
Understanding Enterprise
Entrepreneurs and Small Business
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 24. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 368 pages
978-1-137-58454-0 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive guide to the key facts, ideas, and theories about enterprise and entrepreneurship considers their relation to small business and discusses measures taken to promote them. The authors outline the importance of the small business sector and consider the cultural, political and economic influences on business growth.
Reviews / Votes
Bridge and O'Neill's fifth edition is a benchmark text for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers. This text masterfully provides a powerful description illustrating the intersection between enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business. I strongly recommend. * Amon Simba, Nottingham Business School, UK * This book challenges a lot of our perceived knowledge on SMEs and entrepreneurs as well as the nature of policy interventions, emphasising as it does that knowledge creation is a process of questioning conventional wisdom. Reading this textbook is important if you want to be part of the process of new knowledge creation. * Anders Lundstroem, Institute of Innovative Entpreneurship, Sweden *More details
Edition
5th ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
44 s/w Abbildungen
5 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 193 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-58454-0 (9781137584540)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-58455-7
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
10/2017
5th Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
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Book
11/2012
4th Edition
Palgrave
€69.54
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Persons
Simon Bridge has been involved in formulating, delivering and/or assessing enterprise policy for nearly 30 years, most recently as an enterprise and economic development consultant and before that as the Enterprise Director of a small business agency. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster. His other books include Rethinking Enterprise Policy: Can Failure Trigger New Understanding? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and, co-written with Brendan Murtagh and Ken O'Neill, Understanding the Social Economy and the Third Sector (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Ken O'Neill is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ulster, a former President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), a member of the Steering Committee of the International Small Business Congress (ISBC), a former President of the UK's Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), and is a Director of The Genesis Initiative. In 2005 he became the first person to receive The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion - Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also co-written Understanding the Social Economy and the Third Sector (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with Simon Bridge and Brendan Murtagh.
Ken O'Neill is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ulster, a former President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), a member of the Steering Committee of the International Small Business Congress (ISBC), a former President of the UK's Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), and is a Director of The Genesis Initiative. In 2005 he became the first person to receive The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion - Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also co-written Understanding the Social Economy and the Third Sector (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with Simon Bridge and Brendan Murtagh.
Content
PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE UNDERSTANDING.- 1. Introduction Understanding Enterprise.- 2. A Brief History of Enterprise Understanding.- 3. Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: Their Meanings and Variations.- 4. Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: Understanding Their Nature.- 5. Small Businesses: Their Characteristics and Variety.- 6. Small Businesses: Understanding their Dynamics.- 7. Social Enterprise and the Third Sector.- PART II: CHALLENGES TO THE TRADITIONAL VIEW.- 8. Rethinking Small Business.- 9. Rethinking Entrepreneurship.- 10. Enterprise and Life.- 11. Becoming an Entrepreneur.- 12. Running a Small Business.- 13. Social Capital and the Enterprise Mix.- PART III: ENTERPRISE POLICY AND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION.- 14. Why Governments Intervene: The Aims of Enterprise Policy.- 15. Enterprise Policy: Approaches and Delivery Methods.- 16. Does the Policy Work?.- 17. What Might Work?.- 18. The Impact of Change.