Hospitality Management : Entrepreneurship

Featuring invaluable resources to give you the tools you need, this book is your one-stop guide to jump-start your entrepreneurial journey.

This book provides an overview of the theory, practice and context of entrepreneurship and innovation at both the industry and firm level.

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and comprehensive overview of corporate entrepreneurship.

A Silicon Valley icon - and inventor of the iPod and iPhone - dispenses valuable tips and life lessons for entrepreneurs at any stage in their careers.

Explores the economic, political, cultural, geographical, and technological environments that affect entrepreneurs.

Rather than creating an elaborate business plan and a product-centric approach, Lean Startup prizes testing your vision continuously with your customers.

Drawing on over three decades of experience - gee I'm getting old - and sharing some lessons that I hope will provide valuable advice to anyone looking to start a company or manage a good business.

This is the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future.

Stephen J Hunt, turns his 30 years of buying, renovating, and selling pubs into a guide on how to turn a poorly performing business into a highly profitable one.

Learn success secrets on the mindset and strategy needed to build and grow successful remote organizations from the ground up.

This book provides you with the essential and practical information you need to plan your business effectively. This book will ensure that your planning is worthwhile.

Discover valuable lessons from some of the world's most extraordinary "information masters": entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and researchers.

Celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business.

This textbook aims to guide, instruct and inspire the next generation of innovation designers, managers and leaders.

Dick Smith has been part of our national consciousness for over fifty years as an innovative and astute businessman, a ground-breaking adventurer, a generous philanthropist and a provocateur for the causes he feels deeply about.

The authors take a highly practical approach, providing strategies, tools, and cases to help readers hone their creative abilities.

The information presented in this book is based on current evidence, rather than ‘informal knowledge’ or comments of specific entrepreneurs.

Gives a new and definitive overview of the vital role and effective practice of entrepreneurship in one of the most dynamic industry sectors in the world.

In the geography of the global economy, there are known ‘hot spots’ where new technologies germinate at an astounding rate and pools of capital, expertise and talent foster the development of new industries and new ways of doing business.

This book provides a window into the economic, political, cultural, geographical, and technological environments that affect entrepreneurs as they exploit opportunities and create value in economies across the world.

These hard-hitting interviews will give you the practical tools, tips, and strategies you need to fast-track your business idea and take it from concept to completion.

Papers in this volume focus on topics, perspectives, challenges, and visions of scholars in the area of entrepreneurship.

Making Ecopreneurs charts recent developments and remains highly relevant to researchers in the fields of sustainable business development and entrepreneurship.

This book assesses and attempts to push forward contemporary conceptualisations of contexts that matter for entrepreneurship, pointing in particular to opportunities generating new insights.

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation.

Ever wonder where big, breakthrough ideas come from?

In the geography of the global economy, there are known 'hot spots' where new technologies germinate at an astounding rate and pools of capital, expertise and talent foster the development of new industries and new ways of doing business.

This textbook introduces ideas, skills and models to help students understanding how creative thinking can aid problem-solving.

Presents a five-phase Discovery Process for staging and mapping the paths between analytical planning and market-centric, discovery-driven innovation.

Applies ecological principles to the concepts of creativity and innovation, arguing that creativity is a fundamental part of being human and showing that it can be applied to free thinking and the overall development of new ideas.

Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism presents empirical studies that identify the major "push and pull" factors of innovation in hospitality and tourism, providing vital information on how to measure innovation.

This book presents tools for measuring, monitoring, and reporting upon the Responsible Innovation process and the social, environmental, scientific, and economic impacts of innovations.