'This book is timely and innovative in providing a comprehensive overview of the various contexts and issues likely to be encountered by the freelance therapist working in a number of settings.' - Val Wosket, University College of Ripon & York St John

'Her poetic prose and philosophical questioning are inspiring, comforting and encouraging, but also practicable to therapists' personal and professional work... The book paints a wide panorama of the therapeutic landscape and will give trainees, trainers, newly qualified practitioners and 'old hands' much to think about.' - John Freestone, Ipnosis No.7, Autumn 2002

' this volume should attract a similarly attract a wide readership including counsellors and therapists in training, those who have recently qualified, and more seasoned practitioners. Anyone considering a training course could also usefully read this book to help them reach an informed decision about their future prospects Competition and collaboration are powerful dynamics in the world of counselling and therapy, and by including them in the title of this book, the authors courageously acknowledge issues which are all too rarely spoken about amongst practitioners, let alone discussed and explored.' - Alison Wertheimer, BACP North London Magazine

Contents:
1. Introduction
I. The Spirit of Enterprise II. The Study of Both Markets and Culture III. Civil Society and Cultural Studies IV. The Development, Representation, and Morality of Business
2. What is Culture and Why Does it Matter?
I. Culture as Context: from the Arts to Morality II. Culture and Economy in the Modernist Epoch III. The Evolution of the Field of Cultural Studies IV. Shifting the Site of 'Politics'
3. But is Cultural Studies Compatible with Economics?
I. On Different Worlds? II. The Universality of Economics, the Diversity of Economic Culture III. Individualism, Communalism and Rights IV. Ethnocentrism and Markets V. Popular Culture and Markets
4. How Does Culture Influence Economic Development?
I. Which Culture Prospers? Comparative Cultural Advantage
a. The meaning of economic development b.Cultural nationalism c. Values conducive to economic development d. Checklist ethnography e. Comparative cultural advantage
II. For Example, Different Kinds of Entrepreneurship
a. Entrepreneurship in its context b. Culture versus rationality? c. Cultural fit d. Cultural studies and public policy
5. The Culture Industry's Representation of Business
I. The Image of Business in Popular Culture II. The Construction of Meaning
a. Reading the texts of popular culture b. resistance and susceptibility in the creation of meaning c. Popular culture and the state
III. A New Cultural Reading of Business
6. The Market Order and the Moral Order
I. Unintended Consequences and the Ethics of Business
a. The invisible hand and the minimalist argument b. Socialism, social responsibility and the traditional defense of market morality c. A renewed challenge to business
II. The Minmalist Defense of the Market
a. The morality of obedience to stockholders b. From stockholders to stakeholders
III. Markets and the Construction of Meaning
a. Room for moral choices b. Resistant readings in the market context c. Doesn't business just co-opt progressive clauses?
7. Conclusion

An all-you-need-to-know introduction to building, maintaining, and profiting from your own business

• Smart Strategies for choosing a business to match your personality and skills, and avoiding the common pitfalls of entrepreneurial start-ups
• Smart Advice on all the behind-the-scenes tasks—dealing with taxes and legal concerns, keeping the books, hiring employees, working with suppliers, and more
• Smart Tips on today's vast range of high-tech tools—what you really need and how to get it without breaking the bank
• Smart Definitions and insights on proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations—and which structure best suits your goals and circumstances
• Quick reading and easy referencing with a comprehensive index and loads of sidebars and tables

This book, first published in 1998, is an attempt to better understand the human resource programs utilized by small firms and the basis for their choice. Much of the study is designed to provide a working framework from which to begin to understand the myriad of human resource decisions made in these companies on a daily basis. In this way the research seeks to make some contribution to the development of a theoretical grounding for human resources in the small business area. This title will be of interest to students of business studies and human resource management.

