Entrepreneurship in Developing and Emerging Economies
- Ali J. Ahmad - Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick, UK
- Punita Bhatt - Research Fellow, Aston University, UK
- Iain Acton - Partner, Disruptive Lemonade, UK
An engaging book that introduces students to the ‘practice’ of entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies.
The predominant understanding of enterprise and entrepreneurship (E&E) has emerged from the perspective of industrialized and economically developed countries, largely ignoring emerging and developing economies (EDEs). Further, business and management students are considered ideal for innovating business ideas unlike students of law, physics or literature. Therefore, the benefits of E&E education fail to impact a vast majority of students from EDEs. Entrepreneurship in Developing and Emerging Economies breaks away from these two trends, presenting alternative pathways to students for ‘practicing’ (as opposed to ‘just learning’ about) E&E. The content is made approachable, accessible and relatable, and ‘no’ prior learning is expected.
The book uses non-technical language and introduces over 50 illustrative cases on enterprise and entrepreneurship from EDEs, aiding students to gain insights into the pre-start-up, start-up and growth phases of the entrepreneurial process. These phases are mapped into the three major sections—The Practices of Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Design and Start-up Enterprise Management. Each chapter moves ‘entrepreneurial thinking’ forward, helping students practice what they learn, retain new knowledge and understand the requirements to create new ventures and do business in an EDE context.
Key Features:
• Closely follows a learning-by-doing approach, with case study analyses and reflective exercises
• Chapters carefully designed to build familiarity, with photographs, illustrations and tables to aid readability and retention
• Valuable resources for instructors including multimedia content, relevant preparatory materials, learning outcomes, assignments, examination questions and associated marking criteria, among others
Supplements
This book is for entrepreneurship educators who believe that their students can learn more by ‘doing’ entrepreneurship than just ‘learning’ about entrepreneurship. It is a powerful guide for faculty and students keen to understand the process of entrepreneurship. Moreover, it doesn’t matter which domain expert you are, the content here is relevant to all.
This is an easy-to-read book with many descriptions, illustrations and exercises dealing with basic concepts in entrepreneurship. The book will prove relevant and useful to students seeking an introduction to entrepreneurship issues in developing countries.
Academics and practitioners seem to have different ways of looking at life. Through extensive research, academic grit and personal entrepreneurial experiences, the authors effectively built interweaving bridges between these two worlds. The book is not just helpful with its exercises and framework but is also a lot of fun to read. Emerging economies, changing times and paradigm shifts in technology will require astute understanding of the past and courage to embrace the future keeping cultural connotations in mind; the authors, through wonderful real-life experiences, anecdotes, metaphors and engaging storytelling, have been able to create a wonderful piece of work. This book can prove invaluable not only to entrepreneurs in the developing world but also to ones in the West who may want to understand cultural nuances and help prepare for opportunities in tomorrow’s world.
A very well-researched book with amazing examples of the entrepreneurial mindset from all over the world. To complete the learning process, the book also suggests exercises at the end of each chapter. Aspiring entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds will find this a very practical guide to understand the fundamentals of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship has become a source of hope of millions of youth in the emerging and developing economies. Entrepreneurship has enabled people to create new ventures with the least amount of resources and solve emerging problems and needs. A textbook on entrepreneurship in the emerging and developing economies was long awaited. I hope that this book will be a great resource for faculty and students.
Teaching entrepreneurship requires a fine blend of theory and practice, with relevant case studies that could create interest among learners. I am glad to find all these in this textbook which adds to the existing knowledge, more so from the perspectives of developing economies. The book not only covers ‘the practices of entrepreneurship’ and ‘enterprise design’ but also does justice to the relatively newer critical issues related to ‘start-up enterprise management’. I hope both students and educators will find it immensely useful.