The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (2000)
What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture capital play? Read More…
The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World (2008)
Many warn that the next stage of globalization–the offshoring of research and development to China and India–threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhidé shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Read More…
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy (2010)
Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread enterprise is fostered through dialogue and relationships, not merely prices in anonymous markets. Yet modern finance blatantly neglects these necessary elements for enterprise. Read More…