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  • The Aspiring Entrepreneurship Scholar

    Strategies and Advice for a Successful Academic Career

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book offers helpful insight and advice on how doctoral students and junior faculty can succeed as an entrepreneurship scholar. It invites them to think entrepreneurially to identify research opportunities, manage the publication process, achieve excellence in the classroom, secure a faculty position, and build a research record worthy of promotion and tenure. Drawing from his experience as a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure

    Emotions, Cognitions, and Actions

    Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure provides an important counterweight to the multitude of books that focus on entrepreneurial success. Failure is by far the most common scenario for new ventures and a critical part of the entrepreneurial process is learning from failure and having the motivation to try again. This book examines the various obstacles to learning from failure and explores how ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Spontaneous Venturing

    An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering in the Aftermath of a Disaster

    Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering.In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions—the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This approach, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • 66 Simple Rules for Entrepreneurs

    A Roadmap for Improved Performance

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book is your ticket to entrepreneurial success! Learn practical tips to think more like an entrepreneur, spot opportunities, build key relationships, tell compelling stories, and grow your venture. Discover the secrets to overcoming challenges, managing stress, and making decisions in the dynamic world of entrepreneurship. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting, ... Read more

    Free

  • Entrepreneurial Theorizing

    An Approach to Research

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book investigates an entrepreneurial approach to building new theories. It provides a rich understanding of how specific tools facilitate aspects of the theorizing process and offers a clearer big picture of the process of building important new entrepreneurship theories. The authors show that anthropomorphizing has been a critically important tool for developing influential ... Read more

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  • Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity

    The Bright, the Dark, and the in Between

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within ... Read more

    Free

  • Entrepreneurial Strategy

    Starting, Managing, and Scaling New Ventures

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book focuses on explaining differences amongst organizations regarding various attributes, forms, and outcomes. By focusing on the “how” of new venture creation and management to produce well-established organizations, the authors aim to increase our understanding of the antecedents of most management research assumptions. New ventures are the source of most newly created jobs ... Read more

    Free

  • Trailblazing in Entrepreneurship

    Creating New Paths for Understanding the Field

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.In this book, the authors present a challenge for future research to build a stronger, more complete understanding of entrepreneurial phenomena. They argue that this more complete picture of entrepreneurial phenomena will likely come from scholars who undertake at least some trailblazing projects; from scholars who broaden the range of research ... Read more

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  • Entrepreneurial Cognition

    Exploring the Mindset of Entrepreneurs

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book investigates the inter-relationship between the mind and a potential opportunity to explore the psychology of entrepreneurship. Building on recent research, this book offers a broad scope investigation of the different aspects of what goes on in the mind of the (potential) entrepreneur as he or she considers the pursuit of a potential opportunity, the creation of a new ... Read more

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    How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal

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    Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Positive School Leadership

    Building Capacity and Strengthening Relationships

    This landmark book translates positive and asset-based understandings of organizations to develop a powerful model of school leadership that is grounded in both existing research and the complexities of life in schools. The authors—both senior scholars in educational leadership—apply insights from positive psychology to the role and function of educational leaders. The Positive School Leadership ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology

    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Why do consumers make the purchases they do, and which ones make them truly happy? Why are consumers willing to spend huge sums of money to appear high status? This Handbook addresses these key questions and many more. It provides a comprehensive overview of consumer psychology, examining cutting-edge research at the individual, interpersonal, and societal levels. Leading scholars summarize past ... Read more

    $54.99 USD