An Ecosystem Model of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Publisher ‘Tiers’: Publisher Size, Sustainability and Cultural Policy

Abstract This article establishes a quantitative and qualitative model of small medium-sized enterprises (SME) publisher ‘Tiers’, in order to enable researchers cultural policy makers have more granular understanding the impact size. Through an aggregated set case studies deriving from UK, also develops how build support for publishing based on size, sustainability company life cycle. What Tiers underpins terms funding publishers is rigorous developmental sense ecosystem, offering framework which attendant industry broader contexts, enables take into account development, challenge growth.