Informational Entrepreneurship in a World with Limited Insight
Informational Entrepreneurship in a World with Limited Insight

Author: James O. Fiet

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 3031165322

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This book organizes entrepreneurship theory in a way that constitutes a new body of knowledge, which is Informational Entrepreneurship. It can serve as a basis for teaching entrepreneurship and reducing performance uncertainty. Although entrepreneurship is not entirely about information, information determines how it can be systematically understood while depending less on luck. It also offers the only known, experimentally tested approach that incorporates decision support tools. Other known approaches rely on exposition for validation; whereas, Informational Entrepreneurship uses two-sample experiments that controlled for other explanations as well as experimenter bias. It will appeal to those studying and teaching entrepreneurship who are looking for a prescriptive approach, rather than a descriptive approach.

Entrepreneurship in a Time of Social Justice Advocacy
Entrepreneurship in a Time of Social Justice Advocacy

Author: James O. Fiet

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-08

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 303135463X

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This book offers a critique of social justice theory and its impact on entrepreneurship scholarship. It traces its deep roots in postmodernism by positioning entrepreneurship within these new intellectual, social, and economic environments. It highlights current philosophical assumptions, with implications for boundary conditions that we apply as scientists. Science depends on theoretical assumptions and boundary conditions. Unfortunately, a glaring weakness in entrepreneurship research has been its general failure to identify these premises. No theory is universally applicable, so its assumptions and boundary conditions are what give it analytical power. Where do they come from? Simply stated, they come from a theory's philosophy of science. However, even more rare than stating assumptions and boundary conditions is to discuss a study's governing philosophy. In fact, no known research published in entrepreneurship has discussed a study's philosophical orientation. This provocative work details postmodern concerns related to critical theory, their origins, their status, and specifically how they impact entrepreneurship and those who are not designated as either the victimized or part of the white patriarchy. It will challenge the current direction of entrepreneurship research and confront the general acceptance of the tenets of postmodernism among management scholars.

Religious Doctrines and their Influence on Entrepreneurship
Religious Doctrines and their Influence on Entrepreneurship

Author: James O. Fiet

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-25

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 3031433866

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This book explores how religious doctrines influence launching a new venture. It examines 16 Christian denominations and 9 world religions and how they would reasonably be expected to apply more than 20 distinct doctrines each to entrepreneurship. It is not an examination of doctrinal veracity because adherents have confidence in their beliefs. Rather, it examines how they will evaluate the attractiveness of entrepreneurship through the lenses of their beliefs, assuming they receive what they expect. More than 100 years ago, Max Weber pitted Protestantism against Hinduism in a single hypothesis. The current study is a multifactorial examination that covers the world’s major religions, as well as most of their doctrines. It is the first comprehensive examination of how entrepreneurs view the world through the lenses of their religious doctrines, which represent the formalization of their most deeply held beliefs.

The Theoretical World of Entrepreneurship
The Theoretical World of Entrepreneurship

Author: Fiet, James O.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1800371470

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The Theoretical World of Entrepreneurship contains the first and most comprehensive examination of more than 250 theories applicable to the study of entrepreneurship. It includes a theoretical examination of current social and economic controversies that impact entrepreneurs. Following in Weber's tradition, it also compares the doctrines of 16 Christian denominations and nine world religions which offer different conceptual windows for understanding entrepreneurs.

The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised
The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised

Author: Elaine Pofeldt

Publisher: Lorena Jones Books

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0399578978

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The self-employment revolution is here. Learn the latest pioneering tactics from real people who are bringing in $1 million a year on their own terms. Join the record number of people who have ended their dependence on traditional employment and embraced entrepreneurship as the ultimate way to control their futures. Determine when, where, and how much you work, and by what values. With up-to-date advice and more real-life success stories, this revised edition of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business shows the latest strategies you can apply from everyday people who--on their own--are bringing in $1 million a year to live exactly how they want.

Effective Strategies for Communicating Insights in Business
Effective Strategies for Communicating Insights in Business

Author: Jackson, Ross

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1799839656

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Because insights can be viewed as fragments of knowledge collected through experience and education, they are not easily communicated to organizational leaders. Successful organizational leaders make use of different strategies to effectively communicate insights at various levels and types of organizations, from both academic and perspectives. Synthesizing creative, critical, and existential insights across analytics, communication, and management provides an intersection to address a need for an edited collection of original research in this area. Effective Strategies for Communicating Insights in Business is an essential reference book that provides relevant theoretical frameworks, critical and creative insights, and the latest empirical research findings in communication approaches within organizations. Covering topics that include knowledge transfer, data visualization, and decision making, the book seeks to inspire the understanding of effective strategies for improving organizational performance through improved utilization of insights in different types of work communities, environments, and contexts. The target audience of this book is composed of executives and managers, as well as professionals, academicians, students, and researchers working in the field of analytics, business, communication, and knowledge management across various disciplines, for example, decision science, organizational behavior, political science, communication sciences, administrative sciences, and management.

