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Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that influence small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) performance and particularly, growth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilises an original data set of 360 SMEs employing 5‐249 people to run logit...
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Purpose – There has been considerable debate about the impact that Foreign Direct Investment has upon home grown enterprise (Pathak et al. , 2015). The purpose of this paper is to examine how foreign business ownership at the local level affects the decision of individual UK entrepreneurs to...
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There is an assumption that inadequate financial management practices are contributors to turbulence in the small firm sector; yet there have been few investigations into the factors that influence an owner‐manager’s approach and the processes involved in the evolution of strategy and...
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The focus of this paper is on existing small firms, with fewer than 50 employees, and their attitudes to change, using data from regular quarterly small firm surveys conducted by the Small Business Research Trust, especially from the 1,212 respondents to the fourth quarter of 1999 (15:4,...
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Interest in the field of entrepreneurship has significantly increased among academics, practitioners and government officials in the past decade both in the USA and in Europe. The increased interest is reflected in the increased number of courses, majors and minors at colleges and universities...
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This research is drawn from a survey of 385 private limited companies in the UK that fall within the 1999 EU size thresholds for a small company. Examines the use of financial information in small companies, as financial management is critical to their success and survival. The purpose of the...
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Policy documents stress the importance of learning and knowledge to the competitiveness of the economy. The documents draw attention to the positive impact on economic performance although the link between management training and small firm performance remains empirically contested. Many outside...
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Examines the relationship between competitive strategy and firm size in the UK estate agency industry, by presenting evidence from a recent empirical study of the industry in South West England. The analysis indicates that the industry is generally characterised by differentiation strategies...
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This study, applying different statistical techniques on survey data, depicts variables that increase the probability to export of a small enterprise. Our analysis shows that business linkages such as networks, joint ventures and subsidiaries play an important role in increasing the probability...
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Smaller less “glamorous” firms are more prevalent in the US economy than high‐technology companies. These small firms are known for their inability to erect barriers to imitation, making the development of competitive advantage difficult. In our paper, we study the relationship between...
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