- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1: Introduction and Research Objectives
- 1.1. Background and Aims
- 1.2. Defining ‘Regulation’
- 1.3. Defining ‘Business Performance’ and ‘Growth’
- 1.4. Research and Policy Context
- 1.5. A New Approach to Studying the Impact of Regulation on Small Business Performance
- 1.6. Structure of the Report
- Chapter 2: Explaining the Impact of Regulation on Business Performance
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Regulation Generates Enabling, Motivating and Constraining Influences
- 2.3. Direct and Indirect Regulatory Influences
- 2.4. The Necessary Role of Agency in Mediating the Influence of Regulation on Business Performance
- 2.5. Internal and External Conditions Mediate the Impact of Regulation on Business Performance
- 2.6. Summary
- PART TWO: BUSINESS OWNER RESPONSES TO REGULATION
- Chapter 3: An Explanatory Account of Regulation and Business Performance: Face-to-face Interviews
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Methods, Data and Sampling
- 3.3. Regulation and the Market Mechanism
- 3.4. Enabling and Motivating Regulatory Influences
- 3.5. Constraining Regulatory Influences
- 3.6. Regulation Generates Multiple Influences
- 3.7. Adapting to Regulatory Change
- 3.8 Summary
- Chapter 4: Attitudes to Regulation and Business Characteristics and Performance: Evidence from the Telephone Survey
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. The Telephone Survey: Sampling Approach and Sample Characteristics
- 4.3. Owner-managers’ Perceptions of Regulation
- 4.4. Managing Regulation
- 4.5. Regulation-Handling Capacity is Crucial
- 4.6. Sources of Advice on Regulation
- 4.7. Regulation and Innovation
- 4.8. Regulation and Business Growth: Does Regulation Constrain or Enable Business Growth?
- 4.9. Regulation and Management Characteristics
- 4.10. Summary
- PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF REGULATION ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: A MULTIVARIATE APPROACH
- Chapter 5: Unravelling the Relationship between Regulation and Business Performance
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Multiple Voices on Regula
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