Title:
Strategic entrepreneurship
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Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Harlow, England : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2006
ISBN:
9780273706427
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Summary
Summary
The text offers an up-to-date, accessible and rigorous examination of a strategic approach to entrepreneurial management and emphasises its distinction from small business management. The text integrates both conceptual and practical ideas from a broad grounding within wider economic, psychological and other social science disciplines.
The book is written in a clear style, with coherent and logical organisation of themes, and effective visualisation of key ideas to facilitate students' learning and lecturers' course planning & delivery. It provides comprehensive coverage of the fast-growing field of entrepreneurship teaching and research.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the fourth edition |
| Acknowledgements |
| Guided Tour |
| Prologue: entrepreneurship in the modern world |
| Part 1 The entrepreneur as an individual |
| Chapter 1 The nature of entrepreneurship |
| 1.1 What is entrepreneurship? |
| 1.2 The entrepreneur's tasks |
| 1.3 The role of the entrepreneur |
| 1.4 The entrepreneur as a person |
| 1.5 Entrepreneurship: a style of management |
| 1.6 The human dimension: leadership, power and motivation |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 2 Types of entrepreneur |
| 2.1 Classifying entrepreneurs |
| 2.2 Serial and portfolio entrepreneurship |
| 2.3 Entrepreneurship and small business management: a distinction |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 3 The entrepreneurial personality |
| 3.1 Personality and entrepreneurship: some theoretical issues |
| 3.2 Schools of thinking on personality |
| 3.3 Entrepreneurship and psychometric testing |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 4 Entrepreneurship, cognition and decision making |
| 4.1 Cognitive approaches of entrepreneurship |
| 4.2 Entrepreneurship and human decision making |
| 4.3 Entreprenuerial confidence and overconfidence |
| 4.4 Entrepreneurs and the human response to risk |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 5 Taking the entrepreneurial option |
| 5.1 Who becomes an entrepreneur? |
| 5.2 Characteristics of the successful entrepreneur |
| 5.3 Entrepreneurial skills |
| 5.4 The supply of entrepreneurs |
| 5.5 Influences on the move to entrepreneurship |
| 5.6 The initiation decision |
| 5.7 The initiation process |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Part 2 The entrepreneur in the macro-economic environment |
| Chapter 6 The economic function of the entrepreneur |
| 6.1 The entrepreneur in economic theory |
| 6.2 Entrepreneurship: wealth, utility and welfare |
| 6.3 Entrepreneurship and information |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 7 Entrepreneurship and economic development |
| 7.1 Entrepreneurship, economic performance and economic growth |
| 7.2 National governance and entrepreneurship |
| 7.3 National cultural and entrepreneurial inclination |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 8 Not-for-profit and public entrepreneurship |
| 8.1 The conceptual challenge of social entrepreneurship |
| 8.2 Is the social entrepreneur really an entrepreneur? |
| 8.3 Distinguishing the social entrepreneur from the classical entrepreneur |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 9 Success, stakeholders and social responsibility |
| 9.1 Defining success |
| 9.2 Success factors for the new venture |
| 9.3 Measuring success and setting objectives |
| 9.4 Success and social responsibility |
| 9.5 Social responsibility and business performance |
| 9.6 Understanding failure |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Part 3 The entrepreneurial process and new venture creation |
| Chapter 10 The entrepreneurial process |
| 10.1 Making a difference: entrepreneurship and the drive for change |
| 10.2 The entrepreneurial process: opportunity, organization and resources |
| 10.3 The entrepreneurial process: action and the dynamics of success |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 11 The nature of business opportunity |
| 11.1 The landscape of business opportunity |
| 11.2 Innovation and the exploitation of opportunity |
| 11.3 High- and low-innovation entrepreneurship |
| 11.4 Opportunity and entrepreneurial motivation |
| 11.5 The opportunity to create wealth |
| 11.6 The opportunity to distribute wealth |
| 11.7 Entrepreneurship: risk, ambiguity and uncertainty |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 12 Resources in the entrepreneurial venture |
| 12.1 Resources available to the entrepreneur |
| 12.2 Financial resources |
| 12.3 Operating resources |
| 12.4 Human resources |
| 12.5 Organizational process and learning as resources |
| 12.6 Resources, investment and risk |
| 12.7 Stretch and leverage of entrepreneurial resources |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 13 The entrepreneurial venture and the entrepreneurial organisation |
