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Entrepreneurship and small business / Paul Burns.

By: Burns, Paul, 1949-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2007Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxx, 538 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781403947338; 1403947333.Subject(s): Small business -- Study and teaching | Small business -- Management -- Study and teaching | Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching | Business education | Small business -- Case studies | Entrepreneurship -- Case studiesDDC classification: 658.022
Contents:
Part 1: Entrepreneurship and innovation -- David and Goliath -- Heroes and super-heroes -- Opportunity, innovation and entrepreneurship -- Developing creativity -- Part 2: Start-Up -- The decision -- Making the start-up happen -- Control and decision-making -- Part 3: Growth and decline -- From entrepreneur to leader -- Strategies for success -- Life cycles and portfolios -- Making growth happen -- The exit -- Part 4: Planning -- Financing small firms -- Developing a business plan -- Part 5: Topics in entrepreneurship -- The family firm -- International entrepreneurship -- Social and civic entrepreneurship -- Corporate entrepreneurship.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Informed by research and practical experience, Paul Burns' successful text synthesizes good management practice for students and encourages and develops entrepreneurial skills. Clearly structured and accessibly presented, the comprehensive coverage includes accounting control and decision-making as well as chapters on family businesses, corporate, international, and social entrepreneurship. Mini case examples and new long case studies are used to illustrate how concepts are implemented in small, growing, and successful firms, and the text is fully supported by structured teaching resources.

Includes indexes.

Part 1: Entrepreneurship and innovation -- David and Goliath -- Heroes and super-heroes -- Opportunity, innovation and entrepreneurship -- Developing creativity -- Part 2: Start-Up -- The decision -- Making the start-up happen -- Control and decision-making -- Part 3: Growth and decline -- From entrepreneur to leader -- Strategies for success -- Life cycles and portfolios -- Making growth happen -- The exit -- Part 4: Planning -- Financing small firms -- Developing a business plan -- Part 5: Topics in entrepreneurship -- The family firm -- International entrepreneurship -- Social and civic entrepreneurship -- Corporate entrepreneurship.

CIT Module MGMT 8008 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • David and Goliath
  • Heroes and Super-heroes
  • Opportunity and Innovation
  • Start-up
  • Start-up; Making it Happen
  • Start-up; Control and Decision-making
  • E-business
  • Developing a Business Plan
  • From Entrepreneur to Leader
  • Growth; Success
  • Growth; Take-off
  • Financing Small Firms
  • The Family Firm
  • The Exit

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Paul Burns received his Degree of Engineering in electronic engineering from the University of South Australia.

Burns is SpectruCell project manager at Advanced Communications Technologies in Melbourne, Australia and principal consultant for Simplexity Communications. He is a member or the IEEE.

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