• ISBN13: 9781137483669
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Business Management
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac
• Publication Date: June 3, 2015
• Pages: 500
• Original Price: INR 899.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1300 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Entrepreneurship

This innovative text considers the personal qualities of successful entrepreneurs and the manner in which they do business. It demonstrates how these qualities can be replicated to form an organizational architecture that encourages entrepreneurship at all levels within a company.

PAUL BURNS is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Dean of the University of Bedfordshire Business School, UK. He has previously held posts as Professor of Small Business Development at Cranfield School of Management, UK, having joined it from Warwick University Business School, UK. He also formerly served as Director of the 3i European Enterprise Research Centre, researching small firms across Europe. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Business School, USA, and a Visiting Professor at the Open University Business School, UK, where he developed the multi-media Small Business Programme which was screened on BBC2. He is Fellow and a former President of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). He is a chartered accountant, having worked for Arthur Andersen in London. For four years, he ran his own firm, Design for Learning Ltd.