Practice-Based Innovation: Insights, Applications and Policy Implications
Practice-Based Innovation: Insights, Applications and Policy Implications

Author: Helinä Melkas

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 3642217230

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The book describes and analyses the new environment for innovation, it does this with an emphasis on yet uncharted regions within the field of practice-based innovation, coming up with guidelines for innovation policy measures needed in order to realise this. While it focuses on these policies it also takes into account multi-actor innovation processes, user-driven innovation, "related variety" and many other aspects; aspects such as, just to name a few: communicating creative processes and distributing practice-based innovation; then there is creativity itself, encompassing new fields of knowledge and expertise. The authors go on to describe value networks, showing how to make practice-based innovations, explaining innovation diffusion and absorptive capacity. The book presents new insights as well as the latest research related to the frequently used term "innovation". Definitions are put forward, giving, by way of examples, a detailed description of concepts we draw upon when using these. Innovation as a concept is constantly being subdivided into increasingly finer distinctions, which, in turn, determine the discourse. The book takes a close look at these, further taking into account the challenges as well as the opportunities inherent in developing practice-based innovation procedures and policies of global importance, never losing sight of advancing long-term effectiveness.

Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations
Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations

Author: Information Resources Management Association. International Conference

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13: 9781930708396

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As the field of information technology continues to grow and expand, it impacts more and more organizations worldwide. The leaders within these organizations are challenged on a continuous basis to develop and implement programs that successfully apply information technology applications. This is a collection of unique perspectives on the issues surrounding IT in organizations and the ways in which these issues are addressed. This valuable book is a compilation of the latest research in the area of IT utilization and management.

Cyber Law: A Legal Arsenal for Online Business
Cyber Law: A Legal Arsenal for Online Business

Author: Brett J. Trout

Publisher: World Audience Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1934209716

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Cyber Law is a comprehensive guide for navigating all legal aspects of the Internet. This book is a crucial asset for online businesses and entrepreneurs. "Whether you're doing business online as a company or a consumer, you need to understand your rights. Trout successfully places legal complexities into digital perspective with his latest book." -- Chris Pirillo - Founder of Lockergnome "CyberLaw is a must-read for anyone doing business-or just chatting or socializing - on the Internet. Without us realizing it, more and more laws are being passed each year, laws and restrictions that significantly increase the likelihood that you're skirting, or even breaking some laws when you post that restaurant review, write about the bad date you had last week, or complain about a previous employer. Your choices are easy: read CyberLaw or suffer the potential consequences." -- Dave Taylor, Entrepreneur and Strategic Business Consultant, Intuitive.com "Brett Trout has the bottom-line, honest, insightful, straightfowardest, most clear-headed take on intellectual property issues you could want. He's your way out of the maze." -- John Shirley, scriptwriter and author Now at the New York Public Library! "This book is a quick read and serves as an introduction to the basic issues involved in Internet marketing. Cyber Law's details provide valuable clues..." --Martha L. Cecil-Few The Colorado Lawyer "One of the biggest misconceptions ... involves fair use. People mistakenly think they can freely use the work of others in their blogs or YouTube videos, for example." Lynn Hicks & David Elbert, DesMoinesRegister.com

Strategies for Business Sustainability in a Collaborative Economy
Strategies for Business Sustainability in a Collaborative Economy

Author: Leon, Ramona-Diana

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-06-19

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1799845443

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Against the backdrop of globalization, digitalization, and the new entrance of Generation Z on the labor market, the economic environment has started to become more dynamic, complex, and uncertain. New management, marketing, and accounting tools and strategies are needed to improve a company’s sustainability in the current collaborative economy. Strategies for Business Sustainability in a Collaborative Economy is a collection of innovative research that focuses on organizational tools and practices that may foster a company’s success in the new economic context, which is defined by the faster pace of technological progress and the entrance of Generation Z on the labor market. Thus, it analyzes how Generation Z transforms human resources policies and practices and how they change the concept of sustainability through their needs and expectations. Highlighting a wide range of topics including resource management, knowledge-based firms, and business models, this publication examines how business models evolve given the success recorded by newer companies. This book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, economists, academicians, researchers, and students.