Entrepreneurship, small business and public policy : evolution and revolution
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Entrepreneurship, small business and public policy : evolution and revolution
(Routledge-ISBE masters in entrepreneurship)
Routledge, 2014
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Saga
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  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-167) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Public policy interventions aimed at encouraging, supporting and developing small businesses are important for understanding entrepreneurship and small business management. This textbook is the first to provide teachers and students with a resource that gives an overview of how institutional and policy structures interact with small firm start-ups, continuation and succession/failures.
Beginning with a brief introduction to policy processes, the text covers the main policy instruments for entrepreneurial market entry and start-up support, for on-going small business advice and financial support, and succession planning. It particularly focuses on policies that improve the Business Enabling Environment through macroeconomic policy, institutional reform, and deregulation of bureaucratic burdens. Theoretical rigour is complemented by detailed assessments of current policies around the world, including USA, advanced and emerging economies and Policy support from global institutions such as the World Bank and the ILO are included.
Written by a pre-eminent scholar of public policy and entrepreneurship, this textbook provides a concise but thorough introduction to the subject for Master's students internationally. Policy recommendations in the author's conclusion also highlight the book's value to policy-makers as they adapt to the globalized, digital world.
Table of Contents
1. Why Does Policy Matter to Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses? 1.1 Introduction 1.2 What are entrepreneurship and small business policies? 1.3 Why is small businesses policy important? 1.4 What are small businesses? 1.5 Definitions in practice: small firms as policy objects 1.6 Contexts for small business policy 1.7 Summary of key points 1.8 Discussion questions and further reading 2. The Case for Policy 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The institutional case - the enabling environment 2.3 The macroeconomic case 2.4 The entrepreneurial case 2.5 Market failures 2.6 Summary of key points 2.7 Discussion questions and further reading 3. Constraints on Policy 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Is there a valid macroeconomic case? 3.3 Do significant market failures occur? 3.4 Is there a demonstrable need? 3.5 Can needs and gaps be met effectively? 3.6 Clientalism and bureaucracy 3.7 Will we ever know if policies are effective? 3.8 Possibilities for targeting 3.9 Summary of key points 3.10 Discussion questions and further reading 4. Policy Institutions and Meta-institutions 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Lessons from business history 4.3 Meta-institutions, and institutional 'toolkits' 4.4 Institutions and 'business enabling environment' 4.5 Summary of key points 4.6 Discussion questions and further reading 5. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Policy in the USA 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The USA context for policy 5.3 'Exceptionalism' as the leading entrepreneurial economy? 5.4 Small business policies and the SBA 5.5 Assessment of the SBA 5.6 Summary of key points 5.7 Discussion questions and further reading 6. Britain: Evolution of Policy in the 'Earliest Industrial Nation' 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Institutions and firms in the 'earliest industrial nation' 6.3 The origins of small business policy 6.4 Modern business and entrepreneurship policy 6.5 Advice services 6.6 Summary of key points 6.7 Discussion questions and further reading 7. East and Southeast Asian 'Exceptionalism': Japan and South Korea 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Underpinnings of East and Southeast Asian success 7.3. East and Southeast Asian 'exceptionalism' 7.4 Entrepreneurship and SME policy in Japan 7.5 Entrepreneurship and SME policy in S. Korea 7.6 Summary of key points 7.7 Discussion questions and further reading 8. China 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Chinese economic developments 8.3 The role of SMEs in modern china 8.4 Chinese SME policy 8.5 Summary of key points 8.6 Discussion questions and further reading 9. Developing and Transition Economies 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Changing views of development policy 9.3 Policy challenges in developing countries 9.4 Policy challenges in transition economies 9.5 Policy and capacity building 9.6 Summary of key points 9.7 Discussion questions and further reading 10. Evolution and Revolution: New Opportunities, Old Dangers 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Evolution 10.3 Revolution? 10.4 Summary of key points 10.5 Discussion questions and further reading
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