Small businesses and self-employment

This is the workbook to be used in conjunction with Understanding Business Valuation, Fifth Edition, covering various valuation approaches, methods, and techniques.

An all-in-one guide to helping you buy and own your own business.

If you are seeking access to equity or finance from a bank or bank-related institution, your company will need a Basel II rating.

The Definitive Guide to Owning and Running a Successful Small Business The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide has been the go-to book for thousands of Canadian entrepreneurs ever since it was first published in 1988.

Co-operative and mutual enterprise is one of the oldest and most enduring forms of business, encompassing co-operatives, mutual firms, friendly societies, and credit unions.

This book is a step-by-step guide to starting and running a successful beauty salon.

The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the globalization of the world economy.

The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms (the Bolton Committee Report) was produced at a time of significant political change.

As a small business owner, having knowledge of crucial numbers is the most important tool you can equip yourself with to survive today's competitive marketplace.

This book investigates the dynamics of the management of sustainability in networks and clusters - an area of increasing importance that is neglected by the many studies addressing sustainability at the single-enterprise level.

This book focuses on the development of strategies for the successful internationalization of large and medium-sized companies.

In Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters, Panos Piperopoulos provides a comprehensive introduction to what entrepreneurship is all about, how and why entrepreneurs innovate and how innovation systems operate.

This book outlines and illustrates strategies that you must employ to protect your intellectual property.

This book examines the sustainability of supply chains in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), in developed and emerging economies.

Drawing on a series of case studies from Finland, this book examines the role of networking in the internationalisation process of family firms.

Todays billion-dollar e-commerce industry, plug-and-play technology, and savvy web surfers are just few of the reasons why internet-related services are in high demand.

When companies go looking for top business talent, they hire a headhunteran executive recruiter.

Foundations of Family Resource Management uses the lenses of consumer science, management, and economics, and beyond to help students make intelligent decisions about resources, time, and energies at the individual and family level.

Policies to increase the level of enterprise and entrepreneurship, in many countries and regions, have often failed.

Entrepreneurs are great at coming up with new ideas and, often by sheer passion alone, getting their business started.

This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities.

Avoid legal pitfalls for your business from day one A common characteristic of entrepreneurs is the attitude: "e;I'm not going to do that until I absolutely have to.

Ready to take your beekeeping skills to the next level?

As the "e;backbone of the economy,"e; small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key players in the dynamics of local, regional, and global markets, and are often obliged to provide timely responses to the increasingly fierce cross-border competition.

A practical, sensible plan for finding the type of self-employment that suits you, and taking charge of your own future.

This book covers the financial aspects of a business, including those that are important to start, grow, and sustain an enterprise.

What does it take to successfully launch and scale a startup in Asia?

Selling a business is a critical event that may occur only once in a lifetime.

This book is about the roles that financial institutions are expected to play for revitalizing regional economies in Japan, which face several serious problems such as a rapidly aging population as well as a sharp decline in population.

It's all in the familyFamily businesses are the backbone of any economy, but they can present a host of challenges that can affect their chances of success.

Personal trainers arent just for athletes and the rich and famous anymore.

In einer sich schnell wandelnden Geschäftswelt ist Klarheit entscheidend.

The definitive guide to turning casual contacts into solid sales opportunities In this fully revised edition, Bob Burg builds on his proven relationship-building principles to bring even more clients to your door and helps you attract only those who are interested in what you sell.

Every week, three thousand people in the UK quit their jobs and set up their own business.

"e;Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day.

The law plays an ambiguous role in running business.

Will AI replace us?

An excellent business plan impresses financial backers, provides a clear blueprint for the future of your company and functions as a benchmark against which to measure future growth.

Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career.

Creativity is at the vanguard of contemporary capitalism, valorised as a form of capital in its own right.

Now in its fifth edition, Understanding Enterprise has established itself as one of the most widely respected guides to the discipline, providing a refreshingly perceptive approach to understanding and applying theory.

This book is about the roles that financial institutions are expected to play for revitalizing regional economies in Japan, which face several serious problems such as a rapidly aging population as well as a sharp decline in population.

Build The Damn Thing is a battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has excluded.

You earned it, you keep it!

Using institutional economics as a theoretical framework, this book analyzes institutional environment conducive to entrepreneurial activity in order to enhance economic performance across countries.

As the nations of the Caribbean respond to the emerging effects of climate change and prepare for those to come, tourism has the potential to either worsen or mitigate these impacts.

'This book is an excellent addition to any business plan.

This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition.