Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 18 Issue 1

Entrepreneurial learning in family business: A situated learning perspective

Eleanor Hamilton

The purpose of this paper is to contribute towards understanding how entrepreneurial learning might be understood as being socially situated, embedded in everyday practice in the…

An examination of entrepreneurship educator profiles in business programs in the United States

Jean D. Kabongo, Patrick H. McCaskey

This study aims to assess the profiles of faculty teaching entrepreneurship courses in a sample of entrepreneurship programs in the USA for the years 2007‐2008.

Learning to learn: a case for developing small firm owner/managers

David Higgins, Coral Aspinall

This paper seeks to contribute to the management development debate by providing insight on the dynamics of organisational learning and human interaction in the SME firm. The…

Funding of university spin‐off companies: a conceptual approach to financing challenges

Roger Sørheim, Lars Øystein Widding, Martin Oust, Øystein Madsen

During the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on commercialization of knowledge and technology from universities. However, universities report financing as being the…

Human capital and growth in Romanian small firms

Esteban Lafuente, Rodrigo Rabetino

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact that certain human capital variables have over employment growth of small firms in Romania.

Entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia: a review of empirical research

Arto Ojala, Hannakaisa Isomäki

Entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia have been of academic interest for over 15 years. This paper seeks to bring together current knowledge concerning the phenomenon…

Environmental conditions and entrepreneurial activity: a regional comparison in Spain

Claudia Alvarez, David Urbano, Alicia Coduras, José Ruiz‐Navarro

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the influence of environmental factors on entrepreneurship at the Spanish regional level, using institutional economics as the…

Sustainable SMEs network utilization: the case of food enterprises

Päivi Jämsä, Jaana Tähtinen, Annmarie Ryan, Maarit Pallari

This paper seeks to examine how sustainable SMEs utilize their networks. Here utilization refers to activities SMEs perform in network and how the SMEs are influenced by and…

Effectiveness of formal and informal surveillance in reducing crime at grocery stores

Sami Kajalo, Arto Lindblom

This study aims to analyse grocery retail entrepreneurs' perceptions of the effectiveness of both informal and formal surveillance in reducing vandalism, disturbance, and…

Growth and economies of scale among timber haulage companies

Juho Soirinsuo, Pekka Mäkinen

The purpose of this study is to help growth‐oriented timber haulage entrepreneurs to recognise the problems of growth and understand its implications.

Editorial

Harry Matlay