Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- 1st Edition - May 17, 1999
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Peter F. Drucker
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 3 9 0 5 - 6
There are already thousands of managers who are avid readers of Peter Drucker's books - this major work will establish many more. Innovation and Entrepreneurship deals with 'what,… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThere are already thousands of managers who are avid readers of Peter Drucker's books - this major work will establish many more. Innovation and Entrepreneurship deals with 'what, when and why'; with policies and decisions; opportunities and risks,
structures and strategies; staffing, compensation and rewards.
In addition to managers in all types of business, lecturers and students of management and business studies will find this a revealing and exciting work. Highly original in approach, it is nevertheless a practical and illuminating study of a major, but hitherto neglected area, crucial for today's world.
structures and strategies; staffing, compensation and rewards.
In addition to managers in all types of business, lecturers and students of management and business studies will find this a revealing and exciting work. Highly original in approach, it is nevertheless a practical and illuminating study of a major, but hitherto neglected area, crucial for today's world.
Practical and illuminating
Written by one of the world's leading management gurus
Includes a new preface which relates the book to managers in the '90s.
Written by one of the world's leading management gurus
Includes a new preface which relates the book to managers in the '90s.
Business managers; Lecturers and students of management and business studies.
Preface; Introduction: The entrepreneurial economy; The practice of innovation - Systematic entrepreneurship; Purposeful innovation and the seven sources for innovative opportunity; Source: the unexpected; Source: incongruities; Source: process need; Source: industry and market structures; Source: demographics; Source: changes in perception; Source: new knowledge; The bright idea; Principles of innovation; The practice of entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurial management; The entrepreneurial business; Entrepreneurship in the service institution; The new venture; Entrepreneurial strategies - 'Fustest with the mostest'; 'Hit them where they ain't'; Ecological niches; Changing values and characteristics; Conclusion: The entrepreneurial society; Suggested readings; Index.
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 17, 1999
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080939056
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Peter F. Drucker
Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country’s largest companies, as well as leading companies abroad.
Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, then for more than twenty years as Professor of Management at the Graduate Business School of New York University. Since 1971 he has been Clarke Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California.
In addition to his management books, Peter Drucker is also renowned for his prophetic books analysing politics, economics and society. These books span fifty years of modern history beginning with The End of Economic Man (1939) and including The Practice of Management; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Managing in the Next Society; Management Challenges in the 21st Century; The Effective Executive and The Essential Drucker.
Affiliations and expertise
Clarke Professor of Social Science, Peter F Drucker Graduate Management School, Claremont Graduate University, California