The issue was that small business owners faced adverse consequences due to their religious beliefs and business practices. Therefore, the purpose of this proposed qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of small business owners in the Houston, Texas are…
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A Businessman's Risk: The Construction of Venture Capital at the Center of U.S. High Technology is a micro-history of a key, but forgotten, moment in the development of the high technology/finance nexus in the United States. In this dissertation I argue that the Small Business A…
Managing supplier relationships and inventory is a necessary but time-consuming component of running a light manufacturing company. Determining the right supplier (or suppliers) can lead to cost savings and provide a competitive edge or ruin a business. Using data obtained from …
Small businesses, particularly growing small businesses, are regarded by policy makers and academics alike as being important sources of wealth creation, employment generation and innovation. Yet, few small businesses grow. One potential way of explaining why so many businesses …
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in small independently operated businesses with researchers expressing an interest in the manner in which the independent owner-operator is motivated to enter the market and their subsequent approach to business. Research into th…
The research asked the pivotal question - Why do dairy farmers continue to farm? There is currently a lack of recognition for the social, cultural and symbolic merits of family businesses, and the non-economic contributions made to society. In critically reviewing the economic p…
This thesis is a contribution to our understanding of business groups in the small busi-ness sector. Specifically, its aim is to verify to what extent the consideration of entrepre-neurial processes can advance our understanding of this phenomenon. A ‘business group’ is a set of…
Okuryazarlık kavramı, tarihsel süreç içerisinde içinde bulunulan toplumun koşulları ve ihtiyaçları doğrultusunda gelişmiş ve çeşitlenmiştir. 2008 küresel krizi, yeni okuryazarlık kavramlarından biri olan finansal okuryazarlık kavramını, bu kavramın önemini ve eksikliğini ortaya …
Networks appear to be vital living organisms which change, grow and develop through time; hence networks are shaped, dissolved and reformed on a constant base. Although an extensive body of research has focused on the outcomes and the antecedents of the interorganizational netwo…
Some small business owners lack strategies to hire post-9/11 military veterans, leading to a smaller pool of skilled workers from which to recruit. Small business owners who do not hire the best person for the job face lost productivity and profits. Grounded in the person-organi…
This is a case study of three small businesses that uncovers management and employee reactions to natural or mechanical disasters and the recovery processes. The study explores Weick's Theory of Sensemaking to determine managers' and employees' perceptions of job changes post cr…
This research focuses on business formation and small business strategy in the informal economy. More specifically, it addresses three essential questions related to unregistered firms: why they are created, how they achieve results, and where they locate. This research uses a v…
There is a paucity of research on discouraged small businesses, their reinvestment decisions, and the role of firm size and relationships on credit availability for small businesses internationally. The three essays included in this dissertation investigate these issues with a u…
A redevelopment strategy that has long been overlooked is the military’s contribution to the development of America’s cities. The military has a place in history with America’s city building. Historically, defense-related development was in the interest of national defense and w…
This study was a national survey of 300 small business enterprises in the United States (U.S.) which were currently involved in international business operations in Nigeria (Africa). This study examined the extent to which six selected factors (impediments and incentives) determ…
The purpose of the research is to assess the influence of the entrepreneur's characteristics and strategies on the Egyptian firm's status of competitiveness. Moreover, almost all of the existing literature and empirical studies relating to SMEs issues have been staged in develop…
This research examined how the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) process occurred in established small, single business firms. CE has been broadly defined as the pursuit of new business activities by established companies. The operations of small, single business firms differ from…
This study examined the effectiveness of small business and microenterprise development programs in assisting participants to start or expand a business, and/or transfer the skills gained from the programs to wage employment. Further analysis specifically concentrated on finding…
This dissertation is a collection of three papers: two of them are about group lending contracts and one (joint with Daniela Di Cagno) is about bankruptcy laws. Both papers on group lending contracts provide an economic explanation of the remarkable success of such contracts in …