The topic of this paper seems rather simple at first glance; however it is anything but simple. The issu, entrepreneurship and low income (LI) communities, needs to be put into perspective and that is not simple. So, let us start with a simpler question: Does entrepreneurship impact communities in...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...

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A lot of studies show that business angels have got increased importance for the finance of small and medium-sized enterprises, especially in the English speaking world. But business angels usually offer more than only a financial service in the narrow sense. Business angels can contribute added...

Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries.The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on smallsamples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairlyrepresentative of the structure of small business in India....

This paper presents an account of the environment faced by entrepreneurs in Russia. Insection one we give a brief introduction to the country which is followed by theoverview of a public policy on small and medium enterprises in the next section. Thecurrent state of SMEs and some particularities...

By applying regulatory focus theory, this paper investigates the impact of both initialconfidence and of exactness of growth expectations on subsequent financialperformance of the small firms. Drawing on the unique data set based on the repeatedsurvey design, we make one of the first attempts to...