Evaluating the Effect of Soft Business Support upon Small Firm Performance

By Colin Wren, D. Storey. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don't (2005, methodology): “Extensions have been relatively uncommon in entrepreneurship applications, though an application by Wren and Storey [153] to entrepreneurship-support programmes combined hazard analysis with programme treatment effects and Heckman sample-selectivity corrections.”
The ineffectiveness of entrepreneurship policy: is policy formulation to blame? (2014, background): “…policy instruments, such as direct grants, loans, loan guarantees and venture capital initiatives, and ‘soft’ business support, such as advice, guidance on best practice and access to gateway services to help them address particular challenges (Wren and Storey 2002; Lambrecht and Pirnay 2005).”
Less is More, or Not? On the Interplay between Bundles of Slack Resources, Firm Performance and Firm Survival (2015, unknown): “Wren and Storey (2002), for instance, show that a firm‘s probability of receiving publicly subsidized ―soft‖ business support increases (at a decreasing rate) as its HR base increases, which benefits a firm‘s survival probability.”
An evaluation of public support measures for private external consultancies to SMEs in the Walloon Region of Belgium (2005, background): “Our findings contradict those of Robinson (1982), and Chrisman and Katrishen (1994) in the USA and of Wren and Storey (2002) in the UK who found a positive impact.”
Effectiveness and efficiency of SME innovation policy (2013, methodology): “Restricting themselves to SMEs (as in the present study but focussing on a different policy instrument) in England and Wales, Wren and Storey (2002) estimate a thirty to one ratio between the increase in turnover and the outlays on the state funded marketing initiative.”