item: #1 of 612 id: jsbs-10 author: Mick, Todd D.; Greene, Patricia G. title: Minority and Women Entrepreneurs Contracting with thw Federal Government date: 2004-01-20 words: 9175 flesch: 50 summary: Training, if it existed, did not then follow through on government contracting training for a significant majority of firms. The fact that the majority of firms denied ever having even received the basics of government contracting training upon their acceptance into the 8(a) program should encourage improvement in service delivery. keywords: assistance; business; contracting; entrepreneurs; firms; government; learning; network; permission; policy; program; small; theory; training cache: jsbs-10.pdf plain text: jsbs-10.txt item: #2 of 612 id: jsbs-100 author: Tung, Rosalie L.; Worm, Verner; Peterson, Susan Aagaard title: How Small Nations Fare in the Global War on Talent: The Case of Denmark date: 2008-01-21 words: 9143 flesch: 53 summary: The vast majority of Chinese students in Denmark do not plan to remain in Denmark upon completion of their education, while many Danish students are receptive to working for Chinese companies, albeit more so in Denmark than in China. This research question will be examined in the context of two separate surveys: First, a study of the attitude of Chinese students in Denmark to return to work in China; and, second, an investigation of the opinions of Danish students toward working for Chinese companies in Denmark and/or China. keywords: china; chinese; danish; denmark; e n; n t; percent; students; t e; work cache: jsbs-100.pdf plain text: jsbs-100.txt item: #3 of 612 id: jsbs-1002 author: Chebo, Abdela K.; Kute, Idris M. title: A Strategic process and small venture growth: The moderating role of environmental scanning and owner-CEO date: 2019-10-29 words: 11916 flesch: 57 summary: Small firms strategic planning seems to depend on the size of the firm (Stonehouse & Pemberton, 2002) because the complexity and style of the strategy-making process may be affected by firm size (Dess et al., 1997). Small firms contribute to the development of most economies. keywords: business; decision; enterprises; environment; firms; growth; journal; level; making; management; performance; planning; process; strategies; strategy; ventures cache: jsbs-1002.pdf plain text: jsbs-1002.txt item: #4 of 612 id: jsbs-1007 author: Mahto, Raj V.; Ahluwalia, Saurabh; Khanin, Dmitry; Walsh, Steven T title: Financial performance enhancing strategies: Small family firms vs. small non-family firms date: 2018-11-06 words: 8248 flesch: 54 summary: Moreover, even research on small- and medium-size firms (SMEs) has paid most attention to larger family SMEs with over 500 employees (De Massis et al., Introduction Raj V. Mahto1, Saurabh Ahluwalia2, Dmitry Khanin3, Steven T. Walsh4 1The University of New Mexico, USA, rmahto@unm.edu 2The University of New Mexico, USA, sahluwalia@unm.edu 3 Nazarabayev University’s Graduate School of Business, Kazakhstan , dmitry.khanin@nu.edu.kz 4 The University of New Mexico, USA, swalsh91@comcast.net Financial performance enhancing strategies: Small family firms vs. small non-family firms Commitment, Employee training, Learning orientation, Small firms, Family firms Advancing prior research on the key determinants of firm financial performance, we identify the internal performance-enhancing strat- egies (i.e., raising employee commitment and investment in employee training) and external performance-enhancing strategies (i.e., boosting the learning orientation and adopting an emphasis on marketing). Given their importance as the key economic driv- er of regional economies and entire countries, family firms have attracted significant attention in academic research. keywords: business; commitment; employee; family business; family firms; journal; learning; marketing; non; orientation; performance; sales; training cache: jsbs-1007.pdf plain text: jsbs-1007.txt item: #5 of 612 id: jsbs-101 author: Poff, J. Kent; Heriot, Kirk C.; Campbell, Noel D. title: Re-Examining Firm Size and Exporting: An Empirical Analysis of South Carolina Firms date: 2008-01-21 words: 5743 flesch: 63 summary: Figure 1 and Figure 2 show that small firms export less, therefore any partition of firms according to SIC code will show that smaller firms export less than larger firms. They reasoned that “if minimum firm size is a necessary condition for export success, then exporting firms will be larger than non-exporting firms” in the same industry (Mittelstaedt, Harben, and Ward, 2003). keywords: business; employees; export; exporting; firms; journal; mittelstaedt; size cache: jsbs-101.pdf plain text: jsbs-101.txt item: #6 of 612 id: jsbs-1012 author: Ng, Wilson; Al-Shaghroud, Maha title: Strategy-as-coping in medium-sized enterprises: A social process of collective sensing for acquisition opportunities date: 2018-06-18 words: 12402 flesch: 51 summary: Collective sensing involves a distinct process of sounding out (voicing and seeking responses from) those managers, and in this empirical study of collective sensing, we adopt a novel strategy-as-coping lens (Chia & Holt, 2006, 2009) within the SAP literature in articulating a process in which top managers of a United Kingdom MSE in the competitive building materials industry reacted in a business down- turn by collectively sensing for acquisition opportunities. Contributions of Collective Sensing We have drawn on a conception of problem solving among top managers of an MSE in suggesting how a stream of acquisition opportunities may be identified as a process of strategic management and development under uncer- tain operating conditions. keywords: acquisition; business; ceo; firm; journal; management; managers; opportunities; process; roles; sensing; smes; strategy; togethers cache: jsbs-1012.pdf plain text: jsbs-1012.txt item: #7 of 612 id: jsbs-102 author: Offstein, Evan H.; Childers, Jr., J. Stephen title: Small Business E-Commerce Adoption througha Qualitative Lens: Theory and Observations date: 2008-01-21 words: 11671 flesch: 62 summary: Given the perceived importance of small business e-commerce use by owners, mixed survey data regarding its use, and a notorious lack of theory in small business research (Zahra and Dess, 2001), the purpose of this study is to begin building theory aimed at better understanding the phenomenon of small business e-commerce adoption and usage through the lens of the small business owner. Further, a growing body of research indicates a shift in consumer behavior and business strategy where, through the use of e-commerce, “consumers locate, evaluate, and purchase a 32 STRATEGYJOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS far wider variety of products than they can v i a t r a keywords: adoption; business; commerce; data; e n; e s; internet; m e; n s; n t; research; s s; s t; small; strategy; t e; theory cache: jsbs-102.pdf plain text: jsbs-102.txt item: #8 of 612 id: jsbs-103 author: Droege, Scott B.; Dong, Lily C. title: Strategic Entrepreneurship: Imitation Versus Substitution date: 2008-01-21 words: 7622 flesch: 57 summary: In the following sections, we explain how the process of recognizing the characteristics of different resource bundles helps to shape the decision to pursue either imitation-based or substitution-based strategies, and to examine the internal contingencies to entrepreneurial firms that influence decisions to shift resource accumulation strategies b e t w e e n i m IMITATION VERSUS SUBSTITUTION Scott B. Droege Western Kentucky University scott.droege@wku.edu Lily C. Dong University of Alaska Fairbanks fflcd@uaf.edu ABSTRACT While entrepreneurship is linked with innovation, entrepreneurial firms often imitate competitors rather than offering new substitute products or services. keywords: e n; e s; e t; n t; o n; r e; resource; s t; t t cache: jsbs-103.pdf plain text: jsbs-103.txt item: #9 of 612 id: jsbs-104 author: Ding, May-Ching; Wu, Kuang-Wen; Liu, Sheng-Wen title: Determinants of B2C EC Success on Market Performance of Different Sizes of Firms in Taiwan's E-Brokerage Sector date: 2008-05-21 words: 8988 flesch: 48 summary: Hence, this financial model provides logic to integrate the strategic typology framework and the RBV to explain firm (market) performance. Concurrently, Rumelt (1991) attributed performance variation across firms to both internal and external factors. keywords: business; firm; journal; management; market; online; performance; site; smes; strategy; web cache: jsbs-104.pdf plain text: jsbs-104.txt item: #10 of 612 id: jsbs-106 author: Carraher, Shawn M.; Paridon, Terrence J. title: Entrepreneurship Journal Rankings Across the Discipline date: 2008-05-21 words: 3880 flesch: 37 summary: The top‐ranked specialty journal in entrepreneurship was Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice (ETP), followed by the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Strategy, and Journal of Small Business Management. Given the emergence of the possible top‐tier status of Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice and the Journal of Business Venturing, one may question the relative position of other journals in the field of entrepreneurship. keywords: business; carraher; entrepreneurship; journal; management; members; research cache: jsbs-106.pdf plain text: jsbs-106.txt item: #11 of 612 id: jsbs-1067 author: Borchardt, Miriam; Pereira, Giancarlo; Viegas, Claudia; Reolon, Diego; Xavier, Yuri; Battaglia, Daniel title: Providing goods to the base of the pyramid: opportunities for micro, small and medium-sized local producers date: 2018-06-18 words: 7274 flesch: 54 summary: However, these retailers do not have capacity to offer greater options of leading brand products. This aspect could be understood as an opportunity to the local companies (e.g. manufacturer, dealers and small retailers) considering that they have experience in working together with local communities partnership (Hahn & Gold, 2014) and better understanding the BOP’s needs and cultural specificities (Blocker et al., 2013; Pereira & Borchardt, 2015). keywords: bop; brands; business; consumer; customers; journal; producers; products; purchase; pyramid; research; retailers; strategy cache: jsbs-1067.pdf plain text: jsbs-1067.txt item: #12 of 612 id: jsbs-1070 author: Sequeira, Jennifer M; Weeks, Kelly P; Bell, Myrtle P; Gibbs, SherRhonda R title: Making the case for diversity as a strategic business tool in small firm survival and success date: 2018-11-08 words: 12353 flesch: 53 summary: Since competitive advantages in small firms often re- volve around human assets (Simpson, Tuck, & Bellamy, 2004), and the firm’s intellectual capital, it is important for new small firms to recognize the benefits that can come from a diverse workforce. We propose that by valuing racial diversity and creating an inclusive organizational climate from inception, new small firms with growth objectives can increase their competitiveness, leading to better performance and long-term survival. keywords: business; capital; climate; diversity; employees; firms; journal; knowledge; management; new; performance; resource; strategy; workforce cache: jsbs-1070.pdf plain text: jsbs-1070.txt item: #13 of 612 id: jsbs-1072 author: none title: Credits date: 2017-10-29 words: 478 flesch: 33 summary: Editors sEnior Editors William C. McDowell Bradley University, United States Michael L. Harris East Carolina University, United States Domingo Ribeiro Universitat de València, Spain Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina Greensboro, United States Raj V. Mahto The University of New Mexico, United States Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University, United States Joshua R. Aaron Middle Tennessee State University, United States Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Phillip E. Davis Texas State University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby University of Missouri Kansas City Jerry Kudlats Jacksonville University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Journal of Small Business Strategy 2017, Vol. 27 ©Copyright 2017 Small Business Institute® http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz www.jsbs.org Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Asheville Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio keywords: business; journal; state; university cache: jsbs-1072.pdf plain text: jsbs-1072.txt item: #14 of 612 id: jsbs-1075 author: none title: From the Editor date: 2017-10-31 words: 515 flesch: 54 summary: Thank you for sharing JSBS articles with your colleagues and suggesting articles from JSBS in your article reviews for other journals. As a result of this transition, article citations continue to increase as do our quality submissions. keywords: article; journal cache: jsbs-1075.pdf plain text: jsbs-1075.txt item: #15 of 612 id: jsbs-1078 author: Tsao, Chiung-Wen; Wang, Miao-Ju; Lu, Chia-Mei; Chen, Shyh-Jer; Wang, Yi-Hsien title: Internationalization propensity in family-controlled public firms in emerging markets: The effects of family ownership, governance, and top management team heterogeneity date: 2018-02-09 words: 7577 flesch: 43 summary: It also predicts that the share of family firms among large multinationals will increase from 15% to 40% over the next decade, mainly because of the http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz http://www.jsbs.org 29 C. W. Tsao, M. J. Wang, C. M. Lu, S. J. Chen, & Y. H. Wang Journal of Small Business Strategy / Vol. 28, No. 1 (2018) / 28-37 rising number of large family firms in Asia. A B S T R A C T Internationalization propensity is a growing issue faced by family firms. keywords: business; family; family business; family firms; family ownership; firms; governance; heterogeneity; internationalization; journal; management; ownership; propensity; tmt cache: jsbs-1078.pdf plain text: jsbs-1078.txt item: #16 of 612 id: jsbs-108 author: Lester, Donald L.; Parnell, John A.; Menefee, Michael L. title: Organizational Life Cycle and Innovation Among Entrepreneurial Enterprises date: 2008-05-21 words: 5956 flesch: 56 summary: Firms in Stage 1 (existence) and Stage 4 (renewal) reported high scores for innovation and change in their industries and a high level of satisfaction with performance. Stage 1 firms also reported the highest amount of perceived threat from the environment, in contrast to firms in Stage 3 (success) who reported the lowest. keywords: change; cycle; existence; firms; innovation; life; management; organizations; renewal; stage cache: jsbs-108.pdf plain text: jsbs-108.txt item: #17 of 612 id: jsbs-1080 author: Rita, Maria R.; Priyanto, Sony Heru; Andadari, Roos K.; Haryanto, Jony O. title: How entrepreneurs anticipate the future market: An initial approach of a future market anticipation model for small businesses date: 2018-02-09 words: 13100 flesch: 49 summary: This study attempts to fill the research gap pertaining to the lack of models on future market anticipation (FMA) by providing an appropriate quantitative research framework and new perspectives on exploring research into FMA for SMEs. An- tecedents of future market anticipation: A better understanding from the fashion industry in Indo- nesia. keywords: anticipation; batik; business; company; customers; effort; entrepreneurship; future; journal; management; market; marketing; model; new; performance; product; research; study cache: jsbs-1080.pdf plain text: jsbs-1080.txt item: #18 of 612 id: jsbs-1081 author: Pitchayadol, Pongsakorn; Hoonsopon, Danupol; CHandrachai, Achara; Triukose, Sipat title: Innovativeness in Thai family SMEs: An exploratory case study date: 2018-02-09 words: 8095 flesch: 47 summary: This work begins by describing the concept of SMEs as family businesses and offers definitions to fa- cilitate understanding of this research. Then, the paper explains how the concept of ‘familiness’ correlates to the definition of family business. keywords: business; company; culture; family; family business; family smes; firm; generation; innovation; innovativeness; management; members; research; smes; study cache: jsbs-1081.pdf plain text: jsbs-1081.txt item: #19 of 612 id: jsbs-1097 author: Nouri, Pouria; Ahmady, Abdollah title: A taxonomy of nascent entrepreneurs’ marketing decisions in high-tech small businesses date: 2018-11-05 words: 6770 flesch: 43 summary: Therefore, based on a qualitative content analysis we offer a taxonomy of entrepreneurial marketing decisions. After analyzing and reviewing the gathered data, we concluded that entrepreneurial marketing decisions could be categorized into six distinctive categories, in order of precedence, as follows: • Marketing mix decisions (decisions regarding product, place, promotion, price). keywords: biotechnology; business; decisions; entrepreneurs; journal; making; marketing; marketing decisions; research; strategy; table cache: jsbs-1097.pdf plain text: jsbs-1097.txt item: #20 of 612 id: jsbs-11 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-20 words: 31 flesch: 54 summary: Table of contents Anonymous Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2004; 15, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-11.pdf plain text: jsbs-11.txt item: #21 of 612 id: jsbs-1100 author: Situm, Mario title: Corporate performance and diversification from a resource-based view: A comparison between small and medium-sized Austrian firms date: 2019-10-30 words: 12339 flesch: 57 summary: In model IV, the variable COMP_CLASS was added, which is a dummy variable containing the value of zero for small firms and one for medium sized firms. SMEs also face these risks and according to Hamelin (2013), small firms displayed greater wealth under-diversification, meaning that they have a higher exposure to firm-specific risk. keywords: business; companies; diversification; firms; journal; management; medium; non; performance; profitability; resource; results; risk; size; strategy; value; variable cache: jsbs-1100.pdf plain text: jsbs-1100.txt item: #22 of 612 id: jsbs-112 author: Liao, Jianwen (Jon); Welsch, Harold; Moutray, Chad title: Start-Up REsources and Entrepreneurial Discontinuance: The Case of Nascent Entrepreneurs date: 2008-05-21 words: 7631 flesch: 51 summary: Fall Journal START‐UP RESOURCES AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DISCONTINUANCE: THE CASE OF NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS1 Jianwen (Jon) Liao Illinois Institute of Technology liao@iit.edu Harold Welsch DePaul University hwelsh@depaul.edu Chad Moutray US Small Business Administration moutray@comcast.net ABSTRACT Built on the resource‐based view of the firm, this study addresses two major research questions: (1) what resources are salient in entrepreneurial discontinuance; (2) To what extent, does the impact of resources on the odds of discontinuance vary across the nature of startup between high technology and non‐technology? Additionally, the odds of discontinuance of technology‐based and non‐technology‐based nascent entrepreneurs are affected by a different set of resources. keywords: business; capital; discontinuance; entrepreneurs; experience; human; new; resources; venture cache: jsbs-112.pdf plain text: jsbs-112.txt item: #23 of 612 id: jsbs-1123 author: Stieg, Philipp; Cesinger, Beate; Apfelthaler, Gerhard; Kraus, Sascha; Cheng, Chang-Feng title: Antecedents of successful internationalization in family and non-family firms: How knowledge resources and collaboration intensity shape international performance date: 2018-02-09 words: 11151 flesch: 46 summary: Recent literature reviews (Arregle, Duran, Hitt, & Essen, 2017; Pukall & Calabrò, 2014) further show that internationalization is an important strategic element in the pursuit of growth for family firms, yet the majority of studies describe family firm internationalization as fol- lowing the Uppsala model of internationalization (Johan- son & Vahlne, 1977). The internationalization of family firms has increasingly been recognized as an important field of inquiry for international business scholars. keywords: business; family business; family firms; international; internationalization; journal; knowledge; management; market; non; performance; research; review cache: jsbs-1123.pdf plain text: jsbs-1123.txt item: #24 of 612 id: jsbs-113 author: Kreiser, Patrick M.; Davis, Justin title: A Revised Conceptual Model of the Firm-Level Entrepreneurial Process date: 2009-01-21 words: 6871 flesch: 23 summary: Shane and Venkataraman (2000) offered the most widely cited definition of entrepreneurship as opportunity‐based behavior, arguing that the entrepreneurial act centered primarily around “how, by whom, and with what effects opportunities to create future goods and services are discovered, evaluated, and exploited” (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000: 218). Miller also argued that the level of entrepreneurship exhibited by a firm was the aggregate total of these three dimensions. keywords: attributes; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; firms; firm‐level; new; opportunities cache: jsbs-113.pdf plain text: jsbs-113.txt item: #25 of 612 id: jsbs-114 author: Ascigil, Semra F.; Magner, Nace R. title: Business Incubators: Leveraging Skill Utilization through Social Capital date: 2009-01-21 words: 6207 flesch: 40 summary: Incubators seek both to strengthen the existing skills of tenant companies and to enrich their skill base by facilitating the transfer of relevant information and knowledge to the companies. Based on their comprehensive review of incubator research, Hackett and Dilts (2004) concluded that studies addressing the impact of incubators are scarce and recommended that future research should place greater emphasis on identifying incubator process variables that predict and explain clearly defined incubation outcomes. keywords: business; capital; companies; incubator; information; skill; tenant; utilization; variables cache: jsbs-114.pdf plain text: jsbs-114.txt item: #26 of 612 id: jsbs-1147 author: Shields, Jeffrey F.; Welsh, Dianne H.B.; Shelleman, Joyce M. title: Sustainability reporting and its implications for family firms date: 2018-02-09 words: 4587 flesch: 43 summary: Clearly, environmental sustainability reporting is a glob- al phenomenon. A result of environmental sustainability reporting is establishing baseline measures for GHG emissions (scope 1, 2, and 3), energy use, water use, and waste that will necessitate the establishment of initiatives to improve on the disclosed levels of performance. keywords: business; family; firms; goals; gri; innovation; journal; miller; performance; reporting; sustainability