This study explores factors that motivate American Indians to become entrepreneurs and analyzes the results strategies they utilize to build sustainable ventures. Unexpectedly, the factor most cited by the study participants as having the strongest influence on their entrepreneurial career was...

The last decade has seen a growing interest in market-based approaches to poverty reduction. Since the publication of Prahalad's Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid in 2004, businesses, entrepreneurs, and researchers have investigated ways to tap into this fortune. Many researchers have...

As we plunge further into the twenty-first century, the role of senior leader continues to change and evolve. OD practitioners need to be aware of these changes if they are going to be in the best position to consult to senior leaders. The litany of trends impacting organizations and their...

chapter 1. Fundamentals of strategic management -- chapter 2. Industry competition -- chapter 3. The external environment : political-legal and economic forces -- chapter 4. The external environment : social and technological forces -- chapter 5 The organization : ethics and corporate social...

A framework for crisis management -- The landscape survey : a macro perspective -- Sources of organizational crises -- Strategic planning and assessing crisis vulnerability -- Forming the crisis management team and plan -- Organizational strategy and crises -- Crisis management : taking action...