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“The vast majority of small business owners do not plan”, reviewing studies that conducted in the strategic planning field leads to the conclusion, that we can regard this statem… Read More
Through a discussion about why and how strategic planning in small businesses is different then in large businesses, this third article in the series is been used as a passage from an overal… Read More
The fourth article in the series deals with the assumption, that strategic planning implementation in small businesses raises the level of performance. A presentation of empirical studies fr… Read More
A literature review of 23 papers, which have been published from 1958 to 2002, revealed an inconsistency regarding both characterization and definition of small business. The current article… Read More
In continuance with the first article that presented a theoretical overview of strategic planning, the second article in the series has focused on the different definitions used by scholars… Read More
According to Zhara et al., (1999) different scholars use different expressions to describe entrepreneurship (e.g., Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneu… Read More
Trying to measure performance, in general, is a difficult task for scholars; the difficulties intensify when the subject is the measurement of small business performance. In this article, wh… Read More
The fourth article in the series discuss the need for constructing a multidimensional structure of business performance in order to achieve the best possible results when conducting performa… Read More
Since the mid sixties when strategic planning as a concept was introduced to the business and academic world, it’s repeatedly appears at academic literature. A theoretical discussion o… Read More
Empirical studies in business management repeatedly use business performance as dependent variable in order to predict the potential effect of managerial, operational and behavioral activiti… Read More
Business performance is probably one of the must widespread dependent variable used by scholars, while at the same time its remains one of the most vague variables (Rogers and Wright, 1998)… Read More
When reviewing the literature regarding human resources in small business we found out that the small business’ entrepreneur/owner is to be emphasized as a resource of paramount import… Read More
From the mid seventies we can note that scholars makes the distinction between small and large businesses in terms of needs, level of sophistication and range of strategic planning. Bracker… Read More
Government budgets are relayed to various assistance programs whose purpose is to encourage economic activity in small businesses. It is often asked whether these programs do in fact fulfill… Read More
Shapiro et al.'s (1996) states, that assistance programs implementation begins by transferring inputs from the assistance program to the client, then through a series of intermediate steps… Read More
Since market orientation is not such common notion, let us first define what market orientation stands for. According to Dalgic (1998) market orientation express a marketing perception which… Read More
Are there benefits in trying to measure public assistance effect at the country-level economy? Literature suggest two main approaches, Wood (1994) ; Blizzard (1995) ; Wood (1999) claims that… Read More
When different people are using the phrase ‘small business’, do they refer to a common set of definitions? Like, how many employees are listed in the payroll? Or, the number of y… Read More