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Enterpreneurship is central to the market process, and yet most theories of it fail to tackle the problem of how economic agents learn from their experience. This book aims to redress this by systematically applying the ideas of Karl Popper. It treats the entrepeneur as a theorist who develops conjectures which are then tested by exposure to the market, in an effort to eliminate errors. This is a critical aspect of the development of new ventures, as most entrepeneurial ideas turn out to be mistakes, at least in their original form.
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• Chapter 1. Artisan Entrepreneurship: An Overview
• Vanessa Ratten Chapter 2. Handicraft Entrepreneurship
• Vanessa Ratten Chapter 3. Kazuri Beads - A Case Study on Motivating Talent and Knowledge Transfer in an Artisan Business
• Natasha Katuta Mwila Chapter 4. Small Business Owners and Social Media Behaviour: How Entrepreneurs Use and Are Used by New Digital Platforms
• Alina Sawy and Dieter Boegenhold Chapter 5. Wine Artisan Entrepreneurship
• Vanessa Ratten Chapter 6. Crises, Innovation and the Co-opetition: Entrepreneurial Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
• Sandeep Bhasin and Bhawna Kumar Chapter 7. Portuguese Handicrafts and Artisan Entrepreneurship
• Vanessa Ratten, Vitor Braga, and Jose Antonio Oliveira Chapter 8. Survivability of MSMEs in Maluku: An Analysis on Challenges, Opportunities and Strategic Development
• Arthur Sitaniapessy, Petrus Usmanij, and Vanessa Ratten Chapter 9. Managing Value Co-creation in Partnerships for Sustainability: Towards a Process Model for Stakeholder Integration
• Guido Grunwald, Jurgen Schwill, and Anne-Marie Sassenberg Chapter 10. Funding and Performance Pattern Matrix in the Startup Phase: A Study of Startup MSMEs in Indonesia
• Maria Rio Rita, Ari Budi Kristanto, Yeterina Widi Nugrahanti, and Petrus Usmanij Chapter 11. Artisan Gastronomy in Tourist Destinations: A Business Opportunity
• Eduardo Parra-Lopez, Almudena Barrientos-Baez, and Jose Alberto Martinez-Gonzalez Chapter 12. Artisan Entrepreneurship: Future Trends
• Vanessa Ratten and Petrus Usmanij.
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Increased interest in handicrafts has led to more people becoming artisans both as a hobby and a business activity, making Artisan Entrepreneurship a growing phenomenon. This has been particularly relevant during the COVID-19 crisis in which individuals and communities began engaging with more bespoke crafting at home. This book focuses on these practices from different perspectives including the art, cultural and social sectors, thereby highlighting the emerging new types of artisan activity that preserve cultural elements while incorporating emerging technologies like social media. This volume analyses artisan entrepreneurship using different approaches including at an individual, group and societal point of view providing a better understanding about how these handicraft workers contribute to societal wellbeing and aid cultural heritage preservation for future generations. Each chapter of this book looks at these practices in a different way, enabling the practical and theoretical significance of artisan entrepreneurship to emerge and presenting a holistic understanding of artisan entrepreneurship in different contextual settings. Artisan Entrepreneurship provides a unique way in which to understand an important type of enterprise that has been neglected but recently had a resurgence. This book provides a fundamental contribution to the field of artisan entrepreneurship.
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• Foreword Introduction
• PART 1: The Founder Mindset 1: What makes a great founder 2: The myths that stop founders 3: What causes failure and how to avoid it 4: Cultivating the mindset of a founder
• PART 2: The Founding Process 5: Three and a half rules for ambitious founders 6: Understand your edge 7: How to use your edge 8: Choosing your co-founder 9: Working with your co-founder and testing the team 10: Getting to founder/idea fit 11: Customer Development - finding out your customer's secrets
• PART 3: Growing and Scaling 12: An introduction to startup financing 13: How to raise money 14: Preparing for the road ahead 15: Building culture 16: What happens next? Bibliography Acknowledgements Index.
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An essential guide to equip the next generation of founders with the mindset and tools they need to take the leap to become globally successful entrepreneurs. Featuring a foreword by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, this fascinating handbook inspires potential founders and provides essential guidance and advice for people who want to create their own start-up and build a successful company. This book answers the question "how do I get started?" It takes the reader from making the decision to plunge into entrepreneurship, through the process of choosing and developing an idea and team, all the way to raising capital and working with VCs and angel investors. Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford are the co-founders of Entrepreneur First (EF). Over the last decade, they have worked with thousands of ambitious individuals across the world, supporting them to become founders. Those individuals have now built companies worth billions of dollars that are taking on some of the world's biggest challenges, including finding hard-to-spot cancers, tackling climate change and building new financial platforms. In How to Be a Founder, the authors share advice, insights and lessons from their decade of experience working with individuals to become successful founders. The book covers what you need to do today to start your journey as a founder and the steps to take to maximise your chances of building a high-growth, scalable company. You'll also hear advice from some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs who have built some of most iconic technology companies of our time.
