SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) comprise 99% of all businesses in the UK, account for 55% of non-governmental jobs and provide 51% of the national turnover. Competitive Advantage in SMEs, Organising for Innovation and Change draws on the experience of staff at Manchester Metropolitan University, focusing on how smaller firms can improve company performance to create and sustain long-term competitive advantage.

The book draws on up-to-date empirical data and the latest research to illustrate ways in which SMEs can become:

As the number of researchers interested in the relationship between entrepreneurship and sustainable development continues to grow, a window of opportunity exists to create a vibrant research community to advance a deeper understanding of the nature, promise and limitations of sustainability entrepreneurship. This special issue aims to communicate developments fromThe First World Symposium on Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Leeds, UK, July 2007, to a wider research community and to reflect the discussions during the symposium. The articles in this special issue demonstrate that there is real value in recognising that sustainability entrepreneurship is distinct from other forms of entrepreneurship and that these distinctions should not be dismissed as trivial.