7 Entrepreneurship
Business Startup and Entrepreneurship: Canada
Matthew Pauley (University of Prince Edward Island)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This OER textbook focuses on the foundations of entrepreneurship and starting a business. The text is divided from the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline; entrepreneurship traits and characteristics and the activities that precede starting a business.
Formats: Online, EPUB, and PDF.
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Developing Organizational Managerial Wisdom
Brad C. Anderson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This book presents the results of novel research into the dynamics of values, rationality, and power in organizations. Through this understanding, readers will gain insights and frameworks with which to understand the actions of others within their environment.
Formats: Online
Suggested for: RVET 651
Emergence of a Strategic Leader
Kathy L. DesRoches and Joseph Mews (Granite State College)
Licence: CC BY-SA
Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions about allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Various business analysis techniques can be used in strategic planning, including SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) and PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis) or STEER analysis involving Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors and EPISTELS (Environment, Political, Informatic, Social, Technological, Economic, Legal and Spiritual).
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Suggested for: RVET 651
Entrepreneurship
OpenStax
2022
Licence: CC BY
This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific components such as the business plan are provided in multiple formats. Entrepreneurship aims to drive students toward active participation in entrepreneurial roles, and exposes them to a wide range of companies and scenarios.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit
Lee Swanson (University of Saskatchewan)
2017
Licence: CC BY-SA
Written by a business professor at the University of Saskatchewan, this textbook covers fundamental entrepreneurship concepts.
Formats: PDF, Ebook
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Financial Management for Small Businesses: Financial Statements & Present Value Models
Lindon Robison, Steven Hanson, and J. Roy Black (Michigan State University)
2021
This book is for those whose financial management focus is on small businesses. For you, we adapt the traditional financial management themes emphasized in corporate financial management courses to meet the needs of small businesses. We wrote this book to be a catalyst that enables students and managers of small businesses to learn the tools and skill sets that will help them make sound financial management decisions.
Licence: CC BY-NC
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Suggested for: FNCE 323
Human Resources Management
University of Minnesota Libraries
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Human Resource Management teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more.
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Human Resources Management – Canadian Edition
Stéphane Brutus and Nora Baronian (Concordia University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Human Resource Management – Canadian Edition introduces students to the basic aspects of managing human resources in a Canadian context. The strategies and theories outlined in this book will be of use to any manager—not just those in HR—who needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Katherine Carpenter (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This course introduces students to entrepreneurship as an approach to life and to create their own careers. Through foundational concepts and frameworks, this course examines entrepreneurship as a process including: entrepreneurial identity, opportunity creation and evaluation, mobilizing resources, and growth. The course is designed around the major stages in this process, and an overview of factors that are key to entrepreneurial success is provided. This resource is rich in multimedia content including video and H5P interactive activities.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and more.
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Mastering Strategic Management
University of Minnesota
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Teaching the strategic management course can be a challenge for many professors. In most business schools, strategic management is a “capstone” course that requires students to draw on insights from various functional courses they have completed (such as marketing, finance, and accounting) in order to understand how top executives make the strategic decisions that drive whether organizations succeed or fail. Although students have taken these functional courses, many students have very little experience with major organizational choices. It is this inexperience that can undermine many students’ engagement in the course. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Organizational Behavior
Granite State College
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Management theories help organizations to focus, communicate, and evolve. Using management theory in the workplace allows leadership to focus on their main goals. When a management style or theory is implemented, it automatically streamlines the top priorities for the organization. Management theory also allows us to better communicate with people we work with which in turn allows us to work more efficiently. By understanding management theory, basic assumptions about management styles and goals can be assumed and can save time during daily interactions and meetings within an organization.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Suggested for: RVET 651
Principles of Management for Leadership Communication
University of Arkansas
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook from the University of Arkansas teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship and active leadership.
Formats: PDF, Online
Suggested for: RVET 651
Problem Solving in Teams and Groups
Cameron W. Piercy (University of Kansas)
Licence: CC BY
This textbook covers content relevant to COMS342 Problem Solving in Teams and Groups at the University of Kansas. Content in this textbook is adapted from The Open University, OpenStax, The Noba Project, and Wikipedia.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: RVET 651
Small Business Management in the 21st Century
David Cadden (Quinnipiac University) and Sandra L. Lueder (Southern Connecticut State University)
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
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.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: ENTP 212
Strategic Management
Reed Kennedy (Virginia Tech)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
An introduction to the key topics and themes of strategic management. The authors draw on examples of familiar companies and personalities to illustrate the different strategies used by today’s firms—and how they go about implementing those strategies. Students will learn how to conduct a case analysis, measure organizational performance, and conduct external and internal analyses.
Formats: Online, PDF, ODT, and more.