Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 22 Issue 4

Impact of social media on small businesses

Nory Jones, Richard Borgman, Ebru Ulusoy

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role and economic impact that the internet, specifically websites and social media, have on small businesses. It aims to investigate…

The usage of digital marketing channels in SMEs

Heini Maarit Taiminen, Heikki Karjaluoto

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the utilization and goals of digital marketing, and examines factors that influence the adoption and use of digital marketing…

Can business counselling help SMEs grow? Evidence from the Swedish business development grant programme

Barbro Widerstedt, Jonas Månsson

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the state funded business counselling on firm growth.

Firm-level determinants of job creation by SMEs: Swedish empirical evidence

Darush Yazdanfar, Peter Öhman

Using a resource-based approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of the firm-level determinants financial leverage and liquidity on job creation at small and…

Special interest in decision making in entrepreneurship policy

Torben Eli Bager, Kim Klyver , Pia Schou Nielsen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of the special interests of key decision makers in entrepreneurship policy formation at the national level. The core question…

Intelligence management opportunities for SMEs

Udechukwu Ojiako, Maxwell Chipulu, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Mei-Jyun Siao, Stuart Maguire

Unfortunately, the majority of studies examining business intelligence (BI) have focused on its exploitation in large firms. Often studies appear to assume that smaller firms have…

Funding accessibility for minority entrepreneurs: an empirical analysis

Tolulope Bewaji, Qin Yang, Yunxuan Han

The purpose of this paper is to examine what factors affect entrepreneurs with minority background to access public financial institutions’ funds in initiating and developing…

Banks and new firm formation

Mikaela Backman

The purpose of this paper is to give a nuanced picture of how the local bank sector influences new firm formation and how this differs along the urban-rural hierarchy. Thus, the…

Factors explaining the use of management accounting practices in Malaysian medium-sized firms

Kamilah Ahmad, Shafie Mohamed Zabri

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that affect the use of management accounting practices (MAPs) in Malaysian medium-sized firms in manufacturing sector.

Sri Lankan entrepreneurs in Australia: chance or choice?

Ramanie Samaratunge, Rowena Barrett, Tissa Rajapakse

Ethnic entrepreneurship is, and always has been, a means of survival. However, there is limited literature on ethnic entrepreneurship in Australia and therefore, an understanding…

Editorial

Harry Matlay