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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
International African Bibliography
Author: Ethnic Communities in Business
Author: Robin WardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521263271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The first broad review of the development of business among ethnic minorities in Britain.
Culture | 2030 indicators
Author: UNESCOPublisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231003550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Financial Market Trends
Author: Innovation and Small Firms
Author: Zoltán J. ÁcsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262011136
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Utilizing a unique data set, Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch provide a rich empirical analysis of the increased importance of small firms in generating technological innovations and their growing contribution to the U.S. economy. They identify the contributions made by both small and large firms to the innovative process and the manner in which market structure, and the firm-size distribution in particular, responds to technological change. The authors' analysis relies on traditional theories of industrial organization and tests existing hypotheses, many of them previously untested due to data constraints. Innovation and Small Firms brings together two large data bases recently released by the U. S. Small Business Administration - one directly measuring innovative activity for large and small firms, the other providing a detailed census of economic activity for all manufacturing firms and plants across a broad spectrum of industries. Acs and Audretsch describe and evaluate the data bases in the context of the literature on innovation, market structure, and firm size. They present their findings on the presence of small firms, small-firm entry in manufacturing, small-firm growth and flexible technology, and mobility and firm size. They compare static and dynamic measures of small-firm viability and address the relationships between R&D, innovation, and productivity, and analyze the interaction between technological regimes and the role of government in innovation.
Off the Books
Author: Sudhir Alladi VenkateshPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674044647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
Small Firm Growth
Author: Per DavidssonPublisher: Now Publishers Inc
ISBN: 1601983565
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Small Firm Growth comprehensively reviews the empirical literature on small firm growth to highlight and integrate what is known about this phenomenon and take stock of what past experiences of researching this area implies for how the phenomenon can or should be studied in future research.
Entrepreneurship As Practice
Author: Neil Aaron ThompsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000434788
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
This innovative book takes seriously the ordinary activities of entrepreneurship and maps out new pathways for scholars to understand the nature, properties, and implications of studying practices for entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship is neither an art nor a science, but a bundle of practices, as Peter Drucker once observed. Curiously however, academic research on entrepreneurship mostly abstracts away from practical activity. In contrast, Entrepreneurship As Practice takes ordinary activities of entrepreneurship seriously by mapping out new pathways for scholars to consider the everyday practices through which entrepreneurship occurs. Each chapter draws on contemporary theories of practice to illuminate the nature, properties, and implications of studying the practices of entrepreneurship. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.
Entrepreneurial Action
Author: Andrew C. CorbettPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1780529015
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Volume 14 addresses the central issue of entrepreneurial action: while many factors are important to the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship does not happen until someone takes action!
Transformative Learning in Practice
Author: Jack MezirowPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118045432
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How does the teaching setting shape the practice of TL? What are the successes, strengths, and outcomes of fostering TL? What are the risks and challenges when practicing TL in the classroom?