About the Authors

Bruce R. Barringer, PhD is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. The author of two small business/entrepreneurship textbooks, Barringer’s work is read worldwide. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal’s Entrepreneurship Weekly Review, which is distributed to small business and entrepreneurship teachers and students across the United States.

R. Duane Ireland, PhD is Professor of Management and holds the Foreman R. and Ruby S. Bennett Chair in Business in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He is the author of entrepreneurship and strategic management textbooks that are widely sold throughout the world. He teaches entrepreneurship to executive MBA students and has consulted with a variety ...

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