Success Without Upward Mobility : Evidence from Small Accounting Practices
How small business success is defined is evaluated by exploring the definitions of and relationships between business and personal success. Survey responses are gathered from those operating sole proprietorship accounting businesses. The data consist of quantitative and qualitative elements. Quantitative responses consist of importance ratings for the nineteen business success items plus the individual respondents' demographic characteristics, such as age and income level. The qualitative data are the written personal success definitions provided by the respondents. Controlling for business and personal characteristics, it is found that client satisfaction and personal success are most important in defining business success, whereas personal success is more closely related to the business success factor of personal success than to client satisfaction. Nineteen success factors are developed based on the financial services sector. Categories are broken down into people-centered, innovation/technology, financial, self-actualization, and networking/social elements. Findings indicate that for this sample of accounting business proprietors, business success is primarily defined by customer satisfaction followed by personal success, which are people-centered dimensions. Further, whether owner-managers with different personal or professional characteristics define business success in the same way, the findings show that they generally do. However, some groups do find financial success to be the most important sign of success. (JSD)
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2009
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Authors: | Gordon, Irene M. |
Other Persons: | Smart, Carolyne (contributor) ; Collins-Dodd, Colleen (contributor) |
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[2009]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Vol. 18, Issue 3, p. 327-342 2005 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2005 erstellt Volltext nicht verfügbar |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154371
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