Purpose: This paper aims to explore the planning strategies of female entrepreneurs who have indicated a desire to grow their businesses, the time horizons of planning strategies and the relationship between planning horizons and number of employees and annual sales as measures of business...

Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs' private social capital in the survival, growth and innovativeness of entrepreneurial service ventures: local size and preferential attachment degree. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected by a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of the growth performance of top African American‐owned employer firms when compared with their White counterparts. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses longitudinal, revenue data from a sample of the largest African...