Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 5 Issue 4

The economic potential of portfolio entrepreneurship: Enterprise and employment contributions of multiple business ownership

Sara Carter

Portfolio entrepreneurship has become an important theme within the small firms research literature. Although originally viewed as a means of reducing business risk, the ownership…

Late payment and the small firm: an examination of case studies

Carole Howorth, Nick Wilson

The issue of the late payment of commercial debt has been cited as a major problem facing small business and has precipitated much political debate. In the UK this has led to…

The role of institutional support in Asian entrepreneurial expansion in Britain

Anuradha Basu

This paper examines the role of formal and informal institutional support in the expansion of Asian‐owned businesses in Britain, based on a large survey of Asian entrepreneurs…

Intellectual property management in the small and medium enterprise (SME)

John Kitching, Robert Blackburn

Intellectual, as opposed to physical and financial, capital is increasingly regarded as a source of competitive advantage for individuals, enterprises and nations. Small and…

Strategies for growth and the barriers faced by new technology‐based SMEs

William Keogh, Gary Evans

The relevance and importance of the high technology small firm sector to economies has been discussed by a number of authors and new technology‐based firms (NTBFs) have been…

The evolution of managerial information, control and decision‐making processes in small growth‐oriented service sector businesses: exploratory lessons from four cases of success

Lew Perren, Aidan Berry, Mike Partridge

Research into management information, control and decision‐making in small businesses appears on the surface to be contradictory. Some research suggests that small businesses have…

Internationalisation and SME development in transition economies: an international comparison

David Smallbone, Bogdan Piasecki, Urve Venesaar, Kiril Todorov, Lois Labrianidis

This paper is concerned with the effects of internationalisation on SMEs in countries that are becoming increasingly affected by market integration at a time when their economic…