit television in the 1950s to microfilmed course readings in the 1970s to the delivery of courses on the World Wide Web, the School harnessed these new technologies to keep librarianship relevant as a profession and to make education for the field as widely available as possible. In March 2009, they took another bold step by going completely online. This means that now they are not only the world’s largest MLIS program, but the first wholly virtual one. Based on extensive research in the university’s records, Dr. Hansen shows how the School’s tradition of entrepreneurship and innovation shaped its development between 1928 and 2009 and pays tribute to the administrators, faculty, and students who contributed to the School’s success.

ADV IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP VOL 8 $152.19 This eighth volume in the series Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth focuses on international entrepreneurship. We are fortunate to draw on scholars both new to the field as well as some of those who founded this unique speciality. Topics include: international social capital, technology sharing and foreign market learning in internationalizing entrepreneurial firms; export performance of new ventures in the Finnish and Indian Software industries; institutional and economic influences on Internet adoption and accelerated firm internationalization; the role of strategic adaptation and networking capabilities in explaining new venture growth in international markets; illustration of the “small world” phenomenon to discuss network analysis tools that can be applied to international entrepreneurship research; an institutional perspective and cross-national comparison of incubated firms; a discussion of the means to achieving excellence in international entrepreneurship education; the export intensity of venture capital backed companies; and capability development, learning and growth in international entrepreneurial firms within China

Business Plurality: Advance Business Diplomacy $28.65 In Business Management issues, the core of success for any institution lies on two highly sensitive departments, The Board of Trustees and The Human Resource Department. While the board creates means and sound minded managers and supervisors, the Human Resource Department is privileged to have the power to select among the best the most wanted and creative artists of business to keep the company alive. If the HR errs in such issues, the business bankrupts easily without earning a single profit.Choosing a board of trustees for the company is one good phase of the running of the institution but getting the right employees is by making the company viable and sustainable.The Human Resource Department is responsible to employ, bring into force the laws of a company and terminate unwanted and unreasonable employees. This department should be aware of lawsuits and other actions that might be detrimental to the running of the company. In this book there are helpful hints and checklists that might be helpful to coil the unwanted scenarios.I wish you well in your readings and implementation of these very brilliant ideas of Business Management.With a Doctorate Degree in Business Administration, Lamin Tombekai Kamara, in his first book, discussed many brilliant ideas on how a business is run, including those beginning with and those running businesses that are about to go bankrupt and the politics in business offices. In this book, right after receiving his doctorate degree, he specifically wrote down his experiences he fortunes during his internship, asking questions and researching over and over again during the most difficult days of his studies to succeed in building up ideas in business entrepreneurship. This book is about what he called “Advance Business Diplomacy.”

Business Strategies For Downtown And Rural Merchants $12.89 After reading this very easy introduction to retail entrepreneurship, I can confidently say that this little book is one of the most practical and comprehensive introductions to starting your own retail business of any size, scope and location. Having been in the global food production and distribution business for more than 30 years before I joined St. Lawrence College as its president, I can confirm that this introduction applies 100% to Canadian circumstances and, with small modifications, the information it contains can be used universally, in any Western country. I commend Mr. Cliche for undertaking this tremendous work, and bringing to all the information needed to avoid disastrous business mistakes. I would highly recommend that anyone who is thinking about starting their own business and particularly those who have been in business for some time should carefully read Mr. Cliche’s proposals. -Mr. Volker Thomsen, President and CEO, St. Lawrence CollegeAbout the Author: Pierre is a seasoned retail executive and wholesale business owner with a proven track record of accomplishments in all aspects of general management from hands-on operations to strategic planning and implementation. He has a reputation of being a straight shooter, a team player and an esteem builder. He thrives on new challenges and meeting difficult objectives. His achievements over the years have been outstanding and much experience was gained from working in the trenches, being a risk taker, an agent of change, a student of business and an innovator. He also attended Humber College, York University and executive training in the U.S. at A&M University in Texas. In early 2004, Pierre founded a retail consulting and personal coaching business in Napanee, Ontario called Retail Success as a means of sharing his personal and business experiences with clients. Pierre works with clients to help them develop their own abilities and inner strengths and to provide them

