The authors investigate the relative roles of anumber of influences on workplace health and safety in small firms and, morespecifically, the adoption of compliance-related improvement measures. Fromfindings drawn from a survey of over a thousand British small enterprises,marked variations in...

This chapter presents research to assess the impact of the recent financial crisis on technology-based small firms (TBSFs) in the United Kingdom based on findings from an extended telephone survey with the owner-managers of 49 young and 51 more mature TBSFs, undertaken in 2010. Even before the...