Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship: Volume 3

The significance of entrepreneurship and advanced information related to the field has been provided in this comprehensive book. According to Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, the major difference between an entrepreneur and a manager lies in the entrepreneur's ideas, originality and visualization of the world. It is these special characteristics which facilitate entrepreneurs to generate new combinations, to modify existing business models and to improvise. These innovations can take quite a few forms: products, processes, and organizations. In this book, experts from around the world have viewed and analyzed the visions and actions of innovative entrepreneurs as a source of new ideas to facilitate friendly ties between different agents for changing the existing business structures.