About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to this book -- Idea generation -- The contents of a business plan -- Executive summary -- Introduction to the business plan -- Business strategy -- Market research and marketing -- Finance -- Operations -- Hr-related tasks and legal...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The evolution of management thought -- chapter 2 Classical approaches to management -- chapter 3 The evolution of the management process -- chapter 4 The struggle to define leadership -- chapter 5 Why the difference matters -- chapter 6 Future challenges for...

1. International enterpreneurs : the founding and success of a born global fashion firm -- 2. Building a business on ethnic ties : a study of the effects of ethnic networks on entrepreneurial activities -- 3. Cross-cultural research as autoethnography : the challenge and opportunity of studying...

1. Why: why have we been searching for entrepreneurship and why write this book -- 2. A history of work (and the options for addressing life needs) -- 3. Observations of entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurship -- 4. Reflections on what has been found -- 5. Revisiting entrepreneurship -- 6. Suppose...

Introduction -- Organizations in the changing economy -- People strategy and corporate culture -- The individual at work -- Group behaviour -- People resourcing -- Measuring people performance -- People learning -- People rewards -- The employment relationship -- Organizational change --...

1. Organizations in the changing economy -- 2. People strategy and corporate culture -- 3. The individual at work -- 4. Group behaviour -- 5. People resourcing -- 6. Measuring people performance -- 7. People learning -- 8. People rewards -- 9. The employment relationship -- 10. Organizational...

1. Specifying the domain -- 2. The classical pragmatic theory of truth -- 3. The correspondence criterion of truth -- 4. The coherence criterion of truth -- 5. The instrumental criterion of truth -- 6. Alethic pluralism.