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This book aims to answer the question - why are entrepreneurial attributes we see in businesspeople valued, but in non-businesspeople they are sometimes not recognised when there is a clear link between entrepreneurial skills and attributes, human capital (effectively your CV) and how successfully a company performs?
List of contents
1. The reflexive journey – the origins of the book
· Understanding different perspectives
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
2. Being an entrepreneur and being entrepreneurial, what’s the difference?
· What is enterprise and what is entrepreneurship?
· Understanding entrepreneurial actions
· Personal reflection to appreciate your own entrepreneurial behaviours
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
3. What is value?
· What is human capital, and why does it matter?
· How do we measure the individual in ‘human capital’?
· Understanding one’s value in human capital and reflecting
· Human capital, work-life balance and company performance
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
4. How do we understand actions and attributes in context?
· Case studies showing the value in entrepreneurial behaviours
· Does human capital have a positive influence on firm performance?
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
5. Skills, attributes, and human actions are neglected because they are unrecognised
· Let’s give them a name – welcome to the parapreneur
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
6. What can be done about it?
· The lens of the employee
· The lens of the employer
· The lens of the business owner
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
About the author
Andrew Paul Clarke has worked in engineering and science, and now in academia, for the past 30 years. He is an academic in a UK university, and has a PhD in metallurgy and materials science from UMIST and an MBA from Sheffield Hallam University. His expertise is in understanding how enterprise and entrepreneurship theories can be understood and applied in different ways by people with different experiences and skillsets, such those from humanities, arts, health, science or engineering backgrounds.
Summary
This book aims to answer the question – why are entrepreneurial attributes we see in businesspeople valued, but in non-businesspeople they are sometimes not recognised when there is a clear link between entrepreneurial skills and attributes, human capital (effectively your CV) and how successfully a company performs?
