Contents
Chapter 1: Business today
Business statistics
1
Big opportunities for small firms: government set to spend £1 in every £3
with small businesses
3
Growing pains for UK SMEs
4
Only China beats UK for rise in start-ups
5
Graduate entrepreneurs call for more support from universities
6
Why universities are the best places to start a business
7
Enterprise for all: the relevance of enterprise in education
8
The Tenner Challenge
10
Time to roll out real-world business studies?
12
“Work till you drop” warning on pensions
14
Crowded out: how crowdsourcing for start-ups turned into business as usual
15
Top 20: Britain’s oldest family businesses
17
Why family business is big business
18
Understanding motivations for entrepreneurship
20
Supporting ethnic minority and female entrepreneurs
21
Revealed: how we’re rebranding poor people as entrepreneurs
22
Chapter 2: Corporate responsibility
Corporate scandals and how (not) to handle them
23
As companies embrace the circular economy, are they missing a trick?
24
Is Chinese investment into the UK at record levels?
26
Tesco delayed payments to suppliers to boost profits, watchdog finds
27
Supermarkets: is it the end of an empire?
29
New guides for business owners in the dark over competition law
31
Corruption remains a major cost for honest companies
32
Half of UK banknotes used to fund shadow economy
33
Taxi-hailing service Uber paid just £22,134 corporation tax in UK
34
New criminal offences in clampdown on tax evasion
35
Share more profit with your workers, Centre for Social Justice tells big business
36
What is the new national living wage? How the April 2016 change could affect you
37
Ethics at work
39
Key facts
40
Glossary
41
Assignments
42
Index
43
Acknowledgements
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