Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 23 Issue 3

Firms’ experience of SME-friendly policy and their participation and success in public procurement

Anthony Flynn, Paul Davis

The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between firms’ experience of small- and medium-size enterprise (SME)-friendly policy and their participation and success in…

The power of reciprocal knowledge sharing relationships for startup success

Thomas J Allen, Peter Gloor, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Stephanie L Woerner, Ornit Raz

The purpose of this paper is to examine the innovative capabilities of biotech start-ups in relation to geographic proximity and knowledge sharing interaction in the R & D…

Using human resource activities to implement sustainability in SMEs

Christina Langwell, Dennis Heaton

The purpose of this paper is to examine how small- and medium-sized organisations that were already participating in recognised sustainability programmes in Iowa, USA, in how they…

The practice of employee learning in SME workplaces: A micro view from the life-cycle perspective

Steven Tam, David E Gray

– The purpose of this paper is to explore how employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) practise and view workplace learning at three different life-cycle stages.

Formal accounting planning in SMEs: The influence of family ownership and entrepreneurial orientation

Joachim Samuelsson, Jim Andersén, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Christian Jansson

Several studies have highlighted the importance of management accounting practices such as formal short-term planning and formal long-term planning for SME performance. However…

Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in different environmental settings: Contingency and configurational approaches

Galina Shirokova, Karina Bogatyreva, Tatiana Beliaeva, Sheila Puffer

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance across different levels of environmental hostility and…

Entrepreneurial orientation, passion for work, perceived environmental dynamism and firm performance in an emerging economy

Samuel Adomako, Samuel Howard Quartey, Bedman Narteh

Previous scholarly studies have concluded that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) positively relates to firm performance and that relationship is dependent on several contingencies…

Driving technology innovation through social entrepreneurship at Prezi

Bala Mulloth, Jill R. Kickul, Lisa K Gundry

There has been a profound neglect in most of the literature dealing with social entrepreneurship on the relationship between social entrepreneurship and technological innovation…

The effect of organisational size and age on position and paradigm innovation

Anahita Baregheh, Jennifer Rowley, David Hemsworth

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge and theory on innovation in small and medium-sized organisations (SMEs) by exploring the role of size and age on…

Does university play significant role in shaping entrepreneurial intention? A cross-country comparative analysis

Rohit Trivedi

The purpose of this paper is to foster entrepreneurship among students and incubate more start-ups for economic prosperity, universities around the globe are required to play key…

Toward a deeper understanding of the roles of personal and business networks and market knowledge in SMEs’ international performance

Byoungho Jin, Sojin Jung

The purpose of this paper is to, built upon Johanson and Vahlne’s (2009) Business Network Internationalization Process Model, explore the role of personal networks and business…

Competencies of women entrepreneurs utilizing information marketing businesses

Carrie Revell-Love, Tara Revell-Love

– The purpose of this paper is to report the entrepreneurial competencies of women entrepreneurs who used information marketing businesses for their business-related education.

A new approach to prioritizing SME regulation reforms

Boonlert Jitmaneeroj

Despite their important role for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policy reform, the individual scores of the ten categories of business regulations in the World Bank’s…

Foreign business ownership and domestic entrepreneurial exports

Piers Thompson, Wenyu Zang

There has been considerable debate about the impact that Foreign Direct Investment has upon home grown enterprise (Pathak et al., 2015). The purpose of this paper is to examine…

Investigating the impact of entrepreneurship on economic development: a regional analysis

Harshana Kasseeah

This paper uses data on 125 countries to study whether entrepreneurship affects the level of economic development by taking a regional perspective. Specifically, the purpose of…

Editorial

Harry Matlay