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Kirkwood, J. (2010), "To grow or not? Growing small service firms", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 24 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo.2010.08124aad.004
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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To grow or not? Growing small service firms
Article Type: Abstracts From: Development and Learning in Organizations, Volume 24, Issue 1
Kirkwood J.Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (UK), 2009 Vol 16 No 3, Start page: 485, No of pages: 19
Purpose – To investigate whether entrepreneurs realised their growth aspirations for their service sector businesses after five years. Growth in sales turnover and employee numbers is explored, as well as entrepreneurs’ perspectives of how they achieved growth (or why they did not). There have been few examples of longitudinal research which compares entrepreneurs’ growth aspirations with actual growth, and fewer still that focus on service businesses. Design/methodology/approach – Twenty-six entrepreneurs are interviewed in New Zealand in 2001 and re-interviewed in 2006. Face-to-face interviews are used in the first instance, and the follow-up interview is conducted by telephone.Article Type: Research paperISSN: 1462-6004Reference: 38AS515
Keywords: Business development, Entrepreneurs, New Zealand