...-making, offering testable propositions on the dynamic interplay between biases, heuristics, and internationalization decisions. Findings This model supports the argument that heuristic decision-making is contingent upon context-specific prior experience, which leaders of small firms typically lack...

... technology to improve their business practices. Its findings are set within the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework to highlight the benefits associated with adopting digitalization in an African country that is heavily reliant upon its agricultural sector. Developing countries Small...

... and Graebner, 2007). Case studies enable a fine-grained investigation and provide rich contextualised qualitative data (Dubois and Gadde, 2002), allowing to understand the development and deployment of entrepreneurs' DCs in small firms. Additionally, scholars suggest increasing the number of qualitative field...

... of perceived value of entrepreneurial identity in explaining the association between motives for entrepreneurship and business growth motivation. Motivation Entrepreneurship Small firms The growth of small enterprises plays a key role in stimulating economic growth and poverty reduction. Indeed...

... organisations) as a means to develop LDCs, the scientific community is lagging behind with regard to these two. This paper is one step forward in unravelling how performance and ESOs occur in LDCs. Sustainability Developing countries Small firms Firm growth For decades, the Zeitgeist...

... Small firms Institutional theory A growing area of research aims to contextualise entrepreneurial phenomenon by investigating how institutional contexts enable and constrain entrepreneurial activities (Aldrich and Fiol, 1994 ; Bruton et al., 2010). As opposed to studies that include...

... for future research to advance understanding of artisan entrepreneurship. Artisan Entrepreneurs Cultural and Creative Industries Craft Entrepreneurship Small firms 30 03 2018 09 04 2018 10 04 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed...

.... Firms, to an extent, appear to be confronted with the liability of aging but not with the liability of smallness. Innovation Growth SMEs Small firms Narongsak Thongpapanl is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: TEK@brocku.ca 12 03 2018 19 03 2018 30 03...

... on. In this study, the best proxy available to measure “performance” is the turnover of these small firms. The objective of the study is threefold. First, the study aims to investigate the difference in performance of male- and female-owned businesses; second, the paper assesses the reasons why gender differentials...

... to embrace a innovation-supportive culture, which actually enables firms and systems to evolve over time would be far more effective than those proposed in the latest Comprehensive Spending Review. The outcomes of which will see some of the most robustly evaluated programmes, designed to support small firm...

... and knowledge is a demanding requirement. In the following section, we conduct a literature review. Innovation Growth Business development Learning Small firms Entrepreneurial education The European Union (EU) supports innovation and competitive advantages in Europe through planned...

.... First, the ability of the owner-manager to learn from previous decisions, experience, mistakes and from others within their network is crucial to the ability of small firms to survive and/or gain competitive advantage (West and Noel, 2009 ; Harrison and Leitch, 2005 ; Gibb, 1997). This learning...

... of the London Stock Exchange. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 IPO Firm performance Small firms Alternative investment market Firm growth Top management team characteristics An initial public offering (IPO) is one of the most significant phases in the firm’s evolution process...

...). In response to Slater and Narver's (1995, p. 72) research question: RQ4. How does a person assess whether an organization has actually learned? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Entrepreneurs Growth Small to medium sized enterprises Multivariate analysis Small firms...

...” entrepreneurial experiences (firm's management is shared between a woman and a man) are little explored and it is still uncommon to frame entrepreneurship as a distributed activity. Dr Attila Bruni can be contacted at: attila.bruni@unitn.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Gender Small...

...Shima Amini Purpose Given the long lived literature on the small firm funding gap and the contemporary evidence on the easier access to equity finance of the London proximate firms, this study aims to examine the relevance of spatial proximity to London in explaining the amount of monies raised...

.... Gender Small firms Business performance Entrepreneurial capital Mixed methods However, in the case of women business owners, the opportunity to develop a substantial resource base in the process of launching and growing a business can be more difficult. Although women's social and economic...

...Rana Tassabehji Gavid C.   Reid . The Foundations of Small Business Enterprise: An Entrepreneurial Analysis of Small Firm Inception and Growth . Routledge Studies in Small Business , 2007 . , ISBN: 10: 0‐415‐33877‐8 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010...

... for rural businesses. It also confirms that recent acquisition is associated with rapid employment growth. Robbie Mochrie can be contacted at r.i.mochrie@hw.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Small firms Small to medium‐sized enterprises Rural areas Entrepreneurialism Business...

...Paula Durkan; Mark Durkin; Jenny Gillen The Internet presents many possibilities by which small firms can better identify and exploit marketing opportunities. A prerequisite to successful on‐line firm‐customer interactions is the existence of a trusting bond between the network players...