The Entrepreneurial Process

Seeing and Seizing Opportunities
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-56534-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 245 mm x 174 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

This book provides an understanding of ‘opportunity recognition’ as a catalyst and crux of the entrepreneurial process. Grounded in research, it introduces the key concepts at the heart of entrepreneurship theory and practice and demonstrates how entrepreneurship differs from management in language, priorities and practice.

The book’s central framework is mapped around ‘seeing and seizing opportunities’, where the entrepreneur enters a situation, eventually sees an opportunity and takes it through a process of idea development into an actionable entrepreneurial initiative. This captures the book’s four core elements: person(s), environment, opportunity and process. The Entrepreneurial Process is unique in its explanation of how key concepts are related and how they can be applied practically to business models, plans and action. Case studies from real-life organizations, reflective questions and short exercises throughout encourage student learning and enable true engagement with the subject matter, building students’ entrepreneurial efficacy.

A ‘one-stop shop’ of key theoretical perspectives on entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition and business modelling, this textbook is essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students on introductory entrepreneurship and enterprise courses. Its practical and applied nature also makes it suitable for MBA and executive education.

Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides and a test bank of questions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nilsson, Nils

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Kleine und Mittlere Unternehmen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Rise, Fall and Return of the Entrepreneur 2. The Environment: The Home of Resources, Uncertainty and Opportunities 3. The Person(s) and the Network 4. The Opportunity: The Key Crux of Entrepreneurship 5. The Process: What to do Next? 6. The Business Model: How it all Fits Together 7. The Business Model's Financial ABC's

Über Autor(innen)

Nils Nilsson is former vice-rector and head of the Entrepreneurial University Project at Linnaeus University, Sweden.