...Gabriel Delbem Bellon; Dimária Silva e Meirelles Purpose To investigate factors affecting the growth of small business through the analysis of the experience of new business streams, considering elements of diversification strategy while integrating specific entrepreneurship motivations. Design...

...Maria I. Marshall; Yoon G. Lee; Renee Wiatt Purpose We examine how socioemotional wealth (SEW) and rurality influence small-business owners' exit intentions. With over 50% of US small businesses owned by individuals over 55 and most lacking succession plans, understanding how non-financial factors...

... dominates in citations. Key journals include Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Venturing and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research are the top journals. Motor themes include “innovation,” “entrepreneurial orientation” and “human capital,” while niche themes like...

... Small business Familiness Customer loyalty Mixed-methods research Despite the abundance of studies on the subject, there is still no consensus on the definition of a “family business” (Miller et al., 2007). Several criteria are used to understand family businesses, among which...

... et al., 2023 ; Ciacci and Penco, 2024). Digital transformation in entrepreneurial ventures is a dynamic and increasingly vital topic. It refers to how startups and small businesses leverage digital technologies to innovate, improve operations, and create new value propositions (Felicetti et...

... of rural small businesses with community bank representatives. Design/methodology/approach We applied a mixed-method approach. We employed descriptive statistics, principal factor analysis and logistic regression for data analysis. We distributed an online survey to rural small businesses in five...

... the complementary analyses were leveraged to suggest promising paths for advancing knowledge on business models of SMEs to address the fourth RQ . Small and medium-sized enterprise SME Small business Business model Business model innovation Systematic literature review Bibliometric analysis Co-word...

.... The review examines the broad diversity of terms and definitions used to describe these kinds of firms in scholarly and practical settings. They relate this examination to the concept of small business for the purpose of comparison, in order to highlight differences and similarities between the concepts...

... theoretically to deepening the recent body of knowledge on sustainability in SMEs and fills the gap that indicates the need for accessible and flexible management solutions oriented to the development of sustainability in SMEs. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) Corporate sustainability Small business...

..., presenting it as a tool to support the expansion of the product and service portfolio and as an alternative to Research and Development strategies, which are difficult to implement in the context of small businesses. Design/methodology/approach Following the precepts of the Action Design Research (ADR...

.../value This discontinuation case suggests that non-rational reasoning plays a significant role in contemporary complex and volatile policy environments, which again points to a need for reform in this policy area. Taken together, increasing complexity and volatility in the small business policy field...

...Joe Cox; Thang Nguyen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which rewards-based crowdfunding really does provide financial support for start-ups and small businesses relative to other types of activity such as creative and cultural projects. Design/methodology...

... products could be advantageous. Of course, it must be done judiciously (and legally) since these other businesses must be viewed as competitors as well as potential collaborators. Similarly, educators in areas like small business management and entrepreneurship can use the examples provided in this paper...

...Raphael Odoom Evidence from the small business literature suggests that growing enterprises adopt market and brand orientations to a greater extent than stable or declining ones (Reijonen et al., 2012). There have also been findings pointing to the contribution of branding on the sales...

...William H. Murphy; Denis Leonard Over the past few decades, more and more small and medium businesses (SMEs) have realized the benefits of quality management (QM). The involvement of small businesses in QM, accompanied by recognition that small businesses are not the same as large...

...Jalleh Sharafizad; Alan Coetzer Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how women small business owners’ (SBOs) business start-up motivations influence their network content. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 28 women SBOs who were...

... Limited 2016 Macedonia Bosnia and Herzegovina Small business Venture capital funds According to Stiglitz (1999) the last century has been marked by two great economic experiments. The first was the emergence of the Soviet Union in 1917, and the second was the movement away from...

...Kristine Kuhn; Tera Galloway; Maureen Collins-Williams Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine small business owners’ informal advice-seeking from peers, with a focus on the opportunities afforded by the internet for owners to acquire assistance from other owner-managers outside...

...Nory Jones; Richard Borgman; Ebru Ulusoy Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role and economic impact that the internet, specifically websites and social media, have on small businesses. It aims to investigate the benefits available from the use of the internet and social media...

... characteristic variables which have been determined by prior family business studies to be important factors with regard to family business practice. For hypothesis formulation, where the pre-test of small business experts generated a score greater than 5.0 it was predicted that “small” enterprises will be shown...