Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 26 Issue 1

Gender difference and informal competition: evidence from India

Omar Farooq, Harit Satt, Souhail Ramid

The purpose of this paper is to document how male and female managers respond to competition posed by informal firms.

From feeding-back to feeding-forward: managerial feedback as a trigger of change in SMEs

Alexandros Psychogios, Feim Blakcori, Leslie Szamosi, Nicholas O’Regan

The purpose of this paper is to explore and theorize the process of managerial feedback in relation to change in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Strategic networking and small firm growth in an emerging economy

Bernard Acquah Obeng

The purpose of this paper is to explore the sources and use of social capital on small firm growth in an emerging economy. The study also examines the relationship between small…

A new approach to evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities

Seyedeh Elahe Adel Rastkhiz, Ali Mobini Dehkordi, Jahangir Yadollahi Farsi, Adel Azar

In order to answer which opportunities are better to pursue, the purpose of this paper is to propose and empirically test a decision-making model for evaluating and selecting…

Technological constraints to firm performance: The moderating effects of firm linkages and cooperation

Oluwaseun Kolade, Demola Obembe, Samuel Salia

Manufacturing and services SMEs in Africa face challenges and constraints exacerbated by ineffectual government policies, environmental turbulence and the near absence of…

SMEs capital structure: trade-off or pecking order theory: a systematic review

Lisana B. Martinez, Valeria Scherger, M. Belén Guercio

The purpose of this paper is to organize and present the literature related to firm’s capital structure across the years and find the most relevant publications and authors in the…

The influence of formal institutions on the relationship between entrepreneurial readiness and entrepreneurial behaviour: A cross-country analysis

Ali Raza, Moreno Muffatto, Saadat Saeed

The purpose of this paper is to use a unique set of measures from Holmes et al. (2013) to clarify the relationship between entrepreneurial readiness and entrepreneurial behaviours…

Post-materialistic values and entrepreneurial intention – the case of Saudi Arabia

Khalid Alammari, Robert Newbery, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Emily Beaumont

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how cultural values influence the entrepreneurial process. It conceptualises the relationship between post-materialistic values and…