Entrepreneurship / Start-ups

This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company's development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual property strategy that parallels each stage of development.

Bringing much needed clarity and definition to the term 'minority entrepreneur,' this authoritative and timely handbook explores the distinctive challenges that minority communities face when founding and managing new ventures.

This book sits at the intersection of two lines of inquiry of critical importance to management researchers-what are the contributory factors to building an entrepreneurial company, and what is senior leadership's role in this process?

This edited book focuses on strategic aspects of innovation in the context of resilience during and after a crisis.

This book engages ongoing debates about the nature, manifestation and purpose of entrepreneurship education (EE).

The result of the application of strategic management philosophy to the nexus of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economy, strategic entrepreneurship fosters sustainable development and competitiveness.

This edited volume discusses the contextual nature of strategic entrepreneurship.

This book focuses on understanding the international behaviours of SMEs, entrepreneurial ventures, and entrepreneurs.

University-industry interaction combines several layers of actors, states and effects.

This contemporary book offers valuable insights on digital technology and entrepreneurship education, highlighting the importance of adopting creative digital approaches to learning and teaching.

This book presents scholarly reflections on women's entrepreneurial propensity and on women's entrepreneurship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

This is the first comprehensive book that aims to understand how the novel coronavirus has impacted the venture capital industry.

By 2020, the global economy, led by the US - China duopoly, was experiencing the longest economic expansion on record.

This proceedings volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the unprecedented crises generated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications for individuals, businesses, organizations, governments and systems in developing countries.

In handicrafts and artisanal products, industry has witnessed both a technological shift and a renewed interest among customers, especially after the challenges and limitations of mass production became evident under the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rise of hybrid ventures is proof that another way of doing business is possible.

This book examines the dilemma of overdependence on tourism in Caribbean countries and territories, and the need for a resilient path to address the industry's vulnerability in the face of natural disasters.

This book brings together experts from different areas to show how creativity drives design and innovation in different kind of businesses.

To survive and sustain businesses during such times of crisis becomes difficult for managers and entrepreneurs.

This volume discusses business disruptions as strategic to gain market competitiveness.

65% of global CEOs are concerned about losing the innovation race against disruptive start-ups.

This book explores the emergence and evolution of family firms throughout Latin America, from the colonial period to the modern day.

"e;It stretches no point to suggest that creativity, innovation and risk-taking will decide our future societal prosperity.

This book is based on the work of the YEEES Research Centre, an international network of scientists from partner universities in Germany, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa.

The world is changing, and so are our donors.

While many texts on entrepreneurship and biographies of great entrepreneurs and leaders talk about vision and its importance, few delve into what vision is, how it comes to be, and, how it can be more successfully developed.

Despite being the third largest economy in Southeast Asia, Malaysian entrepreneurial activity is under-reported in the scholarly literature.

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most controversial actualities of the modern economy.

This book tackles the perplexing problem of how to capture the qualitative differences that exist in entrepreneurship at any given point in time or across time, by presenting a novel qualitative index: Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI).

For African enterprises, entrepreneurs and governments to take full advantage of new digital opportunities, they need a shared strategic understanding of where they are, what they have, and what they may need to have for the future.

This book explores the sea change in thinking about how to educate students of entrepreneurship, uses extant theory to develop a conceptual model of entrepreneurship skill development, describes an assessment tool for operationalizing this model, discusses how this tool can be utilized to develop entrepreneurship skills, and offers examples from the application of our approach in educational settings.

This book distinctively presents nine thematic discussions with real examples of small and large companies across the geographic destinations.

Real profit after taxes is the most important management target.

This book explores the relationship between entrepreneurship and doing good.

This book considers the extent to which innovation and entrepreneurship are engines of economic prosperity.

This comprehensive handbook offers a state-of-the-art guide to new frontiers of African entrepreneurship.

"e;The fourth sector"e; consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors.

The venture capital model doesn't work-at least not for 99% of startups and small businesses.

Mobility in Germany is embracing market changes like never before.

This book offers a primer on the valuation of startups.

Evidence suggests that economies with technology transfer initiatives provide a better supply of high-quality jobs and tend to be characterized by entrepreneurs with higher innovation contributions.

This book covers various aspects of business such as Entrepreneurship, HR management, Supply chain management, Marketing, Finance, and Globalization within the Africa Context, especially as digital technology changes the African society.

The digital economy is a new direction in which the modern global economic system is now heading.

The second edition of this professional guide presents an extended overview of the German family enterprise landscape including its structure and industry distribution.

This handbook is focused on the analytical dimension in researching ?

This book examines the nexus between the entrepreneur, the firm, and the region for drawing a comprehensive picture of entrepreneurship in a developing country context.

This book discusses corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility and business ethics across Africa generally, and Botswana specifically.

This edited volume discusses the development of the new social and impact economy in ten countries around the globe.

"e;The fourth sector"e; is a relatively new sector that consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors.

This book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function.