To give direction and vision
Evaluate the prospects
Monitor the progress
Seek loans
Guide entrepreneurs
Identify strength and weakness
Identify opportunities and challenges
2. Meaning And Objectives
• To give direction and vision
• Evaluate the prospects
• Monitor the progress
• Seek loans
• Guide entrepreneurs
• Identify strength and weakness
• Identify opportunities and challenges
3. Scope And Value Of The Business Plan
• To determine the viability of the venture
• Provide guidance
• Tool in helping to obtain finance
4. Steps In Preparing A Business Plan
• Preliminary investigation
• Business planning process:- a. Idea generation
b. Env. and scanning
c. Feasibility analysis***
d. Drawing functional plans****
8. Economist Richard Cantillon (18th
century)
• Entrepreneur is an agent who buys means of
production at certain prices to combine them
into a new product
• He connects producer to consumers
9. Frank Knight’s Risk Bearing Theory
• He introduced the dimension of risk taking
• Uncertainty as a factor of production
• Function of Entrepreneur as acting in
anticipation of future events
• Entrepreneur earns rewards for taking risk
10. Alfred Marshall
• Entrepreneur is driving factor that brings land,
labor, capital and organization together
• Entrepreneur’s success depends upon
economic situation in which they attempt to
make endeavor
11. Max Weber's Sociological Theory
• Social factor as a driving force of
Entrepreneurship
• He held religion as the major driver
• Right combination of discipline and an
adventurous free spirit define the success of
entrepreneur
12. Mark Casson’s economic theory
1945
• In his book ”entrepreneurship, an economic
theory” he stated that the demand for
entrepreneurship arises from the demand for
change
• Entrepreneurship is result of conducive
economic conditions
16. McCllland’s Theory of Achievement
motivation
• People have three motives for accomplishing
things
• Need for affiliation
• Need for achievement
• Need for power
17. Peter Drucker’s Theory Of
Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Resources
• Entrepreneurial behavior
as the keys to entrepreneurship