Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 14 Issue 2

An examination of entrepreneurship education in the United States

George Solomon

This paper seeks to provide an analytical overview of the current state of entrepreneurship education in the USA for the years 2004‐2005.

Enterprise for all? The fragility of enterprise provision across England's HEIs

Paul Hannon

The aim of this paper is to present the findings of a comprehensive study of enterprise and entrepreneurship education provision in England's 131 Higher Education Institutions…

New graduate employment within SMEs: still in the dark?

Rick Holden, Stephanie Jameson, Andreas Walmsley

A report conducted for the Government in 2002 concluded that public policy, although rising to the challenges presented in stimulating a stronger relationship between supply and…

Creating the reasonable adventurer: the co‐evolution of student and learning environment

Colin Jones

This paper seeks to address the issue of how graduate skills are developed. The focus is not on which skills, but rather what type of learning environments are required within…

The role of gender in US microenterprise business plan development

Ronald G. Cook, Paul Belliveau, Christine Lentz

This paper proposes to examine the role that gender plays in a microenterprise program (MEP) that focused on developing quality business plans.

Entrepreneurship education in the UK: a longitudinal perspective

Harry Matlay, Charlotte Carey

This paper sets out to critically evaluate contemporary entrepreneurship education initiatives in the UK. The authors seek to compare and contrast various entrepreneurship…

Collaborative business relationships: Helping firms to acquire skills and economies to prosper

Nitha Palakshappa, Mary Ellen Gordon

This paper aims to describe in depth case studies demonstrating that many small companies that participate in collaborative relationships are not realising the knowledge and skill…

Vocational training: trust, talk and knowledge transfer in small businesses

Allan Butler, Matt Reed, Phil Le Grice

Vocational training by those involved in small land‐based businesses can lead to innovation as transferred knowledge may be applied to make marginal changes to enterprises or, in…

Small business owners: too busy to train?

Elizabeth Walker, Janice Redmond, Beverley Webster, Megan Le Clus

The reason often cited for the poor relationship between small businesses and their uptake of vocational education and training is that small business owner‐managers claim that…

Human resource management in growing small firms

Rowena Barrett, Susan Mayson

The purpose of this paper is to begin the process of exploring the intersection between entrepreneurship and HRM by developing an understanding of the nature of HRM in…

Training commitment and performance in manufacturing SMEs: Incidence, intensity and approaches

Dilani Jayawarna, Allan Macpherson, Alison Wilson

This study sets out to examine management development activities within manufacturing SMEs, and their impact on performance. Unlike previous published studies that concentrate on…

Using training and development to affect job satisfaction within franchising

Stephen Choo, Christine Bowley

A review of the literature on franchising has revealed a significant lack of academic research on employee training in franchise systems. Further, most research in this area…

Entrepreneurship education and training: an international perspective

Harry Matlay