GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: International Business, Shea Butter, Force Works

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Bamidele Adekunle

Document Summary

Inclass discussion: entrepreneur ship is about discovering opportunities, personal agency belief (harper 2003) validated (adekunle 2007, measure of small businesses, a function of: locus of control (rotter 1966) Internal loc: external loc self-efficacy (chen. et. al 1998, used to measure competence ( bookkeeping, risk taking) Frank and oak: online mens store- based of in montreal, e-commerce, hunt club, order a product, test it and return if you don"t like, shipping is free, locally produced and hand made, crm (chat with representatives, trendy. Heather"s natural soap (guelph: e-commerce, farmer"s market on saturdays, product (natural, soap made from olive oil and shea butter. Carriage 44 (montreal: e-commerce, product (natural, soap made from olive oil and shea butter. The innovator: jack dorsey: kicked out of his own company due to lack of vocal communication. Idea of twitter came from listening to emergency dispatching: entrepreneurship. Buying and running a franchise: entrepreneurship and the internet, international business entrepreneurship, family businesses, reasons for small business fails.