Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 11 Issue 2

Export activity and firm size: an examination of the machine tool sector

This paper examines the relationship between firm size and export performance within the US machine tool (MT) industry, a sector comprised primarily of SMEs. Evidence for this…

Small business performance: a tourism sector focus

Discussion and analysis of small businesses tends to work on generalised, popularised understanding and knowledge of what their motivations are and how they behave in a business…

Marketing in Russia by UK businesses: lessons from a survey of trade missioners to Moscow

This paper explores and analyses the findings from a survey of UK participants in a trade mission to Moscow, with reference to relevant academic literature. The focus is on their…

Family business and corporate social responsibility in a sample of Dutch firms

This paper explores corporate social responsibility in family businesses. In particular, the research investigates family businesses in relation to a wide variety of constituent…

Practical theories from entrepreneurs' stories: discursive approaches to entrepreneurial learning

This study develops the use of “practical theory”, as a resource in entrepreneurial learning. Practical theory emerges from the implicit, intuitive, tacit and situated resource of…

Entrepreneurial learning: a process of co‐participation

Applying social concepts to the social relations that the entrepreneur maintains, this research seeks to identify the impact of these relationships, and the learning that might…

The environment for female entrepreneurship in Germany

The German government only recently started paying attention to the topic of female entrepreneurship as an important means to raise the overall level of entrepreneurship. Most…

Small independent retail firms and locational decision‐making: outdoor leisure retailing by the crags

The importance of location to retail organisations has long been recognised in the geography and retail marketing literatures, with subjective and “gut feel” methods of evaluation…

From temporary support to systematic resource development: expert services from an SME perspective

Competition in expert services has forced the service providers to consider a more customer‐oriented strategy. Unfortunately, for many of them customers are a faceless “mass”. In…

Networks in small manufacturing firms

The theories of networks have become more popular in recent years when discussing business structures. It can be said that co‐operation is seen as a theory that plays an important…

A study of procurement behaviour in small firms

This paper analyses buyer‐supplier relationships from the perspective of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Preliminary results show that actors within a supply chain are…

Competitive Advantage in SMEs: Organising for Innovation and Change

Entrepreneurial Finance

Globalization and Entrepreneurship: Policy and Strategy Perspectives

The Dynamics of Innovation Clusters: A Study of the Food Industry

The Economics of Business Enterprise : An Introduction to Economic Organisation and the Theory of the Firm