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The purpose of this book is to identify and analyze modern classics in entrepreneurship research with the goal of highlighting cutting-edge themes in the work of various scholars that are pushing the boundaries of the field, post 2000. As the entrepreneurship field matures, it is important to identify the novel contributions that will help shape the next decades of scholarship, by providing scholars with the concepts, frameworks, and approaches needed to help develop the new theories and practices of entrepreneurship. By focusing on emerging key contributions, this book takes a stance that sets it apart from other similar works by scholars that have focused only on existing themes rather than those that will characterize the relationship between entrepreneurship and new technological advances, growing inequalities, gender, diversity and inclusion, and socio-political shifts in the landscape of entrepreneurial ecosystems, allowing for critical and new conversations on entrepreneurship to take shape. This book will provide discussion on emergent themes and approaches that will continue to build the future of entrepreneurship as an exciting and rigorous academic discipline.
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• Introduction Entrepreneurship as Complex, Bundled Decisions: An Inframarginal Analysis Diverted Attention During Recessions Conceptualization of a Kirznerian-Ethnic Entrepreneur in Market Sociology The Comparative Liberty-Dignity Context of Innovative Immigrant Entrepreneurship Non-Market Competition as a Discovery Procedure Economic Development Incentives: Fostering Productive or Unproductive Entrepreneurship? Silicon Valley vs. Main Street: Theoretical Explorations of the Regulatory Impact on Different Types of Entrepreneurial Ventures.
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What is the significance of entrepreneurship in an economy? Scholars have argued that when the market is viewed as a process of perpetual adjustment to various forces, and not as a set of end-state prices and quantities simply arrived at, the role of the entrepreneur comes to the fore. What then are fruitful ways to conceive of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship? How do entrepreneurs both respond to and shape larger forces in the economy? In what ways can political institutions and government regulation shape the decisions made by entrepreneurs, and their responsiveness to consumers? How does the cultural environment influence the types of opportunities that an entrepreneur will notice and act on? Finally, is entrepreneurial behavior strictly limited to activity we see in the market? This edited volume-comprised of chapters by scholars and students studying from the disciplines of sociology and economics-examines entrepreneurship theoretically and applied to various cases. It provides an overview of the economic literature on entrepreneurship and puts forth a framework for understanding the market process, as well the policy implications of government intervention and cultural considerations in the market. It will be of use to any scholars, students, practitioners or policymakers interested in entrepreneurship.
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• Entrepreneurship. Ausgewählte Fragestellungen und Perspektiven
• Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Abbildungsverzeichnis
• Tabellenverzeichnis
• Autor*innenverzeichnis
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis
• 1. Vorwort
• Literatur
• 2. Die Bedeutung von Corporate Social Entrepreneurship fürUnternehmen
• 2.1 Einleitung
• 2.2 Entrepreneurship
• 2.2.1 Corporate Entrepreneurship
• 2.2.2 Social Entrepreneurship
• 2.2.3 Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
• 2.3 Die Bedeutung von Corporate Social Entrepreneurship für Unternehmen
• 2.3.1 Wirtschaftlicher Mehrwert
• 2.3.2 Gesellschaftlicher Mehrwert

• 2.3.3 Shared-Value
• 2.4 Fazit
• 2.5 Literaturverzeichnis
• 3. Wirkungsmessung und politische und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen als Herausforderungen der Finanzierungvon Social Entrepreneurship in Deutschland
• 3.1 Einleitung
• 3.2 Social Entrepreneurship
• 3.2.1 Abgrenzung von Entrepreneurship
• 3.2.2 Definition
• 3.3 Finanzierung von Social Entrepreneurship
• 3.3.1 Innenfinanzierung
• 3.3.2 Außenfinanzierung
• 3.4 Herausforderungen bei der Finanzierung von Social Entrepreneurship
• 3.4.1. Wirkungsmessung im Social Entrepreneurship
• 3.4.2 Politische und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen

• 3.5 Fazit
• 3.6 Literaturverzeichnis
