Entrepreneurship and Organizational Innovation

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-19288-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 115 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: Management and Industrial Engineering

This book focuses on the process of designing a new business, known as entrepreneurship. It gives emphasis to the deep relationship between entrepreneurship and organizational innovation. This book provides a wide range of information and knowledge, namely:

- on the different initiatives to be developed in order to promote an entrepreneurial culture;

- on the different types and levels of innovation and organizational change to be implemented by organizations;

- on the possible strategies to be developed with a view to fostering qualified entrepreneurship through a strong training component;

-on the involvement of the different agents of innovation to equip the promoting entrepreneurial projects teams with scientific and technical knowledge in the different areas of intervention, such as marketing, finance, human resources management, the protection of intellectual property, techniques to persuade investors, etc.

This book contributes not only to the transmission of knowledge and know-how in what concerns the techniques, procedures and strategies of entrepreneurial management, but also, and above all, to the construction of the behaviors, characteristics and entrepreneurial attitudes, leading to high levels of success in the business world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davim, J. Paulo

Machado, Carolina

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensgründung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Entrepreneurship and organizational innovation.- Intra-entrepreneurship.- Organizational innovation.- Culture and organizational behaviour.- Work challenges and changes.- Communication, participation and involvement in innovative environments.- Competitive management practices.- Human resource management.- Matching human and innovative organizations needs.- Motivating people in an innovative environment.- Developing leadership / entrepreneurial skills.- Global management.- Team building and innovation.- Strategic management.- Employee motivation and entrepreneurship.- Conflict management and work challenges.- Learning skills and styles in work innovation.

Über Autor(innen)

Carolina Machado is an Associate Professor at University of Minho since 2004. She has experience and research interests in the fields of Human Resource Management, International Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management in SMEs, Training and Development, Management Change and Knowledge Management. She is the Head of Human Resources Management Work Group at University of Minho, as well as the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Applied Management Sciences and Engineering (IJAMSE).

J. Paulo Davim is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management & Industrial Engineering and Higher Education for Sustainability & Engineering Education.