Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on innovation and entrepreneurial learning by exploring how SMEs learn and innovate, how they use both formal and informal learning and in particular the role of networks and crisis events within their learning experience....

Based on longitudinal fieldwork with unemployed managers and professionals in their 50s, the article examines the meaning of job loss to these people and charts their subsequent efforts to restore their lives. The article identifies core similarities in their experiences and discerns different...

Purpose: This study examines employees' learning preferences in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at different life-cycle stages. Design/methodology/approach: The study has two phases. Phase I classified a sample of 30 Hong Kong SMEs into three different life-cycle stages (inception,...

This paper presents a narrative analysis of autism. It follows much of the literature on illness and narrative by emphasising the moral quality of illness narratives and the role it plays in creating coherence out of the disordering effects of autism on family life. In particular, the...