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Helping Small Business Succeed, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Helping Small Business Succeed, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Business/Economics
Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
The Entrepreneurial Director, Bruce Sherony
The Entrepreneurial Director, Bruce Sherony
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
The argument that the board of directors can be a helpful tool for entrepreneurships and small businesses derives from the rationale for using boards from both a macro and a micro perspective. Society depends on boards to provide overall checks and balances in the running of businesses. This could not be more evident from the role of the board in Enron’s collapse (U.S. Senate 2002). The board’s value to the entrepreneur is found in the application of the micro perspective. Two sets of recommendations are developed to formulate an improved model of directorship actions and behaviors. First, duties and responsibilities …