cache: jsbs-1147.pdf plain text: jsbs-1147.txt item: #27 of 612 id: jsbs-1148 author: none title: Credits date: 2018-02-09 words: 493 flesch: 31 summary: Editors sEnior Editors William C. McDowell Bradley University, United States Michael L. Harris East Carolina University, United States Domingo Ribeiro Universitat de València, Spain Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina Greensboro, United States Joshua R. Aaron Middle Tennessee State University, United States J. Augusto Felício Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Raj V. Mahto The University of New Mexico, United States Juan Piñeiro Santiago de Compostela University, Spain Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University, United States Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Phillip E. Davis Texas State University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby University of Missouri Kansas City Jerry Kudlats Jacksonville University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Journal of Small Business Strategy 2018, Vol. 28 ©Copyright 2018 Small Business Institute® http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz www.jsbs.org Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Asheville Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz keywords: business; journal; state; university cache: jsbs-1148.pdf plain text: jsbs-1148.txt item: #28 of 612 id: jsbs-1149 author: none title: Editorial Notes date: 2018-02-09 words: 1373 flesch: 43 summary: http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz Internationalization Strategies of Family Firms: Challenges and Perspectives Editorial Notes Dear Readers, We are pleased to have the Special Issue on “Internationalization Strategies of Family Firms: Challenges and Perspectives” addressing timely topics that family firms are facing as globalization continues to present opportu- nities and challenges. The prevalence of family firms documents both the economic and social impact they have (Brigham, 2013; Ramadani, Bexheti, Rexhepi, Ratten, & Ibraimi, 2017). keywords: business; dana; family; firms; internationalization cache: jsbs-1149.pdf plain text: jsbs-1149.txt item: #29 of 612 id: jsbs-115 author: Matthews, Charles H.; Schenkel, Mark T.; Ford, Matthew W.; Human, Sherrie E. title: Comparing Nascent Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs and Expectations of Firm Growth date: 2009-01-21 words: 10545 flesch: 44 summary: First, do NEs and NIs possess different expectations for firm growth, and if so, how? Second, do NEs and NIs engage in different levels of planning formality? Third, do NEs and NIs perceive environmental uncertainty differently, or possess different risk tolerances, and if so, how? Lastly, do NEs and NIs differ with respect to the relationships between uncertainty perceptions, risk tolerance, planning formality and expectations for firm growth, and if so, how? Growth Expectations Expectations for growth represent psychological attitudes relating to the future course of an economic time series, and are controllable to the extent that the individual forming the expectation thinks he or she can influence the outcome via his or her actions (Brimer, 1989). Moreover, clearly when pursing a new venture start‐up, the bottom line for practice is not so much whether to plan or not to plan, but rather the sophistication of planning and the influence for expectations for growth. keywords: business; entrepreneurship; expectations; growth; journal; management; model; new; nis; planning; research; risk; uncertainty cache: jsbs-115.pdf plain text: jsbs-115.txt item: #30 of 612 id: jsbs-1153 author: Schenkel, Mark T.; Farmer, Steven; Maslyn, John M. title: Process improvement in SMEs: The impact of harmonious passion for entrepreneurship, employee creative self-efficacy, and time spent innovating date: 2019-04-08 words: 10173 flesch: 49 summary: Family businesses schol- ars, for instance, observe that value creation and improved Introduction Mark T. Schenkel1, Steven Farmer2, John M. Maslyn3 1 Belmont University, USA, mark.schenkel@belmont.edu 2Wichita State University, USA, steven.farmer@wichita.edu 3Belmont University, USA, john.maslyn@belmont.edu Process improvement in SMEs: The impact of harmonious passion for entrepreneurship, employee creative self-efficacy, and time spent innovating Harmonious passion, Creative self-efficacy, Innovation, SME Harmonious passion, creative self-efficacy, and time spent innovating are examined as antecedents to innovative process improvement suggestions in a field study of 213 employees in an SME. As such, and coupled with Hoy and Sharma’s (2010) observation of the centrality of beliefs, values, and attitudes toward entrepreneurship beyond founding leader- ship control, it suggests employee harmonious passion may be an essential focal point in future research toward under- standing what enables SMEs to persist and move toward professionalization. keywords: activity; business; efficacy; ideas; innovation; journal; model; passion; process; self; smes; time cache: jsbs-1153.pdf plain text: jsbs-1153.txt item: #31 of 612 id: jsbs-1160 author: Angerer, Martin; Niemand, Thomas; Kraus, Sascha; Thies, Ferdinand title: Risk-reducing options in crowdinvesting: An experimental study date: 2018-11-01 words: 11229 flesch: 59 summary: The offered options obviously highlight the risk- iness of the projects per se and lead to higher risk aware- ness. ** 1.336,14 4.627,98 ** 1.336,96 4.568,81 ** 1.334,43 4.194,52 ** 1.340,67 Main effects manipulations Option Used keywords: attractiveness; business; crowdfunding; crowdinvesting; decision; funding; investment; investors; journal; kraus; model; option; project; risk; start; thies cache: jsbs-1160.pdf plain text: jsbs-1160.txt item: #32 of 612 id: jsbs-117 author: Lussier, Robert N.; Sonfield, Matthew C. title: Founder Influence in Family Business: Analyzing Combined Data from Six Countries date: 2009-01-21 words: 5483 flesch: 48 summary: Keywords: founder influence, business founder, family business, family firm INTRODUCTION In almost all countries, families are central to the ownership and management of the majority of businesses (Dennis, 2003). Furthermore, it is estimated that about one‐third of all Fortune 500 firms are family controlled (Carsrud, 1994; Poza, 2007), one‐third of S&P 500 companies have founding families involved in management (Weber & Lavelle, 2003), and about 60 percent of all publicly traded companies remain under family influence (Poza, 2007). keywords: business; family; firm; founder; influence; management; research; study cache: jsbs-117.pdf plain text: jsbs-117.txt item: #33 of 612 id: jsbs-118 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-21 words: 630 flesch: 46 summary: Microsoft Word - Front Cover - v20n1.docx FROM THE EDITOR Allow me to introduce myself. As the new editor of JSBS, I would like to begin by thanking our outgoing editor Fred Fry. Fred did a fine job as steward of this publication over the last five years. keywords: editor; firm cache: jsbs-118.pdf plain text: jsbs-118.txt item: #34 of 612 id: jsbs-1183 author: Mayr, Stefan; Lixl, David title: Restructuring in SMEs – A multiple case study analysis date: 2019-04-03 words: 10099 flesch: 51 summary: While financial restructuring strategies aim to reestablish the com- 92 S. Mayr, & D. Lixl Journal of Small Business Strategy / Vol. 29, No. 1 (2019) / 85-98 pany’s ability to meet its financial obligations, business strategy and operational restructuring measures ensure that potentials and resources within the firm are reconsidered and reassembled to provide future profits. Next to financial resources there are espe- cially human, social, organizational and physical resources of great importance for SMEs (Greene, Brush, & Brown, 1997). keywords: banks; business; case; causes; company; crisis; debt; entrepreneur; firms; journal; management; measures; resources; restructuring; smes; strategy; study cache: jsbs-1183.pdf plain text: jsbs-1183.txt item: #35 of 612 id: jsbs-1187 author: Hossain, Md. Mosharref title: Financial resources, financial literacy and small firm growth: Does private organizations support matter? date: 2020-05-27 words: 13467 flesch: 43 summary: There is a positive relationship between financial re- sources and small firm financial growth in Bangladesh. H2. Private organizations support significantly enhances the positive relationship between financial resources and small firm financial growth. keywords: bangladesh; business; enterprises; et al; finance; financial; firm; growth; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1095869 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1095869; journal; literacy; m. m.; management; medium; non; organizations; performance; research; resources; study; support cache: jsbs-1187.pdf plain text: jsbs-1187.txt item: #36 of 612 id: jsbs-119 author: Smith, Benjamin; Simon, Mark title: How Data Intergration Systems Affect Strategic Decision Making in Small Firms date: 2009-01-21 words: 6332 flesch: 47 summary: Specifically, a data integration system is defined as a system that facilitates combining information from multiple sources into a unified view (March & Hevner, 2007). In larger firms, data integration systems may be needed to overcome the fact that employees have highly specialized tasks which constrains the flow of information among different areas. keywords: availability; business; data; decision; firms; information; integration; journal; systems cache: jsbs-119.pdf plain text: jsbs-119.txt item: #37 of 612 id: jsbs-1193 author: Murphy, Greg; Tocher, Neil; Burch, Tyler title: Small business owner persistence: Do personal characteristics matter? date: 2019-04-03 words: 10676 flesch: 50 summary: As such, study findings will start to shed light on what types of business owners are likely to fail, persist, and voluntarily exit. Finally, social capital research indicates that business owners who are satis- fied with their networking groups are more committed to their firms (Pollack, Coy, Green, & Davis, 2015), acquire more resources (Davidsson & Honig, 2003), and are better able to adapt their firms for long term success (Stam & Elfring, 2008). keywords: business; characteristics; commitment; effort; exit; firms; intentions; journal; owner; owner persistence; persistence; persistence intentions; relationship; research cache: jsbs-1193.pdf plain text: jsbs-1193.txt item: #38 of 612 id: jsbs-1197 author: none title: Credits date: 2018-06-18 words: 514 flesch: 29 summary: ©Copyright 2018 Small Business Institute® http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz www.jsbs.org José Manuel Guaita Martínez Valencian International University Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Asheville Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Section editorS Steven T. Walsh The University of New Mexico, United States Editorial assistant Misti L. McDowell Journal of Small Business Strategy http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz Editorial rEviEw Board associatE Editor sEnior Editors William C. McDowell Bradley University, United States Michael L. Harris East Carolina University, United States Domingo Ribeiro Universitat de València, Spain Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina Greensboro, United States Joshua R. Aaron Middle Tennessee State University, United States J. Augusto Felício Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Raj V. Mahto The University of New Mexico, United States Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University, United States Juan Piñeiro Santiago de Compostela University, Spain Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Dolores Botella Universidad Católica de Valencia Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Phillip E. Davis Texas State University Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Michael Goldsby Ball State University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby University of Missouri Kansas City Jerry Kudlats Jacksonville University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Journal of Small Business Strategy 2018, Vol. keywords: business; journal; strategy; university cache: jsbs-1197.pdf plain text: jsbs-1197.txt item: #39 of 612 id: jsbs-1198 author: none title: From the Editor date: 2018-06-18 words: 715 flesch: 46 summary: Your high quality submissions, cit- ing JSBS articles in your own research, and words of recommendation to fellow researchers are what makes this journal a great success. One area of measurement for this is through the numbers of downloads per article, and more importantly, how often researchers cite our articles. keywords: articles; journal; paper cache: jsbs-1198.pdf plain text: jsbs-1198.txt item: #40 of 612 id: jsbs-12 author: Robbins, Tina L.; Jeffords, Ben C. title: The Consequences of Fairness for a Small Professional Services Firm date: 2004-01-20 words: 5714 flesch: 54 summary: Although distributive justice, which is externally influenced to a great extent in this context, had a significant impact on the perceived competence of the CPA, it is fortunate that clients in this study did not let the federal tax code, over which the firm has no control, influence their judgments of service fairness. Service fairness: What is it and why it matters. keywords: client; cpa; fairness; firm; journal; perceptions; service; small; tax; trust; vol cache: jsbs-12.pdf plain text: jsbs-12.txt item: #41 of 612 id: jsbs-120 author: Hertz, Giles T.; Beasley, Fred; White, Rebecca J. title: Selecting a Legal Structure: Revisiting the Strategic Issues and Views of Small and Micro Business Owners date: 2009-01-21 words: 7656 flesch: 51 summary: Collectively, these studies suggested patterns of interactions between businesses and their legal advisors and provided interesting findings for entrepreneurs regarding how to effectively seek advice and make strategic decisions about legal entity choice. In recent years the variety of legal forms of doing business has increased. keywords: advice; business; entity; form; liability; owners; type cache: jsbs-120.pdf plain text: jsbs-120.txt item: #42 of 612 id: jsbs-121 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 235 flesch: -7 summary: Microsoft Word - Front Cover - v20n1.docx TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 A Revised Conceptual Model of the Firm‐level Entrepreneurial Process Patrick M. Kreiser Ohio University Justin Davis Ohio University 19 Business Incubators: Leveraging Skill Utilization Through Social Capital Semra F. Ascigail Middle East Technical University Nace R. Magner Western Kentucky University 35 How Data Integration Systems Affect Strategic Decision Making in Small Firms Benjamin Smith Oakland University Mark Simon Oakland University 53 Comparing Nascent Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs and Expectations of Firm Growth Charles H. Matthews University of Cincinnati Mark T. Schenkel Belmont University Matthew W. Ford Northern Kentucky University Sherrie E. Human Xavier University 81 Selecting a Legal Structure: Front-IF_v20n1_Proofed Front Cover - v20n1_Finalized.pdf Inside Front Cover_8-09 205051 Body.pdf JSBS-v20n1.pdf Table of Contents - v20n1_Finalized.pdf Editorial Review Boad_8-09 SBIOfficers FROM THE EDITOR- V20N1_Finalized Blank Page Kreiser_80504_Proofed Ascigil _80701_Proofed Simon _80801_Proofed Blank Page Matthews _80802_Proofed Hertz_81202_Proofed Blank Page Sonfield _81203_ - Proofed Submission Guidelines_8-09 Fall Journal - REVIEW DRAFT 109.pdf Submission Guidelines Back-IB_v20n1_Proofed Inside Back Cover_8-09.pdf BackCover_8-09 keywords: business; university cache: jsbs-121.pdf plain text: jsbs-121.txt item: #43 of 612 id: jsbs-1214 author: Pacheco, Luis title: Internationalization effects on financial performance: The case of Portuguese industrial SMEs date: 2019-10-30 words: 11193 flesch: 47 summary: Given the liabilities of foreignness, at low levels of international diversity firm performance is reduced, whereas at higher levels economies of scope and access to resources generate accrued gains to the firm, thus implying a U-shaped relation. To the best of our knowledge, this paper fulfills a gap in the literature since it employs a set of alternative measures of international activity to examine the relationship between internationalization and firm financial performance. keywords: assets; beamish; business; effects; export; firm; intensity; internationalization; journal; management; markets; performance; relationship; results; review; sales; smes; total; variables cache: jsbs-1214.pdf plain text: jsbs-1214.txt item: #44 of 612 id: jsbs-123 author: Bell, Joseph R. title: Disproportionate Distribution of Stock Owership Among Initial Founders in Startup Ventures: Survey Results and a Ranking of Factors date: 2009-05-21 words: 7837 flesch: 41 summary: Importance of Ownership: Internal Some research has taken place identifying ranges of ownership by founder position within a venture. Fall Journal Volume 20, Number 2 Fall/Winter 2009 1 DISPROPORTIONATE DISTRIBUTION OF STOCK OWNERSHIP AMONG INITIAL FOUNDERS IN STARTUP VENTURES: SURVEY RESULTS AND A RANKING OF FACTORS Joseph R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock jrbell@ualr.edu ABSTRACT To date little research has been performed as to how founders of startup ventures determine initial distribution of ownership. keywords: business; disproportionate; distribution; experience; factors; founders; journal; ownership; survey; team; venture cache: jsbs-123.pdf plain text: jsbs-123.txt item: #45 of 612 id: jsbs-124 author: Lussier, Robert N.; Sonfield, Matthew C.; Barbato, Robert J. title: Family-Member and Non-Family-Member Managers in Family Firms: Adding a Seventh Country to the International Database - Kosovo date: 2009-05-21 words: 5885 flesch: 48 summary: This model involves four factors which define the context for succession: family, business, personal and market. Focusing on societal trends rather than family firm generational issues, Cole (1997) found the number of women in family businesses increasing. keywords: business; family; firm; journal; kosovo; management; managers; nfm; research; review cache: jsbs-124.pdf plain text: jsbs-124.txt item: #46 of 612 id: jsbs-125 author: Droege, Scott B.; Marvel, Matthew R. title: Perceived Strategic Uncertainty and Strategy Formation in Emerging Markets date: 2009-05-21 words: 6238 flesch: 40 summary: Fall Journal Volume 20, Number 2 Fall/Winter 2009 43 PERCEIVED STRATEGIC UNCERTAINTY AND STRATEGY FORMATION IN EMERGING MARKETS Scott B. Droege Western Kentucky University scott.droege@wku.edu Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University matt.marvel@wku.edu ABSTRACT We investigate the relationships between perceived strategic uncertainty and strategy formation mode using a sample of 286 small and medium sized enterprises in the emerging markets of the Philippines, Vietnam, and China. Keywords: strategy, uncertainty, emerging markets INTRODUCTION keywords: emergent; firms; formation; journal; markets; mode; research; smes; strategy; uncertainty cache: jsbs-125.pdf plain text: jsbs-125.txt item: #47 of 612 id: jsbs-126 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 235 flesch: -7 summary: Microsoft Word - Front Cover - v20n1.docx TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 A Revised Conceptual Model of the Firm‐level Entrepreneurial Process Patrick M. Kreiser Ohio University Justin Davis Ohio University 19 Business Incubators: Leveraging Skill Utilization Through Social Capital Semra F. Ascigail Middle East Technical University Nace R. Magner Western Kentucky University 35 How Data Integration Systems Affect Strategic Decision Making in Small Firms Benjamin Smith Oakland University Mark Simon Oakland University 53 Comparing Nascent Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs and Expectations of Firm Growth Charles H. Matthews University of Cincinnati Mark T. Schenkel Belmont University Matthew W. Ford Northern Kentucky University Sherrie E. Human Xavier University 81 Selecting a Legal Structure: Front-IF_v20n1_Proofed Front Cover - v20n1_Finalized.pdf Inside Front Cover_8-09 205051 Body.pdf JSBS-v20n1.pdf Table of Contents - v20n1_Finalized.pdf Editorial Review Boad_8-09 SBIOfficers FROM THE EDITOR- V20N1_Finalized Blank Page Kreiser_80504_Proofed Ascigil _80701_Proofed Simon _80801_Proofed Blank Page Matthews _80802_Proofed Hertz_81202_Proofed Blank Page Sonfield _81203_ - Proofed Submission Guidelines_8-09 Fall Journal - REVIEW DRAFT 109.pdf Submission Guidelines Back-IB_v20n1_Proofed Inside Back Cover_8-09.pdf BackCover_8-09 keywords: business; university cache: jsbs-126.pdf plain text: jsbs-126.txt item: #48 of 612 id: jsbs-1267 author: Smith, Ronda Marie; Sardeshmukh, Shruti R.; Syed, Imran title: Building self-efficacy for entrepreneurial careers: New resource skill date: 2019-10-29 words: 10570 flesch: 48 summary: The studies thus highlighted the mediating role of entrepreneurial skills related to re- sources – new resource skill. Building self-efficacy for entrepreneurial careers: New resource skill Entrepreneurship education, New resource skill, Entrepreneurial self-efficacy, Proactive personality APA Citation Information: Smith, R. M., Sardeshmukh, S. R., & Syed, I. (2019). keywords: business; efficacy; entrepreneurship; journal; new; personality; research; resource; resource skill; self; skill; study cache: jsbs-1267.pdf plain text: jsbs-1267.txt item: #49 of 612 id: jsbs-127 author: Blair, Eden S.; Marcum, Tanya M.; Fry, Fred F. title: The Disproportionate Costs of Forming LLCs VS. Corporations: The Impact on Small Firm Liability Protection date: 2009-05-21 words: 7765 flesch: 56 summary: Next, we examine how these implications could impact how a small business owner chooses a particular form of business. Because of their longevity, the benefits as well as the problems of the corporate form of business are well known, and both state statutes and case law regarding corporations are well accepted in the legal profession (Blair, 2004). keywords: business; corporation; costs; fees; filing; llc; llcs; owners; state cache: jsbs-127.pdf plain text: jsbs-127.txt item: #50 of 612 id: jsbs-1271 author: none title: Credits date: 2018-11-08 words: 548 flesch: 31 summary: ©Copyright 2018 Small Business Institute® http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz www.jsbs.org Editors-In-Chief Dr. William C. McDowell Bradley University, United States Dr. Michael L. Harris East Carolina University, United States Special Issues Editor Dr. Domingo Ribeiro Universitat de València, Spain Senior Editor Dr. Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina Greensboro, United States Managing Editor Dr. Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University, United States Associate Editor Dr. Steven T. Walsh The University of New Mexico, United States Section Editors Dr. Joshua R. Aaron Middle Tennessee State University, United States Dr. J. Augusto Felício Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Dr. Raj V. Mahto The University of New Mexico, United States Dr. Maria I. Marshall Purdue University, United States Dr. Juan Piñeiro Santiago de Compostela University, Spain Editorial Assistant Cheryl A. Peck Journal of Small Business Strategy Editorial Review Board Dr. Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Dr. Dolores Botella Universidad Católica de Valencia Dr. Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Dr. Phillip E. Davis Texas State University Dr. Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Dr. Michael Goldsby Ball State University Dr. David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Dr. Jeffrey Hornsby University of Missouri Kansas City Dr. Jerry Kudlats Jacksonville University Dr. Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Dr. Robert Lussier Springfield College Dr. José Manuel Guaita Martínez Valencian International University Dr. Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Dr. Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Dr. Abbas Nadim University of New Haven Dr. John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Dr. Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Asheville Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio The Journal of Small Business Strategy is an applied research journal. keywords: business; united; university cache: jsbs-1271.pdf plain text: jsbs-1271.txt item: #51 of 612 id: jsbs-128 author: Galbraith, Craig S.; DeNoble, Alex F.; Ehrlich, Sanford B. title: The Use and Content of Formal Rating Systems in Angel Group Investment Initial Screening Stages date: 2009-05-21 words: 6605 flesch: 44 summary: Very little has been published about the screening and decision making process of smaller, and more typical Angel groups in the United States. While there have been many recent empirical examinations of the final investment and decision making process for both Angel and VC investors (e.g., Shepard and Zacharakis, 2002; Volume 20, Number 2 Fall/Winter 2009 73 Sudek, 2006, 2009), the complexity of the initial screening process has been largely ignored, a somewhat surprising phenomenon since the vast majority of business plans and proposals are screened out in these earlier stages. keywords: analysis; angel; business; groups; investment; journal; management; process; rating; scoring; screening cache: jsbs-128.pdf plain text: jsbs-128.txt item: #52 of 612 id: jsbs-1284 author: Pett, Timothy L.; Francis, John; Wolff, James A. title: The interplay of strategic orientations and their influence on SME performance date: 2019-10-29 words: 9686 flesch: 48 summary: EO and MO orientations are more behaviorally and action aligned. We argue that learning orientation reflects the overall values of the organization, whereas entrepreneurial and market orientations are more action-oriented firm behaviors. keywords: business; firm; journal; learning; market; organizational; orientation; performance; research cache: jsbs-1284.pdf plain text: jsbs-1284.txt item: #53 of 612 id: jsbs-129 author: Becherer, Richard C.; Helms, Marilyn M. title: The Value of Business Plans for New Ventures: Company and Entrepreneur Outcomes date: 2009-05-21 words: 6182 flesch: 49 summary: Because strategic planning is known to be important to businesses and to new ventures in particular, the business plan STRATEG Y JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS Journal of Small Business Strategy 82 is often intuitively linked with improved performance. Hannon and Atherton (1998) believe a closer inspection of the research suggests the benefits of a business plan are for actual planning within business rather than as a document for acquiring resources. keywords: business; journal; new; plan; relationship; start‐up; success; use cache: jsbs-129.pdf plain text: jsbs-129.txt item: #54 of 612 id: jsbs-1305 author: Maran, Thomas; Furtner, Marco; Kraus, Sascha; Liegl, Simon; Jones, Paul title: Entrepreneurial leadership: An experimental approach investigating the influence of eye contact on motivation date: 2019-10-29 words: 12114 flesch: 48 summary: In summary, it is clear that social influence is required for successful lead- ership (e.g. Côté & Hideg, 2011; Schultheiss & Brunstein, 2002; van Kleef, van Doorn, Heerdink, & Koning, 2011), and that nonverbal displays form crucial communicative skills for persuasion (Kopelman, Rosette, & Thompson, 2006; Overbeck, Neale, & Govan, 2010; van Kleef et al., 2015). Nonverbal communication, especially when conveyed through emotional expressions and social gaze, can lead to affective and inferential reactions, depending on the adequacy of the nonverbal signal (van Kleef, 2014; van Kleef et al., 2012, 2015). keywords: behavior; business; communication; contact; et al; eye; followers; gaze; https://doi; journal; leadership; performance; psychology; research; van cache: jsbs-1305.pdf plain text: jsbs-1305.txt item: #55 of 612 id: jsbs-131 author: Burpitt, Jr., William J.; Valle, Matthew title: Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in a Declining Industry: Antecedents to Firm Adaptation Strategy and Performance date: 2010-01-21 words: 7046 flesch: 45 summary: ANOVA results provided in Table 2 suggest that ambidextrous firms experienced more growth in revenue and profit over the three years leading up to the study than would exploitative or exploratory firms. Ambidextrous Firms 24 3.51 .93 Revenue Total Firms 94 2.92 .83 Exploitative Firms 39 2.38 .63 13.518 .000 Exploratory Firms 31 2.29 .74 Ambidextrous Firms 24 3.21 .78 Profit Total Firms 94 2.56 .80 ANOVA results provided in Table 3 also reveal that measures of the four antecedent variables (deftness, potency, communication and cooperation, and centralization) are higher (lower for centralization, which was reverse scored) in ambidextrous firms than in either exploitative or exploratory firms. keywords: adaptation; business; deftness; exploitation; firms; group; journal; management; performance; potency; strategy cache: jsbs-131.pdf plain text: jsbs-131.txt item: #56 of 612 id: jsbs-1315 author: Strom, Tiffany title: Authentic leadership and relational power increasing employee performance: A systematic review of “leadership and power” as a positive dyadic relationship date: 2020-11-19 words: 9567 flesch: 47 summary: Given the problem of employee performance in small The objective of this study was to explore the relationship of positive leadership and positive power on increasing employee performance in the context of small firms using authentic leadership and relational power as theoretical lenses. The relationship allows the manager to use positive power to execute operations (Chong et al., 2013) and empower employees. keywords: business; employee; engagement; et al; journal; leadership; management; manager; organization; performance; power; relationship; research; studies; study cache: jsbs-1315.pdf plain text: jsbs-1315.txt item: #57 of 612 id: jsbs-132 author: Fry, Fred title: Creating Entrepreneurs: Making Miracles Happen date: 2015-05-21 words: 941 flesch: 61 summary: Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 21, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2010 99 Book Review Creating Entrepreneurs: Making Miracles Happen Edited by Fred Kiesner Reviewed by Fred Fry Bradley University ffry@bradley.edu The answer is that it is a “Fred Kiesner book.” keywords: book; kiesner cache: jsbs-132.pdf plain text: jsbs-132.txt item: #58 of 612 id: jsbs-1322 author: Gao, Tao (Tony); McGinnis, Lee P. title: Building a Compelling Underdog Consumption Experience date: 2020-05-27 words: 10489 flesch: 43 summary: Our research approach specifically considers what makes underdog companies unique in the eyes of the target customers in relation to the competition (their top dog counterparts) and combine these perspectives into the design of an underdog marketing strategy. Underdog companies should seek to develop and demonstrate their toughness in persistent fight- ing despite facing numerous external disadvantages and attempt to create a unique, rewarding customer experience out of limited resources. keywords: affection; business; companies; company; consumers; consumption; customers; experience; journal; marketing; mcginnis; product; strategy; underdog; underdog affection; underdog companies cache: jsbs-1322.pdf plain text: jsbs-1322.txt item: #59 of 612 id: jsbs-133 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-21 words: 629 flesch: 23 summary: SS Editor Editor Ross L. Fink Bradley University Ross L. Fink Bradley University Associate Editors Associate Editors Paul Belliveau Rider University Paul Belliveau Rider University Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Editorial Assistants Editorial Assistants Heather Holland Bradley University Heather Holland Bradley University Editorial Review Board Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Kirk Heriot Columbus State University Kirk Heriot Columbus State University Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch University of Wisconsin – Parkside Cathleen (Folker) Leitch University of Wisconsin – Parkside Robert Lussier Springfield College Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Todd D. Mick Lindenwood University Todd D. Mick Lindenwood University John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Leo Simpson Seattle University Joe Singer University of Missouri – Kansas City Joe Singer University of Missouri – Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne H.B. Welsh The University of North Carolina at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Book Review Editor Book Review Editor Michael Goldsby Ball State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-133.pdf plain text: jsbs-133.txt item: #60 of 612 id: jsbs-1332 author: Marom, Shaike; Lussier, Robert N; Sonfield, Matthew title: Entrepreneurial strategy: The relationship between firm size and levels of innovation and risk in small businesses date: 2019-10-29 words: 8765 flesch: 52 summary: o rg Introduction Shaike Marom1, Robert N. Lussier2, Matthew Sonfield3 1Hiram College, USA, shaike.marom@gmail.com 2Springfield College, USA, rlussier@springfield.edu 3Hofstra University, USA, Matthew.C.Sonfield@hofstra.edu Entrepreneurial strategy: The relationship between firm size and levels of innovation and risk in small businesses Entrepreneurial strategy matrix, Entrepreneurial strategy, Strategy, Entrepreneurial orientation, Firm size, Risk, Innovation APA Citation Information: Maron, S., Lussier, R. N., Sonfield, M. (2019). An important contribution of this research is that it identified an impact of firm size within the sector of small businesses, while most previous research considered the full spectrum of firm sizes – small, medium and large companies (Camisón-Zornoza et al., 2004). keywords: business; firm; innovation; journal; management; orientation; relationship; research; risk; size; strategy cache: jsbs-1332.pdf plain text: jsbs-1332.txt item: #61 of 612 id: jsbs-134 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-21 words: 833 flesch: 55 summary: The fifth article by Park, Lee, Yi, and Chinta examine the manifestation of cross-cultural differences in project management practices in small firms. Also disadvantaged firms received higher dollar awards than general small businesses. keywords: book; issue; jsbs cache: jsbs-134.pdf plain text: jsbs-134.txt item: #62 of 612 id: jsbs-135 author: Park, Daewoo; Chinta, Ravi; Lee, Mina; Yi, David title: New Product Development Project Management: Differences Between Korean and U.S. Small Business Executives date: 2010-01-21 words: 5542 flesch: 46 summary: According to Shenhar and Dvir (2007), factors such as compression of the product life cycle, global competition, knowledge explosion, corporate downsizing, and increased customer focus have contributed to a recognition of the importance of project management. In an attempt to explain the factors affecting project management practices and performance outcomes, recent research has focused on one important domain of project management: management effects (i.e., the “people” side of project management) (Cooke-Davies, 2002; Kloppenborg, et al., 2003). keywords: business; criteria; differences; firms; journal; korean; management; new; project; project management; u.s cache: jsbs-135.pdf plain text: jsbs-135.txt item: #63 of 612 id: jsbs-1354 author: Bartlett, David; Mroczkowski, Tomasz title: Emerging market startups engage Silicon Valley: Cases from Central and Eastern Europe date: 2019-04-03 words: 9025 flesch: 33 summary: The Polish Silicon Bridge is distinctive among programs designed to strengthen the global competitiveness of early stage emerging market companies. Conclusions For emerging market companies, international bridge organizations offer a different value proposition than con- ventional business incubators and business accelerators. keywords: bridge; business; companies; development; foreign; global; growth; innovation; international; journal; market; new; poland; polish; silicon; silicon bridge; silicon valley; startups; strategy; technology; valley cache: jsbs-1354.pdf plain text: jsbs-1354.txt item: #64 of 612 id: jsbs-1355 author: del Olmo-García, Francisco; Crecente-Romero, Fernando; del Val-Núñez, Maria Teresa title: Dynamic analysis of business demography strategy: An European perspective date: 2019-04-08 words: 9081 flesch: 56 summary: -2% Italy 2,737,144 2,432,989 100% 89% 112.38 97.33 -13% Cyprus 21,197 17,804 100% 84% 54.91 43.11 -21% Germany 1,599,010 1,322,461 100% 83% 38.97 32.16 -17% Portugal 620,178 510,096 100% 82% 119.20 103.07 % Cyprus 33,982 28,072 100% 83% 88.04 67.97 -23% Table 2 Self-employed persons and micro enterprises population (2008–2015) keywords: business; countries; crisis; data; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; eurozone; failure; firms; number; rate; sector; self cache: jsbs-1355.pdf plain text: jsbs-1355.txt item: #65 of 612 id: jsbs-1356 author: Jyh-Fu Jeng, Don; Hung, Ta Huy title: Comeback of the failed entrepreneur: An integrated view of costs, learning, and residual resources associated with entrepreneurial failure date: 2019-04-08 words: 6982 flesch: 49 summary: Other costs caused by business failures have Introduction Don Jyh-Fu Jeng1, Ta Huy Hung2 1National Chengchi University, Taiwan, jeng@nccu.edu.tw 2Thuongmai University, Vietnam, hungth@tmu.edu.vn Comeback of the failed entrepreneur: An integrated view of costs, learning, and residual resources associated with entrepreneurial failure Failed entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial failure costs, Learning from entrepreneurial failure, Entrepreneurial resource, Venture restart intention Although failure can be financially, socially, and psychologically costly, it can promote future entrepreneurial success. Comeback of the failed entrepreneur: An integrated view of costs, learning, and residual resources associated with entrepreneurial failure. keywords: business; business failure; costs; entrepreneurs; failure; journal; learning; new; shepherd; social cache: jsbs-1356.pdf plain text: jsbs-1356.txt item: #66 of 612 id: jsbs-1357 author: Hensel, Rainer; Visser, Ronald title: Explaining effective team vision development in small, entrepreneurial teams: A shared mental models approach date: 2019-04-08 words: 8905 flesch: 46 summary: Although the SMM framework seems helpful in understanding how entrepreneurial teams transform available resources (e.g. human and social capital) into shared team visions and business models, surprisingly few empirical studies have been conduct- ed in the context of entrepreneurship. The influence of shared mental models on team process and per- formance. keywords: business; conflict; creation; journal; knowledge; process; quality; smm; strength; team; team vision; vision cache: jsbs-1357.pdf plain text: jsbs-1357.txt item: #67 of 612 id: jsbs-1358 author: Žebrytė, Ieva; Fonseca-Vasquez, Francisca; Hartley, Ricardo title: Emerging economy entrepreneurs and open data: Decision-making for natural disaster resilience date: 2019-04-03 words: 8182 flesch: 42 summary: Greater awareness of how future economies are both ‘atom-enabled’ (landscape and other tourism resources) and ‘bit-dependent’ (digitalization of tourism) would benefit tourism entrepreneurs facing natural disaster-induced business disruptions by enabling timely and more appropriate responses. Tourism entrepreneurs at tourist destinations threatened by natural disasters must make complex business decisions. keywords: business; chile; data; decision; destination; disaster; economy; entrepreneurs; information; journal; making; management; natural; research; resilience; study; tourism; tourism entrepreneurs cache: jsbs-1358.pdf plain text: jsbs-1358.txt item: #68 of 612 id: jsbs-136 author: Voelker, Troy A.; McDowell, William C. title: Performance of Historically Underrepresented Firms in the Public-Private Sector date: 2010-01-21 words: 8410 flesch: 49 summary: Small businesses have been recognized as being uniquely suited for partnerships with other organizations due to many advantages such as a simple organizational structure, a focus on growth and continuity, flexibility, and central decision making (Gelinas & Bigras, 2004). While many federal contracts go to large, publicly-traded firms, small businesses are well represented. keywords: awards; business; categories; contracts; firms; journal; naics; performance; research; sbir; sdb; small; women cache: jsbs-136.pdf plain text: jsbs-136.txt item: #69 of 612 id: jsbs-1362 author: Peck, Cheryl title: Credits date: 2019-04-08 words: 549 flesch: 30 summary: ©Copyright 2019 Small Business Institute® http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz www.jsbs.org Editors-In-Chief Dr. William C. McDowell Bradley University, United States Dr. Michael L. Harris East Carolina University, United States Special Issues Editor Dr. Domingo Ribeiro Universitat de València, Spain Senior Editor Dr. Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina Greensboro, United States Managing Editor Dr. Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University, United States Associate Editor Dr. Steven T. Walsh The University of New Mexico, United States Section Editors Dr. Joshua R. Aaron Middle Tennessee State University, United States Dr. J. Augusto Felício Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Dr. Raj V. Mahto The University of New Mexico, United States Dr. Maria I. Marshall Purdue University, United States Dr. Juan Piñeiro Santiago de Compostela University, Spain Editorial Assistant Cheryl A. Peck Journal of Small Business Strategy Editorial Review Board Dr. Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Dr. Dolores Botella Universidad Católica de Valencia Dr. Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Dr. Phillip E. Davis Texas State University Dr. Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Dr. Michael Goldsby Ball State University Dr. David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Dr. Jeffrey Hornsby University of Missouri Kansas City Dr. Jerry Kudlats Jacksonville University Dr. Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Dr. Robert Lussier Springfield College Dr. José Manuel Guaita Martínez Valencian International University Dr. Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Dr. Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Dr. Abbas Nadim University of New Haven Dr. John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Dr. Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Asheville Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz The Journal of Small Business Strategy is an applied research journal. keywords: business; united; university cache: jsbs-1362.pdf plain text: jsbs-1362.txt item: #70 of 612 id: jsbs-137 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 185 flesch: 14 summary: S TRATEG Y JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in a Declining Industry: Antecedents to Firm Adaptation Strategy and Performance William J. Burpitt, Jr. Elon University Matthew Valle Elon University 18 Performance of Historically Underrepresented Firms in the Public-Private Sector Troy A. Voelker University of Houston Clear Lake William C. McDowell East Carolina University 39 M. Alix Valenti University of Houston Clear Lake Clifton O. Mayfield University of Houston Clear Lake Rebecca A. Luce Xavier University 83 New Product Development Project Management: Differences Between Korean and U.S. Small Business Executives Daewoo Park Xavier University Ravi Chinta Xavier University Mina Lee Xavier University David Yi Xavier University 99 Book Review: Creating Entrepreneurs: Making Miracles Happen Edited by Fred Kiesner Reviewed by: Fred Fry Bradley University Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. keywords: university; xavier cache: jsbs-137.pdf plain text: jsbs-137.txt item: #71 of 612 id: jsbs-138 author: Cieslik, Jerzy; Kaciak, Eugene; Welsh, Dianne H.B. title: The Effect of Early Internationalization on Survival Consistency, and Growqth of Export Sales date: 2010-01-21 words: 9147 flesch: 44 summary: Reaching this minimum threshold in the initial phase of export development indicates strong commitment to export growth. To remedy such unfavorable outcomes, entrepreneurs and managers should plan carefully not only initial entry on export markets, but also subsequent phases of export growth. keywords: analysis; business; entrepreneurship; export; export sales; exporters; firms; growth; high; internationalization; journal; sales; spring; strategy; surviving; time; years cache: jsbs-138.pdf plain text: jsbs-138.txt item: #72 of 612 id: jsbs-1387 author: Irwin, Kristin C; Gilstrap, Collin M; Drnevich, Paul L; Tudor, Chance M title: From start-up to acquisition: Implications of financial investment trends for small- to medium-sized high-tech enterprises date: 2019-06-27 words: 12795 flesch: 38 summary: INVESTMENT is the total amount invested by venture firms reported in thou- sands. