Small Business Management

This book is designed to fill an important gap in the family business literature. Florence W. Kaslow, Ph. D., Editor, an internationally respected authority in both family psychology and family business consultation, presents a disciplined look at how family businesses are structured, their dynamics..

Understanding how resilience capabilities can be developed to promote sustainable business is imperative. This book provides a new paradigm for conceptualizing resilience capabilities and advances current understanding both theoretically and practically in real-world business settings. _x000D_  ..

Originally published in 1989, this book analyses the economic and political position of the small firm in the 1980s, and in particular the relationship between small and large firms in an advanced capitalist economy. Focusing on the printing and clothing industries, it examines the industrial relati..

The eleven chapters explore various angles of the relationship between culture and innovation in small firms, mainly in peripheral environments of Europe. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of European Planning Studies...

In this groundbreaking book, Lowellyne James demonstrates how sustainability can be a profit driver for small businesses. He shows how innovative SMEs can pursue accreditations and awards--as well as use environmental legislation--to increase resource efficiency, reduce consumption and improve stake..

When originally published in 1986, this book was one of the first to deal solely with the urban and regional incidence and development implications of new firm formation in particular EU countries. It reviews the extent of and reasons for geographical variation in numbers of new firms, examines the ..

When this book was first published in 1991, political ideology had thrust small-firm issues to the forefront of attempts to revitalize the British economy. In the Thatcher years the emphasis had been on individual enterprise and initiative with the number of small firms increasing rapidly. This was ..

Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments introduces the key concepts of SME management, whilst also providing a refreshingly cross-cultural and global approach. Including a compendium of compelling case studies and supplemented by a host of pedagogical features, this book is a useful..

Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments introduces the key concepts of SME management, whilst also providing a refreshingly cross-cultural and global approach. Including a compendium of compelling case studies and supplemented by a host of pedagogical features, this book is a useful..

_x005F_x000D_ Small Business and Effective ICT draws on research undertaken over several years and documents the adoption/use of ICT across ‘better’ users of ICT (Leaders), typical ICT users and late adopters. The findings are presented using a re-formulation of the LIASE framework which addresses a..

Student-friendly in style and international in scope and relevance, this book provides an accessible introduction to the economics of small business for those with little knowledge of economics...

Student-friendly in style and international in scope and relevance, this book provides an accessible introduction to the economics of small business for those with little knowledge of economics...