Innovative Products and the Intrapreneurial Approach to Success Leonard Brzezinski American Intercontinental University MGMT 422 William Becker Innovative Products and the Intrapreneurial Approach to Success Introduction Shotguns have been around for hundreds of years starting with the black powder loaded Shotguns to the single and double barreled shell loaded shotguns. Shotguns have most often been used for hunting and protection. However, only within the last 100 years have shotguns
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Entrepreneurial Leadership Strayer University – Online Professor Michael Powers January 21, 2011 Abstract Today’s entrepreneurs can learn how to profit and be social responsibility by studying the leading entrepreneurs of the past. In this paper we will learn Jack Welch and Dirk Mueller-Remus leadership style, and major business principles for a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service
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Business • Core module for all 1st year undergraduate students in NUBS • Also be offered to students from all other schools at the University of Nottingham • Designed to raise student’s awareness and understanding of some of the key elements of entrepreneurial creativity, as well as entrepreneurship in practice. • Many fundamental principles underpinning successful entrepreneurship can be applied in a much wider variety of situations. • Improve their individual skills in terms of creative problem solving
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venture to failure. An alarming 62% of small businesses fail within the first six years of existence (Kurtz & Boone, 2011). Such statistics can discourage an entrepreneurial idea from even “leaving the ground.” Hence, prior to an entrepreneurial business commencing, reliable resources and tools need to be consulted. The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of entrepreneurs and leaders, leadership styles, resources, and the tools available for establishing a good foundation for
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104 Academy of Management Perspectives February Opportunity Recognition as Pattern Recognition: How Entrepreneurs “Connect the Dots” to Identify New Business Opportunities by Robert A. Baron* Executive Overview How do entrepreneurs identify opportunities for new business ventures? One possibility, suggested by research on human cognition, is that they do so by using cognitive frameworks they have acquired through experience to perceive connections between seemingly unrelated events
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planning, organizing, leading and controlling (Office of Entrepreneurial Education, 2006). There are some differences of opinion as to whether this is the complete landscape regarding the functions of management. Carter McNamara, in discussing these functions, acknowledges that there are other schools of thought that expand on leading to include employee empowerment, visioning, and other issues (McNamara, 1997-2008). For purposes of this paper, the traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading
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Personality on Entrepreneurial Success Owoseni Omosolape Olakitan and Akanbi Paul Ayobami Department of Business Administration. Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Oyo State Corresponding Author: Owoseni Omosolape Olakitan __________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Various personality variables determine entrepreneurial intentions and ultimately entrepreneurial success. This paper investigated the influence of personality on entrepreneurial success
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like Nigeria. This paper is concerned with the nature and the extent to which entrepreneurship in Nigeria has been developed so far, and outlines the initiative by government and also the main current and future challenges and perspectives for the development of entrepreneurship. The study revealed that such initiatives by government failed abysmally due to over bearing bureaucracies, corruption, inadequate and inefficient infrastructural facilities and maladministration. The paper concludes that entrepreneurship
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Innovation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Morgan P. Miles Linda S. Munilla Jeffrey G. Covin ABSTRACT. This paper is a response to Ray’s (2004) recent proposal that the intellectual property rights (IPR) attached to potentially life saving/life sustaining innovations should become public goods in cases where markets are either unable or unwilling to pay for the creation of the intellectual property. Using a free market approach to innovation based on Western moral philosophy, we suggest that
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THINKING IN THE CONSULTING INDUSTRY" 2 Abstract This paper proposes activities to include effectual thinking concepts into the formal consulting process. The paper presents the current project selling and definition process as a pure casual / predictive process, where the goal is usually given by the client / customer and means need to be defined by the project team. Later, several activities are proposed, with the objective of influence this process with effectual thinking concepts. CAUSAL AND EFFECTUAL
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