Enterprise & Small Business
Principles, Practice & Policy
2nd Edition

By Sara Carter & Dylan Jones-Evans
July 2006
Financial Times / Prentice Hall
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780273702672
592 pages, Illustrated
$99.50 Paper Original


Contents

THE ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT

1.       Introduction

2.       Defining and measuring the small business

3.       Self-employment and the small business

4.       Government and small business

5.       Innovation and the small business

6.       Growth and development in the small business

THE ENTREPRENEUR

7.       The entrepreneurial process

8.       The psychology of the entrepreneur

9.       Gender and entrepreneurship

10.   Ethnicity and entrepreneurship

11.   Family and entrepreneurship

12.   Social entrepreneurship

13.   Technology entrepreneurship

14.   Corporate entrepreneurship

15.   Leadership, entrepreneurship and the management of small firms

THE SMALL BUSINESS

16.   Networking and the small business

17.   Marketing and the small business

18.   Finance and the small business

19.   Venture capital and the small business

20.   Labour management and the small business

21.   Strategy and the small business

22.   E-commerce and the small business

23.   Franchisng and the small business

24.   Internationalisation and the small business

References

Index


Key features:

Twenty-four chapters covering the most essential and contemporary topics taught on small business and enterprise courses

Contributions from leading international academics, each a subject specialist in the field

Strong theoretical and research pedigree ensures high degree of academic credibility

Encourages critical thinking through challenging discussion questions

Provides students with a guide to further study and weblinks

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