When Gail Haynes became a single mother with two kids under six years of age, she vowed that her kids would never go through the financial hardships she was experiencing and immediately began teaching them how to make money work for them. By the time her daughters were seven and nine, they had started their own business. Seven years and several expansions later they are still managing their business completely debt free.
Based on the simple but vital financial principles Gail taught her own children, "The Lemonade Stand Millionaire" is a practical guide to help parents to start conversations about money and business with their kids of any age--even as early as two years old.
Rather than just telling kids what to do and how to do it, this highly interactive approach shows parents how to teach their kids to handle money challenges and disappointments, as well as wonderful successes. Of course, parents are also learning at the same time
When children are ready to venture into self-employment, these fun and interactive exercises teach them what it takes to turn a recognized need into a bona fide business. Many multimillion dollar businesses started with a simple idea
Not every child will want to start his or her own business, but every child needs to understand how money works and how to make it work for them. "The Lemonade Stand Millionaire" will set them up for financial success with skills and habits that will make the difference between a life of financial struggle and a balanced way of thinking about and handling money.

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Get Noticed If you don't have the budget to generate publicity, Christina Daves---founder of "PR for Anyone" and successful entrepreneur---provides expert advice on how she appeared in over 50 media outlets in one year including: The Steve Harvey Show, Dr. Oz, NBC, FOX, CBS, "Parenting Magazine, Washington Pos"t and more.
Learn How To:
* Brand your business so your message is consistent.
* Get FREE media exposure
* Share your message with journalists---efficiently and timely.
* Find the media to get results
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Did you know that, in South Africa, 70% to 80% of small businesses fail within the first five years of their establishment? Research indicates that this failure is often due to a lack of understanding of basic business concepts by the entrepreneur. In the competitive South African business environment, it is essential that aspiring entrepreneurs and new business owners have a solid foundation of knowledge on which to build sustainable businesses.

Entrepreneurship and how to establish your own business (6th edition) is a foundational book covering the key areas of entrepreneurship and small business development.

Recent development experience points to the way business can be the key to a dynamic small business sector, especially where those links are built on high trust co-operative relations.
This book reviews different types of small business network, illustrated by an international selection of case studies, including:
* Chinese family business networks
* ethinic minority business networks
* Japanese and South Korean business group networks
* Taiwan's subcontracting networks
* European industrial districts
Network promotion initiatives in Singapore, New Zealand, Scandinavia and the UK are each discussed to provide a comprehensive comparative assessment of small business networks.

Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) have been recognised as a major contemporary source of employment and income in a growing number of developing countries. Yet, relatively little is known about the characteristics and patterns of change in these enterprises. This volume examines the dynamics of MSEs in the development process. Drawing on a set of surveys conducted in 12 countries in Africa and Latin America the authors map the patterns of change in MSEs in the developing world. Subjects covered include: significance of new start and closure rates of MSEs; factors involved in expansion rates and growth patterns of MSEs; and the role of gender in MSEs revolution. The text also develops a four-fold characterization of MSEs, from which follows a reflection in the problems faced by and the diverse needs of MSEs. The authors conclude by drawing important lessons for donors and implementing agencies, based on the need to tailor policy to the varying contributions to development and needs of different MSEs. In its presentation of real-life examples and its suggestions for improving development assistance efforts, this volume should be welcome by students and researchers in development eco

Small Business Book Award Winner 2013, Small Business Book AwardsThe secrets of the UK's biggest online entrepreneurs revealed

Thinking of starting a business? Already have a business online and looking to take it to the next level? The wonderful world wide web has made creating a start-up that much easier. Thousands of people are out there reaping the rewards the web can bring. If you want to join them, you've come to the right place.

Profiling today's foremost web entrepreneurs, Lucy Tobin - who meets successful business founders every week writing an enterprise column for "The Evening Standard" - takes us through their start-up stories and maps out exactly what's made them so successful. You'll hear first hand from the bright sparks behind some of the UK's top online businesses. With interviews, practical advice and insights, you'll learn how they did it, what they recommend, and how you can do it too.

Political and financial upheaval is not a new phenomenon - from the tulip bulb bubble in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century to Black Monday in 1987, businesses throughout history have worked to adapt and cope. However, today's climate is even more fraught with crises, raising the levels of concern for business, society, and governments. It especially poses a challenge for small businesses, who have to learn to cope with this increasingly turbulent environment, dealing with the difficulties and taking advantage of the new opportunities that turbulence can provide. Understanding how resilience capabilities can be developed to promote sustainable business is imperative. This book provides a new paradigm for conceptualizing resilience capabilities and advances current understanding both theoretically and practically in real-world business settings. Examining the processes of resilience during different phases of crisis reveals why businesses either fail, or outperform their counterparts during times of turbulence. Based on in-depth empirical research, researchers and advanced students in small business, strategic management and risk management will find this an invaluable guide to organizational resilience.

