Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management has been completely revised and will give students the information and decision-making skills necessary to start a small business and make it grow. It also benefits students who don't start or run their own businesses. It gives employees a look at the business arena and helps all students understand their roles as consumers. There is special emphasis on developing a Business Plan.

With our economy’s recent flood of outsourcing and corporate crashes is small business the wave of the future? Across the world, people are looking to entrepreneurship as a force that can close the gap between poverty and prosperity. Study the nuts and bolts of being your own boss to mine the lessons of self-made failures and successes


Contents

1. The Perils of Success
2. The Lessons of Failure
3. Learning When to Pull the Plug
4. Nuts & Bolts: Small Time Capital
5. The Challenges of Being a Boss
6. Outsourcing R&D: Chasing Innovation
7. Tips from Entrepreneurship Expert Patti Greene
8. A Grand Entrepreneurial Dream
9. Why U.S. Leads Entrepreneurial Pack
10. BYO Business School
11. What's an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem?
12. Entrepreneurial Revival in the Great Plains
13. Native American Entrepreneurship Growing
14. Plusses and Pitfalls of Franchising
15. An Entrepreneurial Vision from Ghana
16. When Spouses Work Together
17. Cybercrime Entrepreneurs
18. Small Business and Health Insurance