1st Edition

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management in the Hospitality Industry

By Darren Lee-Ross, Conrad Lashley Copyright 2009
306 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Small businesses are the backbone of the tourism and hospitality industry and, depending on which statistics one uses, represent somewhere between 75 to 95 percent of all firms globally in this sector. The number of entrepreneurs has dramatically and uniformly increased globally over the last ten years. Divided into four sections, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in the... Read more
1. Context, Theoretical Perspectives and Definitions; 2. Indigenous and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Cultural Perspective; 3. Entrepreneurs and Small Firm Ownership; 4. Creativity and Entrepreneurship; 5. Innovation, Opportunity and Protection; 6. The Feasibility Analysis; 7. The Family Business: Who’s to Bless and Who’s to Blame?; 8. Hospitality, Commercial Homes and Entrepreneurship; 9. Preparing a Business Plan; 10. Leadership and the Entrepreneur: “I’m Right Behind You
Leading the Way”; 11. Growth: the Harder I Work the Luckier I Get

Biography

Darren Lee-Ross, Conrad Lashley