Entrepreneurship, Mike Wright
Entrepreneurship, Mike Wright
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Entrepreneurship
A Very Short Introduction

Author: Mike Wright, Paul Westhead

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/08/2021


Synopsis

There has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in business, policy, and education. But what do entrepreneurs do? What is entrepreneurship and why is it important? What is distinctive about entrepreneurs? And where do they come from?

In this Very Short Introduction Paul Westhead and Mike Wright weave a pathway through the debates about entrepreneurship, providing a guide to the entrepreneurial process. They look at how the actions of entrepreneurs are shaped by the external environment and availability of resources, consider the types of organizations in which entrepreneurs can be found, and look at the diversity in their backgrounds, experience, and how they think and learn. Lastly, they consider the impact that entrepreneurs have on modern market economies and look at the future of entrepreneurship in our increasingly globalized world.

About Mike Wright

Mike Wright is professor of entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, director of the Centre for Management Buyout Research that he founded in 1986, and associate director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre. Wright is currently coeditor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He has published many books and articles on venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurial mobility, academic entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial family firms in leading international journals as well as in practitioner journals. His latest books include Private Equity Demystified - 2012 Edition (with John Gilligan, published by ICAEW) and Handbook of Corporate Governance (with Don Siegel, Kevin Keasey, and Igor Filatotchev, published by Oxford University Press, 2013). He is past chair of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and a recipient of that division's Mentor Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ankit on August 23, 2018

The book is excessively complicated in language and details. The author definitely has a profound knowledge of the subject matter, yet I cannot recommend this to a general reader, like me, as it does not seem to create much practical output.......more

Goodreads review by Bojan on January 28, 2014

Entrepreneurship seems to be all the rage in various business and economics discussions these days. Its association with the high-tech sector in particular seems to make it a very recent and novel phenomenon. However, the word “entrepreneur” is centuries old, and many of the things that make entrepr......more

Goodreads review by Badr on July 12, 2023

يحاول الكاتب من خلال هذا المؤلف أن يقرب مجال ريادة الأعمال من الجمهور، فهو يعرف رائد الأعمال، بكونه ذاك الشخص الذي يستطيع اقامة شركة أو مشروع جديد ناجح، أو تطوير آخر موجود فعلا و دعمه ليحقق الاستمرارية و العطاء. لرائد الأعمال عدة مهام، فهو مغامر يغوص في الأخطار، و متصيد للفرص، و مضارب، قائد، و مدير،......more