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This research guide supports the class MGT253 - Owning and Operating a Small Business - Starting, organizing, and operating a small business, including location, finance management processes, advertisement and promotion, credit, inventory control, and ethics. Please choose a topic from the tabs in the left-hand column to find resources you can use to complete your assignment(s).
Text Books
Entrepreneurship : The Art, Science, and Process for Success by Call Number: MGT/BUSINESS RESERVES by 9-22-2022ISBN: 9781260682427Publication Date: 2021-02-01"This book presents a systematic and thorough means for students and potential entrepreneurs to think through their venture and the rich range of concerns around it three core tenets to starting an entrepreneurial venture: 1. Science of practice as the heart of starting and running a successful entrepreneurial venture. 2. Art of turning an entrepreneurial venture into a success. 3. Processes that tie these two areas together into a coherent and organized business"--
Small Business Management in the 21st Century by
Small Business Management in the 21st Century offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. The authors designed this book with a “less can be more” approach, and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept.
The text has a format and structure that will be familiar to you if you use other books on small business management. Yet it brings a fresh perspective by incorporating three distinctive and unique themes and an important new feature (Disaster Watch) which is embedded throughout the entire text. These themes assure that students see the material in an integrated context rather than a stream of separate and distinct topics.
First, the authors incorporate the use of technology and e-business as a way to gain competitive advantage over larger rivals. Technology is omnipresent in today’s business world. Small business must use it to its advantage. We provide practical discussions and examples of how a small business can use these technologies without having extensive expertise or expenditures.
Second, they explicitly acknowledge the constant need to examine how decisions affect cash flow by incorporating cash flow impact content in several chapters. As the life blood of all organizations, cash flow implications must be a factor in all business decision-making.
Third, they recognize the need to clearly identify sources of customer value and bring that understanding to every decision. Decisions that do not add to customer value should be seriously reconsidered.
Small Business Management in 21st Century boasts a new feature called Disaster Watch scenarios. Few texts cover, in any detail, some of the major hazards that small business managers face. Disaster Watch scenarios, included in most chapters, cover topics that include financing, bankers, creditors, employees, customers who don’t pay, economic downturns, and marketing mistakes.
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Call Number: The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.ISBN: 9781453345566Publication Date: 2012
eBooks on Business Mgt.
Small Business: Funding, Management and Mentor Programs by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781536159691Publication Date: 2019-07-30
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Business Glossary
- Glossary - Small Business Sourcebook: The Entrepreneur's Resource(Vol. 1. 37th ed.)An up-to-date glossary of business terms.
- Glossary of Small Business Terms - Business Plans HandbookNeed a definition? Check out the Glossary of Small Business Terms
Terminology - QUIZLETS
Owning and Operating a Small Business QUIZLETS
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