County-level analysis of small business and entrepreneurship in West Virginia: Impact on rural economic growth. $49.99 West Virginia is one of the nation’s most rural states and historically its economy has been more unstable than that of most states. Over the years, West Virginia has devoted efforts through national and local policy programs to induce economic prosperity, curtail out-migration, and mitigate poverty, yet many of its counties remain economically depressed with high unemployment, deeply rooted poverty, low human capital formation, out-migration, and a shrinking economic base. This means, that the state policy makers need to shift or broaden their policy focus to incorporate small businesses and entrepreneurship approach to development. Studies have shown that small businesses and entrepreneurship contribute tremendously to the social and economic growth of communities, regions and countries. However, despite their paramount importance to the economy, “entrepreneurial firms and small businesses have not been well-supported by West Virginia’s existing economic development strategies,” WV Chambers of Commerce — WVCOC (2007).;The main objective of this study is to evaluate the potential for enhancing small businesses and entrepreneurship as an effective rural economic development strategy for West Virginia. More specifically the objectives are to: (1) Determine the factors that encourage the start-up of small business enterprises in West Virginia counties in three specific areas; (2) Determine the linkages between small business/entrepreneurship and rural economic growth in terms of employment opportunities and gross county product growth; (3) Develop a small business/entrepreneurship profile in the counties in the three study areas and to evaluate the factors that determine the business success and expansion plans; and (4) Evaluate alternative policy implications from the research findings for a small business and entrepreneurship-centered development strategy for rural communities.;Some of the major findings regarding objective one are that from the demand-side,

County-level analysis of small business and entrepreneurship in West Virginia: Impact on rural economic growth. $49.99 West Virginia is one of the nation’s most rural states and historically its economy has been more unstable than that of most states. Over the years, West Virginia has devoted efforts through national and local policy programs to induce economic prosperity, curtail out-migration, and mitigate poverty, yet many of its counties remain economically depressed with high unemployment, deeply rooted poverty, low human capital formation, out-migration, and a shrinking economic base. This means, that the state policy makers need to shift or broaden their policy focus to incorporate small businesses and entrepreneurship approach to development. Studies have shown that small businesses and entrepreneurship contribute tremendously to the social and economic growth of communities, regions and countries. However, despite their paramount importance to the economy, “entrepreneurial firms and small businesses have not been well-supported by West Virginia’s existing economic development strategies,” WV Chambers of Commerce — WVCOC (2007).;The main objective of this study is to evaluate the potential for enhancing small businesses and entrepreneurship as an effective rural economic development strategy for West Virginia. More specifically the objectives are to: (1) Determine the factors that encourage the start-up of small business enterprises in West Virginia counties in three specific areas; (2) Determine the linkages between small business/entrepreneurship and rural economic growth in terms of employment opportunities and gross county product growth; (3) Develop a small business/entrepreneurship profile in the counties in the three study areas and to evaluate the factors that determine the business success and expansion plans; and (4) Evaluate alternative policy implications from the research findings for a small business and entrepreneurship-centered development strategy for rural communities.;Some of the major findings regarding objective one are that from the demand-side,

Dangerous Designs: Asian Women Fashion the Diaspora Economies $140 In late-1990s Britain, the salwaar-kameez or ‘Punjabi suit’ emerged as a high-fashion garment. Popular both on the catwalk and on the street, it made front-page news when worn by Diana, Princess of Wales and by Cherie Booth, the wife of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.In her ethnography of the local and global design economies established by Asian women fashion entrepreneurs, Parminder Bhachu focuses on the transformation of the salwaar-kameez from negatively coded ‘ethnic clothing’ to a global garment fashionable both on the margins and in the mainstream. Exploring the design and sewing businesses, shops and street fashions in which this revolution has taken place, she shows how the salwaar-kameez is today at the heart of new economic micro-markets which themselves represent complex, powerfully coded means of cultural dialogue and racial politics. The innovative designs of second-generation British Asian women are drawn from characteristically improvisational migrant cultural codes. Through their hybrid designs and creation of new aesthetics, these women cross cultural boundaries, battling with racism and redefining both Asian and British identities. At the same time, their border-crossing commercial entrepreneurship produces new diaspora economies which give them control over many economic, aesthetic, cultural and technological resources. In this way, the processes of global capitalism are gendered, racialized and localized through the interventions of diasporic women from the margins.

Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems $27.95 Has the role of the social entrepreneur been glorified as the primary driver of social breakthrough? Have we neglected the important role that all change agents play? What must be done to create the networks that create so many breakthroughs? How does the breakthrough cycle actually work? How do we strengthen the infrastructure that supports social change organizations in their quest? Driving Social Change is the ultimate introduction to the many steps needed to challenge and replace the prevailing wisdom.Based on the latest research from author, professor, and Washington Post online columnist Paul C. Light, Driving Social Change confronts head-on the seemingly eternal questions of solving tough, even intractable, social problems. Starting with the definition of social entrepreneurship as a powerful driver of social change, it goes well beyond the concept to a more detailed assessment of the “breakthrough” cycle with several other drivers. Along the way, the book focuses on the need to protect past social breakthroughs from complacency and counterattack.If our purpose is to change the world, writes Light, we must concentrate on every driver possible, not just the ones we can see. To that end, the book highlights alternative paths to creating social breakthrough and provides actionable advice, exploring:Strategies to broaden the definition of social entrepreneurshipTactics to build strong social organizations and networksDynamic methods to respond to constant economic and social changeThe journey from initial commitment to a world of justice and opportunityAs much as social entrepreneurship is a wondrous, inspirational act, even more extraordinary is the creation of durable social impact through whatever means necessary. Driving Social Change tells us that we should be less concerned about the tools of agitation and more concerned about the disruption and replacement of the status quo.Holding

Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems $16.03 Has the role of the social entrepreneur been glorified as the primary driver of social breakthrough? Have we neglected the important role that all change agents play? What must be done to create the networks that create so many breakthroughs? How does the breakthrough cycle actually work? How do we strengthen the infrastructure that supports social change organizations in their quest? Driving Social Change is the ultimate introduction to the many steps needed to challenge and replace the prevailing wisdom.Based on the latest research from author, professor, and Washington Post online columnist Paul C. Light, Driving Social Change confronts head-on the seemingly eternal questions of solving tough, even intractable, social problems. Starting with the definition of social entrepreneurship as a powerful driver of social change, it goes well beyond the concept to a more detailed assessment of the “breakthrough” cycle with several other drivers. Along the way, the book focuses on the need to protect past social breakthroughs from complacency and counterattack.If our purpose is to change the world, writes Light, we must concentrate on every driver possible, not just the ones we can see. To that end, the book highlights alternative paths to creating social breakthrough and provides actionable advice, exploring:Strategies to broaden the definition of social entrepreneurshipTactics to build strong social organizations and networksDynamic methods to respond to constant economic and social changeThe journey from initial commitment to a world of justice and opportunityAs much as social entrepreneurship is a wondrous, inspirational act, even more extraordinary is the creation of durable social impact through whatever means necessary. Driving Social Change tells us that we should be less concerned about the tools of agitation and more concerned about the disruption and replacement of the status quo.Holding

Economics of War and Peace $134.95 Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use of entrepreneurial policies, practices and strategies by family firms; outcomes attributable to differences between more and less entrepreneurial family firms; family firm versus non-family firm approaches to entrepreneurial decision making; entrepreneurial characteristics and practices across the generations of a family firm; entrepreneurship as an avenue to strategically renew family firms; and, the allocation of family-based resources to entrepreneurial endeavors.

Economies of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives $99.58 Used – Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use o

Economies of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives $68.49 Used – Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use o

Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America’s Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (and Change Your Life) $0.99 In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States to survive and continue to lead the world’s economy, it is imperative we learn to understand and employ that secret. The secret that has led the American economy to become the world’s strongest? Our unparalleled skill as entrepreneurs. As Schramm compellingly shows in this sweeping manifesto, entrepreneurship alone—not anything else—can give America the necessary leverage to remain an economic superpower. Not technology, since everyone now has the same technology, or access to it. Not education—we are years behind other nations in this area. Not basic manufacturing, long since moved overseas from the United States. And not capital markets, now truly global entities. Drawing on detailed research conducted by the Kauffman Foundation and on his decades of experience as an entrepreneur himself and as a leader and mentor to other entrepreneurs, Schramm persuasively demonstrates in detail what this entrepreneurial imperative means for the way we run universities and foundations, lead companies, make personal job decisions, and even conduct our foreign affairs. The Entrepreneurial Imperative will change not only the way our government, corporations, and nonprofits operate, but also our day-to-day lives as working Americans.

