Archive for May, 2010

Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

May 31st, 2010

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Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship play a crucial role in the development of human society. This title explores various aspects of these three elements of business, how they can be applied by groups and individuals, and how they have influenced the past, molded the present, and might affect the future of our world…. More >>

Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Organizations Evolving

May 25th, 2010

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“Howard Aldrich and Martin Ruef’s tour de force shows us how the evolutionary approach can explain change not only in organizational populations, but within sectors and within organizations. Aldrich and Ruef display an astonishing command of the management literature, using vivid illustrations from cutting edge research to show how the processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle operate within organizations and across them. A lucid and engaging book… More >>

Organizations Evolving

The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action

May 21st, 2010

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Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone, and experts in international entrepreneurship have likewise noted the importance of groups in securing microcredit and advancing entrepreneurial initiatives in the developing world. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. The Entrepren… More >>

The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action

Social Entrepreneurship Business Models: Incentive Strategies to Catalyze Public Goods Provision

May 19th, 2010

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An exploration of how social entrepreneurial organizations are able to create solutions that tackle today’s global social and ecological problems. Sommerrock provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of social entrepreneurship as well as a sound theoretical foundation. She identifies incentives as a key element of social entrepreneurial value creation and details specific strategies for social value creation based on the structured analysis of actual exampl… More >>

Social Entrepreneurship Business Models: Incentive Strategies to Catalyze Public Goods Provision

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organization

May 13th, 2010

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The secret to sustainable competitive advantage for large organizations in the changing business environment is not simply lowering costs or restructuring for efficiency. Companies need to be adaptable, flexible, speedy, creative, innovative and opportunistic. In short, they need to act in an entrepreneurial manner. Corporate Entrepreneurship is about the ability of a large organization to make the most of commercial opportunities, to innovate, to do things differen… More >>

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organization