Prescriptive entrepreneurship

In the only known programme of prescriptive entrepreneurship, James Fiet provides a marked contrast to the standard descriptive focus of entrepreneurship studies. Instead of the anecdotally based pedagogies that have dominated the teaching of entrepreneurship (and which do not control for luck-based...

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Main Author: Fiet, James O.
Other Authors: Patel, Pankaj C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar c2008
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520 |a In the only known programme of prescriptive entrepreneurship, James Fiet provides a marked contrast to the standard descriptive focus of entrepreneurship studies. Instead of the anecdotally based pedagogies that have dominated the teaching of entrepreneurship (and which do not control for luck-based success), the author lays out a programme of research to develop and test theoretically derived guidelines for how to improve the success rate and performance of aspiring entrepreneurs. Rather than describing what entrepreneurs do, he prescribes and tests what they ought to do 
520 |a pt. 1. The prescriptive imperative -- pt. 2. Testing prescriptions -- pt. 3. Inferences for theory and practice