Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 17 Issue 1

The rapid growth of young firms during various stages of entrepreneurship

Hannu Littunen, Hannu Niittykangas

This paper aims to examine factors influencing the high growth of new firms in metal‐based manufacturing and business service firms in Finland. It seeks to compare the factors of…

Prior tacit knowledge and first‐year sales: learning from technology entrepreneurs

Matthew R. Marvel, Scott Droege

This paper aims to explore differences in tacit knowledge at opportunity recognition reported by founders of new technology ventures. The paper seeks to shed light on the types of…

Linking firm and managers' characteristics to perceived critical success factors for innovative entrepreneurial support

Jaloni Pansiri, Zelealem T. Temtime

This paper aims to examine perceived critical success factors (CSFs) affecting the performance of small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and their relationship with firm…

The bias of unhealthy SMEs in bankruptcy prediction models

J. Samuel Baixauli, Antonina Módica‐Milo

This paper aims to construct a financial health indicator to define the degree of financial health in order to decontaminate the estimation sample and to make predictions that are…

Computer acceptance in Greek SMEs

Prodromos D. Chatzoglou, Eftichia Vraimaki, Anastasios Diamantidis, Lazaros Sarigiannidis

Owing to the unique computing needs and different IT adoption patterns of SMEs, research findings concerning larger organisations may not be fully generalisable to offer practical…

When management and customers see eye‐to‐eye: the agreement factor and performance

Cinzia Dessì, Michela Floris

The paper aims to focus on management‐customer relations as a way to understand the competitive advantages of small/medium‐sized family businesses. The aim of this work is to…

Liquidity management in small firms: a learning perspective

Ignatius Ekanem

This paper aims to focus on liquidity management in small firms and how this may be best met. It seeks to present results from eight case study firms to demonstrate different…

Ethnic minority businesses and immigrant entrepreneurship in Greece

Panagiotis Piperopoulos

The present paper aims to report and analyse empirical data from 391 ethnic minority entrepreneurs and 132 of their family members, from eight different ethnic communities of…

Editorial

Harry Matlay

Measuring the impact of research

Rebecca Marsh