Resourcing the Start-up Business

Creating Dynamic Entrepreneurial Learning Capabilities

Oswald Jones, Allan Macpherson, Dilani Jayawarna

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032321196
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000772791
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Drawing on the most up-to-date and relevant research, this concise textbook is an accessible guide to harnessing the appropriate resources when launching a new start-up business. The focus is on the wide range of tangible and intangible resources available to entrepreneurs in the early stages of a new venture. This second edition brings in material on crowdfunding, digitalization and Covid-19, and dedicates new chapters to:

• lean start-ups and business models
• idea generation and opportunity development and
• business incubators and accelerators.

The book supports students with learning objectives, a summary, discussion questions and a practical call to action in each chapter. A teaching guide and slides are also available for instructors. Resourcing the Start-up Business will be a valuable textbook for students of entrepreneurship and new venture creation globally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction to the Case Studies
• 1 Developing Your Entrepreneurial Learning Capabilities
• 2 Business Start-up Skills and Competences
• 3 The Nature of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
• 4 Business Models and the Lean Start-up Approach
• 5 Entrepreneurial Learning and Business Start-up
• 6 Social Capital as an Entrepreneurial Resource
• 7 Human Capital and Business Start-up
• 8 Formal Finance for Business Start-up
• 9 Informal Finance and Business Start-up
• 10 Dynamic Capabilities in Entrepreneurial Ventures
• 11 Growing New Businesses
• 12 Understanding Theories of Entrepreneurship
• 13 Business Start-up and Economic Development
• 14 Conclusions: Dynamic Entrepreneurial Learning
• Index