Small business and entrepreneurship
David J. Storey and Francis J. Greene
- Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, c2010.
- xxvi, 550 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Small businesses : the big picture -- Understanding entrepreneurship -- Den̓ing the small business -- Working in small businesses -- Innovation and the small business -- Den̓ing and measuring start ups -- New entrepreneurs and social networks -- The economies of start ups -- Den̓ing and measuring business closure -- Analysing business closure -- Den̓ing business growth -- Analysing and measuring business growth -- Growing the business -- pre start-up factors -- Growing the business -- at start-up factors -- Growing the business -- post start-up factors -- Theories of small-business finance -- Debt n̓ance for small businesses -- Equity finance for small businesses.
Entrepreneurs and small businesses are highly diverse, so the book looks to apply broad brush strokes to learn from general patterns where possible. It identifies evidence where it is clear, but equally acknowledges where knowledge is limited or certain conclusions are impossible to draw. Perhaps most importantly, it makes clear that small businesses are not just scaled-down big businesses: they behave, respond, and are organised differently to large organisations.