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This uniquely comprehensive and accessible guide to the key facts, ideas, theories and thinking about enterprise and entrepreneurship considers their relationship to small businesses and discusses the methods that are taken to promote them. Outlining the importance of the small business sector, the authors consider the cultural, economic and political influences on business growth and discuss the results of governmental intervention to promote the development of enterprise. Accessibly presented for students, policy-makers and practitioners, this edition brings together perspectives that would otherwise be spread throughout the literature and includes new or expanded material on: * Entrepreneurship and small business policy * Social enterprise and the social economy * Gender and ethnicity issues * Portfolio and part-time working * Intrapreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship * The E-business sector and the new economy * International comparative performance