Purpose – The purpose of this research is to empirically test the impact of owner/managers' mentality on enterprise … owner/managers of SMEs are more entrepreneurial minded in the introductory and decline stages of growth, their performance …

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the strategic decision‐making process by women owner‐managers of Micro and Small …/methodology/approach – The paper reports on empirical evidence drawn from a pilot investigation in Kenya. A total of nine married women owner‐managers …

themselves, incorporating the actual motives and behaviour of owner‐managers. It is based on a philosophy that the “objects … methodology was used is that owner‐managers predominantly use “bootstrapping” techniques for their investment appraisal rather …

investigate the financing preferences of owner/managers in small ethnic minority businesses in the UK and examine their access to … the findings from a matched “control sample” of white small business owner/managers. Design …/methodology/approach – Identical, in‐depth, face‐to‐face interviews were used with a sample of ethnic minority small business owner/managers and a …

demanded by SME owner‐managers versus those taught in typical marketing syllabuses. Graduates' frame of reference is the world … the redesign of syllabuses and curricula to narrow the skills identified, to educate SME owner‐managers in the benefits of …

product development, and seeks to generate a clearer picture of the characteristics of both innovative owner‐managers and …

to finance and related issues, as experienced by SME owner/managers in the UK and in China. Design …/methodology/approach – The authors employed a telephone survey involving a sample of SME owner/managers operating in the UK and in China. A … quantitative and qualitative information on sources of finance, both preferred and actually used by owner/managers, during three …

the issues associated with succession planning. Qualitative research provides empirical data from four owner‐managers and …