Enterprise and Culture

This is a uniquely wide-ranging, insightful and well-informed critical evaluation of the economic and social project of creating an enterprise culture.

List of figures

vii

(1)

List of tables

viii

Introduction

1

(5)

1 The politics of `enterprise'

6

(11)

2 The `enterprise culture' model of development

17

(13)

Rationale of the enterprise culture model

17

(5)

Stages of enterprise development

22

(5)

Enterprise training

27

(3)

3 The state of small enterprises in Britain

30

(21)

Growth of the small enterprise sector

31

(7)

Disaggregating the small enterprise sector

38

(4)

Economic potential of entrepreneurial small businesses

42

(3)

Business behaviour in the small enterprise sector

45

(6)

4 Effectiveness of enterprise culture policies

51

(24)

Theoretical assumptions

51

(1)

Growth effects

52

(5)

Perceived impact on small enterprise owners

57

(4)

Evaluation of enterprise training

61

(10)

Enterprise Allowance Scheme

71

(4)

5 Alternative development models

75

(17)

Achievement motivation model

75

(2)

Behavioural theories of the firm

77

(2)

Interventionist economic development models

79

(2)

Marx and the entrepreneur

81

(7)

Schumpeter's theory of the entrepreneur

88

(4)

6 The importance of culture

92

(27)

Business and culture

92

(3)

Existing culture of enterprise in Britain

95

(3)

The role of social representations

98

(6)

The importance of class and family

104

(4)

Cultural influences on small enterprise owners

108

(6)

Small enterprise culture

114

(5)

7 The small enterprise owners

119

(25)

Small business typologies

119

(3)

Work psychology of the self-employed

122

(5)

Career motivation among self-employed and small enterprises

127

(4)

Motivation in business

131

(3)

Need for achievement

134

(3)

Need for autonomy and independence

137

(4)

Risk propensity

141

(3)

8 The entrepreneur: nature or nurture?

144

(27)

Changing representation of the `entrepreneur'

146

(4)

The entrepreneurial personality?

150

(5)

Locus of control

155

(5)

Psycho-social developmental approaches

160

(2)

Constructivist approaches

162

(4)

Learning theory

166

(2)

Implications for enterprise development

168

(3)

9 The future for small enterprise development

171

(17)

Can entrepreneurship be trained?

172

(3)

The political economy of enterprise

175

(5)

A behavioural model of enterprise development

180

(4)

Development of an `enterprise culture'

184

(4)

References

188

(13)

Index

201

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