..., their performance and their strategic behaviours. The paper argues that the role and strategic behaviour of SMEs in the literature has been neglected. Design/methodology/approach For this study, the paper is able to draw upon a data set of 1,411 SMEs from an annual survey of New Zealand's SMEs...

... of practice. Design/methodology/approach This framework is considered in the context of potentially entrepreneurial and strategic activity undertaken by 12 of the 17 state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) operating in New Zealand in 2006‐2007. Based on a review of documents, observation, and interviews with SOE...

... of 38 fashion designers from the four main fashion centres in New Zealand were examined using an interpretive narrative approach. The designers' enterprise development narratives were analysed using in‐depth literary and conceptual analyses to reveal the nature and context of their start‐up behaviour...

... of ecopreneurial companies in New Zealand in 2008. Participants were interviewed in a face‐to‐face, semi‐structured format. In total, 88 secondary sources such as media reports, industry statistics, and information from company web sites were also collected. Findings Ecopreneurs were motivated by five factors...

... and a survey, reports on a case study of Wairarapa, a region of New Zealand that has recently seen a large expansion in the tourism sector. Findings The paper identifies a number of important criteria for the effective interaction of private‐public sectors as well as illustrating how small tourism firm...

...Alan Cameron Purpose The paper seeks to explore the importance of a sample of New Zealand farmers' markets in providing a supportive setting for the take‐off as well as the decline stage of the small business life cycle, with a view to identifying factors that may enhance rural small business...

...Anne de Bruin; Susan Flint‐Hartle Purpose To explore the demand and supply of private capital for successful women entrepreneurs in New Zealand. To obtain and interpret fine‐grained information in order to mitigate the research gap on growth finance for women‐led businesses in New Zealand...

...Ann Sullivan; Dimitri Margaritis This paper considers the implications of the liberalization of the New Zealand economy for entrepreneurial development by indigenous New Zealand Maori tribal organizations. Since 1984 the economic objective of the State has been to create a modern market economy...