Awarded every year since 1996, the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (GAER) recognizes outstanding contributions in quality and importance to scientific research in entrepreneurship. This book examines the work of GAER award winners (1996–2020), discusses major contributions to the field, identifies critiques of their work, and highlights directions for future research. Students and faculty will find this book to be a rich resource for understanding the impact of leading entrepreneurship scholars.

Michael Hitt and Ken Smith bring together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. They also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories.

This Research Handbook provides a solid foundation for exploring the vibrant field of strategic entrepreneurship, with an examination of important topics from theoretical, psychological and economic perspectives. PhD students, scholars and researchers alike who want to investigate further into strategic entrepreneurship in depth as well as uncharted territories, will find this Research Handbook a valuable resource.

Interest in the functioning of the human mind can certainly be traced to Plato and Aristotle who often dealt with issues of perceptions and motivations. While the Greeks may have contemplated the human condition, the modern study of the human mind can be traced back to Sigmund Freud (1900) and the psychoanalytic movement. He began the exploration of both conscious and unconscious factors that propelled humans to engage in a variety of behaviors. While Freud’s focus may have been on repressed sexuality our focus in this volume lies elsewhere. We are concerned herein with the expression of the cognitions, motivations, passions, intentions, perceptions, and emotions associated with entrepreneurial behaviors. We are attempting in this volume to expand on the work of why entrepreneurs think d- ferently from other people (Baron, 1998, 2004). During the decade of the 1990s the eld of entrepreneurship research seemingly abandoned the study of the entrepreneur. This was the result of earlier research not being able to demonstrate some unique entrepreneurial personality, trait, or char- teristic (Brockhaus and Horwitz, 1986). It was both a naïve and simplistic search for the “holy grail” of what made entrepreneurs the way they are. However, many of the researchers in this volume have never gave up the belief that a better und- standing of the mind of the entrepreneur would give us a better understanding of the processes that lead to the creation of new ventures.

This volume offers insight and perspective on entrepreneurship from the foremost academic leaders in the field.

UNIT I ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ENTERPRISE CREATION 1. Sensing and Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities 2. Environment Scanning 3. Market Assessment 4. Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Feasibility Study 5. Selection of an Enterprise 6. Setting up of an Enterprise UNIT II ENTERPRISE PLANNING AND RESOURCING 7. Business Planning 8. Concept of Project and Planning 9. Formulation of Project Report and Project Appraisal 10. Resource Assessment : Financial and Non-financial 11. Fixed and Working Capital Requirements 12. Fund Flow Statement 13. Accounting Ratios 14. Break-Even Analysis 15. Venture Capital : Sources and Means of Funds 16. Selection of Technology UNIT III ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT 17. Fundamentals of Management 18. Production Management and Quality Control 19. Marketing Management 20. Financial Management and Sources of Business Finance 21. Determination of Cost and Profit 22. Possibilities and Strategies for Growth and Development in Business 23. Entrepreneurial Discipline and Social Responsibility 24. Project Work 25. Examples of Project Work 26. Project Planning 27. Case Study 28. Project Analysis 29. Project Report Sample Project Report I—III Value Based Questions (VBQ) Appendix : Mind Maps Board Examination Papers

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