This work addresses the fundamental questions concerning the economic reinvigoration of society through policies aimed at encouraging the development of small enterprises. Governments in Europe, the rest of the industrialized world and developing countries are increasingly including small enterprise development as a central feature of economic and social policies. Nowhere was this more evident than during the 1980s in Britain, as the Conservative government sought to establish an enterprise culture. However, despite an impressive growth in the numbers of people turning to self-employment, there is little evidence that British society has become more entrepreneurial or that the pursuit of enterprise has become part of the national culture.

This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful theorizing. Subjects covered include:
* the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to small firms
* definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business context, from formal standards to Total Quality Management
* interviews with a selected sample of over 150 owner-managers
* detailed case studies of small firms
* analysis of self-generated quality strategies
* the variety of formal methods of quality control.

Following on from the success of the first edition of The Independant Midwife, this second edition has been updates to include changes that have occurred since 1993, such as professional indemnity insurance. This book will be of great interest to and assistance to those wishing to set up an independent practice or partnership, providing practical advice on the different aspects that are involved in working as an independant practitioner. Useful sample documents and contact addresses are also included.

Since the start of the 1980's there has been a significant rise in the number of forms of collaborative pressures in the global market-place. One form of collaboration is Corporate Venture Capital Investment, or Corporate Venturing. This involves large, non-financial companies taking minority equity stakes in small unquoted firms, and can be beneficial for both parties. The levels of corporate venturing are, however, reportedly low in the UK, particularly when compared to levels in the USA. This volume addresses the lack of academic and practical research into corporate venturing by examining the role of this activity as both a form of large firm-small firm collaboration and as an alternative source of equity finance for small firms. These issues are explored through surveys of independent fund managers, corporate executives and technology-based firm directors. The author finds corporate venturing to be a valuable source of equity finance for early stage, technology-based firms, as well as for the institutional venture capital funds which specialize in investing in such ventures. Implications for both academic theorists and practitioners are considered.

One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In Altared Ground, Brian Schroeder stages an engagement between Emmanuel Levinas, one of the leading figures in twentieth century Continental philosophy, and Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and others. Not merely an exposition of Levinas's original and complex thinking, Altared Ground seeks to re-read the history of Western philosophy and religion by going beyond Levinas's alternatives to traditional theories of the self in order to suggest a notion of subjectivity that is not grounded in violence.
Schroeder contributes to current discussions of reconceiving subjectivity as inter-subjectivity in a postmodern context through a sustained analysis of interpersonal violence. In addition, he takes up the themes of alterity, ground, transcendence, responsibility, language, community, politics, divinity, and futurity.

Drawing on studies and expertise from around the world, this book describes the transition from research to policy and covers the pre-requisites to successful new firm formation policies. At a time when a new firm formation is promoted by central and local government, business development agencies and the private sector, this book questions the economic dependence on small firms and explores the relevance of networking, information and advice.

This text discusses the meaning of education through an examination of life paths, identities and significant learning experiences. Looking at education over three generations (of war and scant education; of structural change and increasing educational opportunities; and of social well-being and wide educational choice) the book examines a variety of questions.;The book demonstrates how the synthesis of social and cultural interpretations of education forms four groups: resource, status, conformity and individualism. The implications to education policy in late-modern or postmodern society are also discussed.

This text discusses the meaning of education through an examination of life paths, identities and significant learning experiences. Looking at education over three generations of war and scant education; of structural change and increasing educational opportunities; and of social well-being and wide educational choice the book examines a variety of questions.; The book demonstrates how the synthesis of social and cultural interpretations of education forms four groups: resource, status, conformity and individualism. The implications to education policy in late-modern or postmodern society are also discussed.

