Book Review: The Vision, A Guide to Increasing Your Brain Power. Richard Israel and Julianne Crane, Gower, Aldershot, 1996, ISBN 0 566 07797 3, 132 pp, price £19.95 (hardback)
✍ Scribed by Sue Cartwright
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1086-1718
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The following two chapters examine the development of an infrastructure of entrepreneurship and aspects of organizational emergence, by Van de Ven and Gartner, respectively. The former focuses on an emergence of a community system for the entrepreneur, the latter contributes a stimulating article in a sometimes humorous manner.
In chapter 5, the author, Aldrich, highlights the entrepreneurs' lack of leverage and constraints, particularly in the wider social context, which can ultimately lead to an early failure instead of the intended success. In the following chapter, Cooper attempts to determine what factors in¯uence the performance of start-up-®rms, using the results thereof for evaluation of other start-ups.
Following on nicely from this is chapter 7, `Theory building in the entrepreneurship paradigm', in which the author, Bygrave, debates whether chaos theory could be an appropriate mathematical model to measure non-linear entrepreneurial activities. Chapters 8 and 9 analyse and offer conclusions of the previous chapters.
Overall, both a challenging and eminently readable collection of articles which will undoubtedly result in much further development, discussion and debate by both those in academia and those in the start-up phase of a new business.