• 4. Welche Bedeutung haben Geschlechterstereotypen im Entrepreneurship? Untersuchung ausgewählter Stereotype und Vorurteile
• 4.1 Einleitung
• 4.2 Geschlechterforschung
• 4.2.1 Arbeit als Forschungsobjekt der Geschlechterforschung
• 4.2.2 Münchner Ansatz
• 4.2.3 Hannoveraner Ansatz
• 4.3 Definitorische Grundlagen
• 4.3.1 Social Role Theory
• 4.3.2 Role Congruity Theory
• 4.4 Geschlechterstereotype und Vorurteile
• 4.4.1 Der typische Entrepreneur
• 4.4.2 Gründungsmotivation
• 4.4.3 Performance von Entrepreneuren
• 4.5 Fazit
• 4.5.1 Limitationen

• 4.5.2 Ausblick
• 4.6 Literaturverzeichnis
• 5. Entrepreneurial environment in der Europäischen Union und der Afrikanischen Union
• ein Vergleich
• 5.1 Einleitung
• 5.2 Definitionen
• 5.2.1 Entrepreneur
• 5.2.2 Entrepreneurial Environment
• 5.3 Entrepreneurial Environment in der Europäischen Union
• 5.3.1 Geschäftsumfeld
• 5.3.2 Politische Faktoren
• 5.3.3 Wirtschaftliche Faktoren
• 5.3.4 Kulturelle Faktoren
• 5.4 Entrepreneurial Environment in der Afrikanischen Union
• 5.4.1 Geschäftsumfeld
• 5.4.2 Politische Faktoren
• 5.4.3 Wirtschaftliche Faktoren
• 5.4.4 Kulturelle Faktoren

• 5.5 Unternehmerische Aktivität in der EU und der AU
• 5.6 Fazit
• 5.7 Literaturverzeichnis

• Introduction: A Primer on International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
• Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu and Paul JonesChapter 1. A Network Perspective on the Intermittent Internationalizing Experiences of Emerging Economy Entrepreneurial SMEs
• Zubair Ali Shahid, Leonie Hallo Chapter 2. Managerial Attributes and Collaborative Behaviours as Determinants of Export Propensity: Evidence from Turkish SMEs
• Ali Kemal Celik, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Adah-Kole Onjewu, Paul Jones Chapter 3. Assessing the Impact of Social Forces in International Opportunity Recognition: A Case Study of Brazilian Technology Firms
• Nuno Arroteia, Khalid Hafeez Chapter 4. Driving Business Exports in Emerging Markets: Business Clusters as a Policy Option for Internationalisation
• Anthony Ayakwah, Ellis L.C. Osabutey, Isaac Sakyi Damoah Chapter 5. Outward Internationalisation of Emerging Market Small & Medium Sized Enterprises: Contract Manufacturing Relationship with Developed Market Multinational Enterprise(s) and Capabilities Development
• Ahmad Arslan, Sean Naughton, Abdollah Mohammadparast Tabas, Vesa Puhakka Chapter 6. Trade Barriers and Assistance Requirements of South Asian Transnational Entrepreneurs
• Shiv Chaudhry, Dave Crick, James M. Crick Chapter 7. Barriers and Drivers of SME's Internationalisation in Emerging Markets: Study of Sri Lankan Youth Entrepreneurs
• Gayathri Ranasinghe Chapter 8. The CAGE around Internationalization of SMEs and the Role of Government
• Paul Agu Igwe, Frederick Kanyembo.
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Among several themes in contemporary entrepreneurship, internationalisation generates extensive interest among scholars due to its exploration of dynamic activity within SMEs seeking market development and operational efficiency through foreign alliance and intelligence gathering opportunities. In the context of emerging markets, however, international entrepreneurship scholarship still lags behind first world evidence. With less developed avenues for finance and limited infrastructure support for product development and service delivery, an assessment of internationalisation within emerging contexts is required. International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets presents insights from Brazil, China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Turkey to enlighten scholars by unearthing the nature, drivers, barriers and determinants of entrepreneurship in emerging markets. It examines structural and environmental impediments to internalisation but demonstrates that these are far surpassed by the market opportunities and business readiness of SMEs in emerging environments. Readers of this tenth volume of the Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research series will find exclusive evidence from emerging countries, evidence that demonstrates the inclination of SMEs to revise products and, when appropriate, dissolve and recreate relationships in the face of market opportunity and uncertainty. Managers will learn that appropriating a range of attributes are more likely to achieve internationalisation. Capturing the true nature of value creation for international consumers and partners in an emerging market backdrop, this volume makes a significant contribution to the literature by mapping out the road to success within this diverse setting.
