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The Small Business Challenge to Management Education

Journal of European Industrial Training

ISSN: 0309-0590

Article publication date: 1 May 1983

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Abstract

One result of the recent upsurge of national, and indeed international, political interest in the small firm sector of the economy has been a focus on the role of management training and development in the small firm and on the wider, but related, issue of education and training for entrepreneurship. The basis for this renewed government attention seems to lie in recognition of the employment potential of small firms rather than in the contribution that training and education might make to productivity and efficiency. Added to the weight of official concern is pressure from individuals who, without the early possibility of becoming an employee, are being forced to look to their own resources and initiative. It is, therefore, scarcely surprising that much of the recent stimulus to small firms training has come from government training schemes and, in the UK, from local community‐based ventures aimed at improving local job prospects. The accent in the UK has been on encouraging the new small business start up.

Citation

Gibb, A.A. (1983), "The Small Business Challenge to Management Education", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 7 No. 5, pp. 3-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002154

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MCB UP Ltd

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