Entrepreneurial Skills $5.65 Used – Focusing on the entrepreneur’s behaviour, this work sets out to stimulate and inculcate the need to achieve by giving guidelines to effective entrepreneurship through achievement-motivation conditioning. It provides the reader with the means with which to: develop assertiveness, hone decision-making and problem-solving skills; master goal setting, action orientation and time management; foster interpersonal relations, communication, negotiation and networking; and give free rein to creati

Entrepreneurial Skills $4.13 Used – Focusing on the entrepreneur’s behaviour, this work sets out to stimulate and inculcate the need to achieve by giving guidelines to effective entrepreneurship through achievement-motivation conditioning. It provides the reader with the means with which to: develop assertiveness, hone decision-making and problem-solving skills; master goal setting, action orientation and time management; foster interpersonal relations, communication, negotiation and networking; and give free rein to creati

Entrepreneurship $214.26 New – This work is concerned with the development of academic interest in the field of entrepreneurial activity. Its aim is to provide a range of key articles that will be useful to students and academics working in the field, although the discussion within them is by no means mutually exclusive. They reflect both the focus and volume of research to date and, as far as possible, the pre-occupations of those practitioners and policy-makers concerned to use the research findings.

Entrepreneurship $341.36 New – This work is concerned with the development of academic interest in the field of entrepreneurial activity. Its aim is to provide a range of key articles that will be useful to students and academics working in the field, although the discussion within them is by no means mutually exclusive. They reflect both the focus and volume of research to date and, as far as possible, the pre-occupations of those practitioners and policy-makers concerned to use the research findings.

Entrepreneurship In The Global Firm $15 ‘A major contribution of this exciting book is the perspective of the subsidiary manager operating network… In its extreme version this means that all managers are subsidiary managers… challenging those who still view multinationals as hierarchies. With exceptional clarity of thought and writing, Julian Birkinshaw stakes out the ground as a major new thinker of the fields of international business and strategic management ‘ – Alan Rugman, Templeton College, University of OxfordMuch current literature on globalization and competition focuses on the external environment in which firms operate. Julian Birkinshaw’s book looks within international firms at the dynamics that affect their growth and position. Are

Entrepreneurship and Family Business $68.58 New – Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use of

Entrepreneurship and Family Business $67.62 Used – Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use o

Entrepreneurship and Family Business $100 New – Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use of

Entrepreneurship and Family Business $154.95 Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: The emergence and growth of family businesses; founding conditions unique to family firms. Maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation. The role of family in corporate entrepreneurship. The use of entrepreneurial policies, practices and strategies by family firms. Outcomes attributable to differences between more and less entrepreneurial family firms. Family firm versus non-family firm approaches to entrepreneurial decision making. Entrepreneurial characteristics and practices across the generations of a family firm. Entrepreneurship as an avenue to strategically renew family firms. The allocation of family-based resources to entrepreneurial endeavors.

Entrepreneurship and Family Business $100 Used – Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use o

Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm: Enterprise and Renewal $51.95 A major contribution of this exciting book is the perspective of the subsidiary manager operating network… In its extreme version this means that all managers are subsidiary managers… challenging those who still view multinationals as hierarchies. With exceptional clarity of thought and writing, Julian Birkinshaw stakes out the ground as a major new thinker of the fields of international business and strategic management ” – Alan Rugman, Templeton College, University of Oxford Much current literature on globalization and competition focuses on the external environment in which firms operate. Julian Birkinshaw”s book looks within international firms at the dynamics that affect their growth and position. Are

Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm: Enterprise and Renewal $10.18 Used – A major contribution of this exciting book is the perspective of the subsidiary manager operating network… In its extreme version this means that all managers are subsidiary managers challenging those who still view multinationals as hierarchies. With exceptional clarity of thought and writing, Julian Birkinshaw stakes out the ground as a major new thinker of the fields of international business and strategic management’ – “Alan Rugman, Templeton College, University of Oxford”"”Much cur

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Entrepreneurship of HR Departments $78.99 The following book pertains to HR-departments within modern internalized companies. It defines and analyses the role of Experience and Corporate Entrepreneurship on the basis of interviews with HR-managers. The first step was reviewing the MNC-related literature. The main goal of that review was to present the changing role of the subsidiaries. In that section the function of subsidiaries was accordingly taken into consideration. Building upon this review the second goal was to carry out a study that defines the terms of Experience and Corporate Entrepreneurship on the basis of HR-managers’ opinion. Within the book you will find answers to the following questions: 1. What are the features that an “entrepreneurial HR-department” possesses? 2. What it exactly means to lead an “experienced HR-department”? If you are in a leading position within the area of HR and you want to act entrepreneurially – then this is the book for you!

