Entrepreneurship and Small Business

This book is about the dominant form of business on this planet – the small firm. It looks at how firms develop from start-up, sometimes to grow, sometimes to fail, but mainly to stagnate. It looks at their contribution to society. It looks at their defining characteristics – how they are not just scaled-down versions of large firms. It looks at how they go about business and the problems they face. It looks at family firms and the added complexity this brings