Managing Startup Enterprises in Emerging Markets

Ananya Rajagopal teaches marketing at Anahuac University, Mexico and brand innovation at Universidad La Salle, Mexico. She has completed her doctoral research in Administrative Sciences from EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico. Her central areas of research are entrepreneurship and marketing strategies.

• 1. Understanding Start-Up Enterprises.- 2. Entrepreneurial Evolution at the Bottom of the Pyramid.- 3. Epistemological Endorsement to Small Enterprises and Markets.- 4. Cognitive Determinants of Entrepreneurial Leadership.- 5. Market Orientation and Performance of Micro-Enterprises.- 6. Synthesis and the Road Ahead.- 7. Epilogue.