Paper Type: Refereed paper Objectives: One of the key influencing elements in the small firm on the learning process is that of the owner/manager as a principle employee, having both the power and legitimacy to influence firm practices. The paper’s perspective is connected to the belief that learning stems from the participation of individuals in complex social activities, by recognising that p...

Digitalization in small- and medium-sized (SME) family firms processes of family-external business succession within these are under-researched areas. As SME their future viability important for many economies around the world, we aim to study effects on those companies’ digitalization activities. Utilizing a unique data set comprising 340 pages transcribed interviews multiple case involving fo...

In this explorative study, the collaboration and team composition within applied game creation processes is investigated. Applied games are games that are deployed for purposes like training, education, persuasion, physical exercise etc., i.e. all games that bring about effects that are useful outside the context of the game itself. Ten Dutch applied game designers were interviewed and asked ab...

— The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting the malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are adduced by the supporters of the ‘‘globalization as it is’’ (the Halcyon days of the 1870–1913, and the record of the last two decades of development) are...

The principal objective in this paper is to examine in some depth the relationships between ownership structure, business growth and financial performance amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with different degrees of overlap between management and ownership. The research employs panel data for 1,872 SMEs legally organised as proprietary companies, taken from the Australian federal...

Trust is expected to reduce transaction costs and agency costs and thus influence the cost of credit for small businesses. Assessments of trustworthiness are based on the ability, benevolence and integrity of the owner manager. The study examines whether lending managers’ assessments of the trustworthiness of SME owner managers are associated with the interest rate charged. Data were obtained f...