Purpose: The purpose of this theoretical paper is to explore how immigrants' home-country entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) factors impact transnational immigrant entrepreneurs (TIEs). The paper draws on the dual embeddedness and transnational entrepreneurship theories to explore how the...

Purpose – To examine differences between family and non‐family SMEs in business goals, management practices and performance as they grow. Design/methodology/approach – The study was based on 233 small non‐family and 362 small family firms. Medium firms comprised 305 family and 341...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of firm size on performance (measured as profits, growth, efficiency and liquidity) differences between family and non‐family small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – The samples of 441 family...

Despite common perceptions about the informality of human resource management (HRM) practices within small firms, few studies have considered how HRM practices change with firm size. This paper explores how HRM practices of small firms change as the size of the firm increases. Using data from...

Purpose -The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of firm size on performance (measured as profits, growth, efficiency and liquidity) differences between family and non-family small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – The samples of 441 family and 473...