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Small vs. Large Companies: The Entrepreneurial Conundrum

Sue Birley (Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame)
David Norburn (Schurz Professor in Strategic Management at the University of Notre Dame)

Journal of Business Strategy

ISSN: 0275-6668

Article publication date: 1 March 1985

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Abstract

Ten years ago, small businesses were very much viewed as “country cousins” and were considerably patronized by their larger counter‐parts in big business. The small‐business owner was considered rather odd, and was certainly bereft of the modern techniques and skills possessed by the larger company manager. Organizations were established, serviced by retired large company executives, in order to pass on their administrative pearls of wisdom to these ignorant embryos. Wise old “grandfathers” would smooth the way for these “children” to bypass the trauma of adolescence and achieve adulthood.

Citation

Birley, S. and Norburn, D. (1985), "Small vs. Large Companies: The Entrepreneurial Conundrum", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 81-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb039103

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1985, MCB UP Limited

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