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Wicked Entrepreneurship: Defining the Basics of Entreponerology

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  1. Richard J. Arend
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Why This Book, and What Is Entreponerology?

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    Pages 1-7

  3. Part I’s Preconditions—Cruel Wicked Entrepreneurship and the Conditions for Its Existence

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    Pages 8-10

  4. Part I’s Who—The Characteristics of Perpetrators and Victims, and How They Can’t Be Used

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    Pages 11-17

  5. Part I’s When—The Timing of Evil Transactional Behavior, and Why Such Evil Will Always Exist

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    Pages 18-21

  6. Part I’s What—The Stakes Involved and What Value and Harm Are Transferred in the Phenomenon

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    Pages 22-25

  7. Part I’s Why—The Motivations Driving the Perpetrators of Evil

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    Pages 26-28

  8. Part I’s How—The Brutal Mechanics of Deceptive Transactions

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    Pages 29-37

  9. Part I’s Stability—Why Economic Inefficiencies Are Not Quickly Eliminated

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    Pages 38-41

  10. Part I’s Where—The Characteristics of a Corruptible System

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    Pages 42-47

  11. Part I’s Examples—Cases of the Phenomenon, from Local to International in Effect

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    Pages 48-52

  12. Part I’s Possible Solutions—A Typology and Analysis of Methods to Address the Phenomenon

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    Pages 53-56

  13. Part I’s Measures—Assessing Whether There Is a Problem, and How Bad It Is, and for Whom

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    Pages 57-60

  14. Part I’s Conclusions—The Good News, the Bad News, and the Need for More News

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    Pages 61-64

  15. Part II’s Complex Wicked Entrepreneurship—An Evil Context at the Heart of Innovative Activity

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    Pages 65-94

  16. Part III’s Cool Wicked Entrepreneurship—Completing the Analytical Triad, and Some Possible Good Arising from the Evil

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    Pages 95-112

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 113-127
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About this book

This book explores 'wicked entrepreneurship', or the proliferation of evil that harms our economic and social transactions, as the greatest socio-economic problem of our time and offers strategies to identify and address this phenomenon.

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Richard J. Arend is Professor of Strategy and Management at University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA.

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