small business

The report from the Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to modify its small business size standards in terms of the number of employees of a business concern for most industries and SBA programs.

The working paper utilizes information collected in the 1993 and 1998 surveys of small business finances to investigate the uses of equity capital by small firms. Findings indicate that while the importance of public issue markets and the role of venture capital investments in promoting growth cannot be denied, the importance of external equity capital in promoting the formation and growth of small business seems to be overstated.

The report from the Small Business Association investigates how small firms expand U.S. innovative capacity and addresses whether large or small firms are more innovative. The study also reports on company turnover, technology transfer, inventor movement and acquisitions of small businesses.

The paper argues that a thorough-going Buddhist analysis, supplemented by contemporary insights from feminist theory, yields a relational understanding of business firms and markets that can help move debates about ethics and business beyond issues of scale.

Using a panel data set of SBA-guaranteed loans the authors assess whether SBA-guaranteed lending has an observable impact on local and regional economic performance.

The authors analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum efficient size and high numbers of entries.

Using data from the confidential and restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners Survey, the authors provide some suggestive evidence on the causes of intergenerational links in
business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background affects small business outcomes.

The aim of the Baseline Survey was to generate information on the characteristics of entrepreneurs and enterprises in the Khomas region. The Khomas region is very different from the other regions where the survey was previously conducted since it is an urbanised region with 90% of its constituency falling within the Windhoek city boundaries.

The paper provides a working model to guide the newly formed Business Information Service Centres in the process of redesigning a strategic alliance and partnership with other Malawian developmental organisations At the same time the document aims to provide guidelines for best business practices for the stakeholders involved in economic diversification and the promotion of small, micro and medium enterprises in Malawi.

According to the author, South Africa has been facing the double challenge of integrating into global markets as a competitive economy and of overcoming the internal problems created and constantly reinforced by the previous regime. In order to be conducive to economic growth and employment creation, small business development has to be integrated into national industrial policies.