This exciting new book provides the 'big picture' on small business and entrepreneurship. Written by two recognised experts, active teachers and researchers at one of the world's most respected business schools, it explores both the prevalence and importance of small and start-up businesses.
Entrepreneurs and small businesses are highly diverse, so the book looks to apply broad brush strokes to learn from general patterns where possible. It identifies evidence where it is clear, but equally acknowledges where knowledge is limited or certain conclusions are impossible to draw. Perhaps most importantly, it makes clear that small businesses are not just scaled-down big businesses: they behave, respond, and are organised differently to large organisations.
For Students: Financial Times video interviews with entrepreneurs and small business owners, weblinks to organisations cited in the book, flashcard glossary to help with revision.
For Instructors:instructor manual, PowerPoint slides.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Understanding Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship
Chapter 1: Small Businesses: The Big Picture
Chapter 2: Understanding Entrepreneurship
Chapter 3: Defining the Small Business
Chapter 4: Working in Small Businesses
Chapter 5: Innovation and the Small Business
Part Two: New Business Formation
Chapter 6: Defining and Measuring Start Ups
Chapter 7: New Entrepreneurs and Social Networks
Chapter 8: The Economics of Start Ups
Part Three: Business Closure
Chapter 9: Defining and Measuring Business Closure
Chapter 10: Analysing Business Closure
Part Four: Business Growth
Chapter 11: Defining Business Growth
Chapter 12: Analysing and Measuring Business Growth
Chapter 13: Growing the Business: Pre Start-Up Factors
Chapter 14: Growing the Business: At Start-Up Factors
Chapter 15: Growing the Business: Post Start-Up Factors
Part 5: Finance and the Small Business
Chapter 16: Theories of Small Business Finance
Chapter 17: Debt Finance for Small Businesses
Chapter 18: Equity Finance for Small Businesses
Part 6: Public Policy and the Small Business
Chapter 19: Public Policy, Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
Chapter 20: Macro Policies towards Small Businesses
Chapter 21: Small Business Policy in Practice
Case Studies
Case Study 1 - Understanding Enterprise: Competition at the Crematorium - Burgess and Sons versus Austin's
Case Study 2 - Understanding Enterprise: Dragonfly Consulting - Employer or Employee?
Case Study 3 - Formation and Growth - The changing fortunes of Runner and Sprue
Part 1 - Runner and Sprue's Business Plan
Part 2 - Developing and Commercialising Runner and Sprue
Part 3 - Sprue Aegis: the IPO
Part 4 - Sprue Aegis: Reaching for the Stars and StripesBusiness
Part 5 - Growing pains for Sprue Aegis?
Case Study 4 - Business Closure: Tahir Mohsan - Running out of Time?
Case Study 5 - Business Closure: The English Grocer - Right idea, wrong time?
Case Study 6 - Finance: Four options facing Two Seasons
Case Study 7 - Public Policy In Your Hands
Part 1 - Defining 'Entrepreneurship'
Part 2 - Measuring Entrepreneurship
Part 3 - Policy Choices
Part 4 - Assessing the Policy Choice
Case Study 8 - Tax and the Small Business: Tax breaks, high stakes
Glossary
