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Small Firm Formation and Regional Economic Developmentby Mike Danson
Routledge 1996; US$ 270.00This work examines the role of new firm formation in regional economic development. While the focus is on Scotland, the strong policy orientation and comparative treatment mean that the issues covered have a much wider application and interest. more...
Profiles in Small Businessby Gavin C. Reid; Lowell R. Jacobsen; Margo E. Anderson
Routledge 1993; US$ 210.00A new analytical approach to small firms' cases, which uses primary source data to present detailed profiles on small businesses. more...
Poverty and the Third Wayby Colin C. Williams; Jan Windebank
Routledge 2002; US$ 193.00What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow political context, this thought-provoking new approach argues that we need to harness work beyond employment to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. more...
The Economics and Management of Small Businessby Graham Bannock
Routledge 2005; US$ 69.95This book provides an international perspective on small business, and includes many pedagogical features such as questions for discussion, international case studies, and empirical research. more...
Local Enterprises in the Global Economyby Hubert Schmitz
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00Local Enterprises in the Global Economy is an important contribution to a debate that is currently gathering momentum throughout the social sciences. At the core of this debate is the role of regions in economic development processes, not only in the more economically advanced countries of the world, but also - and more urgently - in low and middle-income countries. With its emphasis on the need for local economic development strategies to deal with intensifying global opportunities and threats, this book pushes the debate forward into hitherto largely uncharted territory. more...
Immigrant Businessesby Dr Jan Rath; Zig Layton-Henry; Daniè Joly; le
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 136.00In the past few years, a considerable number of immigrants have established their own businesses. In doing so, they have contributed in many ways to the economic development of American and European metropolitan areas. Some businesses have been incorporated into the mainstream, while others have stayed on the economic fringes and got engaged in the informal economy. The starting point of this book is that a proper understanding of these businesses is served by focusing on the embeddedness of immigrant businesses in their economic, politico-institutional and social environments from a multi-disciplinary perspective rather than confining the attention to ethnic-cultural or economic sociological aspects only. more...
Critical Perspectives of VET in a Small Business Contextby Harry Matley
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00This special issue is the 5th in a series that was first published in 2000. As the Guest Editor of the series, I look back with pleasure on a long and exciting journey of initiation, learning, discovery and fulfilment. Perhaps the most profound aspect of the journey relates to the process of change and our reaction and involvement with it.Previously published in: Education and Training, Volume 46, Number 6/9, 2004 more...
Human Resources Aspects Of Small Business And Enterprise Developmentby Harry Matlay
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 199.00The third issue of Volume 9 is dedicated to a particularly pertinent aspect of small business and enterprise development: Human Resources (HR). Interestingly, until the late 1960s, HR received scant attention from academics, practitioner and policy makers. more...
The Elements of Small Businessby John Thaler
Silver Lake Publishing 2005; US$ 24.95As the world economy recovers from the post-dot.com recession, people are starting businesses again. But, this time, they?re going about the start-up process more wisely. This book includes background discussion of business structures, legal forms for filing necessary paperwork and general advice for how to get started on the right footing. It combines worksheets, standard letters, sample documents and other tools that help readers define the concepts, markets and relationships that small businesses need to get off the ground. John Thaler is an attorney and entrepeneur who lives in Studio City, CA. In addition to his successful law practice, he also runs a small record company. more...
The Impact Of Resource On Smesby Dr Harry Matlay
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00There exists a robust body of specialist literature that discusses the impact of resources on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) competitiveness. Given the spread of topics that it covers and the multitude of conceptual and contextual issues that it discusses, this literature is fragmented and empirically conflicting or discordant (Matlay, 2004). more...









