Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 6 Issue 1

Evidence on the tax and investment affairs of small firms

Panikkos Poutziouris, Francis Chittenden, Nicos Michaelas

This paper documents the findings from an extensive postal survey conducted in 1997‐98, which looks at the tax affairs of small firms, both incorporated and unincorporated. Tax…

“Ethnic matching” in enterprise support: the process in action

Monder Ram, Kul Sanghera, Dilpazir Raja Khan, Tahir Abbas

Should enterprise support for ethnic minority firms be configured along ethnic lines? This question has confronted many officers engaged in the “enterprise industry”, as they…

Client perceived value within ISO 9000 consultancy projects

Ray Murphy

For many small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), quality systems, and ISO 9000 (BS EN, ISO 9000‐1, 1994) in particular, are a fact of life. Quality systems are seen as a…

Family orientation in family firms: a model and some empirical evidence

Renee Reid, Barbara Dunn, Stan Cromie, John Adams

Attention has been drawn recently to the differences which exist between family and non‐family firms, but Ward indicates that there are different types of family firms. More…

Partnerships and networks: lessons from facilitating entrepreneurship

Carolyn Maniukiewicz, Sarah Williams, William Keogh

The delivery of assistance to SMEs, provided by enterprise councils at the local level, can vary between those bodies which are innovative and those which are pedestrian in their…

The nature of the client‐personal business advisor relationship within Business Link

Jonathan Lean, Simon Down, Eugene Sadler‐Smith

The paper reports upon the findings of a national survey of Personal Business Advisors (PBAs). It examines the nature of the client‐PBA relationship in terms of how relationships…

Early‐warning system for crisis in SMEs: preliminary evidence from Finland and the UK

Erkki K. Laitinen, H. Gin Chong

This paper presents a model for predicting crises in small businesses using early‐warning signals. It summarises the results of two separate studies carried out in Finland (with…