Small Business Management

Frank Hoy author Leslie Palich author J Petty author Justin Longenecker author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cengage Learning, Inc

Published:26th Sep '13

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Small Business Management cover

Realize your dream for small business success with this market-leading book. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: LAUNCHING AND GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES, 17E provides the practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights, and comprehensive resources you'll find essential both now and throughout your management future. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT delivers solid coverage of the fundamentals of business management as it teaches you not only how to start a business, but also how to manage, grow, and harvest a business. This market leading text places you in the role of decision maker, allowing you to immediately apply what you've learned to current challenges in today's small businesses. The book's thorough emphasis on building business plans ensures that you can effectively create, manage, and analyze a plan for your own venture. Unforgettable examples, exciting video cases, and coverage of the most current developments in business management today keep this engaging text as current and practical now as it was when it led the market in its first edition 50 years ago. Each edition builds upon past strengths with new innovations and breakthrough developments. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: LAUNCHING AND GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES, 17E offers the insights and practical principles that you'll reference again and again throughout your business career. Available with InfoTrac® Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.

1. The Entrepreneurial Life. 2. Entrepreneurial Integrity and Ethics. 3. Getting Started. 4. Franchising and Buyouts. 5. The Family Business. 6. The Business Plan: Visualizing the Dream. 7. The Marketing Plan. 8. The Human Resource Plan: Managers, Owners, Allies, and Directors. 9. The Location Plan. 10. Understanding a Firm's Financial Statements. 11. Forecasting Financial Requirements. 12. A Firm's Sources of Financing. 13. Planning for the Harvest. 14. Building Customer Relationships. 15. Product and Supply Chain Management. 16. Pricing and Credit Decisions. 17. Promotional Planning. 18. Global Opportunities for Small Business. 19. Professional Management in the Entrepreneurial Firm. 20. Managing Human Resources. 21. Managing Operations. 22. Managing the Firm's Assets. 23. Managing Risk in the Small Business.

ISBN: 9781133947752

Dimensions: 284mm x 223mm x 32mm

Weight: 1700g

736 pages

17th edition