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Helping Small Business Get on with Business
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007In 2006, there were about 2.4 million small businesses, that is, businesses with an annual turnover below $2 million. Australia's small business sector provides four million people with work and is amazingly diverse.
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Small Businesses and Sustainable Development
2013If, in light of their numbers, small businesses currently seem less sensitive to the stakes of sustainable development than large firms, they could nevertheless play an important role in expanding the practices. More and more tools, specific devices, and policies are becoming available to them.
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The business of managing a small engineering business
Engineering Management Journal, 1995The world of small engineering service businesses is a risky one in which to try to operate. Why is it that some businesses survive and others don't? What can a small organisation offer that the competition can't! This article tries to answer these questions.
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Why do small businesses need to formulate policy and plan for the future? After all, it takes valuable time: time that could be spent selling, or sorting out a production problem, or sending in the VAT return. Anyway the whole business is probably run by only one person. The decisions he has to make are fairly straightforward and major implications can
Jim Dewhurst, Paul Burns
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Why do small businesses need to formulate policy and plan for the future? After all, it takes valuable time: time that could be spent selling, or sorting out a production problem, or sending in the VAT return. Anyway the whole business is probably run by only one person. The decisions he has to make are fairly straightforward and major implications can
Jim Dewhurst, Paul Burns
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The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data
, 1994M. Petersen, R. Rajan
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Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain
2010The case material is designed to complement the main survey report (Q1 2013), which includes a special topic section on mobile and web-based services. Interviews were conducted in April 2013 and are based on a sub-sample of respondents to the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain. There are four case studies: Electric Marketing, Activity Chest,
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Does gender still matter? An examination of small business performance
Small Business Economics, 2020Kip Kiefer, M. Heileman, Timothy L. Pett
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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Small Business Performance: A Configurational Approach
, 2005Johan Wiklund, D. Shepherd
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The Use of IT in Small Business
2008This chapter addresses the effective use of information technology (IT) in small businesses. Worldwide it is regarded as a problem as was illustrated in the literature review. Small business owners need to calculate and plan proper use of IT in their businesses by aligning their strategic IT planning to the business plan.
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