The entrepreneurial dilemma in the life cycle of the small firm : how the firm and the entrepreneur change during the life cycle of the firm, or how they should change / Enno Masurel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masurel, Enno, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Small business--Growth.

Small business.

Organizational change.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Entrepreneurial dilemmas play an important, though heavily underexposed, role in the life cycle of the small firm. This book defines the entrepreneurial dilemma as a situation where entrepreneurs have to choose between multiple future courses of action concerning their firm, without sufficient information to make that choice. The Entrepreneurial Dilemma within the Life Cycle of the Small Firm enables lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the fields of entrepreneurship, small business development and business administration to understand these entrepreneurial dilemmas and ways to resolve them. This book presents an in-depth analysis of the modern theories in the field of entrepreneurship, including innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship, characteristics of small businesses, the life cycle of the firm, entrepreneurial behavior and small business finance. Enno Masurel provides a clear overview of the opportunities that teaching entrepreneurship in a higher education context offers, and embodies this teaching within ten universal cases that will help readers to further understand the the dilemmas faced by entrepreneurial activity in the development of small firms.

Contents:

Prelims

Introduction

Theoretical background of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship education

Cases about the entrepreneurial dilemma in the development of the small firm

Appendix 1: The financial plan

Appendix 2: Case - the financial plan of Pizza Pete

Appendix 3: Business model canvas 2018

Appendix 4: Lean start-up in a nutshell

Appendix 5: Sustainable entrepreneurship balanced scorecard

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781789733174

1789733170

9781789733150

1789733154