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INTERNATIONAL AWARD The purpose of sustainability and development is to identify and publicly recognize those organizations that demonstrate excellent management of the three areas of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), a strong commitment to sustainable development and whose effort involves a model for the entities involved in this field.
The Association of Employers of Alcobendas – AICA is responsible for organizing this Award on what will be its first edition. The idea came from the initiative promoted by two organizations associated with AICA, Silk & Soy and eXCellennium, and was approved by the Board of the Association. AICA has decided to develop and promote the award institutionally in order to distinguish the work of those institutions that demonstrate efficient long-term vision and well aligned with the needs of internal and external business and global society.
The evaluation of the companies participating in the International Award for Sustainability and Development will be based on a new sustainable management methodology worked and contrasted by the committee of experts and proven business organizations with advanced management, which have volunteered to receive “Check Pilot” Sustainability.
The Vision Award is to become the global benchmark award for the Management and Sustainable Development. By this distinction he managed to find best practices to serve as reference for the advancement of all types of organizations committed to the future that all traders should take as his own in the SXXI.
For more information about the Award can view or download the BASES, or contact AICA on the phone 91 654 November 14 aica@empresariosdealcobendas.com or email to answer any questions.

The entrepreneurs often have difficulty writing out business plans. This discipline will help in many ways, so do not skip this planning tool! To make it easier, here are six steps that will guide you in structuring a worthwhile plan:

1. Enter your basic business concept.
2. Gather all the information you can about the feasibility and the specifics of your business concept.
3. Focus and refine your concept based on the data it has collected.
4. Outline the specifics of your business. The use of a “What, where, why, how” can be helpful.
5. Put your plan into a compelling form so that not only give you insights and direction, but at the same time become a valuable tool for dealing with business relationships that will be very important to you. Read the rest of this entry »

Why study entrepreneurship? What are the current phenomena in the field of management that must be addressed?

One reason for studying Entrepreneurship is because it constitutes, in many respects, the fatorchave economic development. Among the current phenomena in the field of Administration could be more detailed I can mention, first, the complex web of relations between entrepreneur and stakeholders of the company in light of a multi-stakeholder theory of the firm. A second phenomenon that can be mentioned is the relationship between ownership and control, or rather between the strategy and the behaviors of entrepreneurs, managers and shareholders and investors (also in light of globalization of financial markets and their effects, as of the stock options of directors). Other phenomena are the relationship between strategy and organizational structure, marketing strategy and relations with consumers in the global market, the study of the value chain, the relationship between economic growth and environmental preservation, which is assumed in the concept of sustainable development .

What is the current state of debate on the Entrepreneurship and Management in Italy? What are the most important Italian authors?

In Italy there are interesting researchers and scholars of business organizations as Bonazzi, Butera, Gherardi and Grandori, and industrial relations, as Ferrarotti, Baglioni, Cella and Regina. Entrepreneurship scholars are less numerous, but have produced some very interesting analysis. I can quote the researchers Pagani, Gallina and Chiesi. On the situation of the current debate Entrepreneurship in Italy, we are progressing well. Along with Antonio Chiesi and a guiding me, Dalla Chiesa, performed the most comprehensive empirical research on Italian entrepreneurs published so far, with Title I Imprenditoria grandi italiani (Milano: Feltrinelli, 1981). With Chiesi, Maraffi Lanzalaco and I published an analysis of the political representation of Italian entrepreneurs.

How do you understand the current state of the academic field of Entrepreneurship? It is possible to speak of creation theories?

The current field of study is characterized by an imbalance between an abundance of case studies of entrepreneurial activities on the one hand, and a lack of interpretative models, on the other. The analysis of entrepreneurship is still strongly based on theoretical constructs of the classics – Schumpeter in particular – and some more recent approaches to organization theory. However, there is the need to update it and develop it using one of the best concepts from sociological theory and social sciences in general, such as – just to name a few – immersion (embededdness), social capital, trust, and stakeholder sustainable development.

It can be seen a resurgence in the academic studies on entrepreneurship. What is the main reason for the return?

Entrepreneurship is typically based on a research topic in various disciplines and developed by scholars who have offered interdisciplinary contributions, as Weber (a sociologist with a deep economic culture) and Schumpeter (economist with a strong sociological intuition). The renewed interest in entrepreneurship studies and return to this theme in direct to several factors: the growth of interdisciplinary collaboration between economists, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists to mitigate the force of Marxist ideology - which draws no distinction between capitalists and entrepreneurs – and that tends to include both a trial strongly critical, recognizing the vital role that small family businesses and social entrepreneurship in economic development have a country, have shown how the theory and action figures like Muhammad Yunus (the banker to the poor “and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2006) and Hernando De Soto (Peruvian economist), the growing importance of entrepreneurship among women and immigrants as channels of empowerment and social integration and, finally, the growing attention to the role played by transnational corporations as global actors in the broader context of the analysis of complex processes of globalization.

• Do not be afraid to make your own start-ups. We all fear when we begin to think about doing our start up. But once I committed to it, was the best decision I have taken in my life. But make sure that whatever the field in which to enter, you are absolutely in love and willing to spend your waking day without doing anything and focusing your energy in your start-up and the market you’re trying to attack.
• Do not be afraid of criticism. Making a start-up is a very difficult thing to imagine for some. Some say we “are doing a start-up money without groped for something to go beyond Google,” I say that if you believe strongly enough in your vision and in yourself, you should not let someone try to make you believe that you can not do that. Some entrepreneurs have ruined the great missed opportunities swayed by the wrong people.
• Do not ignore your users. You are nothing without your customers and users. Be sure to listen and treat each user as if it were the only customer. In Spock I would like to respond to any user on the same day with the right answers to their questions. Most importantly, many ideas that we implemented were the direct result of feedback from our users!

Hire the best possible, and make sure they’re intelligent, motivated and have the “right attitude” to your business. Nothing is worse than hire people who then discover you do not adapt well to your business. Nothing is more exciting when you take really smart people who believe in your vision and that comes to you with the best ways to make this vision a reality.

Be Open (be open). We realize that the more open and transparent as we were holding to the outside world, the better this world has responded. You share your vision with key users and the press. Be sure to tell every time someone is willing to listen. It is very important that you take care to set the vision and do public relations for your business. Do not let anyone else start to define what you are.

Here are tips for entrepreneurs ABN want to launch a startup:

• Move Fast (move quickly). The only thing I regret is not to be moved faster. For a start-up is very important to proceed quickly: from the perspective of business development, marketing and operations is not at all positive move slowly in a digital world.
• Hire the Best (assume the best). This is the only point at which advice to take your time.

The Digital Entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs who embrace an idea and make it reality based heavily on digital resources. Some of them create a new search engine, which only lives in the world of bits, others from this platform jump to the real world (Amazon, etc.). It is now indisputable ability to generate real business (money!) By these entrepreneurs. This section will present new characters that are launching in this world.

The first mention of the word entrepreneur was occurring in Europe around the sixteenth century. This name was renamed the captain who hired troops to serve the needs of principles and powerful. In the eighteenth century the entrepreneur took on the modern connotations, as in the agricultural landowner, who in the manufacturing goods produced for distribution, and public infrastructure were realized that the manager called entrepreneurs.
The Undertaker English definition, namely “he who takes upon himself” the responsibility to perform work that requires the use of most people there is still now use contemporary .

Since mid-eighteenth century, the literature also became interested in this new figure, with some significant essays such as Essai sur la nature du commerce en général (1755) by Richard Cantillon and Réflexion sur la formation et la distribution des Wealth (1766 ) by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot.