Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 8 Issue 4

Marketing in supported employment enterprises – Part II: The national survey results

Mike Simpson, Joanne Padmore, Nick Taylor

Supported Employment Enterprises (SEEs) are a unique sector of small and medium‐sized enterprises that provide meaningful, gainful employment, training and development…

Will progressive beer duty really help UK small breweries? a case study in profit appropriation

Geoff Pugh, David Tyrrall, John Wyld

Both the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) argue that barriers to market access in the UK brewing industry disadvantage small brewers…

Performance of Brazilian supermarkets: a comparative analysis between large and small store chains

Abraham Sin Oih Yu, Claudio Felisoni de Angelo

This paper compares the productivity of large and small Brazilian supermarkets from 1994 to 1998. The authors’ findings, based on the application of Data Envelopment Analysis, or…

Being self‐employed or being enterprising? the case of creative work for the media industries

Sue Baines, Liz Robson

The government wants more people to start up new small enterprises. In practice, this is likely to mean more sole traders without employees, a heterogeneous group sometimes…

Small firms in Portuguese manufacturing: realising the potential in employment and technical efficiency

Isabel M. Correia

The objective of this paper is to assess the potential of Portuguese manufacturing firms with respect to two fundamental issues that have been at the core of important debates…

Birth and growth in new metal‐based manufacturing and business service firms in Finland

Hannu Littunen

This study examined factors influencing the growth of new firms in metal‐based manufacturing and business services in Finland over the three first years of their operation. The…