Investigates the factors influencing job creation in small firms, firm survival and potential predictors of firm success. One key purpose of this study is to better understand market failures which might warrant public policy intervention. Part one conducts an analysis on a database of 636...

The production methods, financial requirements, and supply and demand characteristics of the contract clothing manufacturing sector are studied in order to determine why market exchange relationships within the sector are often untypical (in spite of low entry barriers and set-up costs).The...