{"product_id":"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-9781789733181","title":"The Entrepreneurial Dilemma in the Life Cycle of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntrepreneurial 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.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Entrepreneurial Dilemma in the Life Cycle of the Small Firm\u003c\/i\u003e 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.   \u003cbr\u003e  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.  \u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasurel’s goal is that his book will be the new textbook on entrepreneurship for post-graduate and executive students in higher education. He focuses on the decisions that the entrepreneur as the owner-manager of a small firm has to make for the further development of his firm. Chapter one deals with the theoretical background of entrepreneurship and small business in a number of approaches. Chapter two bridges chapters one and three as it deals with the subject of entrepreneurship education. Chapter three presents 10 education cases on the entrepreneurial dilemma from a broad perspective of different sectors. These cases are to be incorporated in entrepreneurship education and to contribute to the understanding of the entrepreneurial dilemma during the life cycle of the firm. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Theoretical background of entrepreneurship \u003c\/b\u003e Section 1.1 Entrepreneurship  Section 1.2 Innovation  Section 1.3 Sustainable entrepreneurship  Section 1.4 Characteristics of small businesses  Section 1.4.1 Quantitative characteristics  Section 1.4.2 Qualitative characteristics  Section 1.5 Stages in the development of small businesses (life cycle of the firm)  Section 1.5.1 Protection of the start-up firm  Section 1.5.2 Exit strategies  Section 1.6 Different types of entrepreneurs  Section 1.7 Different roles of the entrepreneur  Section 1.8 Entrepreneurial competences  Section 1.9 Entrepreneurial motivation  Section 1.10 Entrepreneurial behavior  Section 1.11 Small business finance   \u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Entrepreneurship Education \u003c\/b\u003e Section 2.1 Three approaches in entrepreneurship education  Section 2.2 Different teaching forms of entrepreneurship education  Section 2.3 Different teaching materials for entrepreneurship education  Section 2.4 The consistency between the teaching approaches in, the teaching forms of and the teaching materials  for entrepreneurship education   \u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Cases with The Entrepreneurial Dilemma in the Development of the Small Firms \u003c\/b\u003e Case  1: To protect or not to protect (that is the question)?  Case 2: From nascent entrepreneur to start-up entrepreneur: Capable or not?  Case 3: From early growth to late growth: More (financial) manager or not?  Case 4: From late maturity to decline or to closing down?  Case 5: Scientist or university spin-off?  Case 6: Official green or officious green?  Case 7: Entrepreneurship outside the western world: far away or close?  Case 8: The successor in the family business: first son or second son?  Case 9: Entrepreneurship in the DIY sector: Franchisee or not? Case 10: Sell the firm to the highest bidder or give it another swing?    \u003cb\u003eAppendices \u003c\/b\u003e Appendix A. The financial plan  Appendix B. Case: The financial plan of Pizza Pete  Appendix C. Business Model Canvas 2018  Appendix D. Lean Startup in a nutshell  Appendix E. 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