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 29(2), 22-43. http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz http://www.jsbs.org 23 K. C. Irwin, C. M. Gilstrap, P. L. Drnevich, & C. M. Tudor Journal of Small Business Strategy / Vol. 29, No. 2 (2019) / 22-43 organizations (Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, 2016). keywords: acquisition; business; c. m.; capital; firms; growth; https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveandriole/2017/05/25/there-will-be-20-technology-companies-in-2030-10-in-2050-and-then-there-will-be-none/; industry; investment; journal; management; resources; smtes; strategy; tech; venture cache: jsbs-1387.pdf plain text: jsbs-1387.txt item: #73 of 612 id: jsbs-1388 author: Posylnaya, Valeriya V; Cline, Brandon N; Aaron, Joshua R title: The liquidity impact of insider trading on small and medium size enterprises date: 2019-06-27 words: 6732 flesch: 58 summary: Insider trading can also serve as an effective way to incentivize and reward managers for increasing stock price, allowing them to profit from trading as they create information that improves firm value (Bainbridge, 2000). On the other hand, insider trading can impose costs upon the firm and its shareholders by decreasing the price liquidity of its equity in the open market (Bainbridge, 2000; Fischel & Carlton, 1982). keywords: ask; bid; firms; information; insiders; journal; liquidity; market; price; spread; trades; trading cache: jsbs-1388.pdf plain text: jsbs-1388.txt item: #74 of 612 id: jsbs-1389 author: Peake, Whitney O; Barber III, Dennis; McMilan, Amy; Bolton, Dawn L; Coder, Leanne title: Do management control systems stifle innovation in small firms? A mediation approach date: 2019-06-27 words: 13115 flesch: 48 summary: Radical innovation addresses innovations that dis- rupt the firm and its products and services (Dewar & Dutton, 1986; Meyers & Tucker, 1989; Subramaniam & Youndt, 2005), with the following items: innovations that make your prevailing product/service lines obso- lete, innovations that fundamentally change your pre- vailing products/services, and innovations that make your existing expertise in prevailing products/services obsolete. Small Business Context Although there is much research on innovation and small businesses, there is a noticeable gap specifi- cally examining variance in incremental versus radical innovation among small businesses as well as the ef- fect of control systems on small business innovation. keywords: business; control; firm; ieo; incremental; innovation; innovation level; journal; level; management; mcs; performance; relationship; research; strategy; systems cache: jsbs-1389.pdf plain text: jsbs-1389.txt item: #75 of 612 id: jsbs-139 author: Valenti, M. Alix; Mayfield, Clifton O.; Luce, Rebecca A. title: What Attracts Directors to Boards of Small-and Mid-Sized Companies date: 2010-01-21 words: 7007 flesch: 56 summary: After controlling for baseline performance, a change in performance explained an additional 11% of the variance in outside board members, with a total variance of 21% (p < .05). Resource dependence theory explains the importance of outside directors on corporate boards, especially for small- and mid-sized companies. keywords: board; business; ceo; companies; directors; firm; journal; management; members; number; performance; power cache: jsbs-139.pdf plain text: jsbs-139.txt item: #76 of 612 id: jsbs-1390 author: Scarlata, Audrey N; Garven, Sarah; Vagner, Brandon; Bahmanziari, Tammy title: Internal audit outsourcing in small organizations: An exploratory study date: 2019-06-27 words: 7641 flesch: 42 summary: Sarah.Garven@mtsu.edu 3Middle Tennessee State University, USA, Brandon.Vagner@mtsu.edu 4Middle Tennessee State University, USA, Tammy.Bahmanziari@mtsu.edu Internal audit outsourcing in small organizations: An exploratory study Outsourcing, CBOK, Internal audit, Small business Few papers have studied internal audit outsourcing in general, and significantly fewer have limited their analysis to small organizations. Internal audit outsourcing in small organiza- tions: An exploratory study. keywords: activities; audit; audit activities; audit committee; audit outsourcing; committee; journal; organizations; outsource; outsourcing; small cache: jsbs-1390.pdf plain text: jsbs-1390.txt item: #77 of 612 id: jsbs-1391 author: Dunne, Timothy C.; McBrayer, Garrett A. title: In the interest of small business’ cost of debt: A matter of CSR disclosure date: 2019-06-27 words: 7433 flesch: 54 summary: Studies exploring the impact of ESG disclosure on various facets of corporate financial performance suggest that corporate ESG disclosure is one such type of value-relevant, voluntary disclo- sure (Orlitzky, Schmidt, & Rynes, 2003; Al-Tuwaijri, Christensen, & Hughes, 2004; Dhaliwal et al., 2011; Reverte, 2012; Kaymak & Bektas, 2017; Arrive & Feng, 2018; Egginton & McBrayer, 2019). These results contribute to the entrepreneurial finance literature, and agency costs for small businesses, by showing a direct relationship between ESG information disclosure and the cost of debt. keywords: bloomberg; business; costs; debt; disclosure; esg; esg disclosure; firms; information; interest; journal; score cache: jsbs-1391.pdf plain text: jsbs-1391.txt item: #78 of 612 id: jsbs-1393 author: El Hanchi, Samia; Kerzazi, Lamia title: Startup innovation capability from a dynamic capability-based view: A literature review and conceptual framework date: 2020-05-27 words: 11981 flesch: 36 summary: Startup innovation capability from a dynamic capability-based view: A litera- ture review and conceptual framework. But while startup innovation capability (IC) definitions and components are often implicitly addressed in different re- search fields, IC is barely identifiable as a distinct construct (Lawson & Samson, 2001). keywords: business; capabilities; capability; development; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; et al; firms; innovation; innovation capability; journal; knowledge; management; new; research; resources; review; small; startup; strategy cache: jsbs-1393.pdf plain text: jsbs-1393.txt item: #79 of 612 id: jsbs-140 author: Madireddy, Jayaram title: A Perceived Role of Offshore Outsourcing Strategy in Achieving Success of Technology Start-Ups date: 2010-05-21 words: 8788 flesch: 52 summary: These aspects include examination of (a) the perceived effect of offshore outsourcing strategies on success of technology start-ups; (b) how to achieve success of offshore outsourcing by overcoming the challenges and risks involved in offshore outsourcing strategy by technology start-ups; and (c) the perceived effect of alternate solution for offshore outsourcing such as setting-up an overseas design center or branch on the success of technology start-ups. To achieve a thorough understanding of the effect of offshore outsourcing on the success of technology start-ups and to discover the effect of alternate solutions such as setting- up a design center or branch in overseas on success of technology start-ups, the current study included the use of the following research questions: R1: How do entrepreneurs and organizational leaders perceive the role of offshore outsourcing strategies, regarding the success of start-ups? keywords: business; center; design; journal; outsourcing; outsourcing strategy; participants; setting; start; strategy; success; technology; ups cache: jsbs-140.pdf plain text: jsbs-140.txt item: #80 of 612 id: jsbs-141 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-21 words: 738 flesch: 24 summary: STRATEGY JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS Editors Ross L. Fink Bradley University ty Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Associate Editors Associate Editors Paul Belliveau Rider University Paul Belliveau Rider University Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Editorial Assistants Editorial Assistants Rebecca Nunes Bradley University Rebecca Nunes Bradley University Editorial Review Board Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Kirk Heriot Columbus State University Kirk Heriot Columbus State University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch University of Wisconsin – Parkside Cathleen (Folker) Leitch University of Wisconsin – Parkside Robert Lussier Springfield College Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Todd D. Mick Lindenwood University Todd D. Mick Lindenwood University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Leo Simpson Seattle University Joe Singer University of Missouri – Kansas City Joe Singer University of Missouri – Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne H.B. Dianne H.B. Welsh The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Welsh The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-141.pdf plain text: jsbs-141.txt item: #81 of 612 id: jsbs-142 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-21 words: 619 flesch: 48 summary: Most strategy research is based on empirical work in large firms. This presents a great opportunity for extending existing strategy and entrepreneurship research into small and/or new firms. keywords: research; strategy cache: jsbs-142.pdf plain text: jsbs-142.txt item: #82 of 612 id: jsbs-144 author: Lumpkin, G. T.; McKelvie, Alexander; Gras, David M.; Nason, Robert S. title: Is Strategy Different for Very Small and New Firms? date: 2010-05-21 words: 12296 flesch: 50 summary: Lack of financial and human resources, as well as the ability to access such resources is a common plight among small firms. Small firms may also find it difficult to achieve economies of scale or gain recognition as a significant player relative to larger firms. keywords: analysis; business; business strategy; firms; journal; lack; management; microenterprises; new; newness; number; processes; research; resources; small; smallness; strategies; strategy; ventures cache: jsbs-144.pdf plain text: jsbs-144.txt item: #83 of 612 id: jsbs-145 author: Nadim, Abbas; Lussier, Robert N. title: Sustainability as a Small Business Competitive Strategy date: 2010-05-21 words: 7333 flesch: 39 summary: Keywords: small business, community, sustainability, sustainable strategic management (SSM) INTRODUCTION Cohen and Winn (2005) found the entrepreneurship literature on sustainability to be rather thin, and the changes achieved today are only incremental. Our literature search for “small business and sustainability” and “entrepreneurship and sustainability” resulted in hundreds of matches. keywords: business; community; development; entrepreneurship; green; journal; management; need; research; small; strategies; strategy; success; sustainability cache: jsbs-145.pdf plain text: jsbs-145.txt item: #84 of 612 id: jsbs-146 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 150 flesch: 14 summary: G.T. Lumpkin Syracuse University Alexander McKelvie Syracuse University David M. Gras Syracuse University Robert S. Nason Syracuse University 27 The Moderating Effect of Family-Ownership on Firm Performance: An Examination of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Social Capital Jeffrey M. Campbell University of South Carolina Nathan Line University of South Carolina Rodney C. Runyan University of Tennessee, Knoxville Jane L. Swinney Oklahoma State University 47 The Influence of Strategic Focus & Gender on Performance Shanan G. Gibson East Carolina University 59 A Perceived Role of Offshore Outsourcing Strategy in Achieving Success of Technology Start-Ups Jayaram Madireddy Colorado Technical University 79 Small Business, Community Relations and Sustainability: New Approaches to Success Abbas Nadim University of New Haven Robert N. Lussier Springfield College Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. keywords: syracuse; university cache: jsbs-146.pdf plain text: jsbs-146.txt item: #85 of 612 id: jsbs-147 author: Gibson, Shanan G. title: The Influence of Strategic Focus & Gender on Performance: An Examination of Small Businesses date: 2010-05-21 words: 4667 flesch: 47 summary: S THE INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC FOCUS & GENDER ON PERFORMANCE: AN EXAMINATION OF SMALL BUSINESSES Shanan G. Gibson East Carolina University gibsons@ecu.edu ABSTRACT This study examines the extent to which strategic focus (internal versus external) and the gender of small business owners are predictive of perceived organizational performance. Keywords: strategic focus, gender, perceived performance INTRODUCTION Gender differences in the managerial practices of small business owners have been postulated as a major factor in the success or failure of these businesses. keywords: business; focus; gender; journal; management; owners; performance; resources; strategy; women cache: jsbs-147.pdf plain text: jsbs-147.txt item: #86 of 612 id: jsbs-1471 author: Santoso, Adhi Setyo; Prijadi, Ruslan; Balqiah, Tengku Ezni title: How open innovation strategy and effectuation within platform ecosystem can foster innovation performance: Evidence from digital multi-sided platform startups date: 2020-11-19 words: 19233 flesch: 49 summary: In line with the digital platform eco- system perspective, Hsieh and Wu (2019) created the cat- egorization based on digital MSP functionality, including transaction platform, innovation platform, and combination of transaction and innovation platform. The majority process of platform innovation is driv- en by the platform ecosystem members, either end-user cus- tomers, supplier-side of the platform, or supporting partner firms. keywords: agents; business; business model; communities; digital; effectuation; entrepreneurship; firms; innovation; innovation process; innovation strategy; journal; management; model; msp; msp startups; new; performance; platform; platform ecosystem; process; research; startups; study; users cache: jsbs-1471.pdf plain text: jsbs-1471.txt item: #87 of 612 id: jsbs-148 author: Campbell, JEffery M.; Line, Nathan; Runyan, Rodney C.; Swinney, Jane L. title: The Moderating Effect of Family-Ownership on Firm Performance: An Examination of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Social Capital date: 2010-05-21 words: 8455 flesch: 47 summary: Small firms, social capital and the enhancement of business performance through innovation programmes, Small Business Economics, 13(3), 219-234. Covin, J.G., & Slevin, D.P. (1989). Strategic management of family businesses: Current findings and directions for future research. keywords: business; capital; family; firm; journal; management; model; orientation; performance; relationship; research; social cache: jsbs-148.pdf plain text: jsbs-148.txt item: #88 of 612 id: jsbs-149 author: Welsh, Dianne H.B.; Davis, Amy E.; Desplaces, David E.; Falbe, Cecilia McHugh title: A Resource-Based View of Three Forms of Business in the Startup Phase: Implications for Franchising date: 2011-01-21 words: 8448 flesch: 47 summary: The analysis demonstrated that the average industry experience of the team of owners was significant for new independent (B = .10, p < .001) and purchased (B = .07, p < .05) businesses over franchise businesses. Purchased independent businesses share two attractive qualities with new independent businesses. keywords: business; capital; entrepreneurs; experience; forms; franchise; franchising; industry; journal; new; number; owners; research; strategy cache: jsbs-149.pdf plain text: jsbs-149.txt item: #89 of 612 id: jsbs-150 author: Shaver, Kelly G.; Davis, Amy E.; Kindy, Mark S. title: Approaching the PSED: "Some Assembly Required" date: 2011-01-21 words: 6292 flesch: 65 summary: This article presents code (both SPSS and STATA) that can be used to check on the inclusion criteria, to renormalize weights for subgroup analysis, and to combine the data for PSED I with those for PSED II. INTRODUCTION The two Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, PSED I and PSED II, provide entrepreneurship researchers with an extremely valuable resource for examining the process of creating a new business venture. keywords: autonsu4; business; code; data; dataset; number; psed; respondents; spss; weights cache: jsbs-150.pdf plain text: jsbs-150.txt item: #90 of 612 id: jsbs-151 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-21 words: 737 flesch: 27 summary: S TRATEGS TRATEG Y JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS Editors Ross L. Fink Bradley University ty Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Associate Editors Associate Editors Paul Belliveau Rider University Paul Belliveau Rider University Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Editorial Assistants Editorial Assistants Rebecca Nunes Bradley University Rebecca Nunes Bradley University Editorial Review Board Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-151.pdf plain text: jsbs-151.txt item: #91 of 612 id: jsbs-152 author: Malewicki, Debra S.; Leitch, Cathleen A. (Folker) title: Female & Male Entrepreneurs' Perceived Value of Formal Networks: Are There Differences? date: 2011-05-21 words: 9032 flesch: 49 summary: Women entrepreneurs are a rapidly growing sector of entrepreneurship worldwide (Minniti, Arenius, & Langowitz, 2005). Women Entrepreneurs and Multi- Dimensional Network Value keywords: business; eno; enos; entrepreneurs; gender; growth; items; journal; networking; networks; number; organization; research; small; strategy; study; value; volume; women; women entrepreneurs cache: jsbs-152.pdf plain text: jsbs-152.txt item: #92 of 612 id: jsbs-153 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-21 words: 478 flesch: 52 summary: Their findings show that the public assistance program produced a direct positive effect on small business performance. (See Memorium preceeding article.) keywords: article; issue cache: jsbs-153.pdf plain text: jsbs-153.txt item: #93 of 612 id: jsbs-154 author: Editor, JSBS title: In Memorium: A Personal Note date: 2015-05-21 words: 338 flesch: 54 summary: IN MEMORIUM: A PERSONAL NOTE It is with a deep sense of sadness that I write these words in tribute to Dr. Debra Malewicki. We already miss Dr. Debra Malewicki, but we know that our world is better because she made a difference. keywords: ph.d cache: jsbs-154.pdf plain text: jsbs-154.txt item: #94 of 612 id: jsbs-1541 author: Kasiri, Narges; Movassaghi, Hormoz; Lamoureux, Sarah title: Sustainability engagement or not? U.S. SMEs approach date: 2020-11-19 words: 11092 flesch: 41 summary: Alvarez Jaramillo et al. (2019) analyzed the top 46 most influential studies on SMEs sustainability and reported 60% of those studies focused on Europe while none had been conduct- ed in the U.S. Researchers mainly identified categories and terms by reviewing the terminology used in prior research regarding business sustainability (Robin- son & Stubberud, 2013; Wiesner et al., 2017). keywords: adoption; barriers; business; drivers; environmental; impact; journal; managers; new; practices; small; smes; solutions; study; sustainability; u.s cache: jsbs-1541.pdf plain text: jsbs-1541.txt item: #95 of 612 id: jsbs-1543 author: Rosin, Anna Frieda; Proksch, Dorian; Stubner, Stephan; Pinkwart, Andreas title: Digital new ventures: Assessing the benefits of digitalization in entrepreneurship date: 2020-05-27 words: 9067 flesch: 46 summary: o rg Introduction 1HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany, frieda.rosin@hhl.de 2HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany, dorian.proksch@hhl.de 3HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany, stephan.stubner@hhl.de 4HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany, pinkwart@hhl.de Digital new ventures: Assessing the benefits of digitalization in entrepreneurship Digitalization, Entrepreneurship, New ventures, Resource savings, Operational efficiency, Flexibility APA Citation Information: Rosin, A., F., Proksch, D., Stubner, S., & Pinkwart, A. (2020). This is especially the case as we aimed to have a high share of digital new ventures in our dataset. keywords: benefits; business; degree; digitalization; entrepreneurship; et al; group; journal; new; research; savings; ventures cache: jsbs-1543.pdf plain text: jsbs-1543.txt item: #96 of 612 id: jsbs-155 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 211 flesch: 27 summary: When It’s Right to be “Wrong”: The Effects of Overconfidence and Planning on Product Performance in a Dynamic Environment Mark Simon Oakland University John Kim Oakland University S TRATEG Y JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS Susan M. Houghton North Carolina A&T State University Xiaodong Deng Oakland University 47 A Resource-Based View of Three Forms of Businesses in the Startup Phase: Implications for Franchising Dianne H.B. Welsh The Impact of Public Assistance Programs on Small Businesses: Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship, Resources Usage, and Market Orientation as Mediating Variables Rami Schayek Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Dov Dvir Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 99 Distinguished Research Commentary: Approaching the PSED: “Some Assembly Required” Kelly G. Shaver College of Charleston Amy E. Davis College of Charleston Mark S. Kindy Medical University of South Carolina Carrie A. Blair College of Charleston Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. keywords: charleston; university cache: jsbs-155.pdf plain text: jsbs-155.txt item: #97 of 612 id: jsbs-1550 author: Cowden, Birton J.; Bendickson, Joshua S.; Bungcayao, Jerrica; Womack, Simona title: Unicorns and agency theory: Agreeable moral hazard? date: 2020-05-27 words: 6901 flesch: 56 summary: Hence we argue that there is a level of agreed upon moral hazard, or agreeable moral hazard occurring in unicorns for goal con- gruence of disruption to continue. Not only does the concept of agreeable moral hazard provide theoretical im- plications for future research, but it also highlights the need for more research to test existing theory on the unicorn population. keywords: agency; agent; business; disruption; hazard; investors; journal; market; risk; strategy; theory; unicorns; venture cache: jsbs-1550.pdf plain text: jsbs-1550.txt item: #98 of 612 id: jsbs-156 author: Schayek, Rami; Dvir, Dov title: The Impact of Public Assistance Programs on Small Businesses: Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship Resources Usage, and Market Orientation as Mediating Variables date: 2011-01-21 words: 12375 flesch: 49 summary: Findings show that public assistance programs have a significant direct positive effect on small businesses performance. We have therefore defined the structure of small business performance to include financial and operational measures, while using both subjective and objective measurements (see Appendix C). keywords: assistance; business; effect; firm; journal; management; market; orientation; performance; planning; program; public; research; resources; strategy; time cache: jsbs-156.pdf plain text: jsbs-156.txt item: #99 of 612 id: jsbs-157 author: Simon, Mark; Kim, John; Houghton, Susan M.; Deng, Xiaodong title: When It's Right to be "Wrong": The Effects of Overconfidence and Planning on Product Performance in a Dynamic Environment date: 2011-01-21 words: 10973 flesch: 49 summary: This, however, brings us to the second reason why we believe planning is negatively correlated with product performance in dynamic environments. LISREL allows us to test the hypothesized relationships by examining the paths among overconfidence, planning, and product performance. keywords: business; dynamic; environments; information; journal; management; managers; model; number; overconfidence; performance; planning; product; product performance; research; strategy; study cache: jsbs-157.pdf plain text: jsbs-157.txt item: #100 of 612 id: jsbs-158 author: Craig, Jane S.; Mandel, Stanley W.; Stewart, Alex title: Dilettante, Venturesome, Troy, and Crafts: Drivers of Performance among Taxonomic Groups date: 2011-05-21 words: 10779 flesch: 53 summary: 1 DILETTANTE, VENTURESOME, TORY, AND CRAFTS: DRIVERS OF PERFORMANCE AMONG TAXONOMIC GROUPS 1 Jane S. Craig University of Texas at Austin jcraig@mail.utexas.edu Stanley W. Mandel Wake Forest University mandelsw@wfu.edu Alex Stewart2 Marquette University alex.stewart@marquette.edu ABSTRACT Empirical research has failed to cumulate into a coherent taxonomy of small firms. Keywords: Taxonomy, small firms, performance, research method, apparel manufacturers 1 An earlier version of this study was presented at the national Academy of Management meetings. keywords: business; cluster; conformity; entrepreneurship; firms; journal; management; mckelvey; performance; purpose; research; sample; strategy; taxonomic; taxonomy; variables cache: jsbs-158.pdf plain text: jsbs-158.txt item: #101 of 612 id: jsbs-1580 author: Peake, Whitney Oliver; Yates, Mariah; Barber, Dennis; McMillan, Amy title: Do entrepreneurs do good deeds to maximize wins or avoid losses? A regulatory focus perspective date: 2020-11-19 words: 9568 flesch: 49 summary: Given these challenges to expanding our knowledge of small business social responsibility, we examine how the motivation orientation of small business owners translates to engagement in social responsibility for the small business with regards to societal, employee, and customer oriented social responsibility. This is echoed in the studies of small business social responsibility that highlight the role of enlightened self-interest in more societal-oriented social responsibility (Peake et al., 2015; Peake et al., 2017). keywords: business; csr; employees; engagement; et al; firm; focus; journal; prevention; promotion; responsibility; smes; theory cache: jsbs-1580.pdf plain text: jsbs-1580.txt item: #102 of 612 id: jsbs-159 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-21 words: 378 flesch: 26 summary: Editor Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Associate Editors Paul Belliveau Rider University Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Editorial Assistants Rebecca Nunes Bradley University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Todd D. Mick Lindenwood University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Joe Singer University of Missouri – Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne H.B. Welsh The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. keywords: business; college; state; university cache: jsbs-159.pdf plain text: jsbs-159.txt item: #103 of 612 id: jsbs-1590 author: Galli-Debicella, Alexandra title: The efficacy of SBA loans on small firm survival rates date: 2020-05-27 words: 6777 flesch: 57 summary: Small firms have an extremely high rate of failure— the average rate of survival for new firms is only two years and only 44% survive at least four years (Headd, 2003; Knaup, 2005; Sonfield, 2007). The U.S. federal government established the SBA to provide capital to small firms that otherwise could not ob- tain it (Craig et al., 2009). keywords: business; capital; firms; journal; loans; rates; sba; small; survival; women cache: jsbs-1590.pdf plain text: jsbs-1590.txt item: #104 of 612 id: jsbs-160 author: Zane, Lee J.; Masterfano, Michele K. title: Effect of Participation in Business Membership Organizations on the Size and Occupational Diversity of Entrepreneurs' Core Business Discussion Network date: 2011-05-21 words: 8631 flesch: 47 summary: In contrast, for females (although keeping in mind that the number of females in this sample not joining business member organizations is small), joining business membership organizations was not significantly related to any of our measures (see Table 6). The data show that the mean count of the number of business contacts in the CBDN is larger for those who belong to business membership organizations (see Table 4). keywords: business; business membership; business owners; cbdn; contacts; entrepreneurs; journal; membership; network; number; organizations; owners; size cache: jsbs-160.pdf plain text: jsbs-160.txt item: #105 of 612 id: jsbs-161 author: Harris, Michael L.; Gibson, Shanan G.; McDowell, William C.; Simpson, Leo R. title: Organizational Efficacy of Small and Medium-Sized Suppliers: The Role of Information Quality and Continuous Quality Improvement date: 2011-05-21 words: 7525 flesch: 42 summary: Because quality information allows better coordination between the actors within an interorganizational relationship and helps the supplier better plan for meeting the buyer’s needs, information quality plays an important role in enhancing performance within the relationship. The role of information quality and continuous quality improvement was analyzed in regards to the organizational efficacy of small and medium-sized suppliers. keywords: business; efficacy; improvement; information; information quality; journal; management; organization; performance; quality; relationships; research; small; smes; supply cache: jsbs-161.pdf plain text: jsbs-161.txt item: #106 of 612 id: jsbs-1610 author: Fachrunnisa, Olivia; Adhiatma, Ardian; Lukman, Najah; Ab Majid, Md. Noh title: Towards SMEs’ digital transformation: The role of agile leadership and strategic flexibility date: 2020-11-19 words: 12630 flesch: 46 summary: The next problem is how does the SMEs balance the current ca- pabilities and build new digital capabilities that are compat- ible with SMEs’ dependency on a wide range of instruments in the past (Svan et al., 2017). This research aims to test the role of agile leadership and strategic flexibility to improve digital transformation in SMEs among ASEAN countries. keywords: business; capabilities; capability; company; effect; flexibility; information; journal; leadership; management; model; new; research; smes; strategy; study; technology; transformation; value; workforce; workforce transformation cache: jsbs-1610.pdf plain text: jsbs-1610.txt item: #107 of 612 id: jsbs-162 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 182 flesch: 14 summary: Erick P.C. Chang Arkansas State University Ersa Memili University of North Carolina Greensboro James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University Dianne H.B. Welsh University of North Carolina Greensboro 51 Organizational Efficacy of Small and Medium-Size Suppliers: The Role of Information Quality and Continuous Quality Improvement Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Shanan G. Gibson East Carolina University William C. McDowell East Carolina University Leo R. Simpson Seattle University 71 Effect of Participation in Business Membership Organizations on the Size and Occupational Diversity of Entrepreneurs’ Core Business Discussion Network Lee J. Zane Rider University Michele K. Masterfano Drexel University 93 Book Review: Womenpreneurs: 21st Century Success Strategies Frances M. Amatucci Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania S TRATEG Y JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 keywords: carolina; university cache: jsbs-162.pdf plain text: jsbs-162.txt item: #108 of 612 id: jsbs-163 author: Chang, Erick P.C.; Memili, Esra; Chrisman, James J.; Welsh, Dianne H. title: What Can Drive Successful Entrepreneurial Firms? An Analysis of Inc. 500 Companies date: 2011-05-21 words: 9844 flesch: 51 summary: Our study aims to explore what can drive the success of entrepreneurial firms. We present in Figure 1 a theoretical framework that takes a step forward from prior conceptualization to determine drivers of success for entrepreneurial firms (Chang et al., 2007; Chang, et al., 2009; Katz & Gartner, 1988; Minniti, 2005; Minniti & Bygrave, 1999; Shapero & Sokol, 1982). keywords: business; chrisman; entrepreneurship; family; firms; growth; innovation; journal; level; new; offering; sales; strategy; success; theory cache: jsbs-163.pdf plain text: jsbs-163.txt item: #109 of 612 id: jsbs-1631 author: Rahman, Syed Abidur; Taghizadeh, Seyedeh Khadijeh; Alam, Mirza Mohammad Didarul; Khan, Golam Mostafa title: The functionality of entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial bricolage on micro-entrepreneur’s wellbeing date: 2020-11-19 words: 10765 flesch: 47 summary: Entrepreneurial bricolage mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial passion for inventing and subjec- tive wellbeing. Entrepreneurial bricolage mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial passion for founding and subjec- 51 S. A. Rahman, S. K.Taghizadeh, M. M. D.Alam, & G. M. Khan Journal of Small Business Strategy / Vol. 30, No. 3 (2020) / 47-64 tive wellbeing. keywords: bricolage; business; developing; entrepreneurs; et al; journal; m. m.; micro; passion; research; resources; study; wellbeing cache: jsbs-1631.pdf plain text: jsbs-1631.txt item: #110 of 612 id: jsbs-1633 author: Gottschall, Richard L; Woods, Jeremy Alan title: Family human capital and the championing of innovation in small firms date: 2020-11-19 words: 9916 flesch: 49 summary: These findings suggest how individual family members’ characteristics and behaviors influence family firms and help generate heterogeneity in firm-level activities and outcomes. Research on innovation in family firms is growing rap- idly, but insights and conclusions remain tentative and pri- marily focused on comparisons with nonfamily firms (De Massis et al., 2012; Filser et al., 2016). keywords: business; capital; championing; family; family business; family firms; family influence; family members; firm; human; influence; innovation; journal; members cache: jsbs-1633.pdf plain text: jsbs-1633.txt item: #111 of 612 id: jsbs-164 author: Amatucci, Frances M. title: Womenpreneurs: 21st Century Success Strategies Dorothy Perrin Moore date: 2011-05-21 words: 2242 flesch: 47 summary: The discussion of women and STEM training presented serious concerns about the low numbers of young women who will miss out on high paying jobs in these fields later in their careers (Amatucci and Crawley, 2011; Coleman and Robb, 2012). Some of the notable trends in women’s entrepreneurship include their significant role in innovation driven economies, and the growth potential for the “missing middle” which represents the largest group of women entrepreneurs whose needs are not sufficiently addressed by existing entrepreneurship programs -- that are developed from male-based paradigms (Weeks and Riebe, 2007). keywords: business; case; chapter; entrepreneurs; gender; management; moore; women cache: jsbs-164.pdf plain text: jsbs-164.txt item: #112 of 612 id: jsbs-1644 author: Salder, Jacob; Gilman, Mark; Raby, Simon; Gkikas, Aineias title: Beyond linearity and resource-based perspectives of SME growth date: 2020-02-24 words: 11219 flesch: 46 summary: Rooted in sem- inal works on firm growth (Penrose, 1959), entrepreneur- ship (Schumpeter, 1911), employment (Birch, 1979), and regional development (see Storey, 1984), a growing litera- ture has called for greater understandings of SME growth and its key determinants (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2013; Wiklund, Patzelt, & Shepherd, 2009). This paper contributes to calls for a broader under- standing of SME growth in both academic and policy cir- cles, with specific focus on this question of process over outputs. keywords: analysis; business; determinants; development; dimensions; environment; firm; growth; growth process; journal; management; process; research; resources; sme; sme growth; smes; strategy; studies; study cache: jsbs-1644.pdf plain text: jsbs-1644.txt item: #113 of 612 id: jsbs-1648 author: Mendez-Vega, Ulises; Muñiz-Umana, Glenda; Flecha-Ortiz, Jose A; Santos-Corrada, Maria title: Innovation as competitiveness driving force through the resources and capacities of SMEs in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic date: 2021-08-11 words: 12049 flesch: 52 summary: The identified literature provides four types of valuable resources (EO, MO, HC and SC) (Cruz, 2018; Domínguez et al., 2017; Ferreira & Fernandes, 2017; González, 2018; Hernández et al., 2018; Lonial & Carter, 2015; Miller & Breton, 2017; Paradkar et al., 2015; Pérez et al., 2018; Ramos et al., 2018; Sok et al., 2017; Villegas et al., 2018). The academic literature establishes that the use of unique resources results in a greater capac- ity for innovation than other groups of variables (Akhtar et al., 2015; Badriyah, 2017; Bedoya & Arango, 2017; Choo, et al., 2010; Cruz, et al., 2018; Fernández Guer- rero et al., 2018; Fernández Ortiz et al., 2006; Gil-Lacruz & Gil-Lacruz, 2006; Lonial & Carter, 2015; Matsuno et al., 2014; Reynoso et al., 2017; Sok et al 2017; Sok et al., 2017; Villegas et al., 2018). keywords: business; capabilities; capacity; capital; competitiveness; et al; impact; innovation; innovation capacity; journal; management; market; orientation; research; researchers; resources; results; smes cache: jsbs-1648.pdf plain text: jsbs-1648.txt item: #114 of 612 id: jsbs-165 author: Meyer, G. Dale title: Academic Entrepreneurship: Paradigm Sought to Paradigm Found date: 2013-05-21 words: 6290 flesch: 52 summary: Professor Aldrich critiqued entrepreneurship research several other times – and found inadequate the methodologies that were applied. In other words, academic entrepreneurship did not fit the traditions and paradigms of the foundational b-school disciplines such as finance, accounting, management science, and to a lesser degree marketing. keywords: business; creativity; entrepreneurship; individuals; journal; meyer; new; paper; paradigm; people; person; research; strategy; vol cache: jsbs-165.pdf plain text: jsbs-165.txt item: #115 of 612 id: jsbs-166 author: Khanin, Dmitry; Turel, Ofir title: Conflicts Between Venture Capitalists and CEO's of their Portfolio Companies date: 2013-01-21 words: 10093 flesch: 54 summary: Keywords: venture capital, conflict, CEOs, financial intermediaries INTRODUCTION Conflicts are defined in the literature as perceived incompatibilities between the parties (Boulding, 1963; Jehn, 1995). For instance, the higher venture’s pre-money valuation, i.e., what it is worth before VC capital infusions, the better for venture CEOs and the worse for VCs. keywords: attention; business; capital; ceos; conflicts; et al; journal; management; research; sapienza; strategy; vcs; venture; vol cache: jsbs-166.pdf plain text: jsbs-166.txt item: #116 of 612 id: jsbs-1662 author: Barwinski, Roman W; Qiu, Yixin; Aslam, Mahmood M; Clauss, Thomas title: Changing with the time: New ventures’ quest for innovation date: 2020-02-24 words: 9392 flesch: 55 summary: New ventures can further be handicapped in external innovation search by in- creasing search costs. Thus, entrepreneurial firms located in a CWS provide a unique realm to examine the impact on external innovation search. keywords: business; cws; innovation; innovation search; journal; knowledge; management; new; research; resources; search; stage; strategy; ventures cache: jsbs-1662.pdf plain text: jsbs-1662.txt item: #117 of 612 id: jsbs-1663 author: Soares, Nuno; Valente, Marieta title: Exploring the relation between cultural values and R&D investment under the behavioral theory of the firm date: 2020-02-24 words: 7716 flesch: 54 summary: There is however no incremental effect for below aspirations firms. Moreover, it would also be interesting to explore the extent to which different firms and countries’ corporate governance regimes interact with aspirations and slack and condition the decision to invest on R&D. References Aggarwal, R., Faccio, M., Guedhami, O., & Kwok, C. C. Y. (2016). keywords: aspirations; business; cultural; discrepancy; doi; firm; industry; investment; journal; performance; r&d; slack; t-1; theory cache: jsbs-1663.pdf plain text: jsbs-1663.txt item: #118 of 612 id: jsbs-1664 author: Obal, Michael; Morgan, Todd; Joseph, George title: Integrating sustainability into new product development: The role of organizational leadership and culture date: 2020-02-24 words: 10054 flesch: 45 summary: USA, george_joseph@uml.edu Integrating sustainability into new product development: The role of organizational leadership and culture New product performance, Sustainability orientation, Firm culture, Firm strategy, New product development APA Citation Information: Obal, M. Morgan, T., & Joseph, G. (2020). Sustainability initiatives by new product developers have also been influenced by the While corporate sustainability research continues to grow, we contend that key organizational factors influence the ability of firms to strategically integrate sustainability orientation to the performance of new products. keywords: business; culture; development; firm; innovation; journal; leadership; management; market; new; orientation; performance; product; strategy; sustainability; sustainability orientation cache: jsbs-1664.pdf plain text: jsbs-1664.txt item: #119 of 612 id: jsbs-1665 author: Melo, Eugenia; Llopis, Juan; Gascó, José; González, Reyes title: Integration of ICT into the higher education process: The case of Colombia date: 2020-02-24 words: 6267 flesch: 47 summary: Our intention is to use these dimensions to identify the activities that teachers develop to strengthen their tech- nological skills when it comes to ICT use and integration within the higher education context. ICT use has improved lately, but a much stron- ger commitment of teachers is needed. keywords: business; education; ict; icts; journal; knowledge; lecturers; skills; strategy; teachers; teaching; universities; use cache: jsbs-1665.pdf plain text: jsbs-1665.txt item: #120 of 612 id: jsbs-1666 author: Philipson, Sarah; Kjellström, Elisabeth title: When objects are talking: How tacit knowing becomes explicit knowledge date: 2020-02-24 words: 10478 flesch: 53 summary: However, “…Polanyi… said little about the processes of acquiring or learning tacit knowledge.” Tacit knowledge, tacit knowing or be- having? keywords: business; communities; community; individual; journal; knowing; knowledge; learning; management; meaning; new; nonaka; organization; practice; tacit cache: jsbs-1666.pdf plain text: jsbs-1666.txt item: #121 of 612 id: jsbs-1667 author: Neneh, Brownhilder N title: Why foreignness matters: The impact of business-family interference on the exit intentions of women entrepreneur date: 2020-02-24 words: 10229 flesch: 50 summary: This finding is the first attempt to show the role of foreignness in the exit intentions litera- ture for women entrepreneurs, suggesting that the liabilities that push immigrant women entrepreneurs might influence their long-term decisions to stay in entrepreneurship. o rg Introduction University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein, South Africa 9301, nenehbn@ufs.ac.za Why foreignness matters: The impact of business-family interference on the exit inten- tions of women entrepreneur Exit intentions, Women entrepreneurs, Family-to-business interference, Business-to-family interference, Foreignness APA Citation Information: Neneh, B. N.. (2020). keywords: business; entrepreneurs; et al; exit; exit intentions; family; intentions; interference; journal; women; women entrepreneurs; work cache: jsbs-1667.pdf plain text: jsbs-1667.txt item: #122 of 612 id: jsbs-167 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-21 words: 370 flesch: 26 summary: Editor Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Associate Editor Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Editorial Assistants Rebecca Nunes Bradley University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Todd D. Mick Lindenwood University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Joe Singer University of Missouri – Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne H.B. Welsh The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. keywords: business; college; state; university cache: jsbs-167.pdf plain text: jsbs-167.txt item: #123 of 612 id: jsbs-1677 author: Ahimbisibwe, Godwin Mwesigye; Ntayi, Joseph Mpeera; Ngoma, Muhammed; Bakunda, Geoffery; Munene, John C; Esemu, Timothy title: Entrepreneurial mindset: Examining the contribution of deliberative and implemental mindsets to SME internationalization date: 2021-08-11 words: 7224 flesch: 43 summary: This is quite surprising since SME internationalization is regarded as an entrepreneurial activity where the multidisciplinary role of entrepreneurs The purpose of this study was to establish the contribution of deliberative mindset and implemental mindset to SME (small and medium enterprises) internationalization. Results suggest that implemental mindset significantly contributes to variances in SME internationalization unlike deliberative mindset. keywords: business; deliberative; implemental; internationalization; journal; markets; mindset; sme; smes; study; uganda cache: jsbs-1677.pdf plain text: jsbs-1677.txt item: #124 of 612 id: jsbs-1678 author: Lee, Younggeun; Herrmann, Pol title: Entrepreneurial passion: A systematic review and research opportunities date: 2021-08-11 words: 13727 flesch: 37 summary: Entrepreneurial passion: A systematic review and research opportunities. Moving beyond gener- al passion, the concept of entrepreneurial passion has re- ceived scholarly attention during the past decade and a di- verse theoretical framework on entrepreneurial passion has been established, which includes: passion for work (Baum et al., 2001), the dualistic model of passion (Vallerand et al., 2003), entrepreneurial passion (Cardon et al., 2009), and perceived passion (Chen et al., 2009). keywords: business; cardon; cardon et; entrepreneurs; et al; journal; management; model; obsessive; passion; performance; relationship; research; venture cache: jsbs-1678.pdf plain text: jsbs-1678.txt item: #125 of 612 id: jsbs-1679 author: Shields, Jeffrey; Shelleman, Joyce title: SME sustainability dashboards: An aid to manage and report performance date: 2020-05-27 words: 5728 flesch: 48 summary: A variety of factors have been identified as barriers to implementation of sustainability management, including a lack of aware- ness of environmental and social impacts and issues and a lack of resources to facilitate implementation (Johnson & This applied paper introduces the concept and potential application of sustainability dashboards by SMEs as an aid to meet growing de- mands for sustainability management and reporting. This applied paper offers an introduction to the con- cept and potential application of sustainability dashboards by SMEs for sustainability management and reporting. keywords: blank; business; dashboards; data; journal; management; performance; reporting; small; smes; sustainability; use cache: jsbs-1679.pdf plain text: jsbs-1679.txt item: #126 of 612 id: jsbs-168 author: Grimm, Richard C. title: Effectuation: An Alternative Approach for Developing Sustainability Architecture in Small Business date: 2013-01-21 words: 6814 flesch: 40 summary: In this study, we argue that the effectuation process used by expert entrepreneurs can also be employed as an effective approach for small business sustainability integration in part, because it circumvents many impediments to implementation. New ventures and smaller firms are embracing sustainability initiatives by incorporating sustainable business processes and/or by developing innovative products and services. keywords: business; effectuation; integration; journal; mary; new; planning; process; resources; strategy; sustainability; text; text eknapinski cache: jsbs-168.pdf plain text: jsbs-168.txt item: #127 of 612 id: jsbs-1683 author: Reed, Jonathan title: Strategic agility in the SME: Use it before you lose it date: 2021-08-11 words: 8090 flesch: 56 summary: Strategic agility is strongly positively correlat- ed with both organizational alignment and strategy change (p < .01), supporting the anticipated construct validity of strategic agility. o rg Introduction Florida Institute of Technology, College of Business, 150 W University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA, jreed2017@fit.edu Strategic agility in the SME: Use it before you lose it Strategic agility, SME, Firm age, Firm size, Environmental turbulence APA Citation Information: Reed, J. (2021). keywords: agility; business; change; firm; industry; journal; management; model; performance; size; small; strategy; study; turbulence cache: jsbs-1683.pdf plain text: jsbs-1683.txt item: #128 of 612 id: jsbs-169 author: Mitteness, Cheryl R.; Baucus, Melissa S.; Norton, Jr., William I. title: Establishing Cognitive Legitimacy in Emerging Organizations: The Role of Prestige date: 2013-01-21 words: 8930 flesch: 39 summary: But very few startups become IPO firms and the sources of prestige available to novice entrepreneurs and emerging organizations at the earliest stages of development likely differ from those accessible to IPO firms. Survival has often been used as an indication of legitimacy but this tells us little about how emerging organizations establish and build cognitive legitimacy: it merely shows or assumes an organization has legitimacy (Zimmerman & Zeitz, 2002). keywords: advisory; board; business; entrepreneurs; idea; journal; legitimacy; members; new; nvt; organization; prestige; stakeholders; venture cache: jsbs-169.pdf plain text: jsbs-169.txt item: #129 of 612 id: jsbs-1690 author: Verma, Sushma; Shome, Samik; Patel, Aakruti title: Financial preferences of listed SMEs in India: An empirical study date: 2021-08-11 words: 9383 flesch: 63 summary: In other words, the study contributes to the extant literature on listed SMEs by at- tempting to examine the impact of listing on the financing patterns of SMEs and to find out if only established firm-spe- cific factors have a bearing on the financing choices or there are some other influential factors also. OECD report (2016) also states that many SMEs are facing credit constraints though there is an improvement in SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a very significant role in boosting sustainable economic growth and development of any country. keywords: business; capital; debt; finance; financing; firm; india; journal; leverage; smes; structure; study; term; variables cache: jsbs-1690.pdf plain text: jsbs-1690.txt item: #130 of 612 id: jsbs-1692 author: Torres, Ariana; Delgado, Michael S.; Marshall, Maria I. title: The economic implications of clustering on Hispanic entrepreneurship in the US date: 2021-08-11 words: 9159 flesch: 48 summary: As expected, first generation Hispanics are the oldest group with an average age of 43 years, followed by the third generation (39 years old), the 1.5 generation (36 years old), and the second-generation (25 years old). In additional specifications of the model, we interact these clustering variables with generational indica- tors, to understand the extent to which these clustering ef- fects might be heterogeneous across Hispanic generations. keywords: business; clustering; employment; entrepreneurship; generation; generation hispanics; hispanic; individual; journal; probability; probit; puma; self; variables cache: jsbs-1692.pdf plain text: jsbs-1692.txt item: #131 of 612 id: jsbs-1695 author: Karambut, Fermico title: The effect of marketing mix perception on the intention of online merchant financing date: 2021-08-11 words: 9078 flesch: 45 summary: Investigating online financing intention is essential to help the financial institution identify the factors affect- ing online financing intention and predict the impact of the marketing mix perception on e-marketplace merchant in- tention. The results showed that besides having a significant effect on online financing intention, the marketing mix’s perception could also be developed by mediating subjective norms. keywords: attitude; behavior; business; commerce; credit; financing; intention; journal; marketing; marketing mix; marketplace; merchants; mix; model; online; research; valid cache: jsbs-1695.pdf plain text: jsbs-1695.txt item: #132 of 612 id: jsbs-17 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-20 words: 30 flesch: 55 summary: Credits Anonymous Journal of Small Business Strategy; Fall 2004/Winter 2005; 15, 2; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-17.pdf plain text: jsbs-17.txt item: #133 of 612 id: jsbs-170 author: Matthews, Charles H.; Schenkel, Mark T.; Ford, Matthew W.; Human (Retired), Sherrie E. title: Financing Complexity and Sophistication in Nascent Ventures date: 2013-01-21 words: 6062 flesch: 51 summary: Drawing from Carland et al.’s (1984) distinction between entrepreneurial business ventures (EBVs) and small business ventures (SBVs), respondents that answered (1) were considered to be associated with EBVs while those that answered (2) were considered associated with SBVs. Yet despite such promise, evidence has emerged suggesting that new venture funding is a multistage process that entails systematic differences in perceptions between entrepreneurs and potential financiers (e.g., Eckhardt, Shane, & Delmar, 2006). keywords: business; capital; complex; complexity; entrepreneurs; financing; funding; growth; nascent; simple; sources; venture cache: jsbs-170.pdf plain text: jsbs-170.txt item: #134 of 612 id: jsbs-1701 author: Kaffka, Gabi Anja; Singaram, Raja; Groen, Aard J; Kraaijenbrink, Jeroen title: Entrepreneurial cognition of the business model construct: A mixed methods study of STEM and non-STEM entrepreneurs date: 2021-08-11 words: 10325 flesch: 50 summary: Crafting business architecture : The antecedents of business model design. Business model design and the performance of entrepreneurial firms. keywords: business; business model; cognition; design; development; entrepreneurs; functions; journal; model; opportunity; strategy; venture cache: jsbs-1701.pdf plain text: jsbs-1701.txt item: #135 of 612 id: jsbs-1704 author: Clemente-Almendros, José Antonio; Camisón-Haba, Sergio; Camisón-Zornoza, César title: Family firm heterogeneity and tax aggressiveness: A quasi-experimental analysis of the impact of different family generations date: 2021-08-11 words: 14085 flesch: 58 summary: For instance, explaining unique mo- tivations from different family generations and its relation- ship with family tax aggressiveness needs new approaches. Whereas This paper analyses tax aggressiveness in family firm generations. keywords: aggressiveness; assets; business; camisón; companies; control; debt; et al; family; family business; family firms; generations; journal; management; strategy; tax; tax aggressiveness; total cache: jsbs-1704.pdf plain text: jsbs-1704.txt item: #136 of 612 id: jsbs-171 author: Wilbanks, James E. title: Mentoring and Entrepreneurship: Examining the Potential for Entreneurship Education and for Aspiring New Entrepreneurs date: 2015-05-21 words: 4035 flesch: 37 summary: Mentor functions for novice entrepreneurs. St-Jean and Audet (2011) found that a low directive, but high involvement mentoring intervention style produced the best results within the context of experienced entrepreneur mentors and Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 23, No. 1 98 novice entrepreneur mentees. keywords: business; entrepreneurs; functions; journal; management; mentoring; mentors; small cache: jsbs-171.pdf plain text: jsbs-171.txt item: #137 of 612 id: jsbs-172 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 188 flesch: -61 summary: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Invited Distinguished Commentary Academic Entrepreneurship: Paradigm Sought to Paradigm Found Dale Meyer University of Colorado— Boulder 15 Financing Complexity and Sophistication in Nascent Ventures Charles H. Matthews University of Cincinnati Mark T. Schenkel Belmont University Matthew W. Ford Northern Kentucky University Sherrie E. Human Xavier University 31 Conflicts Between Venture Capitalists and CEOs of their Portfolio Companies Dmitry Khanin Texas Tech University Ofir Turel California State University— Fullerton 55 Effectuation: An Alternative Approach for Developing a Sustainability Architecture in Small Business Richard C. Grimm Slippery Rock University 71 Establishing Cognitive Legitimacy in Emerging Organizations: The Role of Prestige Cheryl R. Mitteness Northeastern University Melissa S. Baucus University of Louisville William I. Norton, Jr. Georgia Southern University 93 Invited Applied Commentary: Entrepreneurship and Mentoring James E. Wilbanks University of Arkansas—Little Rock STRATEGY JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text Frances M. Amatucci Slippery Rock University eknapinski Typewritten Text eknapinski Typewritten Text Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: eknapinski; text cache: jsbs-172.pdf plain text: jsbs-172.txt item: #138 of 612 id: jsbs-173 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-21 words: 361 flesch: 24 summary: Editor Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Associate Editor Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Knapinski Bradley University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne H.B. Welsh Michael Goldsby The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Ball State University Special thanks to Elizabeth Knapinski for her high quality editorial work and her commitment and devotion to creating a great product. The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. keywords: business; college; state; university cache: jsbs-173.pdf plain text: jsbs-173.txt item: #139 of 612 id: jsbs-1742 author: Cuevas Lizama, Jonathan; Llanos Contreras, Orlando; Alonso Dos Santos, Manuel title: Reputation and identity in family firms: Current state and gaps for future research. date: 2021-04-13 words: 8283 flesch: 54 summary: o rg Introduction 1 Department of Marketing and Market Research, University of Valencia, Av. dels Tarongers, s/n, Postal Code: 46022, Valencia, Spain 2Administration Department, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso de Ribera 2850, Postal Code: 409054, Concepción, Chile, jocueli@alumni.uv.es 3Administration Department, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso de Ribera 2850, Postal Code: 409054, Concepción, Chile, ollanos@ucsc.cl 4Administration Department, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso de Ribera 2850, Postal Code: 409054, Concepción, Chile 5Department of Marketing and Market Research, University of Granada, Campus Cartuja s/n, Postal code: 18071, Granada, Spain, manuelalonso@ugr.es Reputation and identity in family firms: Current state and gaps for future research Reputation, Identity, Image, Family firms, Literature review APA Citation Information: Family firms are predominant among small and me- dium companies, as well as among big companies (Zell- weger, 2017). keywords: business; et al; family; family business; family firms; family identity; firms; identity; journal; management; reputation; research; review; strategy cache: jsbs-1742.pdf plain text: jsbs-1742.txt item: #140 of 612 id: jsbs-175 author: Frank, Hoy title: The Entrepreneurial Spark: Recognizing Opportunities and Developing Them into Viable Businesses, Jose Romagera date: 2013-05-21 words: 2021 flesch: 60 summary: Having provided so many guidelines, Romaguera asks “why don’t all people who have entrepreneurial ideas or projects begin them? In many books, anecdotal stories of entrepreneurs are injected once, and then other examples are cited as the author introduces additional concepts. keywords: book; business; romaguera; spark cache: jsbs-175.pdf plain text: jsbs-175.txt item: #141 of 612 id: jsbs-176 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-21 words: 630 flesch: 46 summary: Microsoft Word - Front Cover - v20n1.docx FROM THE EDITOR Allow me to introduce myself. As the new editor of JSBS, I would like to begin by thanking our outgoing editor Fred Fry. Fred did a fine job as steward of this publication over the last five years. keywords: editor; firm cache: jsbs-176.pdf plain text: jsbs-176.txt item: #142 of 612 id: jsbs-177 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-21 words: 382 flesch: 37 summary: The authors conclude that entrepreneurial orientation involves an extensive process of knowledge sharing among members of family-run businesses. The goal of this scale is to determine the nature of the relationships between knowledge transfer, entrepreneurial orientation, and performance. keywords: knowledge; papers cache: jsbs-177.pdf plain text: jsbs-177.txt item: #143 of 612 id: jsbs-1773 author: Velasco Vizcaino, Franklin; Lanchimba, Cintya; Llanos Contreras, Orlando; Alonso Dos Santos, Manuel title: Personalized service and brand equity in family business: A dyadic investigation date: 2021-04-13 words: 10755 flesch: 55 summary: Collective organizational citizenship behavior is capable of energizing everyone in the family business, including family business owners, for them to continue to service customers in a person- alized way, and at the same time develop brand equity. One motiva- tional factor that could explain such a great effort and ener- gy in family business owners is the pursuit of a successful succession process over the next generations because cus- tomer loyalty and brand equity are relevant factors related to SMFE performance ( Harris et al., 2005; Llanos-Con- treras et al., 2019). keywords: brand; business; customers; doi; equity; et al; family; family business; firm; job; journal; model; overload; owners; service; smfe; time; work cache: jsbs-1773.pdf plain text: jsbs-1773.txt item: #144 of 612 id: jsbs-1777 author: Botero, Isabel C.; Litchfield-Moore, Shanan R title: Customer perceptions about family firms and their effects on customer behaviors date: 2021-04-13 words: 10613 flesch: 56 summary: o rg Introduction 1University of Louisville, Director Family Business Center, Family Business Center, College of Business, Louisville, KY 40292, isabel.botero@ louisville.edu 2Independent Researcher, shanan.litchfield@gmail.com Customer perceptions about family firms and their effects on customer behaviors Family business brands, Perceptions of family business brands, Purchase intentions, Marketing in family firms APA Citation Information: Botero, I. C., & Litchfield-Moore, S. R.. (2021). Some scholars have studied family business brands taking an organizational identity approach. keywords: attitudes; brand; businesses; family; family business; family firms; firms; fobs; intentions; journal; perceptions; products; study cache: jsbs-1777.pdf plain text: jsbs-1777.txt item: #145 of 612 id: jsbs-1779 author: González-López, Óscar R.; Buenadicha-Mateos, Maria; Barroso, Ascensión; Sanguino, Ramón title: Evaluation of the online presence of family firms: A comparative analysis between Ibero-America and the US date: 2021-04-13 words: 11301 flesch: 57 summary: Family business studies: An annotated bibliog- raphy. Botero & Vélez (2019) conclude that family culture is what makes family businesses different. keywords: american; analysis; business; company; differences; et al; family; firms; information; journal; marketing; model; online; presence; quality; turnover; websites cache: jsbs-1779.pdf plain text: jsbs-1779.txt item: #146 of 612 id: jsbs-178 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 168 flesch: 2 summary: José Manuel Saiz Álvarez Nebrija University Carlose Cuervo Arango Nebrija University Alicia Coduras Nebrija University 41 Performance and Risk as Signals for Setting Up a Franchised Business Esther Calderón Monge University of Burgos Pilar Huerta-Zavala University of Burgos 59 Book Review: The Entrepreneurial Spark: TABLE OF CONTENTS Validation of a Measuring Instrument for the Relationship between Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Family Firms Ascensión Barroso Martínez Universidad de Extremadura Tomás M. Bañegil Palacios Universidad de Extremadura Ramón Sanguino Galván Universidad de Extremadura 15 The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Entrepreneurship and Innovation María—Soledad Castaño University of Castilla- Martínez La Mancha María Jesus Ruiz Fuensanata University of Castilla- La Mancha Isabel Martínez Rodríguez University of Castilla- La Mancha 29 Entrepreneurial Strategy, Innovation, and Cognitive Capabilities: What Role for Intuitive SMEs? keywords: castilla; university cache: jsbs-178.pdf plain text: jsbs-178.txt item: #147 of 612 id: jsbs-1781 author: Ibáñez, María J. title: Inter-firm marketing collaboration in family businesses: The role of risk aversion date: 2021-04-13 words: 5906 flesch: 50 summary: Can family business managers manage family business risks? o rg Introduction Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo, Ainavillo 456, Concepción, Chile, maribanezc@udd.cl Inter-firm marketing collaboration in family businesses: The role of risk aversion Marketing collaboration, Family firms, Risk aversion, Strategic decisions APA Citation Information: Ibáñez, M. J. (2021). keywords: aversion; businesses; collaboration; et al; family; family businesses; firm; journal; marketing; risk cache: jsbs-1781.pdf plain text: jsbs-1781.txt item: #148 of 612 id: jsbs-179 author: Saiz-Alvarez, Jose Manuel; Cuervo-Arango, Carlos; Coduras, Alicia title: Entrepreneurial Strategy, Innovation, and Cognitive Capabilities: What Role for Intuitive SMEs? date: 2013-05-21 words: 4625 flesch: 42 summary: Entrepreneurial failure can be diminished if intuitive potential entrepreneurs are well oriented. Taking all the above in consideration, we can define intuitive entrepreneurship as a psychological behavior consisting of a decision process mainly guided by intuition in which experience has more weight than formation, especially in the early stages of company development. keywords: business; entrepreneurs; experience; intuition; points; research; style; variables; vol cache: jsbs-179.pdf plain text: jsbs-179.txt item: #149 of 612 id: jsbs-180 author: Calderon-Monge, Ester; Huerta-Zavala, Pilar title: Performance and Risk as Signals for Setting up a Franchised Business date: 2013-05-21 words: 7870 flesch: 53 summary: Therefore, in the present Journal of Small Business Strategy Volume 23, Number 2 45 paper, we use the following as signals of franchise system quality: the performance of the franchise system as a signal of profitability (Brand and Croonen, 2010; Minguela et al. 2009; Rondan et al. 2010), and the failure rate as a signal of the risk assumed by the franchisee (Hsiao et al. 2012; Michael, 1996). Control Variables Finally, the time and sector were controlled with dummy variables drawing on previous research (Shane et al. 2006), which suggested the importance of controlling these variables in order to explain potential franchisees’ choice of franchise system. keywords: business; franchise; franchise system; franchising; information; journal; model; quality; risk; signals; systems; time; variables cache: jsbs-180.pdf plain text: jsbs-180.txt item: #150 of 612 id: jsbs-181 author: Martinez, Maria-Soledad Castano; Fuensanta, Maria Jesus Ruiz; Rodriguez, Isabel Martinez title: The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Entrepreneurship and Innovation date: 2013-05-21 words: 4872 flesch: 47 summary: More specifically, Putman and Goss (2003) state that social capital is a mixture of social networks and their associated reciprocity norms, which create value in the same way that physical and human capital do (p.14). However, this paper explores how social capital, the quality of institutions, and income inequality affect product innovation on behalf of entrepreneurs. keywords: business; capital; economic; effects; entrepreneurship; freedom; income; innovation; institutions; journal; social cache: jsbs-181.pdf plain text: jsbs-181.txt item: #151 of 612 id: jsbs-182 author: Martinez, Ascension Barroso; Palacios, Tomas M. Banegil; Galvan, Ramon Sanguino title: Validation of a Measuring Instrument for the Relationship between Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Family Firms date: 2013-05-21 words: 5173 flesch: 52 summary: However, there is a gap in the understanding of an effective way to transfer these resources across generations; actually, existing