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...

Despite an increasingly sophisticated literature analysing small businesses in rural locations, the farm sector has been largely excluded from this debate. The exclusion of agriculture is commonly attributed to decline in employment and establishment numbers. In this paper the author argues that...

The economic activities of entrepreneurs are not confined to the ownership of a single firm, but encompass income generation from a variety of sources including wage labour, non-earned income and profit from secondary business ventures. This paper investigates the multiple income sources of a...

In this paper, a social capital perspective is presented to illustrate the interaction between gender and resource mobilization through business owners' networks. This paper explores the resources provided by key supporters of small and young Spanish business owners within the professional...

This article investigates the effect of environmental conditions on the association between entrepreneurship and international performance. Drawing upon a sample of 152 internationalized Greek firms, it presents evidence related to mainly contingency and configurational effects of international...

Portfolio entrepreneurship can be an important small business growth strategy, particularly in sectors where economies of scale can be achieved at a relatively low level. This paper reports results of a survey examining the role of farms in the creation of new businesses in rural areas. Three...