Download or read book Small Firms Policy an Agenda for the 1990s written by Steven Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bolton 20 Years on written by Colin Gray and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researches the UK small business sector in order to update the landmark report of the government-appointed Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms, more commonly known as the Bolton Report of 1971. The Bolton Report was a problem-oriented analysis of this sector, focusing on the role of small firms in economic development, and providing international comparisons, as a basis for policy recommendations. Since then, and in part because of the report's influence, government policies have been developed to aid small business, and stimulate entrepreneurial activity and innovation. The next step is to research regional entrepreneurial activity, in order to ascertain the effect of potentially divisive regional policies on small business. The problems identified by small business owners remain relatively unchanged, according to surveys conducted by the Small Business Research Trust from 1984-1991. The Bolton Report focused on government burdens, and indeed, conclusions from the surveys show that small business owners are most concerned about costs, and that government taxation is still rated as their biggest burden. A review of small business taxation since the Bolton report finds that policy should promote efficiency rather than maximize employment -- as the Bolton Report had previously suggested -- since small firms do not tend to develop significantly, nor produce high levels of output. The relationship between the small business sector and the banks that finance them is analyzed, and a 'no secrets' relationship is suggested, to facilitate trust and manage risk. The previously overlooked resource of non-owning managers who tend to oversee operations once the small business has exceeded 20 employees is examined. Socioeconomic changes that will affect small businesses in the future include increasing fragmentation of the economy, the rise in the service sector, policy changes and, perhaps most importantly, the adoption of an enterprise culture in the UK. (CJC).
Download or read book The Political Economy of the Small Firm written by Charlie Dannreuther and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fusing theories from political science, management and linguistics, Dannreuther and Perren assert that the idea of the small firm is an important discursive resource used by political actors to legitimise their actions, influence their citizens and help sustain regimes of accumulation. On top of this, the authors also empirically test their claims against 200 years of UK parliamentary debate, from the Industrial Revolution to the Blair government.
Download or read book 1990 Trade Policy Agenda And 1989 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program written by United States. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Technology Based Firms in the 1990s written by Ray P Oakey and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first High Technology Small Firms Conference was held at Manchester Business School in July 1993. In order to gain a wider audience for the work presented at this annual conference, a series of edited books was initiated and the first volume entitled New Technology-Based Firms in the 1990s was published in 1994. As a continuation of this series, the chapters included in Volume Two comprise the best papers to be presented at the second High Technology Small Firms Conference, again held at Manchester Business School in September 1994. Together with collections of edited papers to follow in future years, the two existing volumes represent a record of an evolving research agenda on high-technology small firms, survival and growth.
Download or read book Employment the Small Firm and the Labour Market written by John Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a rigorous examination of key issues relating to employment in small businesses. These include an anlysis of the true extent of job crreation provided by small firms, the rleative quality of jobs in small firms, the growth of self-employment during the 1980s and the way in which the small firm interacts with its local labour markets. These issues are examined in an international context, wth comparative examples from the USA, the UK and Europe.
Download or read book Small Business in the 1990 s written by Thames Polytechnic and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Development of Small Business Policy written by Thomas M. Cooney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not widely understood that the importance of small businesses only became apparent with the publication of David Birch’s book The Job Generation Process in 1979. Over the past four decades, governments across the globe have struggled to design, implement and evaluate policies that benefit the development of small firms. Deciding whether macro or micro policies are more appropriate for a given context has usually created an initial challenge for policy-makers. However, a cause for even greater dispute has been determining and agreeing what might be the preferred outcomes of such policies (e.g. more firms, better performing firms, fewer firm failures, job creation, greater productivity, higher levels of innovation, inclusivity of disadvantaged groups). Furthermore, evaluating the impact of specific policies presents a wide range of difficulties since it is impossible to isolate a simple cause-and-effect relationship between policy and its stated goal. This book explores the development of small business policy in five countries across five continents and seeks to develop a deeper understanding regarding how small business policy has evolved in these countries and what we might learn from their experiences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Small Enterprise Research.
Download or read book Competitive Advantage in SMEs written by Oswald Jones and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can improve their performance and create and sustain long-term competitive advantage, this text draws upon empirical evidence to illustrate how SMEs can become more innovative through the introduction of new products and services.
Download or read book Labor Market Institutions in Europe A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Performance written by Gunther Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, these seven contributions were originally presented at a conference in December 1992 before a group of experts i
Download or read book Regional Development in the 1990s written by Ron Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century. In the first half of this book, region-by-region profiles review the experience of the eighties and reflect on the present climate, assessing problems and opportunities. The second half provides 25 commentaries on changes influencing the development of regions from questions of industry, technology and employment to the impact of national policy and 1992, and the prospects and capacity for regional policy and development.
Download or read book National White House Conference on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Firm Formation and Regional Economic Development written by Mike Danson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on studies and expertise from around the world, this book describes the transition from research to policy and covers the pre-requisites to successful new firm formation policies. At a time when a new firm formation is promoted by central and local government, business development agencies and the private sector, this book questions the economic dependence on small firms and explores the relevance of networking, information and advice.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Small Business written by Various Authors, and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 4620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1982 and 1996, and addressing issues of central importance to the competitiveness of firms and economies, the volumes in this set draw together research by leading academics in the area and provides a rigorous examination of key issues relating to employment in small businesses. They: Study both the growth and the barriers to growth of small firms Examine problems of rurality Investigate the variation in rates of new venture initiations across manufacturing industries Include a wide range of national case studies from Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, Greece, Spain, Israel and Indonesia. Discuss marketing in the small business and the relationship between small and large firms in an advanced capitalist economy Reassess economic theories concerned with concentration and competition the relationship between small and large firms in an advanced capitalist economy Analyse the managerial factors most closely associated with successful small firms
Download or read book Small Business Leave Policies written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Business Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy written by Robert Wapshott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms (the Bolton Committee Report) was produced at a time of significant political change. The 1970s in the UK saw the beginning of the end for interventionism and ‘big government’ and the emergence of a new free market, economic liberalism. However, the same period also saw the creation of what became a substantial agenda to intervene in the economy through an extensive range of government initiatives aimed at encouraging and enabling small firms and entrepreneurship. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of the Bolton Committee’s report this book provides researchers with new insights into the tensions between these potentially contradictory political agendas that would come to shape our modern economy. It provides the first in-depth analysis of the origins, operation and outcomes of the Bolton Committee, which is widely seen as responsible for the small firm agenda in the UK. In doing so, new insights are generated not only into the birth of enterprise policy in the UK but into the wider changes in political economy that saw powerful tensions between free market rhetoric and new forms of interventionism in practice. The book will be of interest to scholars and PhD students working in the fields of entrepreneurship, small business management and business history.
Download or read book Workplace Education Efforts in Small Business written by Mary P. Vencill and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
