Barriers encountered during micro and small business start‐up in North‐West England

By S. Fielden, M. Davidson, P. Makin. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Explaining the lack of strategic planning in SMEs: The importance of owner motivation (2007, background): “This is substantiated by Fielden, Davidson & Makin (2000) who found that although a large proportion of their sample (88%) initially listed making money as a primary goal for being in business, further probing revealed that, for at least 71% of owner-managers, job satisfaction, greater independenc”
• Distinguishing micro-businesses from SMEs: a systematic review of growth constraints (2016, background): “Thus the absence of HR capabilities in micro-businesses, which are often unprepared or unwilling to recruit extra employees and expand due to time, skills, and resource constraints, limits their growth potential (Fielden et al., 2000; Hogarth-Scott et al., 1996).”