... Generalizing the findings of this study must be taken with care, as the findings are based on a cross-sectional sample of family SMEs in one country, Belgium. Future research can build on these findings with studies on larger samples in other countries. Practical implications This study may be interesting...

... the underlying development patterns. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze the development during their initial years of existence of the population of all firms in Belgium which are more than three years old and have grown above micro‐firm size between 1992 and 2002 (n=2,152). The authors...

... --> Entrepreneurialism Education Belgium The second volume of the Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education focuses on the contextual perspectives of this fast growing topic of academic endeavour. It opens with a brief foreword by Harold P. Welsch, who holds the Coleman Foundation Chair...