The Entrepreneurial Dilemma in the Life Cycle of the Small Firm: How the Firm and the Entrepreneur Change During the Life Cycle of the Firm, or How Th - Paperback

by Enno Masurel (Author)

Entrepreneurial dilemmas play an important, though heavily underexposed, role in the life cycle of the small firm. This book defines the entrepreneurial dilemma as a situation where entrepreneurs have to choose between multiple future courses of action concerning their firm, without sufficient information to make that choice.
The Entrepreneurial Dilemma in the Life Cycle of the Small Firm enables lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the fields of entrepreneurship, small business development and business administration to understand these entrepreneurial dilemmas and ways to resolve them.
This book presents an in-depth analysis of the modern theories in the field of entrepreneurship, including innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship, characteristics of small businesses, the life cycle of the firm, entrepreneurial behavior and small business finance.
Enno Masurel provides a clear overview of the opportunities that teaching entrepreneurship in a higher education context offers, and embodies this teaching within ten universal cases that will help readers to further understand the the dilemmas faced by entrepreneurial activity in the development of small firms.

Author Biography

Enno Masurel is a full professor in Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He had edited multiple books in innovation and entrepreneurship, including Entrepreneurship in Context (2012) and Technological Innovation Across Nations: Applied Studies of Coevolutionary Development (2009). He has also published multiple papers in the field of entrepreneurship and small business development.