studies on knowledge management in family businesses are scarce (Giovannoni, et al., 2011). The literature on family businesses needs more research on entrepreneurial processes, especially in the family firms’ entrepreneurial orientation (Nordqvist, et al., 2008). keywords: business; entrepreneurship; family; family business; journal; knowledge; orientation; vol cache: jsbs-182.pdf plain text: jsbs-182.txt item: #152 of 612 id: jsbs-183 author: Editor, JSBS title: Letter from Special Edition Editors date: 2015-05-21 words: 1032 flesch: 34 summary: He has been published in international journals, including the Journal of Business Research, Small Business Economics, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, and Managing Service Quality. Soriano has also served as a reviewer and guest editor from prestigious journals published by Wiley, Emerald, and Blackwell-Wiley. keywords: business; entrepreneurship; journal; small cache: jsbs-183.pdf plain text: jsbs-183.txt item: #153 of 612 id: jsbs-184 author: Becherer, Richard C.; Helms, Marilyn M. title: Green Goals in Organizations: Do Small Businesses Engage in Environmentally Friendly Strategies? date: 2014-01-22 words: 7560 flesch: 45 summary: DO SMALL BUSINESSES ENGAGE IN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY STRATEGIES? Large firms typically consider being socially responsible or more environmentally oriented as part of their mission, but are these initiatives the same for small businesses? keywords: business; company; csr; decision; environmental; firms; goals; green; issues; journal; making; resources; smes; strategy cache: jsbs-184.pdf plain text: jsbs-184.txt item: #154 of 612 id: jsbs-185 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-22 words: 354 flesch: 25 summary: Editor Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Associate Editor Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois — Chicago Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Knapinski Bradley University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University Michael Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne Welsh University of North Carolina — Greensboro Special thanks to Elizabeth Knapinski for her high quality editorial work and her commitment and devotion to creating a great product. The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business, Bradley University. keywords: business; college; state; university cache: jsbs-185.pdf plain text: jsbs-185.txt item: #155 of 612 id: jsbs-186 author: Dutta, Dev K.; Thornhill, Stewart title: How Do Entrepreneurial Growth Intentions Evolve? A Sensemaking-Sensegiving Perspective date: 2014-01-22 words: 7240 flesch: 47 summary: Therefore, in this paper, we study how entrepreneurial growth intentions evolve over the venture’s life cycle, by utilizing insights from Gioia and Chittipeddi’s (1991) sensemaking- sensegiving perspective. Entrepreneurial growth intentions exhibit differences, at least in terms of outcomes resulting from them. keywords: business; change; entrepreneur; growth; intentions; journal; process; sensegiving; sensemaking; study; venture cache: jsbs-186.pdf plain text: jsbs-186.txt item: #156 of 612 id: jsbs-187 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-22 words: 164 flesch: 29 summary: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Women’s Entrepreneurship Kaustav Mirsa Saginaw Valley State University Ersa Memili University of North Carolina – Greensboro Dianne Welsh University of North Carolina – Greensboro Hanquig (Chevy) Fang Mississippi State University 61 How do Entrepreneurial Growth Intentions Evolve? The Impact of Strategic Focus and Previous Business Experience on Small Business Performance Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Shanan G. Gibson East Carolina University William C. McDowell East Carolina University 45 keywords: carolina; university cache: jsbs-187.pdf plain text: jsbs-187.txt item: #157 of 612 id: jsbs-188 author: Misra, Kaustav; Memili, Ersa; Welsh, Dianne; Fang, Hanging (Chevy) title: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Women's Entrepreneurship date: 2014-01-22 words: 6062 flesch: 48 summary: Keywords: women entrepreneurs, foreign direct investment, developing economies, under-developed economies S TRATEG Y JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS mailto:kmisra@svsu.edu mailto:kmisra@svsu.edu mailto:kmisra@svsu.edu mailto:kmisra@svsu.edu mailto:kmisra@svsu.edu Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 24, No. 1 46 INTRODUCTION Research suggests that entrepreneurship is the driver of economic development and growth (Acs, 2006; Audretsch & Acs, 1994; Schumpeter, 1934). As a result, women entrepreneurs generally make a significant impact on economies in regard to job creation and innovations. keywords: business; countries; economic; entrepreneurship; foreign; international; investment; journal; percent; small; variable; ventures; women cache: jsbs-188.pdf plain text: jsbs-188.txt item: #158 of 612 id: jsbs-189 author: Harris, Michael L.; Gibson, Shannan G.; McDowell, William C. title: The Impact of Strategic Focus and Previous Business Experience on Small Business Performance date: 2014-01-22 words: 6298 flesch: 46 summary: Small business owners come from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, and their firms mirror this variegation. Given the outlook of small business owners at this time, having an internal focus may have been a mechanism for preparing for incremental growth (Sandberg, 2003; Venkatraman & Ramanujam, 1986) in the coming turn-around. keywords: business; business owners; experience; focus; journal; new; owners; performance; research; resources; small; strategy cache: jsbs-189.pdf plain text: jsbs-189.txt item: #159 of 612 id: jsbs-19 author: Sonfield, Matthew C.; Lussier, Robert N. title: Family Business Ownership and Management: A Gender Comparison date: 2004-05-20 words: 8116 flesch: 57 summary: No. 2 Fall!Wi11ter 2004 management activities and styles which have been previously identified in the research literature as being especially relevant in family business management (and which the ten hypotheses denote). which is the most commonly used methodology of family business research (Bird. Welsch. keywords: business; differences; entrepreneurship; family; family business; firm; gender; journal; management; percent; permission; research; review; women; women family cache: jsbs-19.pdf plain text: jsbs-19.txt item: #160 of 612 id: jsbs-190 author: Sonfield, Matthew; Lussier, Robert N. title: The Influence of the Entrepreneur's Education Level on Strategic Decision Making date: 2014-01-22 words: 3750 flesch: 48 summary: Keywords: education level, entrepreneurs, strategic decisions, strategy INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW Since the 1970s, as the study of entrepreneurship has developed, many researchers have focused upon the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior and performance. In a study of “deliberate practice” (individualized self-regulated and effortful entrepreneurial activities aimed at improving performance), Unger et al. (2009) identified education level as an antecedent of such behavior. keywords: business; education; innovation; journal; level; risk; strategy cache: jsbs-190.pdf plain text: jsbs-190.txt item: #161 of 612 id: jsbs-191 author: York, Jonathan L.; Danes, Jeffrey E. title: Customer Development, Innovation, and Decision-Making Biases int he Lean Startup date: 2014-05-22 words: 8600 flesch: 44 summary: Risks of Customer Development from Biases and Heuristics To set the stage for reducing bias in decision making, we now examine some of the most significant biases and risks in customer development hypothesis testing and then, using the concepts of system thinking (Stanovich & West, 2000), we examine research findings relevant to Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 24, No. 2 28 reducing the bias in decision making. However, extended training with feedback only produced only moderate improvements Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 24, No. 2 30 Table 2: Bias Mitigation Techniques in Customer Development Bias Description Mitigation techniques Selection bias seeking information from “friendly confirmatory sources resulting in unrepresentative sampling of the target market(s) founding team members pair up in “getting out of the building” and check each other’s assumptions at all times careful attention to selection of interview targets Representativeness bias generalizing from small, non- random samples of data and/or information from respondents who do not represent the target market(s) conducting customer development interviews as an iterative and continuous process, checking previous generalizations against new data Acquiescence bias respondents’ tendency to give the answers they believe the entrepreneur wants to hear carefully structuring customer development interviews to avoid “yes/no answers; not asking respondents to speculate on future behavior, but focusing on past and current behavior Confirmation Bias interpreting information to confirm prior beliefs maintaining open-ended interview discussion focused on problems, not proposed solution improper linear model development to simulate data-driven decision where actual measurement data is impractical if not impossible Overconfidence bias overestimating the knowledge and precision of customer suggestions and/or the entrepreneurs information engaging mentors and advisors to provide an unbiased perspective on the information gathered and to create an environment of System 2 thinking around the startup premortem exercises looking at potential causes of failure rather than assuming success; a belief that only the paranoid survive Optimism bias the entrepreneur’s belief that he/she is unlikely to experience negative outcomes or fail analogical reasoning - engaging in “reference class forecast activities comparing to other similar startupsconsider the opposite” activities to force more critical thinking Some general bias mitigation activities include: • locating in an environment with other startups and advisors (incubator, co-working) where external feedback is readily available • undergoing training in customer development activities to strengthen information-gathering skills • conducting all customer development activities as a team • engaging a mentor or advisor to play the devil’s advocate role in all customer development activities Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 24, No. 2 31 in decision making. keywords: bias; blank; business; customer; customer development; decision; development; hypothesis; journal; making; model; new; process; product; startup; system; testing cache: jsbs-191.pdf plain text: jsbs-191.txt item: #162 of 612 id: jsbs-192 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-22 words: 362 flesch: 27 summary: Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne Welsh University of North Carolina — Greensboro Special thanks to Elizabeth Knapinski for her high quality editorial work and her commitment and devotion to creating a great product. The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute and the Foster College of Business, Bradley University. keywords: business; small; state; university cache: jsbs-192.pdf plain text: jsbs-192.txt item: #163 of 612 id: jsbs-193 author: Roundy, Philip T. title: Doing Good by Telling Stories: Emotion in Social Entrepreneurship Communication date: 2014-05-22 words: 12322 flesch: 48 summary: This suggests that by being able to construct emotional narratives social ventures are in a unique position to capture media resources. Philip-roundy@utc.edu ABSTRACT Despite growing academic interest in social entrepreneurship, a critical challenge facing social ventures has yet to receive attention: how do social entrepreneurs communicate with their diverse groups of stakeholders? keywords: business; communication; emotion; entrepreneurship; founder; journal; marketing; narratives; nonprofit; profit; research; social; stakeholders; stories; story; strategy; study; venture; vol cache: jsbs-193.pdf plain text: jsbs-193.txt item: #164 of 612 id: jsbs-195 author: Celuch, Kevin; Bourdeau, Bryan; Saxby, Carl; Ehlen, Craig title: SME Internet Use: The Moderating Role of Normative Influence date: 2014-05-22 words: 9252 flesch: 41 summary: The purpose of this research is to shed light on understanding SME Internet adoption. While multiple perspectives have been used to explore SME Internet adoption, a consistent theme to emerge from the literature is the potential importance of accounting for nuanced effects associated with normative influence. keywords: adoption; business; ease; influence; information; intention; internet; journal; norm; perceptions; research; small; sme; technology; use; usefulness cache: jsbs-195.pdf plain text: jsbs-195.txt item: #165 of 612 id: jsbs-197 author: Parhankangas, Annalenna; McWilliams, Abagail; Shrader, Rodney C. title: Doing Well by Doing Better: Entrepreneurs and Sustainability date: 2015-05-22 words: 8434 flesch: 44 summary: When does lack of resources make new firms innovative? However, despite growing interest, the entrepreneurial strategy of creating durable value, both private and social, through sustainability has received little attention compared to the strategy of differentiation through corporate social responsibility (CSR) employed by established firms (Nadim & Lussier, 2010). keywords: 2005; advantage; business; corporate; corporations; csr; entrepreneurship; firms; journal; models; new; responsibility; social; strategy; sustainability; technology; vol cache: jsbs-197.pdf plain text: jsbs-197.txt item: #166 of 612 id: jsbs-1972 author: Banelienė, Rūta title: Industry impact on GDP growth in developed countries under R&D investment conditions date: 2021-03-04 words: 7591 flesch: 44 summary: The estimations support the hypotheses that growth in the industry share in gross value added has a higher impact on GDP growth in well-developed industrialized countries where GDP per capita is higher (in this case, more than $40,000) than in industrialized countries whose GDP per capita is at a lower level under business-financed R&D Table 4 Review regression estimation: industrial OECD countries with low GDP per capita Variable Coefficient Std. ruta.baneliene@vilniustech.lt Industry impact on GDP growth in developed countries under R&D investment conditions Industry, GDP growth, OECD countries, R&D, Investment APA Citation Information: Banelienė, R. (2021). keywords: business; capita; countries; data; economic; gdp; growth; industry; innovation; investment; manufacturing; oecd; r&d; 𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺 cache: jsbs-1972.pdf plain text: jsbs-1972.txt item: #167 of 612 id: jsbs-1973 author: Méndez-Suárez, Mariano title: Headquarters location decisions under conflicts at home: Evidence from a configurational analysis date: 2021-03-04 words: 6283 flesch: 51 summary: Using a database of 42 companies of different sectors, 28 of them that maintained HQ and 14 that relocated, the study provides evidence that family firms under similar circumstances may make decisions to stay or relocate as a function of the origin of the founders and the production factors of the relocation region. Additionally, following the call from Jain et al. (2016), we include the impact of the governance structure, family firms and subsidiary, to deter- mine location choice. keywords: business; catalonia; companies; company; conditions; family; firms; journal; outcome; referendum cache: jsbs-1973.pdf plain text: jsbs-1973.txt item: #168 of 612 id: jsbs-1974 author: Gómez-Frías, Víctor; Sánchez-Chaparro, Teresa; Maeso-Álvarez, Daniel; Salgado-Criado, Jesús title: Universal Basic Income in the Spanish construction sector: Engaging businesses in a public-policy debate date: 2021-03-04 words: 7826 flesch: 50 summary: We acknowledge the claim of Van Parijs and Vanderborght (2017) regarding the 13 V. Gómez-Frías, T. Sánchez-Chaparro, D. Maeso-Álvarez, & J. Salgado-Criado Journal of Small Business Strategy / Vol. 31, No. 1 (2021) / 10-19 impossibility of conducting UBI experiments at a sufficient scale to be conclusive, as it would be necessary to actually change the welfare-state model of a particular country. Notwithstanding, ac- ademics and policy-makers have repeatedly expressed im- portant concerns about UBI feasibility, mainly due to high implementation costs (Calnitsky, 2017), but also about its desirability and uncertain effects at the individual and the Universal Basic Income (UBI) is receiving increasing attention as a policy alternative, both from academia and the general public, because its implementation would open the window for a systemic questioning of our current “social contract”. keywords: business; focus; group; income; participants; people; policy; public; research; sector; social; spain; sánchez; ubi; work cache: jsbs-1974.pdf plain text: jsbs-1974.txt item: #169 of 612 id: jsbs-1975 author: Aguilar-Rodríguez, Iliana E.; Arias-Bolzmann, Leopoldo G. title: The relationship of consumer ethnocentrism, purchase intention, and lifestyle in first-generation bicultural ethnic groups date: 2021-03-04 words: 12738 flesch: 50 summary: The relationship of consumer ethnocentrism, purchase intention, and lifestyle in first-generation bicultural ethnic groups Acculturation/biculturalism, Lifestyle, Country of origin, Host country, Consumer ethnocentrism, Purchase intentions APA Citation Information: Aguilar-Rodríguez, I. E., & Arias-Bolzmann, L. G. (2021). The effect of consumer ethnocentrism in China: Differences by consumer lifestyles and mod- erating effect of country images. keywords: acculturation; behavior; business; consumer; consumer ethnocentrism; country; et al; ethnocentrism; host; host country; intention; journal; lifestyle; origin; products; purchase; research cache: jsbs-1975.pdf plain text: jsbs-1975.txt item: #170 of 612 id: jsbs-1976 author: Alemany, María M. E.; Vallés Lluch, Ana; Villanueva Lópe, José F.; García-Serra García, Jorge title: E-learning in “innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship”: Exploring the new opportunities and challenges of technologies date: 2021-03-04 words: 8589 flesch: 48 summary: Three elements are identified to integrate e-learning systems (Fee, 2009): technology, learning content and e-learning design. Indeed, the literature revised highlights the scarcity of research on e-learning design and more specifically on the didactic dimension in Universities. keywords: creativity; entrepreneurship; innovation; learning; m. m.; platform; students; upv; 🗸 🗸 cache: jsbs-1976.pdf plain text: jsbs-1976.txt item: #171 of 612 id: jsbs-1977 author: Cearra, Jokin; Saiz, María title: Experimenting a methodology to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem through collaboration and digitalization date: 2021-03-04 words: 9504 flesch: 46 summary: Public networks must be built and maintained at organisation and network levels, but commu- nity-level stakeholders will ultimately judge overall net- work effectiveness. The advantage of pub- lic-sector networks is that many of the individuals who are employed by network organisations are professionals, with values and commitment to clients and the public good that often outweigh their commitment to specific programs or organisations. keywords: community; doi; ecosystem; effectiveness; journal; level; members; network; organisations; public; research; services; support cache: jsbs-1977.pdf plain text: jsbs-1977.txt item: #172 of 612 id: jsbs-1978 author: Rico, Paz ; Cabrer-Borrás, Bernardí title: Management practices and business labour productivity date: 2021-03-04 words: 8425 flesch: 58 summary: Management practices and business labour productivity. As Bloom and Van Reenen (2007) point out, empirical economic research to date has not focused on management practices as determinants of labour pro- ductivity differences across firms, sectors and countries. keywords: bloom; business; capital; firms; journal; labour; management; management practices; performance; practices; productivity cache: jsbs-1978.pdf plain text: jsbs-1978.txt item: #173 of 612 id: jsbs-1979 author: Fuchs, Rosa María; Morales, Oswaldo; Timana, Juan title: How to retain Generation Y employees? date: 2021-03-04 words: 6089 flesch: 56 summary: Discussion As you can see, the hypothesis about the positive re- lationship of work life balance and job embeddedness is fulfilled. Some of the characteristics attributed to Generation Y in the work environment are preferring flex- ible working hours, focusing on building skills and com- petencies, seeking immediate feedback on work and using technology for communication (Tennakoon & Senarathne, 2020). keywords: balance; embeddedness; family; generation; job; journal; life; life balance; support; work cache: jsbs-1979.pdf plain text: jsbs-1979.txt item: #174 of 612 id: jsbs-198 author: Zane, Lee J.; Yamada, Hideo; Kurokawa, Susumu "San" title: Strategic Maneuvering of Technological Factors and Emergence of De Facto Standards date: 2014-05-22 words: 9896 flesch: 49 summary: The following discussion of de facto standards draws from a variety of studies under labels such as dominant design (Anderson & Tushman, 1990; Srinivasan et al., 2006; Suarez & Utterback, 1995; Tegarden et al., 1999), technological trajectories (Kim & Kogut, 1996; Lecraw, 1984; Zhu, Kraemer, Gurbaxani, & Xin Xu, 2006), technological standards (Besen & Farrell, 1994; Gandal, 1995; Ostrovsky & Schwarz, 2005), platforms (Cusumano & Gawer, 2002; Economides & Katsamakas, 2006; Parker & Van Alstyne, 2005), and others. First, new platforms represent the technological edge, and in order to recoup high initial expenses, new platform leaders must disequilibrate the Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 24, No. 2 97 market and seek high economic rents either through higher prices, and/or by quickly building economies of scale. keywords: business; compatibility; competition; externalities; journal; market; network; new; openness; platform; products; standard; strategy; superiority; technology cache: jsbs-198.pdf plain text: jsbs-198.txt item: #175 of 612 id: jsbs-1980 author: Jacopin, Tanguy title: Understanding the failure of the replication of the Chinese economic reforms in India through the study of Gujarat RIS and Karnataka REE date: 2021-03-04 words: 11500 flesch: 53 summary: In any case, the local legislation, Karnataka´s 2009 SEZ policy, did not force the state to resettle and rehabilitate displaced