Entrepreneurship: An International Introduction $51.6 New – Entrepreneurship means different things to different people, but the entrepreneurial personality is a critical success factor to any new business. These traits are also increasingly in great demand at established multinational corporations. This groundbreaking textbook differs from its competitors by placing an emphasis both on the core processes and practices of entrepreneurship, as well as demonstrating the impact of complex, local environments in shaping the processes of entrepreneurshi

Entrepreneurship: An International Introduction $160 Entrepreneurship means different things to different people, but the entrepreneurial personality is a critical success factor to any new business. These traits are also increasingly in great demand at established multinational corporations.This groundbreaking textbook differs from its competitors by placing an emphasis both on the core processes and practices of entrepreneurship, as well as demonstrating the impact of complex, local environments in shaping the processes of entrepreneurship. Topics include:Main processes of entrepreneurial venture creation, innovation and growthOperational steps characterizing processes of entrepreneurshipEstablishing and realizing entrepreneurial venturesCore processes and practices of entrepreneurshipWith case studies and interviews with entrepreneurs from across the globe, Entrepreneurship’s international approach makes it stand out from other titles, providing students and practitioners alike with a unique perspective on this subject.A companion website featuring: a lecturer’s guide, with extra assignments and links to videos, PowerPoint slides for teaching uses and a questionnaire with detailed feedback for students, is available at: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415561204/

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Entrepreneurship: An International Introduction $59.95 Entrepreneurship means different things to different people, but the entrepreneurial personality is a critical success factor to any new business. These traits are also increasingly in great demand at established multinational corporations.This groundbreaking textbook differs from its competitors by placing an emphasis both on the core processes and practices of entrepreneurship, as well as demonstrating the impact of complex, local environments in shaping the processes of entrepreneurship. Topics include:Main processes of entrepreneurial venture creation, innovation and growthOperational steps characterizing processes of entrepreneurshipEstablishing and realizing entrepreneurial venturesCore processes and practices of entrepreneurshipWith case studies and interviews with entrepreneurs from across the globe, Entrepreneurship’s international approach makes it stand out from other titles, providing students and practitioners alike with a unique perspective on this subject.A companion website featuring: a lecturer’s guide, with extra assignments and links to videos, PowerPoint slides for teaching uses and a questionnaire with detailed feedback for students, is available at: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415561204/

Entrepreneurship: An International Introduction $59.95 Entrepreneurship means different things to different people, but the entrepreneurial personality is a critical success factor to any new business. These traits are also increasingly in great demand at established multinational corporations.This groundbreaking textbook differs from its competitors by placing an emphasis both on the core processes and practices of entrepreneurship, as well as demonstrating the impact of complex, local environments in shaping the processes of entrepreneurship. Topics include:Main processes of entrepreneurial venture creation, innovation and growthOperational steps characterizing processes of entrepreneurshipEstablishing and realizing entrepreneurial venturesCore processes and practices of entrepreneurshipWith case studies and interviews with entrepreneurs from across the globe, Entrepreneurship’s international approach makes it stand out from other titles, providing students and practitioners alike with a unique perspective on this subject.A companion website featuring: a lecturer’s guide, with extra assignments and links to videos, PowerPoint slides for teaching uses and a questionnaire with detailed feedback for students, is available at: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415561204/

Gender, Family and Work in Naples $1.99 Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline’s traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with material processes in the constitution of personal and social identities. In this ethnographic account of the labour market in Naples, the author shows how cultural definitions of gender can be used to investigate broad social processes. Scarce stable employment in the area means that household members are forced to diversify their economic activities in order to survive. Petty entrepreneurship is an option which is almost exclusively available to men. Women, who are either unable or unwilling to obtain factory work, are generally confined to the status of outworkers. The author emphasises that individual choices cannot be attributed solely to economic opportunities but that concepts of selfhood, gender identity and the symbolic value of female sexuality are also important.

Gender, Family and Work in Naples $1.99 Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline’s traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with material processes in the constitution of personal and social identities. In this ethnographic account of the labour market in Naples, the author shows how cultural definitions of gender can be used to investigate broad social processes. Scarce stable employment in the area means that household members are forced to diversify their economic activities in order to survive. Petty entrepreneurship is an option which is almost exclusively available to men. Women, who are either unable or unwilling to obtain factory work, are generally confined to the status of outworkers. The author emphasises that individual choices cannot be attributed solely to economic opportunities but that concepts of selfhood, gender identity and the symbolic value of female sexuality are also important.

