Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 25 Issue 6

Self-exploitation or successful entrepreneurship? The effects of personal capital on variable outcomes from self-employment

Andrew Atherton, Dongxu Wu, Zhongmin Wu

The purpose of this paper is to understand whether the personal capital of the entrepreneur positively or negatively affects outcomes from self-employment.

Facts or gut feelings: analysis of external pricing antecedents for SMEs in Germany

Lars Hendrik Achterberg, Maktoba Omar, Ambisisis Ambituuni, Oliver Roll

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the external antecedents of pricing information acquisition in an integrative manner. The study develops understanding of determinants of…

Entrepreneurship development in Russia: is Russia a normal country? An empirical analysis

László Szerb, William N. Trumbull

Using various macro-level measures of economic and political performance Shleifer and Treisman (2005) and Treisman (2014) call Russia a “normal country” implying that Russia’s…

Reconceptualising the principles of Penrose’s (1959) theory and the resource based view of the firm: The generation of a new conceptual framework

Samantha Marie Burvill, Dylan Jones-Evans, Hefin Rowlands

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework to explain the firm growth process based on an integration and extension, through empirical research, of Penrose’s…

Sunday is the new Saturday: Sunday trading reforms and its effects on family-run SMEs, employees and consumers

Hina Khan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate consumers, family-run small businesses (small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)) and their employees’ perceptions and attitude…

Is knowledge that powerful? Financial literacy and access to finance: An analysis of enterprises in the UK

Javed Hussain, Samuel Salia, Amin Karim

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial literacy, access to finance and growth among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the…

Network-facilitated green innovation capability development in micro-firms

Sinead Mellett, Felicity Kelliher, Denis Harrington

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate key criteria underpinning network-facilitated green innovation capability development in micro-firms.

Organisational ambidexterity in UK high-tech SMEs: An exploratory study of key drivers and barriers

Chaminda Senaratne, Catherine L. Wang

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of organisational ambidexterity, and identify drivers of and barriers to ambidexterity in the high-tech small- and medium-sized…