TY - BOOK AU - Burns, Paul TI - Entrepreneurship and small business : : start-up, growth and maturity SN - 9781137430359 U1 - 658.022 PY - 2016/// CY - New York : PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching KW - Business education KW - Small business -- Case studies N1 - PART I: ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- 1. Entrepreneurship: The Social and Business Revolution -- 2. The Economics of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy -- 3. The Entrepreneurial Character -- 4. Discovering a Business Idea -- 5. Researching and Evaluating the Business Idea -- PART II: START-UP -- 6. Start-up: Developing Your Business Model -- 7. Adding Values to the Business Model -- 8. Launching the Business -- 9. Legal Foundations -- 10. Operations and Risk -- 11. Financial Management -- PART III: GROWTH -- 12. Growth: Building the Foundations -- 13. Strategies for Growth -- 14. Financing the Business -- 15. From Business Model to Business Plan -- PART IV: MATURITY -- 16. Maturity: The Exit -- 17. Family Business -- 18. From Entrepreneur to Entrepreneurial Leader -- 19. Corporate Entrepreneurship ER -