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 processes affecting the market demand for ethnicentrepreneurs interact with factors affecting their supply.Drawing ontheir own research on South Asian-origin entrepreneurs in Britain and Canadaand on African-Caribbean businesses in Britain, the authors consider threetypes of "market niches"...

The role of human resource management practices in promoting the performance of firms is widely debated. Yet much of the debate has reached an impasse, with uncertain results as to which practices in fact work and why. It has, moreover, rarely gone beyond the context of large firms. This paper...