Independently published, 2021. — 432 p. — ASIN B098X5QGDG. This book is a general introduction to managing a small business. The book is meant to be a general, and simplified, introduction to the subject matter. This book treats small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept. The hope is to teach concepts that can be...
6th Global Edition. — Pearson, 2019. — 596 p. — ISBN: 9781292255330, 1292255331, 9781292255354, 1292255358. For courses in entrepreneurship. Teach the entrepreneurial process through real-world examples Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures explores the allure of entrepreneurship, teaching students how to successfully launch and grow their business. Using real...
5th Global Edition. — Pearson Education Limited, 2016. — 594 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-09537-0. This fifth edition is a thorough revision of our book. Each chapter was revised to reflect examples of current entrepreneurial firms and the latest thinking about entrepreneurship from academic journals and practitioner publications. Specifically, the following is new to the fifth edition.
5th Edition. — Pearson, 2016. — 596 p. — ISBN: 978-0-13-379719-0. For courses in entrepreneurship. A Comprehensive Guide to Business Ventures Successfully Launching New Ventures explores the allure of entrepreneurship, teaching students how to successfully start their own businesses. With real business profiles of inspiring young entrepreneurs, the text engages students through...
Updated 6th Edition, Global Edition. — Pearson, 2022. — 620 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-40282-6. Learn about the entrepreneurial process through real-world examples. Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures explores the allure of entrepreneurship, teaching students how to successfully launch and grow their businesses. Using real business profiles of inspiring young...
Springer, 2016. — 490 p. — (FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship). — ISBN: 9783319271064, 9783319271088 This volume discusses the challenge of dealing with complexity in entrepreneurship, innovation and technology research. Businesses as well as entire economies are increasingly being confronted by widespread complex systems. Fields such as entrepreneurship and...
Springer, 2014. — 200 p. — ISBN: 9788132212836 Microfinance, risk taking behavior and rural livelihood are the three dominating issues in the rural financial landscape. Inadequate access to financial services is considered to be one of the main reasons behind inadequate economic opportunity and poverty in rural India. Microfinance has played a significant role in shaping the...
AMACOM – 2011, 256 p. ISBN: 0814416063, 9780814416068 Over six million Americans start businesses every year. That's 11 startups a minute launched by passionate dreamers hop ing to transform their lives for the better. But a huge gap exists between the skyrocketing levels of desire and what entrepreneurs actually achieve. The harsh reality is that most new businesses fail...
Sourcebooks – 2006, 304 p. in color ISBN: 1572485531, 9781572485532 Secure your business's future using the right SBA loan, bank loan or equity financing for you. When it comes to your chances of receiving financing and doing it right, Financing Your Small Business provides you with all the answers you need. It helps you find ways to combine various types of financing and shows...
35th Edition. — Gale Research, 2018. — 3898 p. — ISBN: 978-1410327567. The appeal of small business ownership remains perpetually entrenched in American culture as one of the most viable avenues for achieving the American Dream. To many entrepreneurs going into business for themselves represents financial independence, an increased sense of identity and self-worth, and the...
8th Ed. — McGraw-Hill, 2017. — 494 p. — ISBN: 9781259538988 Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook, by Mary Jane Byrd takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and running a small business. While employing current research and theory, its pragmatic “how-to” perspective illustrates many practical examples and applications from the...
Springer, 2012. — 340 p. — (International Studies in Entrepreneurship, Vol. 15). — ISBN: 1461409101, 9781461409113 Businesses owned and operated by families constitute the vast majority of firms around the world. These firms are found in all industrial segments, from retail and service establishments to heavy manufacturers. Their sizes and revenues range from the smallest...
Pearson Education Limited – 2006, 590 p., 2nd edition ISBN: 027370267X, 9780273702672 This book is probably the best general small business text available at present." Dr Jonathan Lean, Principal Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Plymouth Business School, UK Want to be at the cutting edge of this dynamic and exciting subject? This text delivers the latest...
Routledge, 2022. — 208 p. This practical and important book offers ideas, examples, and suggestions that address the challenges inherent to developing and sustaining a successful family business. It explores the complex dynamics involved in working with loved ones and how to pass a business on to a new generation.
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2015. — 170 p. — ISBN: 1634825322, 9781634825320 The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was established in 1982 by the Small Business Innovation Development Act to increase the participation of small innovative companies in federally funded R&D. In establishing the program, Congress found that technological innovation plays an...
2nd Ed. — ClydeBank Media LLC, 2016. — 63 p. — ISBN10: 1945051000, 13 978-1945051005. Compliant & Professional Accounting for Small Businesses, Simplified Are you ready to optimize the financial foundation of your business? Learn how to control your cash flow, audit-proof your business, and increase your profits. Our Accounting for Small Businesses QuickStart Guide provides...
