E‐business: linking available services and entrepreneurs’ needsEmerald -    - 2004
Augusta C.Yrle, Sandra J.Hartman, Kenneth R.Walsh
Traditionally, entrepreneurs and small businesses have faced difficulties when competing with entrenched firms for customers and expanding into global markets. The World Wide Web (WWW) is one approach to overcoming obstacles by giving organizations a direct connection to potential customers and suppliers on a global level. However, complex technology, security, and reliability present sign......  hiện toàn bộ
 Innovation in food sector SMEsEmerald -  Tập 19 Số 2  - Trang 300-321 - 2012
AnahitaBaregheh, JenniferRowley, SallySambrook, DaffydDavies
PurposeThis paper aims to present a profile of innovation in food sector SMEs in the UK, exploring specifically the degree and types of innovation employed, and engagement with activities that support innovation orientation, or organisational innovativeness. hiện toàn bộ
 Family‐member and non‐family‐member managers in family businessesEmerald -    - 2009
Matthew C.Sonfield, Robert N.Lussier
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate, in a multi‐country context, the inclusion of family‐member managers and non‐family‐member managers in family businesses, and the relationship of this variable to certain management activities, styles and characteristics....  hiện toàn bộ
 Social entrepreneurshipEmerald -  Tập 14 Số 3  - Trang 418-434 - 2007
Eleanor Shaw, Sara Carter
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to address the emerging practice of social entrepreneurship by exploring the historical and theoretical antecedents of social enterprise and its contemporary practice. By exploring key theoretical concepts, the paper draws comparisons between “for‐profit” and social entrepreneurs. The pap......  hiện toàn bộ
 LILLIPUT LANEEmerald -  Tập 2 Số 2  - Trang 93-103 - 1995
John L.Thompson
Lilliput Lane, based on the edge of the English Lake District, manufactures a range of miniature plaster cottages which are marketed to customers throughout the world, many of whom are committed collectors. This case study traces the early growth of the company in the 1980s, its subsequent setbacks, a successful turn‐around, followed by a flotation and sale in the 1990s. It focuses on the ......  hiện toàn bộ
 Owner characteristics and health of SMEs in PakistanEmerald -    - 2008
M.Khurrum S. Bhutta, Arif I.Rana, UsmanAsad
PurposeA major frustration for most policy researchers in the small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) area is the virtual non‐existence of scientific data on this sector in the country. This paper aims to provide some data.Design/methodology/approach...  hiện toàn bộ