Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 6 Issue 4

Small business training and development in the United States

Lloyd Fernald, George Solomon, Don Bradley

Fifty eight per cent of reporting companies have a shortage of skilled workers and 64 per cent of manufacturers believe entry‐level workers lack the necessary skills to positively…

Information technology in the small business: establishing the basis for a management information system

Julia Smith

This paper reports on the importance and use of information technology in a sample of 150 new small firms. It provides statistical evidence to show that the greater the use of IT…

Franchising as a small business development strategy: a qualitative study of operational and “failed” franchisors in the UK

David Kirby, Anna Watson

The study of franchising as a small business growth strategy is only weakly researched and understood. This preliminary, qualitative investigation examines the experiences of 17…

Planning, business objectives and capital budgeting in Japanese, German and domestic SMEs: some evidence from the UK manufacturing sector

Michael Peel

The study of franchising as a small business growth strategy is only weakly researched and understood. This preliminary, qualitative investigation examines the experiences of 17…

Factors in the growth of micro‐enterprises (Part 1): developing a framework

Lew Perren

This research examines micro‐enterprises pursuing gradual growth. While very little research has been targeted specifically at the growth of micro‐enterprises, there are a host of…

University counsels small “split firms” in post‐communist country

Zbigniew Lucki

The transition from centralised to market economy created a number of difficulties for Polish enterprises and many of them went bankrupt, especially after the Soviet market had…