Wiley, 2017. — 337 p. — ISBN: 9780730326694 Thinking about starting a new business? Searching for new ways to run your small business better? Whether you're starting your own business from scratch or looking to grow an existing venture, this easy-to-follow guide helps you reach your small business dreams. Covering everything from marketing and business planning to legal...
4th edition. — Wiley, 2021. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-0-730-38485-4. The big ideas that you'll need to run your small business. So, you've decided to take the plunge into being an entrepreneur. (Congratulations, by the way!) Do you need advice about business structures, marketing, hiring employees, keeping the books, or modeling financial scenarios? You can do it all, with Getting...
6th edition. — Wiley, 2021. — 371 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN: 978-1119417385. Get inspired to build a profitable business with this essential guide In the latest edition of this best-selling and authoritative reference, Small Business For Dummies explains how to set your business on the path to success. Using this guide, you'll discover how to nurture your entrepreneurial...
Wiley-ISTE, 2017. — 266 p. — (Innovation and Technology Set: Volume 3). — ISBN: 978-1-78630-077-5. In presenting the concepts and the logical structure of the reasoning offered by game theory and their applications, the book explains the rational process of decision making in the framework of firm management and market competition. The book will expose both general teachings...
Wiley-ISTE, 2019. — 238 p. — ISBN: 978-1-786-30390-5. Information in all its forms is at the heart of the economic intelligence process. It is also a powerful vector of innovation and, more than ever, a balance between economic and societal forces. That is why a large part of Strategic Intelligence for the Future 2 analyzes the various aspects of information, from traditional...
Nolo – 2010, 593 p. ISBN: 141331080X, 9781413310801 Wipe out business debts and get a fresh start! Small businesses are failing at record rates, and business bankruptcies are on the rise more than 43,000 were filed in 2008-up 53% over the previous year. Bankruptcy for Small Business Owners helps small businesses assess the financial condition of their business, determine...
Wiley, 2008. — 410 p. — ISBN: 047019863X, 9780470198636 When it comes to operating a small business, it doesn't matter how good the idea is if the accounting behind the operations isn't solid. Now readers have a resource that covers the accounting tools and strategies that will help them run a successful company. They'll gain a strong foundation in basic accounting and then...
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007. — 242 p. — ISBN: 9780071487672, 0071487670 Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics! Get started using QuickBooks 2007 right away-the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions show you how to use all the new and improved features available in this powerful small business financial software. Follow along and learn to customize QuickBooks...
Marketing Best Practices, Inc. – 2003, 312 p. ISBN: 1931740577, 9781931740579 The small business world is evolving. Competition, the emergence of the Internet, and mergers and acquisitions (not to mention the recession) have forced small businesses to rethink their marketing strategies. With the recession, small businesses are finding it harder and harder to compete. Manysmall...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 200 p. — ISBN: 0230246524, 9780230246522 This is an exceptional new work on family business, showing how to maintain a balanced relationship between the family and the company, and ensure satisfactory business results. This roadmap helps the reader to build better managed and more stable family firms. Alberto Gimeno is Associate Professor at ESADE...
South-Western – 2011, 504 p. ISBN: 0538453141, 9780538453141 Small Business Management provides a balanced introduction to both entrepreneurship and small business management with a focus on achieving and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage as a small organization. Current issues including global opportunities, service, quality and technology are highlighted...
CRC Press, 2018. — 254 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-30515-1. Whether you're a small or mid-size organization, managing operations can be challenging. This book provides greater insight into the methods, techniques, and tools that can be used against a well-proven organizational improvement framework. This book offers readers an opportunity to understand how to manage their businesses...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 185 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-64776-04. This innovative book combines theoretical and practical perspectives with the power of storytelling to present a new understanding of leadership as a concept and endeavour in the small business organisation. With the assertion that leadership capability is a key function of small firm survival and growth, it underlines...
Apress, 2013. — 158 p. — ISBN: 1430261811, 9781430261810 Having met Beverly Ingle and hearing her speak about design thinking, I was enlightened and enthused. With a depth of knowledge and obvious passion for the usage of design thinking, she has already helped many business people, myself included, inject greater creativity into problem solving to deliver better results —...
Wiley, 2015. — 250 p. — ISBN: 1118779436, 9781118779439 Reviews the evolution and theory of Sustainability Footprints e.g. carbon footprint and examines the critical success factors and contributions to small to medium sized enterprises (SME) growth Assist firms in achieving sustainable growth in four key areas Innovation Impact, Cost Impact, Environmental Impact, and...
