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Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Small businesses & self-employed
Sandra M. Anglund examines the American national government's
small business assistance policy from the passage of the Small
Business Act of 1953 onward. She traces the heritage of the policy
and shows how American core values, those often referred to as the
American Creed, contributed to shaping that policy.
Anglund points out that the American national government is in
the business of promoting small business. Government agencies help
entrepreneurs develop small businesses through a wide range of
programs providing financial assistance such as loans, government
contract assistance including set-asides, and management and
technical support. Unlike government programs for farmers and big
businesses, which are usually invisible to the citizenry, small
business aid programs are extremely and intentionally visible.
Congress declared the policy of aiding small business and
launched the contemporary era of small business assistance programs
in the Small Business Act of 1953. In this study, Anglund traces
the heritage of the Small Business Act, probes influences on small
business and enactments of the 1953-1997 period, and show how
American core values, those often referred to as the American
Creed, contributed to shaping small business policy and to the
support it received. Scholars, students, and researchers involved
with public policy, political culture, business politics and
history, and economic development will find this study of
particular interest.
Business sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult amongst
the demands of today's markets. By implementing new and dynamic
practices, organizations can optimize their day-to-day operations
and improve competitive advantage. Optimal Management Strategies in
Small and Medium Enterprises is a key source on the latest
innovations in enhancing all main management functions, such as
working capital and marketing, and examines how to implement
sustainable business management practices. Featuring extensive
coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such
as human resources development, market orientation, and knowledge
management, this book is ideally designed for business managers,
professionals, graduate students, and researchers working in the
field of smaller-scale business development initiatives.
This book explains the political origins and evolution of
capitalist institutions in developing countries by looking at
distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast
Asian countries: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. An analysis of
the political determinants of these patterns has a number of
theoretical and practical implications. It includes a new
explanation for family business behavior, a unified framework for
explaining capitalist varieties, a guide for institutional reform,
and a comparative examination of three dynamic Asian economies that
provides important insights to students, scholars, and people in
business.
This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative
firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese,
Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured,
and compares innovative firms with a long history of business
operations from these four countries. Firstly, the book examines
innovation practices of long-lived Japanese firms and compares them
with those of German, American and Korean firms. Based on extensive
interviews with executives and field studies, it identifies the
essential qualities of each country in which these innovative firms
and innovative talents are found. It then focuses on theoretical
and practical aspects, using the theoretical framework to define
organizational and technological factors for long-term innovation
success. Further, the book provides recommendations based on
organizational practices for developing innovative talents in
Japanese, German, American and Korean contexts. Intended for
academics, students and practitioners in the areas of
organizational theory and strategic management, this book clarifies
the critical practices of long-lived innovative firms and
organizational innovators.
This book explores technological innovation in family firms,
seeking to reconstruct the links between the heterogeneous
dimensions of family businesses and their innovative behaviour.
Building on and examining the traditional view of family firms as
conservative, this book contributes to knowledge surrounding the
puzzling role of family firms in technological innovation, with
particular focus on the Italian pharmaceutical industry. The
authors explore technological advances within the industry in
connection with various features of family governance. This
thought-provoking study is divided into two parts, the first part
providing an overview of current literature on the topic, and the
second part analysing the findings of empirical investigation in a
specific industry setting. Practitioners and academics of business
strategy will find this book extremely useful as it combines both
solid theoretical reasoning and robust empirical analysis.
Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be
shamed by ""Momo"" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann
Villarreal's grandmother insisted. It was about the music - more
songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But
for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money
didn't hurt. When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the
few recordings of women singers made their way into that jukebox,
questions about the money seemed inseparable from those about the
music. In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing
the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in
Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio - the ""Texas Triangle"" -
during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social
world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican
American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and
economics to assert a public presence. Drawing on oral history,
interviews, and insights from ethnic and gender studies, Listening
to Rosita provides a counternarrative to previous research on la
musica tejana, which has focused almost solely on musicians or
musical genres. Villarreal instead chronicles women's roles and
contributions to the music industry. In spotlighting the sixty-year
singing career of San Antonian Rosita Fernandez, the author pulls
the curtain back on all the women whose names and stories have been
glaringly absent from the ethnic and economic history of Tejana
music and culture. In this oral history of the Tejana cantantes who
performed and owned businesses in the Texas Triangle, Listening to
Rosita shows how ethnic Mexican entrepreneurs developed a unique
identity in striving for success in a society that demeaned and
segregated them. In telling their story, this book supplies a
critical chapter long missing from the history of the West.
Do you want to be at the cutting edge of this dynamic and exciting
subject? This text delivers the latest research, current thinking
and practice, and looks at future trends, as well as covering new
topics such as effectuation, entrepreneurial opportunities and
habitual entrepreneurs'. This highly successful book provides a
comprehensive introduction to entrepreneurship, enterprise and
small business for the undergraduate and postgraduate student. With
over 30 specialist contributors from academic institutions in the
UK, Europe and the USA, this third edition - while building on the
foundations of the first and second - has been extensively revised
and updated.
This book provides a critical analysis of the current state of
knowledge on the relationship between family firms and a wide range
of accounting choices, including earnings management, accounting
conservatism, and financial and non-financial disclosure. In
examining the choices made in family firms, the authors explore and
elucidate the relevance of agency, socioemotional wealth,
stewardship, and resource-based theories. Readers will also find
close consideration of the impacts of a country's culture and
societal values on accounting choices. In particular, further
evidence is provided on the impact of different cultures on
accounting conservatism in family businesses. Finally, avenues for
future accounting research on family firms are discussed,
highlighting theoretical and empirical challenges. In addition to
offering a revealing analysis of the influence of ownership types
and cultures on accounting choices within family firms, the book
identifies significant practical implications for the management of
family firms and policy implications for regulators and standard
setters.
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