This erudite casebook draws from first-hand experiences to reflect upon different approaches to, mindsets regarding and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. With contributions from highly experienced academics from a variety of backgrounds, it will help entrepreneurship educators and teachers to decolonise business and innovation curricula while reflecting on key academic questions relating to unique entrepreneurial journeys.

Cases in Entrepreneurship provides students with diverse, real-world examples of entrepreneurship in action. Through these cases, students learn critical lessons in business management, business development, and entrepreneurship. Each case includes a short introduction, explanations of why the case is important, key terms, the case itself, and post-reading questions. Students learn about young entrepreneurs with a vision of helping their war-ravaged country; a social entrepreneur with a successful operation who is asked to enlarge its mission; and a fashion student driven to change the way tailors sew and customers purchase professional business attire in her ancestral homeland. Additional cases follow a social entrepreneur challenged with finding a sustainable business model for a nonprofit where, culturally, individual philanthropy is a new concept; a dog food company owner whose board is recommending a growth strategy contrary to the founder's wishes; a group of entrepreneurs who've implemented a business training program in a new city, only to face criticism from its local government; a group of students expanding the concept of market segmentation; and entrepreneurs facing the consequences of creating a product that disrupts the market. Cases in Entrepreneurship is an ideal supplementary textbook for courses and programs in business management and entrepreneurship. Armen Hadjinian holds a bachelor's degree in business and M.B.A. from Marquette University. He is a coordinator and instructor for Milwaukee Area Technical College's entrepreneurship program and advisor for its Center for Entrepreneurship. When he joined the faculty at MATC as a business management instructor, Hadjinian revamped the business training diploma program curriculum to place more emphasis on entrepreneurship, strategy, and new product develop. An entrepreneur himself, Hadjinian formerly owned a running gear store, as well as his family's carpet business. He was also the lead consultant for one of the first mobile payment apps, Talipayments, which was a finalist in the Miller/Coors Urban Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Entrepreneurs around the world are encouraged and held up as the new deliverers of economic growth in turbulent times. Entrepreneurship is taught globally, but often without much reference to the truly global array of cases and examples that can provide helpful insights for international students in particular. This collection brings together expert entrepreneurship scholars to provide a collection of global case studies around entrepreneurial firms worldwide. This unique educational resource covers a broad range of topics of relevance to understanding entrepreneurship including corporate, social and indigenous entrepreneurship. This book provides entrepreneurship educators with reliable cases suitable for classroom discussion, analysis or even for assessment purposes. Instructors teaching this subject will be able to use the book as a stand alone reference or as an ideal supplement for many introductory texts in entrepreneurship.

An estimated one billion individuals in both developed and developing nations can be defined as necessity entrepreneurs; individuals who have no other viable option for licit income than to start a small, income generating activity. However, the emphasis on providing business and leadership training to necessity entrepreneurs is only just gaining traction. This book provides the first-known global analysis dedicated exclusively to organizations from both the public and private sectors that are specifically involved with microenterprise education for necessity entrepreneurs. The authors provide a pragmatic synopsis and evaluate the efficacy of the programs that have been, currently are, or will soon be teaching and/or training necessity entrepreneurs around the globe.

Necessity entrepreneurs are individuals in developing countries who start small enterprises out of necessity. While they range from street sellers to educated hopefuls with little access to formal employment, the one thing that unites them is the need

This book unites the latest research in diversity, inclusion, and positive organizational scholarship (POS), to investigate diversity and inclusion dynamics in social systems. Comprised of succinct chapters from thought leaders in the field, this book covers both micro- and macro-levels of analysis, covering topics such as authenticity, mentorship, intersectional identity work, positive deviance, resilience, resource cultivation and utilization, boundary-spanning leadership, strengths-based development, positive workplace interventions to promote well-being, inclusive strategic planning, and the role of diversity in innovation.

Mission-driven ventures have the power to change the world and solve today’s most pressing social problems. Social Entrepreneurship equips students with the theories, models, tools, and templates they need to generate ideas and shape opportunities into impactful social enterprises. Author Carole Carlson uses a variety of real-world examples, cases, and profiles to illustrate how entrepreneurs around the world are changing their communities. Exercises allow students to practice developing their entrepreneurial skillset as they learn the fundamentals of structuring, financing, marketing, and scaling social ventures. Whatever social cause your students are passionate about, they will find Social Entrepreneurship a vital resource for making their vision a reality.