Studies of gender and small business performance have tended to avoid quantitative performance measures, such as sales turnover and annual growth. This study examines the determinants of gender on quantitative small business performance, based on interviews with 600 Scottish and English small...

The potential of small and micro-enterprises (SMEs) in promoting economic growth in both developed and developing countries is widely accepted and documented by both scholars and policy makers. Lack of access to sufficient financing for these SMEs, especially in developing countries, has been...

The study examines an aspect of indigenous Nigerian entrepreneurship, focusing on the cross-border trade in South-Western Nigeria. An almost total ignorance of how the traders go about their business, coupled with an unwelcoming trading environment, appear to have caused the antipathy of policy...

Many developing countries have not benefited from the technological changes that havetaken place over the last 30 years. Uganda has been no exception. The countrycontinues to have over 30 percent of its people below the poverty line. This is despitethe appropriateness of macro economic policy...

Internationalisation has become part of the daily life of most small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. Internationalisation is a dynamic phenomenon and is in this thesis studied as one specific example of change processes in the development of SMEs.Previous research on...

This thesis is a contribution to our understanding of business groups in the small busi-ness sector. Specifically, its aim is to verify to what extent the consideration of entrepre-neurial processes can advance our understanding of this phenomenon. A ‘business group’ is a set of companies...