The Rise and Decline of Small Firms (Routledge Revivals)

Business & Finance, Career Planning & Job Hunting, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Cover of the book The Rise and Decline of Small Firms (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Boswell, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jonathan Boswell ISBN: 9781317671565
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: June 27, 2014
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Jonathan Boswell
ISBN: 9781317671565
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: June 27, 2014
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

First published in 1973, this title 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. Based on a survey of sixty-four firms, each employing fewer than five hundred people, in engineering, hosiery, and knitwear, and on the records of 370 similar organisations, a striking gap in performance and management attitudes emerges as between dynamic, mostly founder-run firms and stagnant, mostly inherited ones.

Where many books are either minutely specialised or highly abstract and over-generalised, Jonathan Boswell’s work is practical and diagnostic, probing the inner recesses of the small firm sector. With particular relevance to the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs in today’s economic environment, this title advances selective measures to deal with old firms and inheritance, and a wide range of policies to encourage new entrepreneurship.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

First published in 1973, this title 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. Based on a survey of sixty-four firms, each employing fewer than five hundred people, in engineering, hosiery, and knitwear, and on the records of 370 similar organisations, a striking gap in performance and management attitudes emerges as between dynamic, mostly founder-run firms and stagnant, mostly inherited ones.

Where many books are either minutely specialised or highly abstract and over-generalised, Jonathan Boswell’s work is practical and diagnostic, probing the inner recesses of the small firm sector. With particular relevance to the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs in today’s economic environment, this title advances selective measures to deal with old firms and inheritance, and a wide range of policies to encourage new entrepreneurship.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Routledge Revivals: Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1988) by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Introduction to International Political Economy by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Early Childhood Teacher Research by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Philosophy and Psychiatry by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Active Learning in Primary Classrooms by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Late Medieval Englishwomen: Julian of Norwich; Marjorie Kempe and Juliana Berners by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Mediating Policy by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Alien Rites? by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Premium by Design by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book The Holocaust by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book The Changing Profile of Corporate Climate Change Risk by Jonathan Boswell
Cover of the book Resource Allocation in Private Research Universities by Jonathan Boswell
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy