Entrepreneurship, 6th Ed + Entrepreneurship, 6th Ed Coursesmart Ebook

Klappentext Annual Editions is a series of over 65 volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is offered as a practical guide for instructors. Visit www.mhhe.com/cls for more details. Annual Editions: Entrepreneurship, 6/e (print text) is packaged with a FREE access code card for Annual Editions: Entrepreneurship, 6/e CourseSmart eBook! CourseSmart is an online eTextbook. Visit www.coursesmart.com for further information. Inhaltsverzeichnis Annual Editions: Entrepreneurship 10/11 Preface Correlation Guide Topic Guide Internet References UNIT 1: Understanding EntrepreneurshipUnit Overview 1. Wanted: Entrepreneurs (Just Don't Ask for a Job Description), Ronald A. Wirtz, The Region (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), June 2008 Entrepreneurship is the new buzzword, and policymakers in many nations and states are trying to develop more entrepreneurs because of their positive effect on jobs and productivity. This article asks: if entrepreneurship is so important, why don't we know more about it? 2. An Idea Whose Time Has Come, The Economist, May 12, 2009Today entrepreneurship is very much part of economics. Economists have realized that, in a knowledge-based economy, entrepreneurs play a central role in creating new companies and commercializing new ideas. Read more about how entrepreneurship has become cool around the world. 3. Creative Disruption, Douglas Clement, The Region (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), September 2008Economists have developed a significant body of research establishing empirical links between increased competition and higher productivity. This article concludes that competitive environments are more favorable to innovation. 4. The World Discovers the Laffer Curve, Stephen Moore, 2009 Index of Economic Freedom, January 2009The supply-side economics model that President Ronald Reagan first implemented in 1981 is now the economic operating system around the world. The motivation for this tax slashing is the free flow of investment supporting the virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial capitalism. 5. Building Entrepreneurial Economies, Carl J. Schramm, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004Not only does the United States have a high rate of new business starts, as this article points out, but the United states breeds a constant flow of new, high-impact ventures. These ventures create value and stimulate economic growth by bringing new ideas to the market. 6. The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development, Kelly Edmiston, Economic Review (Federal Reserve of Kansas City), Second Quarter 2007Some economic development experts are abandoning traditional approaches to economic development that support large enterprises with tax breaks. This article explores whether promoting entrepreneurship makes sense as an economic development strate...

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• Authors: Robert Price, Robert W Price
• Assisted by: Mcgraw-Hill (Editor)
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.12.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780077386092
• ISBN: 978-0-07-738609-2
• Series: Annual Editions: Entrepreneush
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance