... to think and act strategically. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Management skills Small to medium‐sized enterprises Critical success factors Botswana Small to medium‐sized enterprises (hereafter SMEs) have long been recognized as engine of economic growth and have been put...

..., job performance and some job characteristics in Botswana and Swaziland. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using self‐administered questionnaires in this survey. Usable questionnaires were received from a total of 484 respondents. Respondents were from public and private sector. Five...

.... The paper identifies the major characteristics of small firms and potential small business assistance programs, and presents a decision tree model that matches the characteristics of firms with appropriate assistance program(s). A case study of small business assistance programs in the Republic of Botswana...