Creative Cross Disciplinary Entrepreneurship

Creative Cross-Disciplinary Entrepreneurship responds to educational demands created through dramatic changes in the nature of business, by describing how to develop a cross-disciplinary curriculum in Entrepreneurship that further increases students' knowledge base in specific areas of interest and the development of an 'entrepreneurial mindset.'

Entrepreneurship is a creative act with entrepreneurs creating products, services, jobs, economic stimulation, culture and more. This creatively written book offers a wide array of exercises of varied time requirements for implementation, as well as a complexity of content. In addition to more traditional topics, the book serves to enhance students’ imaginative and creative abilities so they can effectively problem-solve and build their creative entrepreneurial visions. Learning objectives can be directly implemented into syllabi.

Unique ideas, insights and themes from diverse disciplinesÑfrom engineering, science and medicine to arts, design, and musicÑhave the potential to enrich and deepen our understanding of entrepreneurship. This book brings together contributions from an

This book explores how contemporary organisations are abandoning conventional tactics in order to survive and grow in an incessantly shifting business landscape, analysing fundamental aspects of management, marketing and strategy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the paradigms of neuro-marketing, innovative change management, motivational creativity, and customer data management, to name a few, the authors provide practical learning outcomes which reflect how organisations are seeking to adopt innovative means to innovative ends, targeting capacity building in multiple ways. Ultimately, this edited collection implicitly defines an organisational philosophy that incorporates functionality, but also embraces business notions pertaining to wider contextual transformations and environmental developments. Theoretical and practical contributions highlight the importance of multidisciplinary research to practical business success, making this book an invaluable read to both scholars and business executives.

This study of innovation brings together a wide array of topics under a theoretical model consisting of two basic dimensions: aggregation level (individual, group, organization and society) and aspects of progress (generation, evaluation, implementation and diffusion of new ideas and products). The readings, many appearing here for the first time, were written by an international group of experts--including Eric von Hippel, Arthur L. Stinchcombe, L. Richard Hoffman, and Robert A. Burgelman--and represent a variety of disciplines, including psychology, economics, sociology, political science, social anthropology, marketing, engineering and education

Innovation is a central mechanism in the progression of society and often captures the imagination and enthusiasm of corporate leaders, public policy makers, and so on. In this volume, a novel approach to an understanding innovation in contexts that range from the socio-cultural to the technological is presented.

"Visual Tools for Developing Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Capacity will identify and document pedagogical and practice-based visual approaches to scaffold and develop capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship. An introductory chapter will introduce and contextualise the key themes of the book. It outlines the value in supporting acquisition of cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship skills in students and why visual tools are particularly useful in doing this. The main body of the book will be divided into four sections, each will include theory and case study based inquiries. - Visual Tools for Collaboration This first section would explore approaches to developing skills for cross-disciplinary collaboration in students leveraging visual tools and artefacts. - Visual tools for Innovation This second section would explore approaches to scaffolding the acquisition of innovation skills in students via use of visual tools and artefacts. - Visual tools for Entrepreneurship This third section would explore how students can be supported and encouraged to attain appropriate skills and knowledge for successful entrepreneurship through the use of visual tools and artefacts. - Integrated Approaches This fourth, and final, section will demonstrate integrated approaches with respect two or three of these. The chapter authors have been selected from across disciplinary specialisations from a global pool of educators and practitioners in order to provide a broad range of perspectives. A final summary chapter summaries and reflects on the key insights of the book"--

This book is the first of its kind to highlight the importance of family businesses to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the managerial, behavioral, and strategic issues facing these companies and offers conclusive statements about their performance and influence on the region. Family businesses have been found to outperform non-family businesses in advanced industrialized economies, yet no such information exists on the importance of these companies which dominate the economic landscape of sub-Saharan Africa. Through empirical evidence and cross-country data, a team of expert contributors explore matters related to the management of family-owned businesses, such as how they evaluate employee productivity and performance, manage human resources, view governance practices and the role of women, and other sensitive issues. This is a seminal text for students and researchers in family business, entrepreneurship, strategic management, and family business owners looking to improve and advance their companies for the greater good of sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the continent.