TY - BOOK AU - Stokes,David AU - Wilson,Nicholas AU - Wilson,Nicholas TI - Small business management and entrepreneurship SN - 9781844802241 (pbk.) : U1 - 658.022 STO PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Thomson KW - New business enterprises KW - Management KW - Small business KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Business and Management KW - ukslc KW - Budgeting & financial management KW - thema KW - Business & Management N1 - Previous ed.: London: Continuum, 2002; Earlier ed. published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2002, under title: Small business management; CW828, CW838, CW908; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1.Understanding small business and entrepreneurship -- 1.Small business in the economy -- 2.Enterpreneurship, the entrepreneur and the owner-manager -- 3.The small business and entrepreneurial environment -- 4.Innovation and the marketplace -- 5.Information and help -- Part 2.Creating the entrepreneurial small business -- 6.Business planning -- 7.Successful small business strategies -- 8.Start-ups and franchises -- 9.Buying an existing business -- 10.Forming and protecting a business -- Part 3.Managing the entrepreneurial small business -- 11.Management of people and resources -- 12.Marketing -- 13.Money -- 14.Business exits and realizing value N2 - This text explores the contexts, choices and strategies facing the small business venture, including coverage of planning a new venture. It contains pedagogical features that include case material to explore the same case situation from a number of different but interrelated angles and chapter-end real world case studies ER -