Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 28 Issue 5

Family commitment and performance in private family firms: moderating effect of professionalization

Mohammad Rezaur Razzak, Suaad Jassem, Alima Akter, Syed Abdulla Al Mamun

The purpose of this research is to examine the interplay between family commitment as a family-centric resource and professionalization of the organization as a firm-centric…

Performance management problem of four small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): towards a performance resolution

John Mendy

The purpose of this paper is to examine the underperformance problem of four UK-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from management's and employees' perspectives in…

Entrepreneurial education exposure: a comparative investigation between technical and nontechnical higher education

Ayotunde Adetola Adelaja

The aim of this study is to investigate the significance of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention between students of technical and nontechnical higher education…

Innovation and small and medium enterprises’ performance in Cameroon

Martin Ndzana, Onomo Cyrille, Gregory Mvogo, Thierry Bedzeme

This article attempts to explain performance through the development of innovations within small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Specifically, the authors analyse the determinants…

Access to finance for SMEs in post-socialist countries: the Baltic States and the South Caucasus compared

Bernard Owens Imarhiagbe, David Smallbone, George Saridakis, Robert Blackburn, Anne-Marie Mohammed

This article examines access to finance for SMEs in the Baltic States and the South Caucasus countries following the financial crisis of 2007 and is set within the context of the…

Learning from rivals: the memory-inconsistent strategy

Chuandi Jiang, Jeffrey Muldoon, Hadi Alhorr

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of competitive memory that assists the new ventures to overcome challenges due to the liability of newness in the strategic…

Asymmetric effects of alliance intensity on absorptive capacity: the differences between potential and realized capacities

Flavia Oliveira do Prado Vicentin, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina, Marlon Fernandes Rodrigues Alves, Adriana Backx Noronha Viana

Prior research suggests that organizational alliances' contribution to innovation performance is conditional to absorptive capacity (AC). Instead of an antecedent of alliances, in…

Enhancing entrepreneurial learning through mentoring: a situational and generic mentor role taxonomy

Elin Kubberød, Gro Ladegård

The experiences materialising as learning tasks in the entrepreneurial context do not automatically transform into effective learning for a novice entrepreneur. In this paper, we…