Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 5 Issue 3

Targeted support for new and young businesses: the case of North Yorkshire TEC’s “Backing Winners” programme

David Smallbone, Robert Baldock, Mike Bridge

This paper reviews the first year experience of a programme (Backing Winners), launched by North Yorkshire TEC in 1995 to provide support for new and young businesses with growth…

Feudal institutions and small business governance: an exploration and comparison

Ronald K. Mitchell, Stephen J. O’Neil

Decision‐making institutions evident in today’s small businesses display remarkable similarities to medieval feudalism. This paper presents: (1) the institutions of feudalism as…

The DTI Marketing Initiative: the experience of 35 young Scottish companies

Elaine M. O’Brien

This paper reports on the results of empirical research undertaken among small Scottish companies who participated in the DTI’s Marketing Initiative. This scheme enabled many…

Small businesses and information technology: risk, planning and change

Nathalie N. Mitev, Anne E. March

Some of the factors contributing to the risks SMEs take when implementing information technology were investigated in a questionnaire survey of 18 small businesses in the Greater…

A model of capital structure decision making in small firms

Nicos Michaelas, Francis Chittenden, Panikkos Poutziouris

Although earlier capital structure theories, grounded within the finance paradigm (agency theory, transaction cost theory etc), have contributed to a deeper understanding of the…

Management buy‐outs: the impact of ownership changes on performance

Charlie Weir, David Laing

Management buy‐outs bring about a change in status of the management team from employee to owner. According to the “agency model”, this change in status provides the financial…

The Disability Discrimination Act and SMEs: the future of the threshold

Fiona Goss, David Goss

This paper addresses the issues raised for very small businesses by the introduction in the UK of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). It considers the “20‐employee…