TY - JOUR AB - This article focuses upon six recent training initiatives in Britain, all of which included a small business training remit. It evaluates the training impact of these initiatives on a sample of 6,000 small businesses and measures their effectiveness in terms of awareness, understanding, interest and actual implementation rates. The research highlights a number of common trends pertinent to the training initiatives reviewed in this study, suggesting that there may be a considerable mismatch between specific small business training needs and the services on offer. VL - 11 IS - 4 SN - 1462-6004 DO - 10.1108/14626000410567152 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/14626000410567152 AU - Matlay Harry PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Contemporary training initiatives in Britain: a small business perspective T2 - Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 504 EP - 513 Y2 - 2024/04/16 ER -