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This article charts the development of research on small firms and entrepreneurship in the U.K. over the last 30 years or so and identifies distinctive characteristics of the current orientation [...]

A study is conducted using quantitative and qualitative analysis methods to examine the changing importance for ethnic minority business in Scotland.

A study on organizational learning examines the factors that influence decision making of small manufacturing firms in regard to investments.

Introduction Trust is a phenomenon which, over the past decade, has gained attention across many disciplines and fields of study, e.g., psychology, organizational theory, sociology, economic theory, and business management. [...]

This article presents findings from a large-scale study of access to finance and business support by ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) in the UK. The results show more variation between ethnic [...]

Abstract Reflecting recent changes in the pattern of ethnic minority business activity in Britain, this paper examines the experiences of firms attempting to break out from the cramped range of [...]

Brussels, P.I.E.: Peter Lang, 2001. 403 pp. ISBN 90-5201-952-5 This book is concerned with health and safety in small enterprises in the European Union (EU); it is based on an [...]

DAVID SMALLBONE IS PROFESSOR OF SMALL and Medium Enterprises and Head of the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research at Middlesex University Business School. Friederike Welter is Senior Researcher, [...]

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 [...]

Using a longitudinal database, this paper compares the employment performance over the 1979-90 period of mature SMEs in three contrasting geographical environments - i.e. London, outer metropolitan locations in the South East, and remote rural locations in northern England. The performance of SMEs in London locations is shown to be inferior to that of similar firms in remote rural locations, but this is found not to result from them having a weaker performance in output terms. Whilst it is the most rapidly growing firms which have the greatest employment generation potential in all locations, London-based SMEs are more likely to achieve growth in ways which minimise the number of additional workers employed directly by the firm. These urban-rural differences can be explained by the different 'strategies' for business growth adopted by managers in responding to the various opportunities and constraints existing in different geographical environments., Introduction Aims of the Paper It is now generally accepted that the urban - rural shift in manufacturing employment within the UK over the last three decades has mainly taken [...]

Introduction THERE IS EVIDENCE OF A GROWING interest in the UK in the contribution of established SMEs in the economy which is reflected in policy initiations such as the Department [...]

M. Svetlicic and M. Rojec (eds) Facilitating Transition by Internationalisation: Outward Direct Investment from Central European Economies in Transition. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. 310 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3133-8, [...]

In this study, the empirical evidence regarding small- and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) growth determinants allows us to conclude that: (1) stimulating factors are cash flow and gross domestic product; (2) restrictive factors are: debt, firm size, age of the firm and the interest rate; and (3) in the period after 2008, the financial crisis and implementation of austerity measures, in the Portuguese context, produced a negative effect on SME growth. In the period 2008–2012, that is, after the beginning of the financial crisis, cash flow had less importance, while debt was found to have a stronger negative effect on SME growth, compared with the pre-crisis period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 [...]