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Small Business Management, 11th


edition
Longenecker, Moore,
and Petty
2000
South-Western College
Publishing

Chapter 1
Entrepreneurship in the
New Millennium
Small Business Statistics
Approx. 25 million S.B.s in the U.S.
Represent 99%(+) of all employers
Provide 67% of workers w/first job
Approx. 75% of new jobs
46% of all sales in the U.S.
Represent 96% of all exporters of goods
Provide55% of innovations
Small Business


No official certification process. SBA
uses Standard Industrial Classification
(SIC) codes in determining size standards.
However, it is usually a firm with fewer
than 500 employees.
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Criteria for Defining
Smallness in Business
Number of employees
Value of assets
Volume of deposits
Insurance
in force
Sales
volume
Entrepreneur
Traditional: a person who starts and/or
operates a business

Broader Definition: includes owner-
managers; second generation family
owners; and those who buy out existing
firms
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Entrepreneurial Incentives
Rewards of Entrepreneurship
Profit
Freedom from
the limits of
standardized pay
for standardized
work
Independence
Freedom from
supervision and
rules of
bureaucratic
organizations
Satisfying Way
of Life
Freedom from
routine, boring,
and
unchallenging jobs
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Drawbacks of Entrepreneurship
Hard Work
Long Hours
Stress
Risk
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Entrepreneurial Characteristics
1. Need for achievement
2. Risk tolerance
3. Self-confidence
4. Enthusiasm
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Three Types of Entrepreneurs
1. Founders
2. General Managers
3. Franchisees
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Characteristics of Artisan and
Opportunistic Entrepreneurs
Opportunistic Entrepreneur
1. Broad education
2. Rational approach
3. Willing to delegate
4. Broad view of strategy
5. Diversified marketing
approach
6. Longer planning
horizon
7. Sophisticated
accounting and
financial control
Artisan Entrepreneur
1. Technical training
2. Paternalistic approach
3. Reluctance to delegate
4. Narrow view of strategy
5. Personal sales effort
6. Short planning horizon
7. Simple record keeping
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Entrepreneurial Refugees
Foreign refugee
Corporate refugee
Parental refugee
Feminist refugee
Housewife refugee
Society refugee
Educational refugee
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Age Concerns in Starting a Business



Late Career Concerns
1. Fulfilling family responsibility
2. Attaining seniority in employment
3. Earning investment in a retirement
program

Age
20
30
40
50
Early Career Concerns
1. Getting an education
2. Gaining work experience
3. Acquiring financial resources
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Three Challenges to Small Businesses
1. Growth of superstores
2. Expansion of information technology
and the Internet
3. Emergence of a global economy

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