Understanding Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Small Business (Macmillan Business)

by Ken O'Neill (Contributor), Simon Bridge (Author), Stan Cromie (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.45

  Across the world, the expressed need for and popularity of enterprising people and behaviour has never been greater. In order to ensure economic and social progress, governments and organizations have sought ways to engender greater enterprise. But what does enterprise mean? How does it differ from entrepreneurship and where does small business creation and growth fit in? This book explores these concepts and analyzes what is being done to promote them and with what effect.;It describes and analyzes not only concepts, ideas and trends, but also policies and their delivery systems. The book should serve as a guide to anyone wishing to get to grips with the complexities of the nature, purpose and systems for the support of enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business today.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.15

  This volume provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the key facts, ideas, theories and thinking about enterprise and entrepreneurship, this text considers their relationship to small businesses and discusses the methods that are taken to promote them.Outlining the importance of the small business sector and the activity of enterprise development, the authors discuss the meaning of enterprise, its perceived benefits and the cultural, economic and political influences which affect the behaviour of individuals and groups. They address the distinctive differences between small and large businesses and also consider business growth and corporate entrepreneurship. A special feature is the section they devote to the reasons, theories, methods and results of governmental intervention to promote the development of enterprise. Presented for students, policy makers and practitioners, this edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and includes new or expanded material on: gender and ethnicity issues; entrepreneurship and small business policy; social enterprise and the social economy; portfolio and part time working; intrapreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship; international comparative performance; the E- business sector and the new economy