Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles

✍ Scribed by Drucker, Peter F

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014;2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Series: Routledge classics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker's most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: 'the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity'. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers. With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello .

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition......Page 10
Preface......Page 20
Introduction: The Entrepreneurial Economy......Page 24
Part I The Practice of Innovation......Page 46
1 Systematic Entrepreneurship......Page 48
2 Purposeful Innovation and the Seven Sources for Innovative Opportunity......Page 59
3 Source: The Unexpected......Page 68
4 Source: Incongruities......Page 92
5 Source: Process Need......Page 107
6 Source: Industry and Market Structures......Page 116
7 Source: Demographics......Page 131
8 Source: Changes in Perception......Page 144
9 Source: New Knowledge......Page 154
10 The Bright Idea......Page 182
11 Principles of Innovation......Page 186
Part II The Practice Of Entrepreneurship......Page 196
12 Entrepreneurial Management......Page 198
13 The Entrepreneurial Business......Page 203
14 Entrepreneurship in the Service Institution......Page 240
15 The New Venture......Page 253
Part III Entrepreneurial Strategies......Page 278
16 'Fustest with the Mostest'......Page 280
17 'Hit Them Where They Ain't'......Page 293
18 Ecological Niches......Page 309
19 Changing Values and Characteristics......Page 322
Conclusion: The Entrepreneurial Society......Page 334
Suggested Readings......Page 351
Index......Page 353

✦ Subjects

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