Enterprise and Small Business Principles
Enterprise and Small Business Principles, Practice and Policy
Sara Carter and Dylan Jones-Evans
Zoltan Acs is University Professor at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, US.
Giles Barrett is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Dinah Bennett is Project Director of ‘Women into the Network’ and Senior Tutor at Durham Business School, UK.
Robert Bennett is Leverhulme Research Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
David Brooksbank is Professor of Enterprise and Small Business and Head of the Department of Enterprise and Economic Development at the University of Glamorgan, UK.
David Brown is Professor of Strategy and Information Systems at Department of Management Science at the University of Lancaster, UK.
Sara Carter is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management and Organization, University of Stirling, UK.
Steve Conway is Senior Lecturer in Innovation at the University of Leicester Management Centre, UK.
Sarah Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
Per Davidsson is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and at the Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden.
Frederic Delmar is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Organization at EM Lyon, France.
Denise Fletcher is Director of Entrepreneurship Research, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Francis Greene is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.
Kevin Ibeh is Senior Lecturer in International Marketing in the Department of Marketing, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
Robin Jarvis is Head of Small Business at the ACCA and Professor of Accounting and Finance at Kingston University, UK.
Dylan Jones-Evans is Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland, and Director of the National Entrepreneurship Observatory at Cardiff University, UK.
Oswald Jones is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Centre for Enterprise, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School in Manchester, UK.
Trevor Jones is at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship at De Montfort University, UK.
David Kirby is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Deputy Head of School at the University of Surrey Management School, UK.
Nigel Lockett is Relationship Manager for InfoLab and E-Business in the Department of Management Science at the University of Lancaster, UK.
Susan Marlow is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Human Resource Management at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Colin Mason is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Head of Department and Academic Director of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
Kevin Mole is Lecturer in Enterprise in Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK.
Alex Nicholls is Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK.
Colm O’Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at UCD Business School, University College Dublin, Ireland.
David Purdy is Research Fellow at Westminster Business School, University of Westminster in London, UK.
Monder Ram is Professor of Small Business and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship at De Montfort University, UK.
David Smallbone is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of the Small Business Centre at Kingston University, UK.
John Stanworth is Professor of Enterprise Studies at Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK.
David Stokes is Research Fellow in Small Business Studies and Director of Innovation at the Enterprise Exchange, Kingston University, UK.
Peter Wyer is Reader in Entrepreneurship at CEEDR, Middlesex University, UK.
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Crown copyright: Table 2.1 from the Bolton Committee (1971) Report of the Committee of enquiry on Small Firms, Cmnd 4811; Table 2.3 from Small Business Service (2004), SME Statistics, www. sbs. gov. uk/smes; Figure 2.2 from Office for National Statistics (2005) UK Workforce Jobs (seasonally adjusted), 1959-2004; Table 3.1 from Labour Market Trends (2005), Office for National Statistics; Table 3.2 from M. Daly, ‘The 1980s: a decade of growth in enterprise’, Employment Gazette, March 1991, Office for National Statistics; Tables 3.3, 3.5 and 3.7 from 2001 Census, www. statistics. gov. uk; Table 3.4 from 2005 Census, www. statistics. gov. uk; Table 3.6 from Labour Force Survey (2005), Office for National Statistics, www. statistics. gov. uk; Figure 4.2 from figure 2, ‘Cross cutting review of services to small businesses’, HM Treasury 2002. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland.
Other copyright: Figure 2.4 from D. Pilat, The Major Growth Regions in Comparison: Some Findings from Recent OECD Work on Growth Productivity and Productivity, OECD Breakfast Series in partnership with NABE, 18 Feb., © OECD, 2004; Figure 6.1 adapted from figure 5.1 in Understanding the Small Business Sector Routledge (Storey, D. 1994); Figure 7.1 from ‘The individual-opportunity nexus’ (Shane, S. and Eckhardt, J.) in Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research (eds. Z. J. Acs and D. B. Audretsch 2003), Kluwer Academic Publishers © 2003, with kind permission of Springer Science and Business Media; Figure 15.1 from Yukl, Gary A., Leadership in Organizations, 5th Edition, © 2002. Adapted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ; Table 19.1 from Angel Investing: Matching Start-Up Funds with Start-Up Companies, Jossey Bass Wiley, (Van Osnabrugge, M. and Robinson, R. J. 2000); Figure 22.5 adapted from Brown, D. and Lockett, N., ‘The Potential of Critical Applications for Engaging SMEs in E-Business’, 2004, European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 13 No. 1, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan; Table 24.1 from Globalisation and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), © OECD, 1997; Figure 22.6 adapted from ‘Engaging SMEs in E-Business: The Role of Intermediaries within E-Clusters’ in Electronic Markets, Vol. 11 No. 1, Taylor and Francis Ltd., http://www. tandf. co. uk/journals (Brown, D. and Lockett, N. 2001); Figure 23.4 from The Corporate Paradox - Power and Control in the Business Franchise, Routledge (Felstead, A. 1993); Mansueto Ventures LLC via the Copyright Clearance Centre for an extract from the article ‘Two men and a bottle’ by Tom Scott, published in Inc: The Magazine for Growing Companies 15th May 1998 © 1998 Mansueto Ventures LLC.
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