Any study of intellectual property management requires a focus on innovation and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).While these areas have been treated separately at length, few researchers have focused on all three together.Intellectual property is defined as legal rights over the...

The ways in which small and medium-sized enterprise(SME) owners protect (or neglect to protect) their innovations using theintellectual property rights framework are examined.Also investigated arewhether owners of innovative enterprises are more likely to use legal methodsto protect their assets...

This article explores the different approaches taken to environmental regulation of the small firm in the UK and The Netherlands and the relationship of such regulation with the attitudes of small business owner‐managers. Using evidence from 40 interviews with businesses in both countries, we...

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that influence small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) performance and particularly, growth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilises an original data set of 360 SMEs employing 5‐249 people to run logit...

Although there are plenty of books devoted to small business and management research, few give much attention to the small enterprise. This book focuses systematically on researching the small firm, from basic issues of definition, to selecting topics and research designs, to fieldwork problems,...