Now with SAGE Publishing! Timothy S. Hatten’s Small Business Management: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage, Seventh Edition equips students with the tools they need to navigate the important financial, legal, marketing, managerial, and operational decisions to help them create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage in small business. Strong emphasis is placed on application with Experiential Learning Activities and application of technology and social media throughout. New cases, real-world examples, and illuminating features spotlight the diverse, innovative contributions of small business owners to the economy. Whether your students dream of launching a new venture, purchasing a franchise, managing a lifestyle business, or joining the family company, they will learn important best practices for competing in the modern business world. New to this Edition Experiential Learning Activities provide students with hands-on opportunities to practice their small business management skills. Tech in Action boxes highlight how small business owners can leverage technology, big data, and social media. Issues in Small Business boxes prompt critical thinking on current issues. Small Business in Action videos showcase stories and interviews from a wide variety of small business owners. How To. . . videos provide students with instructions and examples of basic business tasks such as performing a breakeven analysis, understanding income statements, and forecasting demand.
Small Business Management in the 21st Century
This text introduces the world of small business and details its diverse management aspects. It also presents the most current concerns of small business today, including the expanding world of...
Entreprenuerial pathways - Who are your customers? - Integrated marketing - Show me the money: finding, securing and managing it - Operating a small business effectively - Leadership, ethics, and exits.
The authors designed this book with a "less can be more" approach, and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept.
In addition to students, this book is also useful to small business owner-managers as a general guide on how they might better manage their operations.
Ideal for students at any level, the chapters of this book invite you to ponder upon your reading through a series of ‘reflective practice’ activities.
By explaining how culture shapes and conditions the reality of small businesses and how organizational theories and models fail as management tools, this book fills a significant gap.
Company CEO Todd Novaczyk , a former Wendy's franchise owner , had bought the ... The deal to convert some Pannekoeken restaurants to Yankee Diners fell ...
Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook, by Mary Jane Byrd takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and running a small business.
SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT is a problem-based book for the small business course where experiential learning is key. This text emphasizes problem-based learning through working with real problems faced by entrepreneurs...