Entrepreneurship: Perspectives and Cases

✍ Scribed by Westhead, Paul

• Publisher: FT Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Entrepreneurship is a hot topic, yet there is no agreed definition of entrepreneurship. There is even debate about whether entrepreneurship can be taught! This text and case study collection is designed to stimulate critical thinking and reflective learning relating to entrepreneurship. This book enables you to focus on the key issues that need to be considered with regard to new ventures and/or a business plan module, as well as courses on theory and policy relating to entrepreneurship and small businesses.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Entrepreneurship Perspectives and Cases......Page 2
Brief contents......Page 8
List of figures and tables......Page 15
List of Entrepreneurship in action boxes......Page 16
List of case studies......Page 18
List of contributors......Page 20
Preface......Page 22
Acknowledgements......Page 23
Context, issues and case study selection......Page 28
Contributions of entrepreneurial firms......Page 41
Theoretical insights I: Economic approaches......Page 57
Theoretical insights II: Sociological and psychological approaches......Page 78
‘Types’ of entrepreneurs I: Habitual entrepreneurs......Page 102
‘Types’ of entrepreneurs II: High technology and academic entrepreneurs......Page 122
‘Types’ of organisations I: Family firms......Page 140
‘Types’ of organisations II: Corporate entrepreneurship......Page 161
‘Types’ of organisations III: Management buyouts......Page 176
’Types’ of organisations IV: Social entrepreneurship......Page 190
External environmental context: Drivers and barriers......Page 202
Entrepreneurial finance......Page 222
International entrepreneurship......Page 245
Outcomes: Enterprise barriers, growth and performance......Page 265
Case studies......Page 288
References......Page 444
Index......Page 468