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  • Entrepreneurial Theorizing

    An Approach to Research

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt ...
    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 Cognition

    Exploring the Mindset of Entrepreneurs

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt ...
    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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  • Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure

    Emotions, Cognitions, and Actions

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Trenton Williams, Marcus Wolfe, Holger Patzelt ...
    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

  • Entrepreneurial Strategy

    Starting, Managing, and Scaling New Ventures

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt ...
    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

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  • The Entrepreneurial Compass

    How Entrepreneurs Think, Decide, and Act Under Uncertainty

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Entrepreneurs today face environments that shift suddenly, resist prediction, and demand constant recalibration. This open access book offers a clear, human-centered guide for navigating that uncertainty by focusing not on rigid plans, but on how people actually think, feel, and act when the stakes are high. Drawing on decades of research across entrepreneurship, psychology, and management, it ... Read more

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  • The Aspiring Entrepreneurship Scholar

    Strategies and Advice for a Successful Academic Career

    by Dean A. Shepherd ...
    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

  • Spontaneous Venturing

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

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Trenton A. Williams ...
    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

  • Asperger Syndrome and Employment

    Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome

    by Stephen William Cornwell, Emma Beard, John Biddulph, Vicky Bliss, Philip Bricher, Alexandra Brown, Stephen Jarvis, PJ Hughes, Chris Mitchell, Giles Harvey, Mark Haggarty, Anne Henderson, Dean Worton, Neil Shepherd, Stuart Vallentine ...
    This is the book we need for guidance on employment for people with Asperger's syndrome. The contributors describe their employment experiences and offer sound advice. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the success stories and took note of the words of warning of what not to do.'- Professor Tony AttwoodEmployment is an important part of a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life but less than 20 per cent ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • 66 Simple Rules for Entrepreneurs

    A Roadmap for Improved Performance

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt, Nicola Breugst ...
    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

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  • Asperger Syndrome and Social Relationships

    Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome

    by Stephen William Cornwell, Alexandra Brown, Vicky Bliss, Liane Holliday Willey, Anne Henderson, Giles Harvey, Chris Mitchell, PJ Hughes, Stephen Jarvis, Kamlesh Pandya, Hazel Dawn Lockwood Pottage, Neil Shepherd, Dean Worton, Wenn Lawson ...
    This book is essential reading to understand the social abilities of adults with Asperger's syndrome. The contributors each have different personalities and experiences, but together they provide a range of strategies to encourage people with Asperger's syndrome to achieve the social relationships they desire.'- Professor Tony AttwoodSocial interaction among neurotypical people is complex and in ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Pageant

    by Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Mr Simon Shepherd ...
    Series series Forms of Drama
    Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form.By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity

    The Bright, the Dark, and the in Between

    by Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent ...
    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

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