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Ch. 5 Bateman
Management - Ch. 5 Entrepreneurship
Question | Answer |
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Entrepreneurship | The pursuit of lucrative opportunities by enterprising individuals. |
Small Business | A business having fewer than 100 employees, independently owned and operated, not dominant in its field, and not characterized by many innovative practices. |
Entrepreneurial Venture | A new business having growth and high profitability as primary objectives. |
Entrepreneur | An individual who establishes a new organization without the benefit of corporate sponsorship. |
Intrapreneurs | New- venture creators working inside big companies. |
Franchising | An entrepreneurial alliance between a franchisor (an innovator who has created at least one successful store and wants to grow) and a franchise (a partner who manages a new store of the same type in a new location). |
Business Incubators | Protected environments for new, small businesses. |
Business Plan | A formal planning step that focuses on the entire venture and describes all the elements involved in starting it. |
Legitimacy | Peoples judgment of a company’s acceptance, appropriateness, and desirability, generally stemming from company goals and methods that are consistent with societal values. |
Social Capital | A competitive advantage from relationships with other people and the image other people have of you. |
Entrepreneurial Orientation | The tendency of an organization to identify and capitalize successfully on opportunities to launch new ventures by entering new or established markets with new or existing goods or services. |
What is risk? | A calculated probability of failure. |
What is chance? | Undetermined probability. |
Creativity | Production of new and useful ideas |
Oportunity | Good timing to introduce and idea. It has to do with technological discoveries, demographic changes, economic dislocations, natural disasters, and government regulations. |