Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify business practices that may promote internal financing of growing SMEs. The authors expand the literature on entrepreneurial finance that reduces business practices to either financial management or bootstrapping, by exploring all management...

Owner-managers make decisions and manage their firm as governed by the manner in which they conceptualize or ‘conceive’ performance for themselves and their firm, rather than being governed by researchers' and experts' conceptualizations of small business performance. On the basis of survey...

De nos jours, l’économie mondiale oblige les entreprises des pays développés à subir un processus de restructuration. Dans ce contexte, les entreprises industrielles se doivent de collaborer avec le secteur des services afin d’améliorer leur compétitivité. En effet, les PME de...

The entrepreneurship literature teaches us that the aspirations and competence of SME owner-managers as well as their strategic management behaviour can influence both the development and performance of their firm. However the research issues that surround the owner-manager's business venturing...