<title/> The paper provides an analysis of the role of 'external' or non-executive directors and their relationship with entrepreneurs in small growth companies, focusing on their impact and style of intervention. We provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of research based on 46 face-to-face...

This paper focuses on supply-side issues relating to access to bank finance by entrepreneurs in Scotland. We analyse bank manager decision making of real business propositions through verbal protocol analysis. The paper discusses the nature of the decision-making process from interviews with...