This book provides a guide for effective Human Resource Management practices in small and emerging organizations. While the content of the book covers traditional HR practices, its focus and applications are toward firms who are formalizing their Human Resource functions. This book could serve as a primary text for a HR class but also as selected reading for entrepreneurship and small business programs.

The Human Resource Function in Emerging Enterprises (Entrepreneurship Series)

Business & Money

Kuratko, Donald F.

Hornsby, Jeffrey S.

Economics

South-Western College Pub.

The fundamentals of creating an innovative climate within an organization. Innovation Acceleration: Transforming Organizational Thinking helps readers develop an understanding of innovative organizations, the specific processes involved in corporate innovation, and how to assess an organization’s readiness for entrepreneurial activity and innovation.

Innovation Acceleration: Transforming Organizational Thinking (Prentice Hall Entrepreneurship Series)

Goldsby, Michael G.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Pearson

In many companies, the human resource component of a line manager/supervisor position is at least 50 percent of total responsibilities. But managers and supervisors often find themselves overwhelmed by - or even ill-prepared for - the responsibility of having to select, train, evaluate, discipline, and reward their direct reports. Written especially for the emerging manager, Frontline HR provides an excellent guide to successfully navigate through the challenges of supervising employees.

Frontline HR: A Handbook for the Emerging Manager

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Cengage Learning'

"The third edition of this practical textbook provides an introduction to the world of new and emerging ventures and to the fundamentals of effective new venture management, including such diverse activities as planning, marketing, financing, and growth. This textbook is divided into four distinct parts, guiding readers through the entire new venture management process and focusing in turn on ideas and opportunities, planning, finance, and management challenges. All chapters of this revised edition feature international cases, and the complete business plan has been replaced with a contemporary version. Other new elements to the third edition include: Expanded coverage of the Lean Startup methodology Improved focus on the development and importance of teams A new section on the emergence of equity crowdfunding Further discussion of ethics and the dangers of dramatic scaling Presented in an easy-to-understand style, this book will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in entrepreneurship and new venture management classes, as well as active new venture owners and managers. Online resources include an instructor's manual, test bank, PowerPoint slides, and additional materials to aid instructors and students in applying their knowledge"--

New Venture Management

Finance

Routledge

The third edition of this practical textbook provides an introduction to the world of new and emerging ventures and to the fundamentals of effective new venture management, including such diverse activities as planning, marketing, financing, and growth. This textbook is divided into four distinct parts, guiding readers through the entire new venture management process and focusing in turn on ideas and opportunities, planning, finance, and management challenges. All chapters of this revised edition feature international cases, and the complete business plan has been replaced with a contemporary version. Other new elements to the third edition include: <ul> <li>Expanded coverage of the Lean Startup methodology</li> <li>Improved focus on the development and importance of teams</li> <li>A new section on the emergence of equity crowdfunding</li> <li>Further discussion of ethics and the dangers of dramatic scaling </li> </ul> Presented in an easy-to-understand style, this book will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in entrepreneurship and new venture management classes as well as active new venture owners and managers. Online resources include an instructor's manual, test bank, PowerPoint slides, and additional materials to aid instructors and students in applying their knowledge.

New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur's Roadmap for Development, Management, and Growth

Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations

New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap

This book offers students a comprehensive, accessible guide to launching and managing a new venture. Beginning with the planning process and continuing to marketing, financing, and growth, it gives students the insights and practical skills they need to be successful entrepreneurs. This edition’s structure aligns more logically with the venture’s lifecycle, so the reader is equipped to develop a strong business model. The authors combine updated planning exercises, end-of-chapter consultation questions, and a sample business plan with new material, including: <ul>
<li>a new chapter on ideation, the Business Model Canvas, and lean start-up that covers the latest methodology in idea generation and opportunity recognition to provide a tool for developing a business concept;</li> <li>a new chapter on the various pathways for creating a new venture, including setting up an online venture as well as managing the day-to-day aspects of running a business;</li> <li>a revised chapter on start-up capital and crowdfunding that helps students raise capital through social media;</li> <li>a revised chapter on managing growth through HR planning, helping students to navigate growth on a global level successfully and ethically.</li> </ul> Students in entrepreneurship and new venture management classes will find New Venture Management a valuable resource. A companion website features an instructor’s manual, test bank, PowerPoint slides, and further resources to aid instructors and students in applying their knowledge.

Effectiveness is the underlying theme for this introduction to disruptive innovation. The book tells the manager, or student, what they need to know in transforming the thinking in an organization to an innovative mindset in the twenty-first century. Corporate Innovation explains the four stages of the innovation process, and demonstrates how to improve skills in the innovation process, and unleash personal innovative abilities. This book also presents ways to assess the organization’s attitudes toward innovation, providing insights into how to diagnose creative and innovative performance problems in the organization. Beginning with an overview of concepts involved with an innovative organization today, this book explores the fundamental aspects of the individual, the organization and the implementation. An I-Organization is a combination of: <ul>
<li>I-Skills developed within individuals</li> <li>I-Design thinking functions needed to shape innovation</li> <li>I-Teams that emerge from the HR perspective of structuring the appropriate climate</li> <li>I-Solution needed to provide a foundation for implementing any innovative ideas.</li>
</ul> Essential reading for students of corporate innovation, corporate ventures, corporate strategy, or human resources, this book also speaks to the specific needs of active managers charged with the expectation of enhancing the innovative prowess of their organization. Instructors’ outlines, lecture slides, and a test bank round out the ancillary online resources for this title.

Corporate Innovation

Management & Leadership

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The Human Resource Function in Emerging Enterprises (Entrepreneurship Series)

Innovation Acceleration: Transforming Organizational Thinking (Prentice Hall Entrepreneurship Series)

Frontline HR: A Handbook for the Emerging Manager

New Venture Management

New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur's Roadmap for Development, Management, and Growth

Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations

Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations

New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap

New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap

Corporate Innovation