TY - BOOK AU - Burns,Paul TI - Entrepreneurship and small business : : start-up, growth and maturity SN - 9780230247802 AV - HD2341 BUR PY - 2011/// CY - New York : PB - Palgrave Macmillan, KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Study and teaching. KW - Business education. KW - Small business KW - Case studies N1 - Includes index; pt. 1. Entrepreneurship -- 1. Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-first Century -- 2. Entrepreneurs and Owner-managers -- 3. Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- 4. Social and Civic Entrepreneurship -- pt. 2. Start-Up -- 5. Developing Creativity and the Business Idea -- 6. Evaluating the Business Idea -- 7. Launching the Business -- 8. International Entrepreneurship -- 9. Running the Business -- 10. Financing the Business -- pt. 3. Growth -- 11. Planning for Growth -- 12. New Products and Services -- 13. Growing the Business -- 14. Developing the Business Plan -- 15. Exit: Failure and Success -- pt. 4. Maturity -- 16. The Family Firm -- 17. From Entrepreneur to Leader -- 18. Corporate Entrepreneurship N2 - The new edition of this successful text synthesizes good management practice for students and encourages and develops entrepreneurial skills. Clearly structured and accessibly presented, this comprehensive textbook includes accounting control, decision-making and new coverage of gender and ethnicity; CSR, ethics and business failure ER -