Poutziouris, Panikkos; Binks, Martin; Bruce, Alistair - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 6 (1999) 2, pp. 139-152
The development of small firms tends to follow certain growth patterns usually referred to as business growth models. This paper reports on the conceptualisation of a “problem‐based phenomenological life cycle model”, which delineates the growth pattern of micro and small manufacturing...