Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 13 Issue 1

Linking business ownership and perceived administrative complexity

André van Stel, Viktor Stunnenberg

Administrative burdens are known to be a major business constraint for incumbent small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in modern economies. Far less is known about the…

Autonomy as a start‐up motive

Marco van Gelderen, Paul Jansen

Autonomy is a primary motive for a large majority of small business starters. As an explanation of why people want their own (autonomous) business it is tautological. This study…

The effect of business advisers on the performance of SMEs

Anthony J. Berry, Robert Sweeting, Jitsu Goto

Following on studies of the reported importance of a range of external advice and a study of the impact of marketing advice on small and medium‐sized enterprise (SME) performance…

Localised strategies for supporting incubation: Strategies arising from a case of rural enterprise development

Andrew Atherton, Paul D. Hannon

To generate and test a coherent framework of incubation strategies and interventions that can be deployed to encourage enterprise development through new venture creation in local…

Development of cooperation in new venture support networks: the role of key actors

Lambert T. Koch, Teemu Kautonen, Marc Grünhagen

New venture support networks (NVSN) are an instrument of enterprise policy with the aim of effectively coordinating the activities of different organisations involved in new…

Drivers and dynamic processes for SMEs going global

Graham W. Winch, Carmine Bianchi

Many, if not most, small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are subject to the impacts of globalisation. This article seeks to explore the extra dimension of challenge to their…

Beyond the sweat shop: “off‐the‐books” work in contemporary England

Colin C. Williams

This paper sets out to evaluate critically whether off‐the‐books work in contemporary England is chiefly conducted by employees working for wholly or partially underground…

Micro politics and micro firms: a case study of tourism policy formation and change

Rhodri Thomas, Huw Thomas

This paper aims to examine the extent to which micro businesses in tourism might influence the process of tourism policy formation and change in urban settings.

POINTS OF VIEW Assessing the scale of the equity gap

Rebecca Harding, Marc Cowling

This paper sets out to assess the market for start‐up finance in the UK for high growth potential entrepreneurial firms.

Editorial

Harry Matlay