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J. Meijaard, M.J. Brand and M. Mosselman (2001), `Organisational Structures in SMEs: Occurrence and Clusters', paper presented to the 15th RENT Conference, Turku, November. J. Maes, L. Sels and F. [...]

CHASTON'S PAPER CONSIDERS THE application of the Danish Technology Institute's networking project (DTINP) in a UK context. The paper starts by suggesting that the DTINP is premised on the notion [...]

ROBERT BENNETT HAS CONTRIBUTED significantly to academic and policy debates on the role of the UK's Training and Enterprise Councils in promoting smal-scale enterprise and in this paper focuses on [...]

THE NEED FOR TRAINING AND ITS advantages to firms, individuals and the economy are now widely accepted in Britain. Over the past decade and a half, training has become an [...]

INTEREST IN THE CONCEPT OF THE 'industrial district' is now well established in several academic disciplines and especially in the area of small business studies. There are, however, more and [...]

Over the past fifteen years, A substantial body of research findings has been steadily published in almost all of the developed countries, which in general has supported the view that [...]

THIS PAPER LOOKS EXCLUSIVELY AT MICRO enterprises, those with less than ten employees. Generally, studies of the issues addressed by this paper have not focussed on micro firms, and even [...]

Richard Wilson (2000), Bank Finance: The Results of an IoD Questionnaire, IoD `Policy Paper, London, Institute of Directors, January, pp19, 5.00 £. POLITICIANS AND OTHERS FREQUENTLY argue that a major [...]

THIS PAPER REPORTS ON RESEARCH commissioned by the UK's DTI from the ESRC Centre for Business Research of the University of Cambridge, in association with Public and Corporate Economic Consultants. [...]

HOW SMALL BUSINESSES ARTICULATE with the wider economy has generated a substantial literature though the debate so far has not achieved much consensus. This recent paper adds to the discussion [...]

Colin Gray (1999) `Stages of Growth and Entrepreneurial Growth Career Motivation', Working Paper Series, Small and Medium Enterprises Research Unit, The Open University Business School, 99/1SMERU. THIS WORKING PAPER EXPLORES [...]

Tim Edwards and Oswald Jones, Creating Links Between HEIs and SMEs: The Politics of Marketisation, Research Paper No. 9825, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham. This research paper develops a [...]

THIS PAPER REPORTS THE FINDINGS OF a large-scale survey of small businesses that have not registered under the ISO 9000 quality assurance standard. The paper compares the characteristics of the [...]

Jonathan Lean and Jonathan Tucker (2000), Information Asymmetry and Small Firm Finance, paper presented to the 23th ISBA National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference, Aberdeen, November. DISCUSSION OF WHETHER [...]

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: * report on the development and testing of a method for profiling the small business owner-manager against a range of `personality' dimensions utilising [...]

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the implementation of performance-related pay on a small company. Performance rewards schemes have been used for centuries to reward improved productivity through [...]

THIS PAPER EXAMINES HOW PRICES ARE set in small firms. The perspective taken is one that has been largely ignored in other studies. The existing literature tends to embrace economic [...]

This paper investigates the implications of the Single Market process for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK food sector. As such, it forms part of a wider research [...]

This paper if about behaviour within individual firms with regard to exporting. The impetus for the work reported here came out of previous efforts (Chetty and Hamilton, 1993) to review [...]

THIS PAPER PRESENTS SOME preliminary findings from a study of entrepreneurial attitudes and strategies in SMEs engaged in the clothing industry located in two contrasting regions: the East Midlands (UK) [...]

This paper examines the impact of management training and development on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Britain. It is based on the results of a survey of firms participating [...]

Foreword(*) THIS PAPER AIMS AT DEFINING THE basic principle underlying the relationship between the internationalisation strategies of small and medium-sized firms and the demand for information/communication services (I/C services) that [...]

This paper is concerned with the effects of the interaction between small and large firms in the creation of jobs. In general, for the purpose of this analysis, we define [...]

This paper describes small business activity in Poland after the changes in 1989/1990. The short history of private business in the centrally planned economy is covered in General Overview'. According [...]

Research Papers in Environmental and Spatial Analysis, London School of Economics, 2003. In a comprehensive review of the contemporary literature which analyses the links between gender, women and self-employment Carter [...]

