The concept of scale barriers is introduced to shed light on new venture growth. Growth is a process of overcoming resource deficiencies, or scale barriers, resulting from the liabilities of newness and smallness. New ventures employ a variety of resource accumulation strategies to surmount...

By exploring difficulty in managing work-family conflict for minority entrepreneurs, this study considers work-family issues for business persons who have received little attention in the literature, yet form new businesses at rates exceeding the national average. We employ a role theory...

This study presents a framework deriving the demand and supply of target firm shares in merger, and tests it using event study methodology and regression analysis. Target and bidder behavior are not mirror images; instead bidders rank and pursue targets which either accept or reject bids. Merger...