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Pathways to Profits : Identifying Separate Channels of Small Firm Growth through Business Training

Anderson, Stephen J.; Chandy, Rajesh K.; Zia, Bilal - 2016

This paper identifies separate and unique pathways to profits among small businesses in South Africa that are exposed to marketing or finance training in a randomized control study. The marketing group achieves greater profits by adopting a growth focus on higher sales, greater investments in...

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Pathways to Profits : Identifying Separate Channels of Small Firm Growth through Business Training

Anderson, Stephen J. - 2016

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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …

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Long-term and lasting impacts of personal initiative training on entrepreneurial success

Campos, Francisco; Frese, Michael; Iacovone, Leonardo; … - 2025

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Enrollment of SME managers to growth-oriented training programs

Bager, Torben; Wickstrøm, Kent Adsbøll; Schou Nielsen, Pia - In: International journal of entrepreneurial behaviour & … 21 (2015) 4, pp. 578-599

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Training in smaller firms

Patton, Dean - In: Managing labour in small firms, (pp. 83-108). 2005

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Training in Smaller Firms

Patton, Dean - 2009

A report by the British Small Business Council(SBC) showed that Britain has a relatively poor labor productivity and loweconomic performance due to a low skills base. UK governments have sought waysto increase training by UK firms. Training, learning, and development are keycomponents in the...

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Training and development in SMEs : South Africa's key to survival and success?

Rabie, Claudette; Cant, Michael C.; Wiid, Johannes A. - In: The journal of applied business research 32 (2016) 4, pp. 1009-1023

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Training professionalisation and SME performance

Pauli, Urban - In: Human resource development international : HRDI 23 (2020) 2, pp. 168-187

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Small business training to improve management practices in developing countries : re-assessing the evidence for "training doesn't work"

McKenzie, David J. - In: Oxford review of economic policy 37 (2021) 2, pp. 276-301

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