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Bringing hard data to the way we think about entrepreneurial success, this bold call to action draws on the latest scientific evidence to dispel the most pervasive startup myths and light a path to entrepreneurship for those eclipsed by the hype.When you think of a successful entrepreneur, who comes to mind? Bill Gates? Mark Zuckerberg? Or maybe even Jesse Eisenberg, the man who played Zuckerberg in The Social Network? It may surprise you that most successful founders look very different from Zuckerberg or Gates. In fact, most startup origin stories are very different from the famous "unicorns" that have achieved valuations of over $1 billion, from Facebook to Google to Uber. In The Unicorn's Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors, Wharton School professor Ethan Mollick takes us to the forefront of an empirical revolution in entrepreneurship. New data and better research methods have overturned the conventional wisdom behind what a successful founder looks like, how they succeed, and how the startup ecosystem works.Among the issues he examines: Which founders are most likely to succeed? Where do the best startup ideas come from? What's the most foolproof way of securing the funding needed to take a company to the next level? Should your sales pitch really be something out of Hollywood? What's the best way to grow and scale your company and create a thriving culture that won't hinder expansion? Mollick argues that entrepreneurship is too important, both for society and for the individuals who start companies, to be eclipsed by the shadows of unicorns. He shows we can democratize entrepreneurship-but only by following an evidence-based approach that puts to rest the false narratives that surround it.
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This book is all about motivating you to become more serious in your pursuit of entrepreneurship, as the next decade could be very threatening if you don't.

A compelling account of how incorporating play into work can help us overcome the uncertainty and turbulence that surrounds work How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encourages exploration, experimentation, and curiosity while it also challenges established practices and orthodoxies. It facilitates change in people and organizations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators, this book explains why we should incorporate play into work, what play looks like, and how to encourage playfulness in individuals and organizations. Dodgson and Gann identify four key behaviors that endorse, encourage, and guide play: grace, craft, fortitude, and ambition, and provide a blueprint for an alternative way of working that fosters resilience and encourages innovation and growth in difficult times.
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A compelling account of how incorporating play into work can help us overcome the uncertainty and turbulence that surrounds work How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encourages exploration, experimentation, and curiosity while it also challenges established practices and orthodoxies. It facilitates change in people and organizations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators, this book explains why we should incorporate play into work, what play looks like, and how to encourage playfulness in individuals and organizations. Dodgson and Gann identify four key behaviors that endorse, encourage, and guide play: grace, craft, fortitude, and ambition, and provide a blueprint for an alternative way of working that fosters resilience and encourages innovation and growth in difficult times.
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• Introduction: The changing role of entrepreneurship, from a capitalist to a hybrid economy
• Part 1: Who are the new entrepreneurs of the XXI century?
• Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship and high heels
• Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship for all ages
• Chapter 3: Entrepreneurship without limits
• Part 2: How the new entrepreneurs are creating business today?
• Chapter 4: The entrepreneurial connection
• Chapter 5: Improving the expansion of business creation
• Chapter 6: Building new theories to understand entrepreneurship Conclusion: New Business Models for a new economy.
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Entrepreneurship develops around the world in accordance to the different cultural, political, economic and social contexts. Governments promote entrepreneurship as a way to improve economic growth. As capitalism changes, entrepreneurship also changes. This book describes some of the new profiles of entrepreneurs that are creating the entrepreneurial economy of the 21st Century. It presents entrepreneurship in a theoretical and pragmatic way in order to help readers to understand what entrepreneurship means today. Illustrated by socio-economic information and case studies of an international scope, two main questions are explicitly studied in this book: who are the new figures of entrepreneurs and how are they creating the companies of the future? The book is based on academic literature and serves as a reference to researchers interested in the evolution of entrepreneurship.
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There are many factors involved in becoming an effective entrepreneur. The process of recognising opportunities and nurturing new ventures must take into account both internal decision-making practice and external environmental influence. Developing, Shaping and Growing Entrepreneurship considers the role played by education, research, context and strategy in helping to grow entrepreneurial projects from the initial seed of an idea through to the fruition of success. This book is a wide-ranging examination of the influences on entrepreneurial activity that also asks new questions of entrepreneurship and opens new avenues of research. As such, it will become essential reading for academic researchers and entrepreneurial practitioners alike.
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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by some of the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Renowned entrepreneurship scholar Robert D. Hisrich provides insights into the venture creation process, as well as the entrepreneur as a person. He outlines the characteristics, motivations and decision-making processes of the entrepreneur in different settings (including businesses, government organizations and non-profits/social enterprises) to provide a comprehensive understanding of the individual who creates a new venture. Key Features include: Insights into how creativity and innovation provide a base for developing an idea A history of the development of entrepreneurship and the changing nature of the entrepreneur A focus on important aspects of a business plan Unique perspectives from corporate executives, entrepreneurs and small business managers Ideas on building a lasting company and/or ending the venture. Offering a concise, accessible and timely introduction to entrepreneurship, this thoughtful book will prove a valuable supplement to advanced students as well as practitioners of entrepreneurship and anyone interested in the field.
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