This paper reports empirical results from a research project investigating selected characteristics and perceptions of technologically oriented firms. Specifically, it examines data from a survey of winners of the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement, and from a sample of technologically...

Provides empirical findings concerning the motives for exporting of UK small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in different stages of the internationalization process. Findings are based on a large scale sample of UK SMEs, and MANOVA is employed to establish that statistical differences...

This paper reports the findings from a postal survey investigating selected characteristics of winners of the Queen’s Award for Export, arguably the premier award for export achievement in the UK. It focuses on one part of the study, namely the extent to which standardisation or adaptation of...

Although the need for many ethnic minority‐owned firms to obtain information to enable them to “break‐out” of their cultural niches and enter mainstream markets has been proposed within the small business literature, it has been widely reported that policy makers and other information...