High Tech Entrepreneurship $41.3 New – High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity in some ways representing very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means that the management skills used in this area must be more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than in conventional business opportunities. Whil

High Tech Entrepreneurship $24.63 New – High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity in some ways representing very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means that the management skills used in this area must be more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than in conventional business opportunities. Whil

High Tech Entrepreneurship $41.3 Used – High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity in some ways representing very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means that the management skills used in this area must be more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than in conventional business opportunities. Whi

High Tech Entrepreneurship $24.63 Used – High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity in some ways representing very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means that the management skills used in this area must be more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than in conventional business opportunities. Whi

High-Tech Entrepreneurship: Managing Innovation in a World of Uncertainty $170 High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity — in some ways presenting very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means that the management skills used in this area must be more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than in conventional business opportunities.Specifically focusing on the mix of theory and practice needed to accurately inform students, the key topics covered include:uncertainty and innovationentrepreneurial financemarketing technological innovationshigh-tech incubation management.Including case studies to give practical insights into genuine business examples, this comprehensive book has a distinctly ‘real-world’ focus throughout. Edited by a multi-national team, it draws together leading writers and researchers from across Europe, making it a must-read for all those involved in advanced entrepreneurship with specific interests in high-tech start-ups.

High-Tech Entrepreneurship: Managing Innovation in a World of Uncertainty $54.95 High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity — in some ways presenting very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means that the management skills used in this area must be more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than in conventional business opportunities.Specifically focusing on the mix of theory and practice needed to accurately inform students, the key topics covered include:uncertainty and innovationentrepreneurial financemarketing technological innovationshigh-tech incubation management.Including case studies to give practical insights into genuine business examples, this comprehensive book has a distinctly ‘real-world’ focus throughout. Edited by a multi-national team, it draws together leading writers and researchers from across Europe, making it a must-read for all those involved in advanced entrepreneurship with specific interests in high-tech start-ups.

Indian Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley: The Making of a Transnational Techno-Capitalist Class $104.95 Written by Monica Biradavolu (a sociologist at Yale University), this innovative study examines the emergence and growing power of a new group of immigrant Indians to the United States: the transnational techno-capitalist class of entrepreneurs operating at the upper echelons of the hi-tech industry in Silicon Valley and Bangalore.Imbibing the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, recognizing the importance of building strong networks, and relying upon their educational qualifications, professional credentials and powerful yet invisible family support, Indians are playing a central role in redefining what it means to be an ‘immigrant entrepreneur’ from a ‘developing country’. These powerful actors are negotiating on their own terms and forging their own transnational space in the global software industry to become a transnational capitalist class, with allegiance to global capitalism and a political project of pushing the ideas and ideals of capitalism in both their ‘home’ and ‘adopted’ countries.This an important book for those in ethnic and immigrant studies.

International Entrepreneurship $121.68 This eighth volume in the series Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth focuses on international entrepreneurship. We are fortunate to draw on scholars both new to the field as well as some of those who founded this unique speciality. Topics include: international social capital, technology sharing and foreign market learning in internationalizing entrepreneurial firms; export performance of new ventures in the Finnish and Indian Software industries; institutional and economic influences on Internet adoption and accelerated firm internationalization; the role of strategic adaptation and networking capabilities in explaining new venture growth in international markets; illustration of the small world phenomenon to discuss network analysis tools that can be applied to international entrepreneurship research; an institutional perspective and cross-national comparison of incubated firms; a discussion of the means to achieving excellence in international entrepreneurship education; the export intensity of venture capital backed companies; and capability development, learning and growth in international entrepreneurial firms within China.

It’s Not (Just) About The Laptop $35 There are thousands of social entrepreneurship programs in various stages of planning and implementation at any given time. For the most part, these programs start out small with the intention of scaling up based on trial and error. One Laptop per Child started out with a very ambitious mission–to provide more information and better education to the world”s poor via an inexpensive laptop. Almost immediately this organization garnered attention–the ambition, the caliber of people working on the program and the initial success. This book tells not only the story of this lofty group of pioneers, but also puts the lessons into perspective for future social entrepreneurs–what it means to work in this environment, how to collaborate with educators, organizations, countries, administrators, businesses. Part narrative history of OLpC, part social entrepreneurship lessons and part futuristic look at attaining the education goals it set out, this book offers a real on the ground look at how this group brought together, business, educators, technology, non-profits, and entrepreneurs to help bring an education to the world”s underprivileged.

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