18th Edition. — Cengage Learning, 2017. — 740 p. Realize your dream for small business success with this market-leading book. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT delivers solid coverage of the fundamentals of business management as it teaches you not only how to start a business, but also how to manage, grow, and harvest a business. This market leading text places you in the role of...
CWL Publishing Enterprises, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin. 1st Edition - 2006 - 304 p. ISBN: 1-932531-77-7 Editorial Director: Jere Calmes The approach to project management outlined in this book involves three stages: preparation and planning, doing the work and keeping the project on track, and following through with the customer after the project is finished. The author offers...
Apress, 2019. — 221 p. — ISBN: 9781484238134, 9781484238141. Scale your single-person business to profitability. Increase your audience, create multiple products, and generate more profit. This book takes you through the entire process of building a scalable business from the seemingly impossible place of "being just one person." Most single-person businesses are stuck in a...
McGraw-Hill, 2003. — 273 p. — ISBN: 0071416706 This is the only book available that provides a blueprint for running a successful handyman business. Filled with hands-on, how-to information and dozens of time-saving tips, this resource is valuable to anyone who enjoys working with their hands and wants to be happily — and profitably — self-employed. It includes: where and how...
Springer, 2015. — 362 p. — ISBN: 9783319142081, 9783319142098. This book presents the reader a comprehensive understanding of the development of family business in transitional economies. Throughout eastern Europe, post-Communist countries transitioning to market-based economies are obtaining a variety of results due to diverse policy approaches. Expert contributions in this...
Career Press, 2002. — 205 p. Explains in clear, easy-to-understand, common sense terms the ways to develop the skills needed to get a message across in any speaking situation using the concept of "likeability."
John Wiley & Sons, 2014. — 384 p. — (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)). — ISBN: 1118640306, 9781118640302. The small business owner's guide to making human resources easy. More than 87 percent of Australian workplaces are small businesses employing fewer than 20 people. These small business owners know their markets, know their customers, and know how to make their...
Bookboon, 2016. — 119 p. — ISBN: 978-87-403-1298-0. Long term planning is the key to an organisation’s success. This book provides an overview of strategic planning and implementation processes. It explores the importance of planning to small organisations along with major influences on strategy such as competitors and the industry environment. It examines the role of the chief...
HarperCollins Leadership, 2023. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4002-2805-8. Speak to the heart of your target audience and create a movement around your mission or campaign through this comprehensive, step-by-step approach to crafting messages that resonate. Donald Miller, author of the best-selling Building a StoryBrand, has helped thousands of individuals, corporations, and...
Nolo, 2007. — 262 p. — ISBN: 1413307434, 9781413307436 Ready to go into business in a place you love? Take the first step - get Small Business in Paradise! We've all daydreamed of working and living where our hearts belong. Often, these thoughts remain fantasies – after all, how do you get started, and how do you succeed? Find answers to these questions and more in Small...
Springer, 2017. — 132 p. — (BestMasters). — ISBN: 9783658162542, 9783658162559. Swen Nadkarni delivers a systematic review of the literature on factors of leadership, composed of management, ownership and generation, and their influence on innovation in family businesses. For this purpose, he conducts an exhaustive systematic review process to analyze 66 relevant publications...
272 p.; Business Plus; 9.1.2013 edition (October 1, 2013) Language: English ISBN10: 1455520020 ISBN13: 978-1455520022 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to...
Springer, 2012. — 132 p. 27 illus. — ISBN: 1461430399, 9781461430407 Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise provides an overview of how small and medium business enterprises (SMEs) can use flexibility, agility, and anticipation strategies to better utilize information technology and knowledge management. Because small and medium businesses...
Springer, 2017. — 213 p. — (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management). — ISBN: 9783319445090, 9783319445083 The book aims to collect the most recent research and best practices in the cooperative and networking small business field identifying new theoretical models and describing the relationship between cooperation and networks in the small business strategy context....
South-Western, 2009. - 408 p. ISBN: 032459769X, 3 edition Family Business provides the next generation of family business owners with the knowledge and skills needed for the successful management and leadership of the family enterprise. The author, Ernesto Poza, uses both text and cases to explore a diverse set of family firms, examining the interrelationships between the...
Routledge, 1998. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0415169569 A detailed empirical study of how small business owners finance their enterprises, this volume compares the experiences of women with those of men. The author redresses an over-reliance on subjective and anecdotal evidence of discrimination in this area with a controlled study of forty matched pairs of male/female owners and their...
McGraw-Hill Education, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-1-25-958544-9. Set up a complete small business financial management system quickly and easily. Written by Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors, QuickBooks 2016: The Best Guide for Small Business shows you how to maximize all of the desktop software’s powerful capabilities, including the new and improved features for 2016. From...
