Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 7 Issue 3

Small and medium enterprise development: borrowing from elsewhere? a research and development agenda

Allan Gibb

The paper focuses upon the issue of the transfer of ideas between countries and cultures in the field of small and medium enterprise (SME) development. It argues that there has…

Small and medium enterprise development: borrowing from elsewhere? a research and development agenda – a comment on Allan Gibb’s paper

James Curran

This paper comments on Allan Gibb’s keynote address to the Small Business and Enterprise Conference earlier this year reproduced in this issue of the Journal. Gibb offers a…

Modernisation in a traditional industry

Helen M. Haugh

This paper discusses the practical impact of recent European Union (EU) hygiene legislation on small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the fish‐processing industry in…

Networking and ethnic minority enterprise development: insights from a North London study

Akin Fadahunsi, David Smallbone, Salinder Supri

This paper is concerned with the role of networking in the development of ethnic minority enterprises, using empirical data drawn from a wider study of 82 ethnic minority…

Corporate rescue: empirical evidence on company voluntary arrangements and small firms

Naresh R. Pandit, Gary A.S. Cook, David Milman, Francis C. Chittenden

This paper focuses on the British company voluntary arrangement (CVA) which is a relatively new debtor rehabilitation process particularly intended to help financially troubled…

Seven ages of entrepreneurship

David Irwin

Current government policy is to encourage more businesses to grow. Access to resources – financial, human and physical – are often cited as the principal barriers to the growth of…

In search of the source of the stream: the process of formation of manufacturing strategy in small and medium‐sized enterprises

David Barnes

This paper reports on research investigating the process of formation of manufacturing strategy in six UK manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Realised…

Small manufacturing businesses: meeting decision support needs

Yanqing Duan, Russell Kinman

Small businesses play a crucial role in national and local economies, but their problems are not always accorded the same importance as those of larger organisations. Research…