Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 26 Issue 3

Resource misallocation of SMEs in Vietnamese manufacturing sector

Phuong Thi Nguyen, Minh Khac Nguyen

The purpose of this paper is to examine resource misallocation among Vietnam’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector. The paper also aims to…

Impacts of succession in family business: A systemic approach for understanding dynamic effects in horticultural retail companies in Germany

Andreas Gabriel, Vera Bitsch

While many studies in family business research focus on mono-causal impacts of succession, the purpose of this paper is to employ a systemic approach to analyze dynamic effects of…

How do entrepreneurship rates vary across different races?

Omid Sabbaghi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the time-series dynamics of entrepreneurship rates for different race classifications based on household characteristics over the 1996…

Senior entrepreneurship and qualified senior unemployment: The case of the Portuguese Northern region

Elisa Figueiredo, Teresa Paiva

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the senior entrepreneurship context, as a solution for an unemployed qualified segment between 45 and 60 years of age, in the Northern…

Characteristics and determinants of the board of directors of growing Spanish SMEs going public

María-José Palacín-Sánchez, Francisco Bravo, Nuria Reguera-Alvarado

The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics and the determinants of board structure in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the process of going public…

Why do informal service enterprises remain informal? A RIDIT approach

Sunanda Jha, Dinabandhu Bag

The purpose of this paper is to identify reasons as to why firms operate informally, and to explore the rationalisation of not moving towards formalisation.

Leadership as a driver of entrepreneurship: an international exploratory study

Claudia Felix, Sebastian Aparicio, David Urbano

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of cultural leadership factors (charismatic/value-based, team oriented, participative, humane, autonomous and…

Emergent perspectives toward the business plan among nascent entrepreneur start-up competition participants

Kayleigh Watson, Pauric McGowan

The purpose of this paper is to examine how nascent entrepreneur perspectives towards the utility of the formal written business plan (BP) change before and after start-up…

The performance implications of the strategy–business model fit

Philippe Chereau, Pierre-Xavier Meschi

The purpose of this paper is to highlight different strategy–business model (BM) alignments using Miles and Snow’s strategic framework and analyze the performance implications of…