8th ed. — Pearson Education Ltd., 2016. — 722 p. in color. — (Global Edition). — ISBN: 1292094869, 9781292094861 The Foundation to Building a Successful Small Business Taking a practical, hands-on approach to entrepreneurship, this text equips students with the tools and critical thinking skills they need to position themselves for enduring small business success. Now in its...
9th Edition, Global Edition. — Pearson Education, 2019. — 835 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-26602-2. For courses in small business management, entrepreneurship, and new venture creation and/or management. The foundation to building a successful small business. Taking a practical, hands-on approach to entrepreneurship, this text equips students with the tools and critical-thinking skills...
10 Edition. — Prentice Hall, 2011. — 871 p. Discover how to successfully launch and manage a small business. Open your mind to the possibilities, challenges, and rewards of becoming a small business owner with Effective Small Business Management. This text provides readers with the tools they need in order to launch and manage a small business. This edition features new and...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 449 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78471-181-8. Ideas like corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stakeholder value creation are becoming second nature to businesses across the globe. Addressing the weakness of current CSR research, this Research Handbook provides a unique perspective on small business social responsibility in both the developed and...
Wiley – 2008, 547 p., 2nd edition ISBN: 0470261242, 9780470261248 For a comprehensive, easy-to-read, A-to-Z library of everything a small business owner would need to know about starting and succeeding in business, consult The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business, 2nd Edition. Discover candid advice, effective techniques, insider...
Wiley, 2021. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-0-730-38485-4. Discover how to launch a profitable online course from scratch. In Million Dollar Micro Business: How To Turn Your Expertise Into A Digital Online Course, entrepreneur, and author Tina Tower delivers a new and smarter way to do business that avoids huge overheads and large capital investments. Fueled by recent innovations in...
Willey – 2007, 386 p. ISBN: 047012508X, 9780470125083 If you’re a small business owner, managing the financial affairs of your business can seem like a daunting task — and it’s one that far too many people muddle through rather than seek help. Now, there’s a tool-packed guide designed to help you manage your finances and run your business successfully! Small Business Financial...
Routledge, 2010. — 480 p. — 4th ed. — ISBN: 1856178617, 9781856178617 Small businesses face many challenges today, including the increasing demand by larger companies for ISO compliance. Compliance is a challenging task for any organisation and can often be time consuming and costly, particularly for small business who are unlikely to have quality assurance experts on the...
Wiley, 2019. — 577 p. — ISBN: 9781119517849 (pbk), 9781119517818 (ebk), 9781119517832. For most business owners, their single biggest “expense” (and headache) is dealing with their taxes. And while the just passed Congressional tax bill reduced taxes for many of the estimated 30 million small business owners in the U.S., the nation’s taxes continue to be complex. Not being...
Wiley, 2006. — 254 p. Owning a small business can be a fulfilling and financially rewarding experience, but to be successful, you must know what to do before starting a business; what to do while the business is up and running; and, most importantly, what to do when the business runs into trouble. With a combined fifty years of small business experience between them, authors...
Wiley, 2018. — 719 p. — (J.K. Lasser). — ISBN10: 0, 13 978-1119511540. Maximize your bottom line with the nation's most trusted small business tax guide J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2019 is the small business owner's ultimate guide to a money-saving, stress-free tax season. Providing straightforward advice from the nation's most trusted tax expert on small business taxes,...
Wiley, 2018. — 735 p. — (J.K. Lasser). — ISBN: 978-1-119-51153-3. J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2019 is the small business owner's ultimate guide to a money-saving, stress-free tax season. Providing straightforward advice from the nation's most trusted tax expert on small business taxes, this book gives you the answers you need quickly, with clear, concise guidance....
Financial Times Prentice Hall – 2009, 452 p. ISBN: 0273721550, 9780273721550 A must for any small business owner' Federation of Small Businesses Starting your own business can be a daunting task. The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up is a comprehensive and trusted guide that will cover every important aspect of your business start up. It offers essential guidance on...
31th Edition. — Pearson Education, 2019. — 454 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-25920-8. ‘As comprehensive an introduction to setting up a business as anyone could need.’ The Daily Telegraph. ‘The Wisden of the small business world, threaded through with common sense practical advice’. The Daily Mail. ‘A must for any small business owner’. Federation of Small Businesses. Whether you’re...
McGraw-Hill Education, 2011. — 206 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-175257-2. Turn your great idea into BIG PROFITS with a powerful, persuasive business plan! With any endeavor, good planning is the key to good results — especially in the launch of a new business or product. Business Plans That Work gives you an easy-to-follow template for conceptualizing, writing, focusing, and revising a...
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