The present analysis brings together a series of studies across a spectrum of selected countries in developed Western nations and Eastern Europe to identify the exact role of small firms, and how that role has evolved during the fifteen years preceding the publication of the book in...

1. Small Firms in the 1990s -- A. Small-Firm Growth -- 2. Transactional Calculus and Small Business Strategy -- 3. Firm Performance and Size -- 4. The Relationship Between Firm Growth and Labor Demand -- 5. Small Business in German Manufacturing -- B. Issues in Entrepreneurship -- 6. Some...