Resourcing the Start-Up Business: Creating Dynamic Entrepreneurial Learning CapabilitiesStarting a business successfully requires numerous skills and resources. The alarming rate of failures associated with new ventures suggests that potential entrepreneurs would welcome expert advice at the most vital stage in the life of any business. The expert author team focus on those resources, skills, capabilities and learning required by any entrepreneur in the process of starting a new business. Specifically, this text aims to:
Drawing on the most up-to-date and most relevant research, this concise textbook provides students and academics of entrepreneurship with a practical guide to acquiring the appropriate resources in order to start a new firm. |
Contents
dynamic entrepreneurial learning capabilities | |
The changing nature of entrepreneurial theory | |
Learning to be an entrepreneur | |
Knowledge skills and capabilities | |
Networks social capital and entrepreneurial resources | |
Resourcing startup businesses | |
Enhancing tangible resources | |
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