Includes bibliographical references and index.

Entrepreneurship has become a term so widely employed that it can be difficult to comprehend, making the decision of whether to choose entrepreneurship as a career, problematic. In this textbook, authors Bill Bolton and John Thompson explain what enterprise means for individuals, organizations and society. In a refreshed edition, this book is split into two fascinating parts. Part One builds an understanding of the entrepreneur as a person based on the key factors of talent and temperament and introduces a unique framework for understanding and exploiting entrepreneurship. The process of starting and growing a business and the infrastructure and environment in which the entrepreneur has to operate, are described in detail. Part Two tells the stories of famous entrepreneurs to help readers understand the subject - including classic entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford, through to social entrepreneurs and even anti-social entrepreneurs such as Al Capone! This insightful, empirically-based, original take on entrepreneurship provides students with a guide through what has become a confusing subject. Entrepreneurship has become a term so widely employed that it can be difficult to comprehend, making the decision of whether to choose entrepreneurship as a career, problematic. In this textbook, authors Bill Bolton and John Thompson explain what enterprise means for individuals, organizations and society. In a refreshed edition, this book is split into two fascinating parts. Part One builds an understanding of the entrepreneur as a person based on the key factors of talent and temperament and introduces a unique framework for understanding and exploiting entrepreneurship. The process of starting and growing a business and the infrastructure and environment in which the entrepreneur has to operate, are described in detail. Part Two tells the stories of famous entrepreneurs to help readers understand the subject - including classic entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford, through to social entrepreneurs and even anti-social entrepreneurs such as Al Capone! This insightful, empirically-based, original take on entrepreneurship provides students with a guide through what has become a confusing subject.

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