Crossroads of Entrepreneurship

Crossroads of Entrepreneurship
Author: Guido Corbetta
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2004-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1402077718

Combines different disciplinary perspectives: management, economics, sociology, business history. Addresses current topics like ethnic entrepreneurship, the role of the state and state-owned companies in promoting entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and family business, collective entrepreneurship, differences in entrepreneurship dynamics around the world. Gathers perspectives from different countries and research traditions. Softcover version of the original that published in March 2004.

Learning at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice

Learning at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice
Author: Piet Van den Bossche
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2012-03-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 940072845X

Core concepts in education are changing. For example, professional performance or expertise is not uniquely the fruit of specialist knowledge acquired at professional schools, but the sum of influences exerted by a complex web of continuous learning opportunities for which an individual is well (or ill) prepared by their schools and their workplace. The key contributory factors to professional expertise are how professional schools connect to professional practice, how schools prepare graduates for continuous learning, and how the workplace endorses continuous development. Thus, the question this volume addresses—how to design learning and working environments that facilitate the integration of these three elements—is at the heart of contemporary pedagogical theory. The authors also ask a second vital question: how do we educate learners that go on to maximize their life’s learning opportunities by regulating their own ongoing learning? Learning at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice argues that with the theory of learning at a crossroads, this is an unprecedented opportunity for learning about learning. The book sheds light on different elements of this challenge: integrating theory and practice in business education, generating and fully exploiting workplace learning opportunities, and enriching our classrooms by coupling theoretical knowledge with the richness of real-life experience.

Social Business

Social Business
Author: Andrea Grove
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642452752

Conceptualized and put into practice by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dr. Muhammad Yunus, social businesses work to address social ills such as poverty, lack of health care, gaps in education and environmental challenges. This book explores the ideation, practice and evaluation of the concept of social business. Not just theoretical foundations but several case studies of social businesses around the world and state-of-the-art assessment of the issues that arise in the planning, marketing and evaluation of social businesses, are featured in this book. This cutting-edge collection of articles, presented by the California Institute for Social Business (CISB) in collaboration with Professor Yunus, is one of the first comprehensive collections of theory and research on the emerging field of social business. The diverse group of authors come from around the world and from various disciplinary backgrounds, representing the leading academic experts on social business phenomena.

The Routledge Companion to Creativity

The Routledge Companion to Creativity
Author: Tudor Rickards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135978476

Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational theory, but also defines the conditions in which creativity can flourish, and assesses how the contemporary business environment has an impact on creative solutions. The volume grounds the concept of creativity in a sound theoretical framework and explores issues of practical and theoretical consequence covering a range of themes, including: innovation and entrepreneurship creativity and design environmental influences knowledge management meta-theories of creativity personal creativity structured interventions. Comprising contributions written by an unusually wide array of leading creativity scholars, The Routledge Companion to Creativity is an insightful and cutting edge resource. It is an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in creativity from a business, psychology or design perspective.

Quantum Theory at the Crossroads

Quantum Theory at the Crossroads
Author: Guido Bacciagaluppi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2009-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139643711

The 1927 Solvay conference was perhaps the most important in the history of quantum theory. Contrary to popular belief, questions of interpretation were not settled at this conference. Instead, a range of sharply conflicting views were extensively discussed, including de Broglie's pilot-wave theory (which de Broglie presented for a many-body system), Born and Heisenberg's 'quantum mechanics' (which apparently lacked wave function collapse or fundamental time evolution), and Schrödinger's wave mechanics. Today, there is no longer a dominant interpretation of quantum theory, so it is important to re-evaluate the historical sources and keep the debate open. This book contains a complete translation of the original proceedings, with essays on the three main interpretations presented, and a detailed analysis of the lectures and discussions in the light of current research. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of quantum theory.

Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Author: Laura Spence
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9048193311

This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private businesses are small or medium sized. This book goes some way to helping us understand the social and ethical contribution of this majority organizational form. The first section of the book is a global round-up of research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises from major regions of the world. In the second section smaller scale research projects from a variety of countries present both empirical and theoretical advances in the area. Anyone with an interest in ethics and small and medium sized enterprises should find this an inspiring book which paves the way for future research.

Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise

Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise
Author: Gerard McElwee
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-05-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1784415510

This book examines the illegal behaviour of entrepreneurs and discusses how criminal entrepreneurs acquire information, learn from their entrepreneurial experiences, and utilize acquired knowledge to develop their organizations.

Sustainable Luxury

Sustainable Luxury
Author: Miguel Angel Gardetti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-06-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811306230

This book highlights ten cases of entrepreneurship that – in the context of circular economy – have redefined the paradigm of luxury and the notion of exclusivity that it requires. It shows how, by using technology and a new consumption model, the ten companies have created novel business models for luxury, and more intelligent forms of use better-suited to modern times.

Transformative Food Value Chains for Local Development

Transformative Food Value Chains for Local Development
Author: Silke Maria Stöber
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2024-01-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 2832543669

Understanding the capacity of food systems to undertake a transformation towards sustainability requires understanding how resources stream in and out of the systems. As complex socio-economic structures, food and agricultural value chains are important means for channeling resources, knowledge, and agency in and out of rural areas. Given their prominent role on the development agendas, there is mixed evidence as to what extent value chains and their actors can contribute to improving the livelihoods in poor rural and urban areas. In order to shape sustainable living places, transformative capacities and good governance are important mainstays. Transformative agri-food value chains are robust and often act as the sole transmission belt for returning capital, resources and identity back into vulnerable areas. Moreover, domestic or regional chains may provide urban consumers with fresh quality food that also contributes to regional identity.