Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development - 9781138935549

Name: Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development - 9781138935549
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Toward Entrepreneurial Community DevelopmentLeaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries\nAuthor(s): Michael Fortunato, Morgan Clevenger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138935549, 978-1138935549\nSynopsis\nToward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate how local and regional society contributes in important ways to the vitality of entrepreneurs. The literature is rich with insights about leadership and culture within SMEs, and the behaviours and attitudes of their founders, founding teams, and managers. Since most of the attention in the entrepreneurship literature is focused on firms, we wish to explore everyone else: The social environment surrounding the entrepreneur, and how leadership and culture outside the firm can have pervasive effects on the business. \n\nThis book reaches across disciplinary boundaries, in.