Team Entrepreneurship / Edition 1

by Alex Stewart

Overview

An emerging approach to collective entrepreneurship by employees is described in this volume. The author uses as the basis of his research a car parts factory - a small yet highly successful division of a quickly growing and profitable corporation. Stewart describes the resources needed for the company to succeed, which include work action, management participation, and internal transformational capabilities. Finally he relates the concept to cross-cultural studies of entrepreneurship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803934931
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/01/1989
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alex Stewart joined Marquette University in 2000 after ten years on the faculty of Texas Tech University. He is a past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, Program Chair and Co-Convener of the Organization Science Winter Conference, and Program Chair of the Family Enterprise Research Conference (for which he serves on the board). He has taught in virtually all levels for many different student groups and enjoyed them all, and currently focuses on leading the Entrepreneurship major and launching a non-business minor for MU undergraduates. His emerging research will focus on the photo-ethnographic study of kinship and entrepreneurship.

Table of Contents

Prologue for Practitioners (and Other Busy People)
PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE FOR RUNNING HOT
Market Focus
Focused Employees
An Internally Nurtured Team
PART TWO: RUNNING HOT
Growth with Limited Resources
Community with a Mission
The Internal Politics of External Service
Surely They Can't Keep It Up?
Running Right on the Course
A Trip to the ‘Big Men'
Entrepreneurship Cross-Culturally