| 13.1 The concept of organization |
| 13.2 Organisation and the control of resources |
| 13.3 Markets and hierarchies |
| 13.4 Networks |
| 13.5 The extended organisation and the hollow organisation |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 14 Intrapreneurship |
| 14.1 The nature and value of intrapreneurship |
| 14.2 The challenges to intrapreneurship |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 15 The changing role of the entrepreneur in the consolidated organisation |
| 15.1 The entrepreneur versus the chief executive |
| 15.2 The dangers of entrepreneurial control in the mature organisation |
| 15.3 The role of the founding entrepreneur in the mature organisation |
| 15.4 Succession in the entrepreneurial business |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Part 4 Choosing a direction |
| Chapter 16 Entrepreneurial vision |
| 16.1 What is entrepreneurial vision? |
| 16.2 Developing and shaping vision |
| 16.3 Communicating and sharing vision |
| 16.4 Entrepreneurship and strategic foresight |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 17 The entrepreneurial mission |
| 17.1 Why a well-defined mission can help the venture |
| 17.2 What a mission statement should include |
| 17.3 Developing the mission statement |
| 17.4 Articulating the mission statement |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 18 The strategy for the venture |
| 18.1 What is a business strategy? |
| 18.2 Strategy process in the entrepreneurial business |
| 18.3 Controlling strategy process in the venture |
| 18.4 Why a well-defined strategy can help the venture |
| 18.5 An overview of entrepreneurial entry strategies |
| 18.6 Talking strategy: entrepreneurial strategic heuristics |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 19 The business plan: an entrepreneurial tool |
| 19.1 Planning and performance |
| 19.2 The role of the business plan |
| 19.3 What a business plan should include |
| 19.4 Business planning: analysis and synthesis |
| 19.5 Business planning: action and communication |
| 19.6 Structuring and articulating the business plan: the Pyramid Principle |
| 19.7 Strategy, planning and flexibility |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 20 Gaining financial support: issues and approaches |
| 20.1 Sources and types of financial investment |
| 20.2 How backers select investment opportunities |
| 20.3 The questions investors need answering |
| 20.4 Playing the game: game-theoretical ideas on the entrepreneur-investor relationship |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Part 5 Initiating and developing the new venture |
| Chapter 21 The strategic window: identifying and analysing the gap for the new business |
| 21.1 Why existing businesses leave gaps in the market |
| 21.2 The strategic window: a visual metaphor |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 22 Seeing the window: scanning for opportunity |
| 22.1 Types of opportunities available |
| 22.2 Methods of spotting opportunities |
| 22.3 Screening and selecting opportunities |
| 22.4 Entrepreneurial innovation |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 23 Locating and measuring the window: positioning the new venture |
| 23.1 The idea of positioning |
| 23.2 Strategic positioning |
| 23.3 Market positioning |
| 23.4 The need for information |
| 23.5 Analysing the market and identifying key issues |
| 23.6 Analysing the opportunity |
| 23.7 Analysis and planning formality |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 24 Opening the window: gaining commitment |
| 24.1 Entering the network |
| 24.2 Gaining financial investment: key issues |
| 24.3 Gaining human commitment |
| 24.4 Establishing a presence with distributors |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 25 Closing the window: sustaining competitiveness |
| 25.1 Long-term success and sustainable competitive advantage |
| 25.2 How competitive advantage is established |
| 25.3 Maintaining competitive advantage |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 26 The dimensions of business growth |
| 26.1 Growth as an objective for the venture |
| 26.2 The process of growth |
| 26.3 Financial evaluation of growth |
| 26.4 Financial growth |
| 26.5 Strategic growth |
| 26.6 Structural growth |
| 26.7 Organisational growth |
| 26.8 Controlling and planning for growth |
| 26.9 The venture as a theatre for human growth |
| 26.10 Conceptualising growth and organisational change |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion points |
| Chapter 27 Consolidating the venture |
| 27.1 What consolidation means |
| 27.2 Building success into consolidation |
| 27.3 Encourgaing intrapreneurship |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Selected case material |
| Discussion point |
| Chapter 28 Making your contribution: researching entrepreneurship |
| 28.1 Entrepreneurship: an adolescent discipline |
| 28.2 Entrepreneurship: the research field |
| 28.3 Research paradigms in entrepreneurship |
| 28.4 Research methodology in entrepreneurship |
| Summary of key ideas |
| Research themes |
| Key readings |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Index |
