Most scholarly work on trust recognizes its importance as part of a non-market form of governance in exchanges between firms. However, trust is only one such governance device that can be used, other devices such as reputation, bargaining power, and contracts can also be used to govern...

Two theories of entrepreneurial action - Discovery Theory and Creation Theory - are discussed. While Discovery Theory and its assumptions have been addressed in the literature, neither the assumptions of Creation Theory nor how they are related to the assumptions of Discovery Theory have yet...

Australian small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are currently facing the challenges and opportunities of the global trend towards digital, online and mobile technologies. However, many SMEs are not prepared to engage with these digital technologies, while others seem unwilling to embrace them....

The majority of businesses within most economies are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Academic and policy interest in SMEs has expanded over the past thirty years with small business research forming an important part of the development of entrepreneurship as a field of inquiry....

Chapter 1. Innovation and Commercialisation in Small Firms -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations of the Book -- Chapter 3. The Decision to Innovate -- Chapter 4. Screening Opportunities -- Chapter 5. The Business Model and Innovation Strategy -- Chapter 6. Managing Uncertainty -- Chapter 7....