Product Description: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship is the leading textbook that provides students with a comprehensive overview of the field. It brings the mindset, principles, strategies, tools and techniques of entrepreneurship into the social sector to present innovative solutions to today’s vexing social issues...read more

Product Description: Tackling one of the hottest topics in business today, experts share practical insights about how to finance, market, manage, and assess a social entrepreneurship venture to create a new organization that can do well and do good.• Useful examples of how successful social entrepreneurship enterprises develop marketing plans and promote themselves with integrity• Models for exemplary performance measurement• A concluding chapter in each volume that summarizes and focuses the insights offered• Contributions from the leading practitioners and scholars in the field of social entrepreneurship• Graphics that illustrate and illuminate key points, facilitating comprehension• A glossary of terms to assist students and lay reader...read more

Product Description: A compelling argument for placing entrepreneurship at the heart of economic development provides a guidebook for how this can be done efficiently, effectively, and equitably.• A unique tool for mapping and managing entrepreneurial activity in a community or region to permit the identification of the strengths and weaknesses of its economic portfolio• 50 examples from the field showing the development of entrepreneurial skills, the movement of businesses through lifecycles, and interventions to increase and improve entrepreneurial activity• Illustrations that explain the concepts graphically• Appendices with templates, plans, and more• A comprehensive bibliography of important reference sources in the enterprise development fiel...read more

Product Description: Economic development is a challenging issue to all involved in local government to some capacity; small downtowns may struggle with ways to expand their business appeal, while larger metropolitan areas are faced with sprawl and a need to more tightly regulate development for the benefit of the community...read more

Product Description: Examining the role of the public sector in small-business debt-capital formation, this book describes current approaches, conceptually and pragmatically, and evaluates their advantages and disadvantages from a variety of perspectives...read more

Product Description: La incubación de nuevas empresas no puede estar librada al azar. Esta guía tiene como propósito explicar el diseño y la implementación de programas efectivos para llevarla a cabo con éxito.

Product Description: Despite strong U.S. and Canadian economies, economic development remains an important local governmental function, partly to alleviate the persistent poverty that plagues some areas and partly to compete with the activities of neighboring local governments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sustainable development offers visions of the future, but implementation of new sustainable policies seems slow. This text presents a forecasting method directed to overcome some barriers to the implementation of more sustainable economic policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent years have witnessed a revolution in the way economies work. The world has moved away from centralized governments and economies, toward decentralized governments and market-driven economies. A pragmatic, non-ideological approach to mixed economic systems is becoming the order of the day, blurring the lines between public and private, and referred to here as the economy without walls...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)