The aim of this paper is to analyze the case of a joint venture stage to determine the successes and failures to undertake this business, based on the theory of resources and skills of entrepreneurship and business. It is intended to answer the question, what were the successes and failures...

The successful small business created by Sandy Maine in Parishville, northern New York, is featured.Beginning with less than a $15 investment, Maine founded SunFeather Natural Soap Company, and has experienced continuous sales growth for the past 20 years. The lessons and principles that made...

In this paper we analyze the decision of small and micro firms to formalize, i.e. to obtain business and other licenses in rural Indonesia. We use the rural investment climate survey (RICS) that consists of non-farm rural enterprises, most of them microenterprises, and analyze the effect of...