| Title : | Understanding enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Simon Bridge, Author ; Ken O'Neill, Author ; Stanley Cromie, Author | | Edition statement: | 2nd Edition | | Publisher: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan | | Publication Date: | 2003 | | Pagination: | xxiii, 520 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-333-98465-9 | | Class number: | 338.04 | | Abstract: | This uniquely comprehensive and accessible guide to the key facts, ideas, theories adn thinking about enterprise adn entrepreneurship considers their relationship to small business and discuss the methods that are taken to promote them. Outlining the importance of the small business sector, the authors consider the cultural, economic and political influences on business growth and discuss the results of governmental intervention to promote the development of enterprise. Accessibly presented for students, policymakers adn practitioners, this edition brings together perspectives that would oterwise be spread throughout the literature and includes new or expanded material on: Entreoreneurship and small business poicy, Social enterprise adn the social economu, Gender adn ethnicity issues, Portfolio adn part-time working, Intrapreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship, The e-business sector and the new economy and International comparative performance. | | Contents note: | List of tables, figures, illustrations and cases - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction. Part 1. The Concept of Enterprise, Chapter I. Why talk about concept, Chapter 2. What Does enterprise mean?, Chapter 3. Enterprise in individuals, Chapter 4. Enterprise: the external influences; Chapter 5. Other aspects of enterprise Part II: Enterprise and Small Business, Introduction, Chapter 6. Small Business: definitions, characteristics and needs, Chapter 7. Distinctive features of small businesses, Chapter 8. Business growth, Chapter 9. Small is Beautiful: entrepreneurship in the bigger business, Part III. Promoting Enterprise; Introduction, Chapter 10. Why Intervene?, Chapter 11. Theories, models and assumptions (that might guide intervention, Chapter 12. Intervention methods (objectives, structures and approaches), Chapter 13. Intervention evaluation and results, Afterword, Chapter 14. Science, art, or magic?,Index. |
Understanding enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business [printed text] / Simon Bridge, Author ; Ken O'Neill, Author ; Stanley Cromie, Author . - 2nd Edition . - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 . - xxiii, 520 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-333-98465-9 | Class number: | 338.04 | | Abstract: | This uniquely comprehensive and accessible guide to the key facts, ideas, theories adn thinking about enterprise adn entrepreneurship considers their relationship to small business and discuss the methods that are taken to promote them. Outlining the importance of the small business sector, the authors consider the cultural, economic and political influences on business growth and discuss the results of governmental intervention to promote the development of enterprise. Accessibly presented for students, policymakers adn practitioners, this edition brings together perspectives that would oterwise be spread throughout the literature and includes new or expanded material on: Entreoreneurship and small business poicy, Social enterprise adn the social economu, Gender adn ethnicity issues, Portfolio adn part-time working, Intrapreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship, The e-business sector and the new economy and International comparative performance. | | Contents note: | List of tables, figures, illustrations and cases - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction. Part 1. The Concept of Enterprise, Chapter I. Why talk about concept, Chapter 2. What Does enterprise mean?, Chapter 3. Enterprise in individuals, Chapter 4. Enterprise: the external influences; Chapter 5. Other aspects of enterprise Part II: Enterprise and Small Business, Introduction, Chapter 6. Small Business: definitions, characteristics and needs, Chapter 7. Distinctive features of small businesses, Chapter 8. Business growth, Chapter 9. Small is Beautiful: entrepreneurship in the bigger business, Part III. Promoting Enterprise; Introduction, Chapter 10. Why Intervene?, Chapter 11. Theories, models and assumptions (that might guide intervention, Chapter 12. Intervention methods (objectives, structures and approaches), Chapter 13. Intervention evaluation and results, Afterword, Chapter 14. Science, art, or magic?,Index. |
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