Product Description

Innovation and Entrepreneurship deals with 'what, when and why'; with policies and decisions; opportunities and risks,structures and strategies; staffing, compensation and rewards. In addition to managers in all types of business, lecturers and students of management and business studies will this a revealing and exciting work. Highly critical in approach, it is nevertheless a practical and illuminating study of a area crucial for today's world.

* A timeless classic from Peter F. Drucker,one of the world's leading management thinkers.
* Innovation and Entrepreneurship remains a key area of practice
* A bestseller in the Drucker Classic Collection

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51362 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Fortune
'Drucker now adds Innovation and Entrepreneurship to the
remarkable series of books about management that he has been writing since
1939. Any book by Drucker is rewarding, and it is impossible to read the
man without learning a lot'.

Review
'Drucker now adds Innovation and Entrepreneurship to the remarkable series of books about management that he has been writing since 1939. Any book by Drucker is rewarding, and it is impossible to read the man without learning a lot'.
Fortune

About the Author
Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as leading companies abroad. Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, then for more than twenty years as Professor of Management at the Graduate Business School of New York University. Since 1971 he has been Clarke Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California. In addition to his management books, Peter Drucker is also renowned for his prophetic books analysing politics, economics and society. These books span fifty years of modern history beginning with The End of Economic Man (1939) and including The Practice of Management; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Managing in the Next Society; Management Challenges in the 21st Century; The Effective Executive and The Essential Drucker.

Customer Reviews

A Classic work by the Expert
This book was written in 1985 by the leading management expert of the 20th century. It stands the test of time as a comprehensive and deeply thought work on the factors that lead to successful innovation and entrepreneurship. He identifies seven key opportunities for innovation; the unexpected, incongruities, process need, industry structures, demographics, changes in perception and new knowledge. He gives good illustrative examples for each. He then advises on the practice and strategy of entrepreneurship. The book is a little dry and dense and the examples are inevitably not recent. However, it contains many wonderful insights and remains the classic work in this field. Highly recommended.

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