Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Name: Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Author: David Storey

Paperback Engels 2010 9780273693475

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"An excellent textbook. David Storey and Francis Greene combine academic authority with a practical awareness of the realities facing small businesses around the world, to create a truly global view of the subject."

Professor Monder Ram, OBE

Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME)
De Montfort University, UK

"Storey and Greene combine solid research – where their credibility is second to none – with wit and practical wisdom. This makes for a highly engaging learning experience, which is further enhanced by the website material."

Per Davidsson

Assistant Dean (Research) & Professor in Entrepreneurship

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

In this expert, engaging and entertaining new text, David Storey and Francis Greene give you the big picture on small business and entrepreneurship.

Adopting a global perspective and identifying the key and contemporary issues in many different contexts, the book provides a detailed and accessible analysis of theory, evidence and reality. The authors draw on a wide range of perspectives and sources to explore the economic contribution of small and start-up businesses on an international scale.

Key features to help you make the most of your study include: Short case illustrations to learn lessons from business success – and failure Full length cases bringing together a range themes to give you an integrative view of small business and entrepreneurship in action Classic articles to help you to engage with leading academic research Extensive analysis of key issues – from start-up to growth and/or closure – including innovation, finance and public policy for small business

And go online to www.pearsoned.co.uk/storeygreene to find exclusive video interviews, and other resources to help you succeed in your course.

About the authors

David J. Storey is Professor at the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises at Warwick Business School, UK. He was awarded an OBE for services to business in 2010.

Francis J. Greene is Associate Professor of Enterprise in the Centre for Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises at Warwick Business School, UK.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780273693475

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Uitgever:Pearson Education

Hoofdrubriek:Algemeen management, Algemeen management

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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Understanding Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship Chapter 1: Small Businesses: The Big Picture Chapter 2: Understanding Entrepreneurship Chapter 3: Defining the Small Business Chapter 4: Working in Small Businesses Chapter 5: Innovation and the Small Business Part Two: New Business Formation Chapter 6: Defining and Measuring Start Ups Chapter 7: New Entrepreneurs and Social Networks Chapter 8: The Economics of Start Ups Part Three: Business Closure Chapter 9: Defining and Measuring Business Closure Chapter 10: Analysing Business Closure Part Four: Business Growth Chapter 11: Defining Business Growth  Chapter 12: Analysing and Measuring Business Growth Chapter 13: Growing the Business: Pre Start-Up Factors Chapter 14: Growing the Business: At Start-Up Factors Chapter 15: Growing the Business: Post Start-Up Factors Part 5: Finance and the Small Business Chapter 16: Theories of Small Business Finance Chapter 17: Debt Finance for Small Businesses Chapter 18: Equity Finance for Small Businesses Part 6: Public Policy and the Small Business Chapter 19: Public Policy, Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs Chapter 20: Macro Policies towards Small Businesses Chapter 21: Small Business Policy in Practice   Case Studies Case Study 1 - Understanding Enterprise: Competition at the Crematorium - Burgess and Sons versus Austin's Case Study 2 - Understanding Enterprise: Dragonfly Consulting - Employer or Employee? Case Study 3 - Formation and Growth - The changing fortunes of Runner and Sprue Part 1 - Runner and Sprue's Business Plan Part 2 - Developing and Commercialising Runner and Sprue Part 3 - Sprue Aegis: the IPO Part 4 - Sprue Aegis: Reaching for the Stars and StripesBusiness Part 5 - Growing pains for Sprue Aegis? Case Study 4 - Business Closure: Tahir Mohsan - Running out of Time? Case Study 5 - Business Closure: The English Grocer - Right idea, wrong time? Case Study 6 - Finance: Four options facing Two Seasons Case Study 7 - Public Policy In Your Hands Part 1 - Defining 'Entrepreneurship' Part 2 - Measuring Entrepreneurship Part 3 - Policy Choices Part 4 - Assessing the Policy Choice Case Study 8 - Tax and the Small Business: Tax breaks, high stakes Glossary