The Rise and Decline of Small Firms

ISBN-13: 9781138778832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 272 str.

Jonathan Boswell

Opis

This text examines the development patterns of small businesses. It considers why people found firms; the factors that contribute to entrepreneurial success; problems of management succession and inheritance; the strengths and weaknesses of family firms; the reasons why small firms are taken over; and the social, economic and managerial context of their growth, decline, and revival.

Spis treści

Preface;  1. Why Bother About Small Firms?  2. Performance, Goals and Problems  3. Why People Found Businesses  4. Strengths and Trials of Young Firms  5. Gathering Clouds  6. Take-overs  7. Lessons from History  8. Decline  9. Rigidities of Old Firms  10. Revivals  11. What Should Be Done?;  Appendices: 1. Definitions  2. Field Study Methodology  3. Some Results of the Field Study  4. The Companies House Study  5. Other Studies; Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Jonathan Boswell