This title was first published in 2000: Since 1998, there have been many diagnoses, studies and theories attempting to explain the East Asian economic crisis and the impact on major economic and financial sectors. This text aims to fill a gap in the literature by examining the effects on small and medium-sized enterprises. From early 1998, unemployment figures in the region rose rapidly although large enterprises were not as yet engaged in corporate restructuring. Registered small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and microenterprises were a major source of this unemployment, especially among unskilled and seasonal workers. This volume covers the debate in five ways. An introductory chapter presents an overview of the SME international experience both in OECD and developing economies. Part I looks at the economic and social contribution of SMEs in Thailand before and after the 1997-1998 crisis and Part II reviews government policy and SME promotion initiatives. Part III explores the assumption that local SMEs linked to large firms have been more resilient, while the concluding chapter suggests a range of policies which have been derived from experiences in places other than Thailand.

In the aftermath of the global recession, job creation is a policy priority. While it is a well-accepted fact that the majority of jobs are created by small and medium-sized enterprises, not all SMEs are rapidly growing, or even intend to expand. With limited public budgets, business models within the SME population that do show high job creation potential become very attractive. One of the business types identified as major engines of job creation are 'born globals' characterised as firms which engage intensively in internationalisation activities shortly after start-up. They are high on the entrepreneurship research agenda but so far little attention has been devoted to their potential as job creators, the processes they apply when hiring and the barriers they face. Through a combination of secondary data analysis, literature reviews and international case studies, European Born Globals sheds new light on the motivations and processes of job creation in born global firms. It will contribute to understanding the 'why' and 'how' of job creation in born globals, essential not only for policy makers, but also for academic research and management education.

Who will lead your organization into the future? Have you created the systems to properly implement required succession transitions? Have you put the financial tools in place to fund the transition? Do you want a plan that connects with your personal and company core values? When do you include timely planning related to strategy and talent issues? What are the appropriate communication strategies for sharing your plan? What legal issues need consideration related to the strategy, financial, and people aspects of succession? So, what is preventing you from starting this effort tomorrow? Small and family businesses are the bedrock of all businesses. More people are employed by small and family-owned businesses than by all multinational companies combined. Yet the research on small and family businesses is bleak: fewer than one-third of small business owners in the United States can afford to retire. Only 40% of small businesses have a workable disaster plan in case of the sudden death or disability of the owner, and only 42% of small businesses in the United States have a succession plan. Fewer than 11% of family-owned businesses make it to the third generation beyond the founder. Lack of succession planning is the second most common reason for small business failure. Many organizations often wonder where to start and what to do. Succession Planning for Small and Family Businesses: Navigating Successful Transitions presents a comprehensive approach to guiding such efforts. Small and family-owned businesses rarely employ first-rate, well-qualified talent in human resources. More typically, business owners must be jacks-of-all-trades and serve as their own accountants, lawyers, business consultants, marketing experts, and HR wizards. Unfortunately, that does not always work well when business owners embark on planning for retirement or business exits. To help business owners avert problems, this book advises on some of the management, tax and financial, legal, and psychological issues that should be considered when planning retirement or other exits from the business. This comprehensive approach is unique when compared to the books, articles, and other literature that currently exist on the market. This book takes on a bold and integrated approach. Relevant research combined with the rich experiences of the authors connects this thorough, evidence-based approach to action-based approaches for the reader.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the clinical applications of personal construct theory. Clinicians who wish to employ methods derived from the theory will find guidelines set out, and a thorough examination of the similarities and contrasts between personal construct theory and other major approaches to psychological disorders and their treatments presented. "Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice" will serve as a major professional resource for those already familiar with PCP and for those wishing to know more.

This unique text focuses upon the inherent difficulties associated with small firm contractual relationships.
The authors investigate:
* The economic interests and incentives associated with various small firm ownership and financial structures.
* The difficulties in monitoring and enforcing contractual obligations.
* The problems of obtaining reliable information on firm performance.
* The importance of internal decision making and the management of change.
* The impact of legislation and other non-governmental forms of regulation in small business relationships.
The analysis and discussion of these issues draws together for the first time recent theoretical and empirical developments from the economics of industrial organization and labour and financial economics.