Small Enterprise Development Policy and Practice in Action [Hardcover]

Small Enterprise Development bridges the gap between research and public policy in the fast changing field of small business development. The thirteen chapters have been written by some of the UK's leading and emerging small business researchers. They present findings from current and on-going research studies in a number of current areas of small business development. They identify the application of their findings for policymakers, who are involved in both the design and delivery of small business policy at national and local levels.'This book is well balanced and easy to understand. The reader has a sense of what the book is trying to achieve, and the collection of papers make for a stimulating discussion of current thinking and research on the small firm sector. It is a book to be recommended' - Regional Studies

Introduction, Current Policy Issues and Recommendations - Francis Chittenden and Kevin Caley
A Comparison of Surviving and Non-Surviving Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Firms in London during the 1980s - David North, Roger Leigh and David Smallbone
Training in SMEs - Steve Johnson and Andrew Gubbins
Lessons from North Yorkshire
Entrepreneurship and Flexibility in Business Services - David Keeble, John Bryson and Peter Wood
The Rise of Small Management Consultancy and Market Research Firms in the UK
Growth Orientation and the Small Firm - Colin Gray
Runners, Fallers and Plodders - Robert MacDonald
Youth and the Enterprise Culture
New Players in the 'Enterprise Culture'? - David Storey and Adam Strange
A Typology of Business Owners and Their Orientation towards Growth - Elizabeth Chell and Jean Haworth
Legal Form, Tax and the Micro-Business - Judith Freedman and Michael Godwin
A Strategy for Closing the Small Firms' Finance Gap -lc&