... growing faster than the manufacturing firms (5.5 to 4.2 per cent; p<0.01). Financial services Accountants Small to medium‐sized enterprises Performance management Government agencies United Kingdom There has been a considerable rise in firm's use of business advice, whether...

... are modest (as compared with their needs in the later stages). This means that entrepreneurial ventures may face a “financial gap”. This can restrain the development of entrepreneurial firms because they may face problems in acquiring other resources (Tyebjee and Bruno, 1984 ; Hughes, 1996). Financial...

... estate agencies were in the hands of large institutions in the financial services sector, although recently independent estate agents have begun to reappear on the high street. Nevertheless the dramatic change in the character and structure of estate agency in the UK between the end of the 1970s...