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Innovation and entrepreneurship : practice and principles / Peter F. Drucker.

By: Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge classics: Publisher: London : Taylor and Francis, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xviii, 346 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138019195.Subject(s): Small business -- United States | New business enterprises -- United States | EntrepreneurshipDDC classification: 658.421
Contents:
Introduction: The entrepreneurial economy -- Part I: The practice of innovation -- Systematic entrepreneurship -- Purposeful innovation and the seven -- Sources for innovative opportunity Source: the unexpected -- Source: Incongruities -- Source: Process need -- Source: Industry and market structures -- Source: Demographics -- Source: Changes in perception -- Source: New knowledge -- The bright idea -- Principles of innovation -- Part II: The practice of entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurial management -- The entrepreneurial business -- Entrepreneurship in the service Institution -- The new venture -- Part III: Entrepreneurial strategies -- 'Fustest with the mostest' -- 'Hit them where they ain't' -- Ecological niches -- Changing values and characteristics -- Conclusion: The entrepreneurial society.
Summary: How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker's most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: 'the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity'. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers.

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How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship . A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker's most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: 'the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity'. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate.　 Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers.

With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-329) and index.

Introduction: The entrepreneurial economy -- Part I: The practice of innovation -- Systematic entrepreneurship -- Purposeful innovation and the seven -- Sources for innovative opportunity Source: the unexpected -- Source: Incongruities -- Source: Process need -- Source: Industry and market structures -- Source: Demographics -- Source: Changes in perception -- Source: New knowledge -- The bright idea -- Principles of innovation -- Part II: The practice of entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurial management -- The entrepreneurial business -- Entrepreneurship in the service Institution -- The new venture -- Part III: Entrepreneurial strategies -- 'Fustest with the mostest' -- 'Hit them where they ain't' -- Ecological niches -- Changing values and characteristics -- Conclusion: The entrepreneurial society.

How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker's most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: 'the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity'. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers.

CIT Module SPRT 7007 - Core reading.

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Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) was one of the most famous management theorists, educators and writers of the twentieth century. His many influential books have shaped the form of the modern business corporation and continue to be studied by students of management and business professionals throughout the world.

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