3GE Collection on Business Management Advances in Business, Management and Entrepreneurship

'The interaction between key actors in the socioeconomic system influences sustainable development. Global society faces a variety of environmental, economic, and social sustainability challenges. In the current sustainability debate, it is important to consider the role businesses play in this system, through management, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and society are no longer striving to create economic value alone. In order to meet business, environmental, and social challenges, it is also necessary to integrate multiple forms of value creation. As a result of this change in meaning and focus, existing business models may need to change, paradigms must be altered, and new approaches to sustainable development in business, management, entrepreneurship, and innovation may emerge.This E-Collection on Advances in Business, Management and Entrepreneurship aims to bring together multidisciplinary knowledge and value creation initiatives from a wide range of business disciplines to address global sustainable development. It addresses sustainable development in business, manage-ment, entrepreneurship, and innovation.For businesses to stay alive, global competition demands that they adapt to current conditions, accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation focused efforts. New businesses are essential to most developed and developing economies. They are needed by established companies, either as suppliers of exciting new inputs or as new ventures within their organization.As new businesses are often key to developing regions or creating jobs in areas with high unemploy-ment, governments are keen to encourage them and support them. It isn't enough just to have a great idea to start and run your own business; you must also manage it weil. If this is your ambition, you will need to develop a wide range of entrepreneurial skills and concepts. You will learn how to become innovative, manage new ideas, and apply learning to start a new business in this book. In developed countries, entrepreneurship is a major driver of economic growth. Entrepreneurs need resources and support from a variety of external audiences to succeed in new ventures. Such resources would improve the likelihood of a new venture's survival. Therefore, this book examines advancements in entrepreneurship and business management.'--Back cover