Understanding the Development of Small Business Policy

ISBN-13: 9781138496873 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 134 str.

Thomas Cooney

Opis

This book offers deeper understanding of how small business policy has evolved in different countries. It provides insights for policy-makers and researchers regarding how small business policy is designed, implemented and evaluated, and suggests lessons from which relevant stakeholders can learn. This book was originally published as a special issue of Small Enterprise Research.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Entrepreneurship policy: issues and challenges  2. The evolution of public policy affecting small business in the United States since Birch  3. The evolution of small business policy in Australia and New Zealand  4. Small and medium-sized enterprises policy in Korea from the 1960s to the 2000s and beyond  5. The financing of new firms: what governments need to know  6. Government agencies should be exemplars of business behaviour  7. Colombia small- and medium-sized enterprise’s 70 years of progress: what’s next?  8. Does 'entrepreneurship' exist?

O autorze

Thomas M. Cooney is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. He is also Policy Advisor to governments, the European Commission and international organisations, and has a strong publication record in the fields of entrepreneurship and small business. He is a director of several enterprises and works with commercial and not-for-profit organisations.