Entrepreneurship is believed to be part of the formula to foster innovation and increase
productivity, competitiveness and local and regional development (Reynolds et al. 1994; …

To improve SME growth and competitiveness, governments often encourage business
owner-managers to make use of external sources of support. Whether they seek this …

The prevailing approach of policymakers to the design and delivery of net zero business
support remains focused on financial economic growth. This approach limits the role of …

In England, publicly supported advice to small firms is organized primarily through the
Business Link (BL) network. Using the programme theory underlying this business support …

This paper investigates the determinants of the survival, between 2001 and 2004, of 622
small firms in England. Seventy one percent of these firms were less than 5 years old in …

High growth firms are now a major focus within enterprise policy. This paper provides a
theoretically informed analysis of the rationale and effectiveness of targeted public sector …

Although the importance of people and institutions has been highlighted in multinational
enterprise studies, the association between people, institutions, and the internationalization …

This paper proposes a theoretical multilevel framework that studies the determinants of
microenterprises' performance. Using a unique data set of nearly 300 microenterprises …

We investigate the influence of gender, ethnicity, and education in the use of external advice
and finance by UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A conceptual model of …

The provision of advisory support to small firms is almost ubiquitous in OECD countries,
although it is organised in different ways and is justified on slightly different grounds. In …