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Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Industries

  • 1st Edition - December 11, 1998
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Alison Morrison, Michael Rimmington, Clare Williams
  • Language: English

Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwide this is particularly true.… Read more

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Description

Entrepreneurship is the engine that drives any successful industry or economy. In the rapidly evolving hospitality, tourism and leisure sector worldwide this is particularly true. This new text is designed to develop a greater understanding of the process and context for entrepreneurship as well as to provide key concepts which will enable the reader to become more entrepreneurial themselves.

The text unites appropriate theory with copious real world examples giving the student, manager or trainer a powerful framework for understanding every aspect of this vital business function. Rigorously developed by authors with wide teaching and industry experience it contains:
*Clear learning objectives and teaching structure *Up-to-date cases throughout *The widest possible coverage of the latest research and literature *A clear focus on the dynamic hospitality, tourism and leisure sector.

Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Industries is an essential teaching tool and reference on all serious academic and professional courses and gives a uniquely powerful overview of the subject for students and trainees.

Key features

Up-to-date cases throughout and a major cumulative case running through the text
The widest possible coverage of the latest research and literature with a clear focus on the dynamic hospitality, tourism and leisure sector
Foreword by Rocco Forte

Readership

Essential teaching tool and reference on all serious academic and professional courses and gives a uniquely powerful overview of the subject for students and trainees.

Table of contents

The process of entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Corporate entrepreneurship; Environment for enterprise; Finance, business planning and entrepreneurship; Operations and management of entrepreneurial organizations; Marketing and entrepreneurship; Strategy and entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship, an overview.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 11, 1998
  • Language: English

About the authors

AM

Alison Morrison

She has an MSc in Entrepreneurial Studies and her Ph.D. thesis investigated small firm strategic alliances. Since 1979 she has been an entrepreneur in her own right, owning and operating a number of restaurant and hotel businesses. In addition, she regularly undertakes consultancy projects for entrepreneurs both in the UK and internationally.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, The Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde, UK

MR

Michael Rimmington

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer and MBA Programme Director, School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Oxford Brookes University

CW

Clare Williams

Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Marketing and Hospitality Business, School of Leisure and Food Management, Sheffield Hallam University

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