Small Businesses and Firm Growth

Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Urban Growth

Entrepreneurship is widely believed to be a main source of economic growth. This paper’s objective is threefold: (1) to estimate the impact of entrepreneurship measured by the birth of businesses on urban employment and income growth; (2) to examine how entrepreneurship supported by government guaranteed loans compares with market entrepreneurship regarding its impact on urban growth; and (3) t...

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The Growth of Small Businesses: Towards A Research Agenda

Problem statement: The central objective of this study is to help define a framework for researching the growth of small businesses. Approach: By way of a literature review, the study evaluates current research approaches to small business growth organized around the “key factors” framework proposed which include elements drawn from the characteristics of the entrepreneur, the firm and the busi...

Knowledge Transfer and Small Businesses

Co-opetition, simultaneous co-operation and competition, entails sharing knowledge that may be a key source of competitive advantage. However, sharing is dangerous when the knowledge might be used for competition. Levy et al (1999) show how a game-theoretic framework can help analyse inter-organisational knowledge sharing under conditions of co-opetition. This research extends this work into th...

Information Security for Small Businesses

New technology allows small businesses to use many of the same information systems employed by large enterprises. In doing so small businesses open themselves up to many threats that were traditionally associated with large corporations. It is imperative to their continued success that they recognize these pitfalls and take steps to address this issue. This paper examines some of those threats ...