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Balderson Canadian Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management is recognized as a market leading text that offers strong coverage of the theory of entrepreneurship and small business management, blended seamlessly with practical Canadian examples of actual entrepreneur experiences (Small Business Profiles). Focus is on currency and emerging trends, generating and maintain student interest through cases and thought-provoking questions, and improving academic rigour, while staying true to the book’s vision of being easy to follow and absorb.
The numerous individual cases, as well as a comprehensive running case, are continuing strengths of this text, as is the fact that it is indigenously Canadian and supports learning in a Canadian business context through its content.
Professor Wes Balderson has had a long and distinguished career as a professor of management at the University of Lethbridge (now retired). He developed and taught the Entrepreneurship and Retail Management courses at that institution. In addition, he has taught marketing and accounting courses, has researched and consulted small business for a number of years, owned and managed a retail business, an agricultural enterprise, and real estate properties. His authorship of the eight editions of Canadian Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management, as well as textbooks in Canadian retail management, has been the result of several years of teaching and consulting.
Peter S. Mombourquette is Assistant Professor of Management at Mount Saint Vincent University, where he teaches Entrepreneurship and Small Business. In addition to teaching and research, Peter founded and manages the Entrepreneurship Skills Program (ESP), a highly intensive, multi-disciplinary entrepreneurship program aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship propensity among university graduates. Peter has recently completed his D.B.A. dissertation from the University of Southern Queensland and previous to that he graduated with an M.B.A. from Saint Mary’s University, a B.Ed. from Saint Francis Xavier University, and a B.A. from Cape Breton University. His research interests include Internet use by small and medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurship education, e-marketing, and franchising. He has published and/or presented over 35 pieces of scholarly work, co-authored two books, and been a keynote speaker at a number of entrepreneurship conferences. He is also involved in expanding ESP nationally and is currently working with the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Education Development to standardize curriculum and delivery in order to encourage other universities to partake in entrepreneurship education through ESP. At Mount Saint Vincent he serves on the team that is managing the implementation of the university’s strategic plan, the Pension Governance Board, the University Investment Committee, the negotiating team of Mount Saint Vincent’s Faculty Association, and several other boards and committees. Previous to working at Mount Saint Vincent University, he owned and operated a number of businesses including a restaurant and a consulting firm, which he still operates today. His consulting interests include curriculum development, management education, business planning, and event management. Recent projects include the development of entrepreneurship curriculum for Ghana University, course development for the Centre for Women in Business, and marketing and management consultation with a number of small firms. In his spare time Peter coaches Junior A hockey, works with Hockey Nova Scotia, acts as a mentor for the Canadian Youth Business program, serves on two loan approval boards, and volunteers with a number of local charities. Peter currently resides in Halifax with his wife, Amanda, and they have had the immense pleasure of having two children, their young son, Jack, and a beautiful baby girl, Autumn, who tragically passed away shortly before her first birthday.
Publisher : McGraw Hill Ryerson; 11th edition (February 10, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 592 pages
ISBN-10 : 1260065901
ISBN-13 : 978-1260065909
