Every leader needs to move people to action and align everyone's actions toward the same goal. But how is this best accomplished? Words are a leader's greatest tool, and metaphors are the most potent combination of words available. If a leader wants to be successful in communica…
This book provides guidance on what makes a new venture more likely to attract external financing, with an emphasis on business angel investment. The author incorporates the views of business angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and legal advisors; draws upon the latest a…
An analysis and prediction of the "new wave" of self-employment calls for Americans to wake up to the fact that commitment to a traditional corporate structure does not guarantee personal validation or financial security.
"A group of multidisciplinary and international researchers and scholars deliver their summary and analysis of current research and their views on how gender and work intersect along a variety of societal, economic, interpersonal, and organizational paradigms."--Jacket.
According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. Despite being shocking and true, this is mostly preventable. Many entrepreneurs cite undercapitalization at the outset of starting a business as a major reason for failure. Th…
Adolf Meier’s Konzertante Musik für Kontrabaß in der Wiener Klassik shows how the contrabass player and composer Johann Matthias Sperger (1750–1812) participated in both the public and private arenas of high society, toured as a soloist, and played in the leading Kapelle orchest…
This research focuses on business formation and small business strategy in the informal economy. More specifically, it addresses three essential questions related to unregistered firms: why they are created, how they achieve results, and where they locate. This research uses a v…
In the United States, the past twenty years has witnessed a growing academic interest in understanding 'globalization,' i.e., a series of interconnected social, cultural, and political processes occurring under integrated economies. Management scholars have tried to understand g…
This dissertation examines the contributions of private military contractors and their networks to the development of empire in early modern Europe and to the emergence of new forms of expertise and professionalism. The focus is transregional. It explores the experiences of Ital…
The purpose of the research is to assess the influence of the entrepreneur's characteristics and strategies on the Egyptian firm's status of competitiveness. Moreover, almost all of the existing literature and empirical studies relating to SMEs issues have been staged in develop…
Although the contribution of the small enterprise to a nation’s economy, job creation and innovation is well known, comparatively little is understood on how small firms behave strategically and how the more common patterns of strategic behaviour relate to different levels of or…
This study focuses on Arab Americans' entrepreneurial success. It is a qualitative study using the phenomenological approach. The problem addresses the lack of ability to comprehend the importance of the marketing strategy required for success. In this inductive approach, 10 suc…