...Florencia Borrescio-Higa; Federico Droller; Sofia Johan; Patricio Valenzuela Purpose Access to bank loans is often limited for small businesses in emerging economies, particularly during crises when capital becomes scarce. In such situations, financially underserved entrepreneurs may resort...

... entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach By adopting a narrative approach, data were collected through a combination of semi-structured and in-depth questions with a sample of Iranian women entrepreneurs founding and running small businesses offering services in a variety of sectors and analysed...

... for research to be driven towards the understanding of entrepreneurial resourcefulness (Bradley et al., 2011). Taking the view that external support has been given to promote youth entrepreneurship, many small businesses still fail. Some researchers have, therefore, argued for the focus...

... in the law of small numbers in entrepreneurial decisions. Design/methodology/approach By taking a qualitative approach, the data for this study were collected through face-to-face interviews with 19 Iranian habitual (experienced) entrepreneurs running small businesses and analyzed by a qualitative...

... resilience and self-efficacy of founders of small businesses in India during the global crisis. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative research method is adopted for analyzing the data collected through a structured questionnaire. In total, 72 small entrepreneurs participated in the study. For analysis...

... of 170 women entrepreneurs in Vietnam and 180 women entrepreneurs in China. The authors used the survey instrument developed by H.M. Chu ( Chu and Katsioloudes 2001 ), which has been adopted in a number of small business studies since 2002. To determine whether there is a significant difference between...