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...

Purpose – To advance knowledge about therelationship between small firm networks and social capital by considering thenetwork experiences of women business owners. To engage in such research, thepaper proposes a conceptual model of business owner networking which isinformed by social support...