Towards the twenty-first century : the challenge for small business
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Towards the twenty-first century : the challenge for small business
Nadamal Books, [between 1990 and 1992]
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"The papers contained ... were first presented at the United Kingdom Enterprise Management and Research Association's 13th National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference, 1990, sponsored by Midland Bank and organised by Leeds Polytechnic Business School, and have been revised and updated"--P. after t.p. verso
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'As a crystal-gazing exercise, this book has much merit. It certainly highlights the fact that small business has an important role to play in the future economic survival of the world as we know it!' - Enterprise Magazine
As the start of a new millennium approaches, new opportunities and challenges face the small-business sector in economies across the world, whether in developed countries, newly industrialized countries, developing countries, or the merging-market economies of Eastern Europe. The policies for developing small enterprises followed in the past are not necessarily those which will be needed to face the challenges to come. What is certain, however, is that small firms will play a large part in rejuvenating the economies of Eastern Europe, expanding those of the West, and growing those of the developing world.
This book analyzes the opportunities, problems and challenges for the small-firms sector as the millennium approaches. Specialists examine a wide range of issues, which it is essential policymakers, politicians, academic researchers, and all those involved in economic development should know about and understand. The book examines such fields as informal risk capital and other aspects of the provision of finance, small business and the state, small firm turbulence, the controversial question of enterprise culture, growth characteristics in small and medium-sized manufacturers, women in self-employment, the growing phenomenon of home-working, particularly in the high technology sector, networking, and the increasingly important service sector.
The papers were presented at the 13th National Small Firms' Policy and Research Conference in 1990.
Published on behalf of UKEMRA.
Table of Contents
The Need for Change - Martyn Robertson
Small Firms Policies - Steve Johnson
An Agenda for the 1990s
Small Business and the State in Western Europe - David Artern and Bengt Johannisson
Marginal or Mainstream Class
Organising Small Firms Research to Meet the Needs of 21st Century Customers - Allan A Gibb
Exploring Enterprise Cultures - Robert Blackburn, James Curran and A Woods
Small Service Sector Enterprise Owners and Their Views
Small Firms and Local Networks - Robert Blackburn, James Curran and Robin Jarvis
Theoretical Conceptual Explorations
Information Assymetries and the Provision of Finance to Small Firms - M R Binks, C T Ennew and G V Reed
Informal Risk Capital in the UK - Colin Mason and Richard Harrison
A Study of Investor Characteristics, Preferences and Decision-Making
The Regional Take-Up of the Enterprise Initiative in Great Britain - Colin Mason and Richard Harrison
The Consultancy Initiative Programme
Births, Deaths and Turbulence in England and Wales - Stephen Batstone and Emma Mansfield
Growth Characteristics of Mature Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises - David Smallbone, Roger Leigh and David North
The Enterprise Culture and Regional Economic Development - Mark Hart and Richard Harrison
Some Evidence from Northern Ireland
Women and the One Person Enterprise - Louise Roberts Reid and James Curran
A Flexible Form of Self-Employment
Problems of Definition and the Marketing of High Technology Homework - John Stanworth and Celia Stanworth
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