WorksheetsTHC-215-ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Entrepreneur searches for change, responds to it and exploits opportunities.
Ronald May
Frank H. Knight
Peter Drucker
Jean-Baptiste
Entrepreneurs are non-fixed income earners who pay known costs of production but earn uncertain incomes.
Peter Drucker
Schumpeter
Frank H. Knight
Richard Cantillon
A combination of more than one existing products or services in to a new product or service. This means that several different ideas are combined in to one new product or service.
Duplication
Invention
Synthesis
Extension
Obtaining the required resources, materials, technology, human or capital resources.
Implementation
Resource organization
Analytical planning
Commercial application
Is a privately owned corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship that has fewer employees and less annual revenue than a corporation or regular-sized business.
Small business
Business
Corporation
Partnership
Derived from French word (a) which means "to undertake‟.
Involved in the conversation of raw materials into products needed by society.
Small Manufacturing Business
Small Service Business
Retailing
Wholesaling
Those that provide service to other business.
Repair Services
Personal Service
Business Service
Education Services
Covers all activities involved in the sale of goods or services to the final consumers.
Small Service Business
Wholesaling
General Construction Firm
Retailing
Refers to activities of person or establishments which sell to retailers and other merchants or to industrial, institutional and commercial users, but who do not sell in large amounts to final consumers.
Retailing
General Construction Firm
Wholesaling
Small Service Business
Refers to the pattern of characteristics that distinguishes one person from another
Person traits
Personality
Attitudes
Genetic blueprints
Individual prefers activities involving aggressive behavior and physical exertion requiring skill, strength, and coordination.
Artistic
Investigative
Conventional
Realistic
Person enjoys working with helping others and purposefully avoids systematic activities involving tools and machinery.
Realistic
Enterprising
Social
Investigative
Person enjoys the systematic manipulation of data, filing of records or reproducing materials.
Social
Realistic
Enterprising
Conventional
Three Characteristics of Small Business
Independent Management
Providers of employment
Mostly local operation
Small Capital Requirement
Advantages of operating a Small Business
Be a small business operator
Be a professional
Suppliers of products
Be an employee
Defined entrepreneur as a person with a high need for achievement. He is energetic and a moderate risk taker.
(a)
He classified three types of uncertainty, the Risk, Ambiguity, True uncertainty.
(a)
Process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business, or as the "capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit.“
(a)
Is the implementation of new ideas at the individual, group or organizational level.
(a)
