Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 8 Issue 1

Ethical dimension of Russian and American entrepreneurs

Robert D. Hirsrich, Mikhail V. Gratchev

Given today’s hypercompetitive global economy, it is important to understand the ethical attitudes and standards of entrepreneurs in the US as well as in the other parts of the…

New sources of clustering in the digital economy

Aldo Romano, Giuseppina Passiante, Valerio Elia

Using a sample of 29 virtual clusters, the paper examines new sources of clustering in the digital economy. The “virtual cluster” phenomenon highlights the most significant effect…

Small and medium young enterprises’ strengths and weaknesses: empirical study of a sample of industrial firms

Rosa Castellanos

The main objective of this paper is to check whether the youngest small and medium‐size enterprises (SMEs) have potential in comparison with those that we could consider…

The role of factoring in financing UK SMEs: a supply side analysis

Khaled Soufani

This paper focuses upon the role of factoring in small business finance and the profile of firms using it. The analysis refers to a comprehensive survey of UK providers of…

Mapping the strategic landscape for small businesses through sectoral and cross‐sectoral benchmarking

Patrick McNamee, Dolores O’Reilly, Brendan McFerran

Often businesses fail, or fail to reach their true potential, for strategic rather than operational reasons. This type of failure may be caused because the key decision makers in…

Emergent strategies and etnrepreneurial managers in public and mixed‐mode enterprises: the evolution of community/business resource centres in south‐east England

Arlene Broadhurst, Andrew Paterson, Grant Ledgerwood

Utilising qualitative research methodology, this pilot study of telecottages/business resource centres in South‐east England interviewed 13 centre managers to identify problems…

The UK small business research community and its publication channels: perceptions and ratings

Lew Perren, Aidan Berry, Robert Blackburn

Research and dissemination of the results has always been an important activity for those in the academic community. The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has brought the whole…