Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development | Leaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries

Michael Fortunato (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1138935549 / ISBN 13: 9781138935549

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development | Leaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries | Michael Fortunato (u. a.) | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2017 | Routledge | EAN 9781138935549 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development | Leaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138935549
• ISBN 13: 9781138935549
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 22D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 630 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate how local and regional society contributes in important ways to the vitality of entrepreneurs. The literature is rich with insights about leadership and culture within SMEs, and the behaviours and attitudes of their founders, founding teams, and managers. Since most of the attention in the entrepreneurship literature is focused on firms, we wish to explore everyone else: The social environment surrounding the entrepreneur, and how leadership and culture outside the firm can have pervasive effects on the business.

This book reaches across disciplinary boundaries, integrating and advancing knowledge on entrepreneurial community development. The book identifies actionable leadership strategies that can be used by literally anyone to help make a community or region a more culturally-supportive, interactive home for entrepreneurial minds. We draw from original research to compare high and low entrepreneurship communities, and present an emergent picture of how community-level actors can (or fail to) work together to support entrepreneurship in places that are culturally distant from the Silicon Valley (i.e., most places). Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development then offers techniques for entrepreneurial community leadership, including how to build lasting alliances, create an image, and harness the local culture for entrepreneurial advantage.

The result is a book that provides the reader with the latest advancements and techniques in entrepreneurship development in a straight-forward, readable format. No matter the reader, Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development demonstrates how anyone, in any position, can lead a local entrepreneurship movement starting anywhere, anytime.

About the Author

• Michael W-P Fortunato is the Director of the Center for Rural Studies at Sam Houston State University
• Morgan Clevenger is an Assistant Professor at Sidhu School of Business, Wilkes University