{"product_id":"understanding-enterprise-entrepreneurs-and-small-business-9781137584540","title":"Understanding Enterprise Entrepreneurs and Small","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimon Bridge has been involved in formulating, delivering and\/or assessing enterprise policy for nearly 30 years, most recently as an enterprise and economic development consultant and before that as the Enterprise Director of a small business agency. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster. His other books include Rethinking Enterprise Policy: Can Failure Trigger New Understanding? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and, co-written with Brendan Murtagh and Ken O'Neill, Understanding the Social Economy and the Third Sector (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)Ken O'Neill is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ulster, a former President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), a member of the Steering Committee of the International Small Business Congress (ISBC), a former President of the UK's Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), and is a Director of The Genesis Initiative. In 2005 he became the first person to receive The Queen's Award for Enter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBridge and O'Neill's fifth edition is a benchmark text for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers. This text masterfully provides a powerful description illustrating the intersection between enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business. I strongly recommend. * Amon Simba, Nottingham Business School, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis book challenges a lot of our perceived knowledge on SMEs and entrepreneurs as well as the nature of policy interventions, emphasising as it does that knowledge creation is a process of questioning conventional wisdom. Reading this textbook is important if you want to be part of the process of new knowledge creation. * Anders Lundström, Institute of Innovative Entpreneurship, Sweden *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: THE EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISE UNDERSTANDING  1. Introduction Understanding Enterprise  2. A Brief History of Enterprise Understanding  3. Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: Their Meanings and Variations  4. Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: Understanding Their Nature  5. Small Businesses: Their Characteristics and Variety  6. Small Businesses: Understanding their Dynamics  7. Social Enterprise and the Third Sector  PART II: CHALLENGES TO THE TRADITIONAL VIEW  8. Rethinking Small Business  9. Rethinking Entrepreneurship  10. Enterprise and Life  11. Becoming an Entrepreneur  12. Running a Small Business  13. Social Capital and the Enterprise Mix  PART III: ENTERPRISE POLICY AND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION  14. Why Governments Intervene: The Aims of Enterprise Policy  15. Enterprise Policy: Approaches and Delivery Methods  16. Does the Policy Work?  17. What Might Work?  18. The Impact of Change.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019445731671,"sku":"9781137584540","price":61.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781137584540.jpg?v=1750780293","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-enterprise-entrepreneurs-and-small-business-9781137584540","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}