London: Pergamon, 2001. 205pp. ISBN 0-08043-976-4 (hbk). The inaugural High Technology Small Firms conference was held at the University of Manchester in 1993. Selected papers from that conference were collected [...]

paper presented to the 3rd Annual Conference of the International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD), University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, April 2002. The 2002 Annual [...]

paper presented to the 4th McGill Conference on International Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 21-3 September 2001. In many respects this is a welcome contribution to advancing progress in what [...]

This book contains selected papers from a conference in Budapest in June, 1995 entitled `Innovative Approaches to Financial and Technical Services for Small Enterprises'. The conference brought together representatives of [...]

In the context of producing this book, Vyaknaram and Leppard have an interesting mix of relevant backgrounds and skills: the former is an academic associated with several reports and papers [...]

THIS BOOK CONTAINS FOURTEEN chapters (plus editorial introduction) which were first presented as papers at the 1993 conference of the Institute of Small Business Affairs (ISBA) at Nottingham Trent University, [...]

THIS BOOK CONTAINS FOURTEEN chapters (plus editorial introduction) which were first presented as papers at the 1993 conference of the Institute of Small Business Affairs (ISBA) at Nottingham Trent University, [...]

This volume contains selected papers that were presented at the Institute of Small Business Affairs' (formerly UKEMRA) 15th annual National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference which was hosted by [...]

Jonathan Lean and Jonathan Tucker (2000), `Information Asymmetry and Small Firm Finance'. Paper presented to the 23rd USBA National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference, Aberdeen, November. DISCUSSION OF WHETHER [...]

PROFESSOR RICHARD MCMAHON IS head of the School of Commerce at Flinders University, South Australia. This paper describes a study of financial management characteristics on business growth and performance among [...]

SHUI-YING CHAN IS WITH THE CITY University of Hong Kong and M.J. Foster is associate dean of the Faculty of Business at Kingston University, England. This paper describes the results [...]

David Irwin (2000), `Seven Ages of Entrepreneurship', Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 7, No. 3, Autumn, pp255-260 DAVID IRWIN'S PAPER SUGGESTS THAT attitude is a key determinant [...]

DR. LORELLE FRAZER IS SENIOR LECTURER and Head of the School of Marketing, Griffith University Logan Campus, Brisbane, Australia. This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the strategic management decision [...]

MIKE RIGBY IS HEAD OF DIVISION OF HUMAN Resource Management, South Bank University, London, England; Teresa Lawlor is Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies at Kingston University, England. This paper, through [...]

Robert Sullivan (2000), `Entrepreneurial Learning and Mentoring', International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp160-175. THIS PAPER IS DESCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN its abstract as [...]

A. Hadjimanolis (2000), `A Resource-based View of Innovativeness in Small Firms', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp263-281. THE PAPER PRESENTS AN INVESTIGATION OF how the innovativeness [...]

AKI KANGASHARJU IS AN ECONOMIST AT Pellervo Economic Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland. The present paper investigates the determinants of small firm growth in Finland during the strong economic fluctuations of [...]

C. Berndt, (2000) Regulation, Power and Scale: `Reworking' Capital-Labour Relations in German SMEs, ESRC Centre for Business Research, Working Paper Series, WP157, March 2000, pp46, 5.00 £. VIEWS OF SMEs [...]

DR. RODNEY MCADAM IS A SENIOR LECTURER in the School of Management, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. The aim of this paper is to determine the critical success factors for [...]

Future Unit, Department of Trade and Industry (1999), Work in the Knowledge-driven Economy, DTI, London, August This paper is available as a free download at: www.dti.gov.uk/future-unit/complete/index, html. `WORK IN THE [...]

THE RESEARCH REPORTED WAS designed to give more concrete form to the important themes developed by Gibb (1997). Towards the end of his paper, Gibb (1997, p26) argues that effective [...]

THE AIM OF THIS PAPER IS TO IDENTIFY, and account for, patters of success and failure amongst small, expatriate-owned businesses operating in the tourism service sector of the major resorts [...]

TONY BLACKWOOD AND GRAHAM MOWL ARE both lecturers at the University of Northumbria, England, this paper aims to identify and account for patterns of success and failure among small, expatriate-owned [...]

PROFESSOR ALLAN A. GIBB IS chairman of the Foundation for SME Development at Durham University, England. This paper focuses upon the value of academic research to policymakers and stakeholders in [...]

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO present a statistical survey of the role of men and women as managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with special attention to [...]