The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of metro and rural small businesses. While many financial … characteristics are similar, rural small businesses do own more land and depreciable assets, and have lower inventory and other …

The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of urban and rural small businesses. Overall, rural small … when comparing dollar values of urban and rural small businesses because normality assumptions were violated due to the …

The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average …

The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average …

Disasters are bad for business specifically for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These catastrophic events can … compromise capital, logistics, product market, and labor, which compromise business continuity and recovery. Physical damage and … disruptions in supply and labor can cause temporary business closure while structural repairs to buildings and recovery or …

This paper asks how do small firms behave and what is their role in Indian economic development. It examines aggregate … descriptions of small firms in India: their role in economic development, the industry by industry variation in their relative … theoretical and empirical issues are taken up. The small firms' response to government policy is also examined. …

more alike. However, trespassing entrepreneurship is probably mostly a rural or small town phenomenon, since the links … business and community entrepreneurship. The purpose is to explore two questions: How do ‘trespassing entrepreneurs’ combine … business and community enterprise? Why do entrepreneurs engage themselves in both business and community development? A sample …