International Small Business Journal back issues from February 2003:
Explosive international growth and problems of success amongst small to medium-sized firms.(Illustration)
Feb 01, 2003; ... This article uses the business network perspective to identify how small to medium-sized manufacturing firms in a small isolated economy such as New Zealand deal with the issues of success and rapid growth as a result of their internationalization efforts. It focuses on three key ...
An exploratory study of under- and over-investment amongst manufacturing SMEs from Australia's Business Longitudinal Survey.(Illustration)
Feb 01, 2003; ... The principal objective in this exploratory article is to examine the financial problems of under- and over-investing in a longitudinal panel of 871 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Australian manufacturing sector. A novel research method for identifying sub-samples of ...
Paving professional futures: ethnic minority accountants in the United Kingdom.(Illustration)
Feb 01, 2003; ... There are some signs that ethnic minority entrepreneurs, particularly in the UK, are gradually diversifying into potentially more rewarding economic activities in the `professions'. Yet, the experiences of these professional ethnic minority entrepreneurs have rarely been documented. This ...
Firm and managerial determinants of the export propensity of small and medium-sized enterprises in Swaziland.(Illustration)
Feb 01, 2003; ... The exporting successes of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in industrialized countries have led to the increasing recognition of the potentially critical role of SMEs in export- and private-sector-led economic growth in many developing countries. Policies to assist more SMEs to ...
Tax regulation and small business in the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Feb 01, 2003; ... This article provides a review of the literature on the compliance costs of tax regulations borne by small firms in the USA, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The article concludes that in the USA and the UK the compliance costs of taxation comprise the largest single element of the ...
James Curran and Robert A. Blackburn (2001) `Older People and the Enterprise Society: Age and Self-employment Propensities', Work, Employment and Society.
Feb 01, 2003; ... 15(4), December 2001, Notes and Issues: 889-902. This article makes a valuable and novel contribution to knowledge. It does this by highlighting the topic of older people, which is a neglected topic. A brief search of a social science database produces, I discovered, just 18 ...
EC-Eurostat (2001) Sixth Enterprises in Europe Report 2001.(Book Review)
Feb 01, 2003; ... (First to Fifth Reports 1990, 1992, and, under the title Enterprises in the European Communities, 1994, 1996, 1998.) The European Observatory for SMEs Sixth Annual Report (2000). (First to Fifth Annual Reports 1993-7.) Luxembourg: Eur-Op. In 1998, from the 19,370,000 non-primary ...
S. M. Karmel and J. Bryon--A Comparison of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Europe and in the USA.(Book Review)
Feb 01, 2003; ... London: Routledge, 2002. 257 pp. ISBN 0-415-26780-3, 70 [pounds sterling] (hbk). Most serious entrepreneurial scholars, particularly those with a strong interest in financial sponsorship of and the profit opportunities associated with new and growth firms, will seek access to ...