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Management Aptitude of Entrepreneurs
First Published in 2000. The basic problems investigated in this book arose from the author's speculation that many individuals who have what it takes to be an entrepreneur may simply not have what it takes to be an effective manager. In fact, some of the characteristics that are essential to the entrepreneurial drive may be detrimental to the development of solid management skills. This may be one reason that so many entrepreneurs fail in business-- Certain elements in their personality make-up may actually prevent them from being, or even becoming, good managers. The overall objective of the study was to learn if there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurs and professional managers in terms of their basic aptitudes toward managing. The research was carried out by examining a number of the most important underpinning psychosocial aspects that have been demonstrated as valid predictors of management performance.
From Lab to Market
The topic of this book, the commercialization of public-sector technology, continues to grow in importance in the United States and sirnilarsocieties. The issues involved are relevant to many roles including those of policy makers, managers, patent attorneys, licensing agents, and technical staff members of public technology sources. Institutions increasingly involved in the process include federal and other governmentallaboratories and their related agencies, public universities and their state governments, public and private transfer agents and, of course, all the private recipients of public technology. Scarcely a day goes by without a significant event related to technology transfer and ...
Designing Commercial Interiors
The definitive reference on designing commercial interiors-expanded and updated for today's facilities Following the success of the ASID/Polsky Prize Honorable Mention in 1999, authors Christine Piotrowski and Elizabeth Rogers have extensively revised this guide to planning and designing commercial interiors to help professionals and design students successfully address today's trends and project requirements. This comprehensive reference covers the practical and aesthetic issues that distinguish commercial interiors. There is new information on sustainable design, security, and accessibility-three areas of increased emphasis in modern interiors. An introductory chapter provides an overview ...
The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship
Once relegated to the dusty shelves of ancient muses, research and scholarship on entrepreneurship has exploded as a field of research, with impactful additions from a range of disciplines rendering the field a tricky one to traverse. The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship offers a comprehensive guide to entrepreneurship, providing an authoritative exploration of the key people and their ideas. This book tells the stories of the scholars who have set the standard and tone for thinking and analysing entrepreneurship. Edited by two of the world’s leading entrepreneurship scholars, this comprehensive volume offers a platform for understanding and future research that...
Start Up
A practical guide to starting a new business.
Financial Management for Nurse Managers and Executives
A clear understanding of budgeting and finance will help you prepare to be an effective nurse manager. This book explains what you need to know! It covers essential tools and techniques, including accounting principles, cost analysis, and managing resources. In addition to coverage of the latest issues and trends, this book provides concrete examples to help you apply financial concepts to the real world. Inside you'll find: Four New chapters: Quality, Costs, and Financing, Revenue Budgeting, Variance Analysis: Examples, Extensions, and Caveats, Benchmarking, Productivity, and Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Coverage of the new Medicare prescription bill and its impact on health care management. A discussion of the transition from the role of bedside or staff nurse to the role of nurse manager and nurse executive, Updated information on nursing shortages and staff recruiting and retention, A focus on health financing and the computer software used in accurate budgeting and forecasting, A comprehensive glossary with all key terms. Book jacket.
Strategic Management
Contemporary research in strategic management, with an emphasis on conceptual tools and skills created by scholars and practitioners in the field are evident throughout this 11-chapter book. Pearce and Robinson's Strategic Management, retains its high level of academic credibility and its market-leading emphasis on Strategic Practice. It continues to have strong support from longtime adopters and growing support in schools with a desire to provide straightforward treatment of strategic management with a practical, systematic approach. The 8th edition will continue its strategic alliance with Business Week, which will be seen in cases, illustration capsules, and woven into the text. The text and cases will include numerous Business Week short cases and a wide assortment of traditional, longer strategic management cases. Pearce and Robinson will continue to use a unique pedagogical model created by the authors to provide logic and structure to its treatment of strategic management which in turn makes the material more easily organized by the instructor and learned by the student.
