The Search for Entrepreneurship: Finding More Questions Than Answers

ISBN-13: 9781032242316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 134 str.

Simon Bridge

Opis

Since the 1980s, governments have often sought to encourage entrepreneurship on the assumption that it creates small businesses as the primary drivers of job creation. As a result, entrepreneurship has become a valid subject for academic research attracting extensive funding. Despite this explosion of scholarship, there is no accepted

Spis treści

Preface

Chapter 1 Why: Why have we been searching for entrepreneurship and why write this book

Chapter 2 A history of work (and the options for addressing life needs)

Chapter 3 Observations of entrepreneurs – and entrepreneurship

Chapter 4 Reflections on what has been found

Chapter 5 Revisiting entrepreneurship

Chapter 6 Suppose entrepreneurship (as we have conceived it) doesn’t exist

Chapter 7 What makes people more entrepreneurial?

Chapter 8 What has produced sustained economic growth?

Chapter 9 To conclude

O autorze

Simon Bridge is a visiting Professor at the University of Ulster. He joined LEDU (Local Enterprise Development Unit – the Northern Ireland government’s small business agency) in 1984 where he was the Enterprise Development Director. In 1993, he set up his own business as a consultant and a facilitator of enterprise and voluntary/community sector development. His clients have included government departments and agencies, district councils, local enterprise agencies, universities and further education institutions, private businesses and many third sector bodies – and his work for them has included feasibility studies, economic appraisals, business cases, funding applications, project evaluations and, where required, business plans. He has also undertaken assignments in Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Mozambique, Romania, Lithuania and Turkey and served on the boards of several third sector enterprises.