popula- Table 3 Set up of innovation policy per sector from 2001 – Current in Karnataka Year Policies were Set Up Sector in which the Policies were Launched 2009 Renewable Energy Policy 2011 IT Policy ICT 2013 Aerospace & Defense 2014 Industrial Policy 2015 Start-Up Policy 2017 Biotech Source: Own formulation from CTIER (2018). If, on the contrary, some Indian Table 4 Set up of innovation policy per sector from 2001–Current in Gujarat Year Policies were Set Up Sector in which the Policies were Launched 2015 Industrial Policy Renewable Energy Policy 2016 Biotech IT Policy MSME Policy Start-Up Policy Aerospace & Defense Source: Own formulation from CTIER (2018). keywords: business; china; delta; economic; gujarat; india; innovation; journal; karnataka; knowledge; manufacturing; policy; prd; ree; reforms; ris; river; sezs; states; systems; technology cache: jsbs-1980.pdf plain text: jsbs-1980.txt item: #176 of 612 id: jsbs-1987 author: Durst, Susanne; Chowdhury, Farzana; Davila, Andres; Kraus, Sascha; Cheng, Cheng-Feng title: Employees’ psychological characteristics and sustainable leadership in firms with high and low entrepreneurial orientation date: 2021-08-11 words: 9036 flesch: 46 summary: To address this gap, we address the following questions: How do employees’ psychological characteristics such as empowerment, integrity, humility, and cognition influence sustainable leadership behavior in organizations? By examining the relationship between employees’ in- In this article, we examine how individual-level psychological characteristics such as empowerment, integrity, humility, and need for cognition influence sustainable leadership behavior in firms with levels of high and low entrepreneurial orientation (EO). keywords: behavior; business; employees; et al; firms; integrity; journal; leadership; leadership behavior; management; organizations cache: jsbs-1987.pdf plain text: jsbs-1987.txt item: #177 of 612 id: jsbs-199 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-22 words: 160 flesch: 6 summary: Indiana 91 Strategic Maneuvering of Technological Factors and Emergence of De Facto Standards Lee J. Zane Rider University Hideo Yamada Waseda University Susumu “Sam” Kurokawa Drexel University Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Doing Well by Doing Better: Entrepreneurs and Sustainability Annalenna Parhankangas University of Illinois at Chicago Abigail McWilliams University of Illinois at Chicago Rodney C. Shrader University of Illinois at Chicago 21 Customer Development, Innovation, and Decision-Making Biases in the Lean Startup Jonathan L. York California Polytechnic State University Jeffrey E. Danes California Polytechnic State University 41 Doing Good by Telling Stories: Emotion in Social Entrepreneurship Communication Philip T. Roundy University of Tennessee – Chattanooga 69 SME Internet Use: The Moderating Role of Normative Influence Kevin Celuch University of Southern Indiana Bryan Bourdeau University of Southern Indiana Carl Saxby University of Southern Indiana Craig Ehlen University of Southern keywords: southern; university cache: jsbs-199.pdf plain text: jsbs-199.txt item: #178 of 612 id: jsbs-20 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-20 words: 34 flesch: 63 summary: From the Editor Fry, Fred L Journal of Small Business Strategy; Fall 2004/Winter 2005; 15, 2; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-20.pdf plain text: jsbs-20.txt item: #179 of 612 id: jsbs-201 author: Peake, Whitney O.; Davis, Philip E.; Cox, Marcus Z. title: Being Good for Goodness Sake: The Influence of Family Involvement on Motivations to Engage in Small Business Social Responsibility date: 2015-01-26 words: 10152 flesch: 46 summary: Keywords: Family business, small business, social responsibility, enlightened self-interest, theory of planned behavior 1 mailto:whitney.peake@wku.edu mailto:whitney.peake@wku.edu mailto:davisp14@ecu.edu mailto:mcox@sfasu.edu mailto:mcox@sfasu.edu Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 25, No. 1 INTRODUCTION Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been heavily examined in the context of large, publicly traded corporations, yet little research has focused on CSR in small businesses (Gallo, 2004; Debicki, Matherne, Kellermanns, & Chrisman, 2009). Chrisman, Chua, Pearson, and Barnett (2012: 268) contend that the pursuit of non- economic goals, “are likely to reflect the values, attitudes, and intentions of a firm’s dominant decision-making coalition;” thus, the motives for family businesses to pursue CSR activities may reflect the family’s desire to engage in activities that align with their personal values or that may be seen as instrumental actions leading to reciprocity from community stakeholders. keywords: activities; business; civic; esi; family; family business; family involvement; firm; intentions; involvement; journal; research; responsibility; sbsr; social; strategy cache: jsbs-201.pdf plain text: jsbs-201.txt item: #180 of 612 id: jsbs-2010 author: Alonso Dos Santos, Manuel; Llanos Contreras, Orlando; Mahto, Raj V. title: Marketing strategies in family firms date: 2021-04-13 words: 3497 flesch: 51 summary: Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso de Ribera 2850, 409054, Concepción, Chile 3Administration Department, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso de Ribera 2850, 409054, Concepción, Chile, ollanos@ucsc.cl 4Anderson School of Management, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA, rmahto@unm.edu Marketing strategies in family firms APA Citation Information: Alonso Dos Santos, M., Llanos Contreras, O., & Mahto, R. V. (2021). Marketing strategies in family firms . keywords: alonso; business; dos; family; firms; identity; marketing; reputation; santos cache: jsbs-2010.pdf plain text: jsbs-2010.txt item: #181 of 612 id: jsbs-202 author: Fasci, Martha A.; Valdez, Jude; Park, Sung-Jin title: Comparative Assessment of Performance Differentials for Male-and-Female-Owned Small Accounting Firms at the Beginning and End of a Ten Year Period date: 2015-01-26 words: 4919 flesch: 45 summary: In this respect, the gender effect on firm performance requires an empirical test to isolate the unique contribution of gender difference to cross-sectional variation in small business firm performances. Specifically, for the professional service industry, Fasci and Valdez (1998) find a positive relationship between owner’s prior work experience and firm performance in small accounting firms. keywords: accounting; business; capital; female; firms; gap; gender; performance; year cache: jsbs-202.pdf plain text: jsbs-202.txt item: #182 of 612 id: jsbs-203 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-26 words: 250 flesch: -12 summary: Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Western Kentucky University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio Dianne Welsh University of North Carolina — Greensboro Special thanks to Miao Ren for her high quality editorial work, commitment, and devotion to creating a great product. S Y JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS TRATEG Editor Gerald E. Hills Bradley University Associate Editors Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Managing Editor James Foley Bradley University Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Knapinski Bradley University Sarah Gangl Bradley University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher Indiana Wesleyan University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University Michael Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Cathleen (Folker) keywords: editorial; state; university cache: jsbs-203.pdf plain text: jsbs-203.txt item: #183 of 612 id: jsbs-204 author: Pollard, Carol E.; Morales, Monica title: Exploring the Impact of Aligning Business and is Strategy Types on Performance in Small Firms date: 2015-01-26 words: 8559 flesch: 48 summary: ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Miles and Snow’s business strategy and Sabherwal and Chan’s IS strategy types on business performance in small firms using the Profile Deviation Approach. Keywords: business strategy, IT strategy, Miles and Snow, matching, small firms, performance INTRODUCTION keywords: alignment; analyzers; business; business performance; business strategy; chan; firms; information; journal; performance; sabherwal; small; strategy; systems cache: jsbs-204.pdf plain text: jsbs-204.txt item: #184 of 612 id: jsbs-205 author: Fregetto, Eugene (retired) title: Investigating the Impact of a Small Business Consulting Course on Entrepreneurial Attitudes date: 2015-01-26 words: 13949 flesch: 46 summary: In addition to the interpretation provided in Table 5A, the following four conclusions can be drawn: (1) Marketing courses had a positive impact on students attitude towards innovation while the small business consulting course was found to have no impact; (2) the small business consulting course had a negative impact on students’ attitude towards achievement and self- esteem; (3) Neither course had an impact on personal control; (4) the overall, pre-test versus post-test analysis showed that both types of course work did have some impact on all four EAO constructs suggesting a multi-discipline approach will have a greater impact on attitude. Student attitudes towards entrepreneurship as affected by participation in an SBI program, Journal of Education for Business, 70(4), 224- 228. keywords: attitude; business; business consulting; change; consulting; course; eao; education; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship education; impact; journal; scale; small; students; study; vol cache: jsbs-205.pdf plain text: jsbs-205.txt item: #185 of 612 id: jsbs-206 author: Editor, JSBS title: Letter from Editor date: 2015-05-26 words: 306 flesch: 56 summary: Of great importance, Jim Foley served as Managing Editor, and with several talented students made a huge contribution to the overall publishing of the issues. Indeed, in recent years we have transitioned from a field to a discipline as seen by leading scholars in this domain. keywords: small cache: jsbs-206.pdf plain text: jsbs-206.txt item: #186 of 612 id: jsbs-207 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-26 words: 211 flesch: 25 summary: The University of Texas at San Antonio Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University Carol E. Pollard Appalachian State University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University Martha A. Fasci Cox Stephen F. Austin State University 26 Exploring the Impact of Aligning Business and IS Strategy Types on Performance in Small Firms Carol E. Pollard Appalachian State University Monica Morales Department of Justice – Technology Services 46 Investigating the Impact of a Small Business Consulting Course on Entrepreneurial Attitudes Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago 82 Toward an Integrative Research Framework for New Venture Legitimacy Judgment Formation Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University Derrick D’Souza University of North Texas 105 Comparative Assessment of Performance Differentials for Male- and Female- owned Small Accounting Firms at the Beginning and End of a Ten Year Period Martha A. Fasci The University of Texas at San Antonio Jude Valdez The University of Texas at keywords: texas; university cache: jsbs-207.pdf plain text: jsbs-207.txt item: #187 of 612 id: jsbs-208 author: Peake, Whitney O.; D'Souza, Derrick title: Toward an Integrative Research Framework for New Venture Legitimacy Judgement Formation date: 2015-01-26 words: 10108 flesch: 39 summary: Yet, our review of the literature indicates that the process through which new venture legitimacy judgments are bestowed by stakeholders is under-theorized. In the following section, we address the theoretical implications of viewing new venture legitimacy judgments from this perspective. keywords: business; capacity; information; journal; judgments; knowledge; legitimacy; legitimacy judgment; management; new; process; signal; stakeholder; venture; venture legitimacy cache: jsbs-208.pdf plain text: jsbs-208.txt item: #188 of 612 id: jsbs-209 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-02 words: 284 flesch: 37 summary: · Leo Simpson, Eastern Washington University Harriet Stevenson, Seattle University Mark Weaver, University of Alabama A publication of the Small Business Institute' Directors' Association. Send subscription requests to Dr. Gwen Fontenot, Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Department of Marketing, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639. keywords: business; university cache: jsbs-209.pdf plain text: jsbs-209.txt item: #189 of 612 id: jsbs-210 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-02 words: 260 flesch: 64 summary: The journal is presented as another vehicle to enhance communication efforts of SBIDA members. It would not have been possible without the insightful suggestions of the SBIDA officers, the editorial advisory board, SBIDA members and the publication secretary, Jill Burkey. keywords: journal cache: jsbs-210.pdf plain text: jsbs-210.txt item: #190 of 612 id: jsbs-211 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-02 words: 104 flesch: 36 summary: 25 The Eximbank state/city pilot initiative for small business exporters: Goals, achievements, and the path ahead for export-finance support at the local level 37 Issues in managing small business information systems 44 The status of computerized accounting sof tware in small American businesses 52 Management policy in franchising operations: A preliminary study 60 Innovative turning points in the path to entrepreneurial success 65 A measurement model of the economic impact of Small Business Institutes keywords: business cache: jsbs-211.pdf plain text: jsbs-211.txt item: #191 of 612 id: jsbs-212 author: Sonfield, Matthew C.; Moore, Russell M. title: Innovative Turning Points in the Path to Entrepreneurial Success date: 1990-01-02 words: 2010 flesch: 48 summary: Thus, this current sample seems to fit the Miller and Friesen model, both in life cycle stage type and sequence. This research area focuses on whether firms tend to follow a cycle of stages in their histories, and whether these stages are universally consistent in type and sequence. keywords: firms; innovation; life; research cache: jsbs-212.pdf plain text: jsbs-212.txt item: #192 of 612 id: jsbs-2129 author: None title: An Overview of Rural Entrepreneurship and Future Directions | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 2148 flesch: 35 summary: The next two papers investigate the impact of and access to educational and service programs for rural small businesses. Rural entrepreneurship research: An integration into the entrepreneurship field. keywords: business; development; entrepreneurship; google; issue; opportunities; research; scholar cache: jsbs-2129.htm plain text: jsbs-2129.txt item: #193 of 612 id: jsbs-213 author: Lin, Bin-Shan; Vassar, John A. title: Issues in Managing Small Business Information Systems date: 1990-01-02 words: 3323 flesch: 50 summary: Issues in Managing Small Business lnformation Systems Bin-Shan Lin, Ph.D. John A. Vassar, Ph. D. Louisiana State University ABSTRACT This pa per addresses three issues in managing small business information systems (SBIS): technical issues, organizational issues, and the approach to information systems investments. Executives should be involved with the development of small business information systems (SBIS) for three reasons. keywords: approach; business; control; information; management; planning; sbis; strategic; systems cache: jsbs-213.pdf plain text: jsbs-213.txt item: #194 of 612 id: jsbs-2130 author: None title: Rural Entrepreneurship Success Factors: An Empirical Investigation in an Emerging Market | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 8692 flesch: 53 summary: Although rural small businesses play a significant role in emerging markets, most do not survive for more than five years and have a high failure rate (Deller & Conroy, 2017; Nikolić et al., 2019). Thus, knowing the critical factors that contribute to the success or failure of rural businesses is crucial to the attainment of sustainable development (Salder et al., 2020). keywords: business; entrepreneurship; et al; experience; f f; f n; factors; failure; google; google scholar; journal; lussier; model; n n; scholar; success cache: jsbs-2130.htm plain text: jsbs-2130.txt item: #195 of 612 id: jsbs-2131 author: None title: An Examination of Rural and Female-Led Firms: A Resource Approach | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 14043 flesch: 47 summary: Consequently, rural women entrepreneurs might face specific challenges in this regard which are worth examining. To name a few, a low endowment of resources, such as in financial capital (Kungwansupaphan & Leihaothabam, 2016), human capital (Prasad et al., 2013; Tambunan, 2009), and social capital (Prasad et al., 2013) are all necessary for entrepreneurial development for women rural entrepreneurs and may be lacking in these settings. keywords: business; capital; entrepreneurs; female; firms; funding; funds; google; model; odds; process; research; rural; scholar; time; value; variable; women cache: jsbs-2131.htm plain text: jsbs-2131.txt item: #196 of 612 id: jsbs-2132 author: None title: Lifestyle Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Rural Areas: The Case of Tourism Entrepreneurs | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 5838 flesch: 42 summary: https://doi.org/10.1068/d17910 Google Scholar Andersson Cederholm, E., & Hultman, J. (2010). https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250903442096 Google Scholar Arias, R. A. C., & Cruz, A. D. (2019). keywords: capital; entrepreneurs; et al; google; google scholar; innovation; journal; knowledge; place; scholar; tourism cache: jsbs-2132.htm plain text: jsbs-2132.txt item: #197 of 612 id: jsbs-2133 author: None title: Developing a Small Business Educational Program for Growing Rural Businesses | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 5170 flesch: 46 summary: Topics focused on developing an entrepreneurial orientation, as well as certain business fundamentals that were deemed critical to small rural businesses. The paper discusses a learning process used to create a strategy for the delivery of a certificate program as well as for creating a network for rural small businesses. keywords: business; certificate; communities; community; development; kansas; owners; participants; program; research; rural; small; state cache: jsbs-2133.htm plain text: jsbs-2133.txt item: #198 of 612 id: jsbs-2134 author: None title: Flexing the Leadership Muscle: An International Study of Entrepreneurial Resilience in Rural Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 8783 flesch: 45 summary: For small businesses who operate with more limited resources and a higher propensity of risk of failure (Herbane, 2010), there is no doubt a crisis such as this has called for extraordinary courage, resilience, and tough-mindedness by small business leaders beyond the ‘normal’ mini crisis states of small businesses (Elkington & Breen, 2015). The study also included interviews with the leaders of 4 business support organizations who have an important stakeholder role supporting small business leaders through the pandemic, not least providing information on government regulations and sign-posting to resources. keywords: business; business leaders; covid-19; crisis; data; et al; google; google scholar; information; journal; leadership; research; resilience; scholar; study; support; time cache: jsbs-2134.htm plain text: jsbs-2134.txt item: #199 of 612 id: jsbs-2135 author: None title: Small Business Development Centers and Rural Entrepreneurial Development Strategies: Are We Doing Enough for Rural America? | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 5183 flesch: 47 summary: In recent years, various efforts - both at a national and local level - have been taken to increase those opportunities for rural small businesses. In this paper, we seek to highlight some of the shortcomings of efforts aimed to help rural businesses. keywords: areas; business; clients; development; entrepreneurs; face; rural; sbdc; small cache: jsbs-2135.htm plain text: jsbs-2135.txt item: #200 of 612 id: jsbs-2136 author: None title: The Value of Social Media Advertising Strategies on Tourist Behavior: A Game-Changer for Small Rural Businesses | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 8131 flesch: 53 summary: Thus, we argue that social media ads will drive potential tourists to a business’s website. We extend these findings with our study results, reassuring rural businesses and organizations that using social media ads is worth the time and effort. keywords: advertisement; advertising; areas; businesses; consumption; engagement; facebook; google; maine; media; people; post; research; scholar; tourism cache: jsbs-2136.htm plain text: jsbs-2136.txt item: #201 of 612 id: jsbs-2137 author: None title: Why Small Deals Don’t Get Done: Evidence From Rural Entrepreneurs | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 8572 flesch: 56 summary: Why Small Deals Don’t Get Done: Evidence From Rural Entrepreneurs | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy Loading [Contrib]/a11y/accessibility-menu.js JSBS Menu Articles articles All For Authors Editorial Board About Issues Ethics Statement Sponsors search Sorry, something went wrong. https://jsbs.scholasticahq.com/feed × articles Vol. 31, Issue 4, 2021 November 16, 2021 CDT Why Small Deals Don’t Get Done: Evidence From Rural Entrepreneurs Jeff Stambaugh, Andy Yu, Deal Failure Valuation Economic Development ccby-4.0 • https://doi.org/10.53703/001c.29482 Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash JSBS Stambaugh, J., & Yu, A. (2021). keywords: business; cases; companies; company; deals; entrepreneurs; family; firms; g.f; google; investors; journal; potential; research; scholar cache: jsbs-2137.htm plain text: jsbs-2137.txt item: #202 of 612 id: jsbs-2138 author: None title: Fostering Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Choice of Location for New Companies in Rural Areas – the Case of Germany | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy date: None words: 6738 flesch: 42 summary: To understand why startups are more likely to locate their business in urban areas, it is necessary to take a closer look at determinants that affect the evaluation of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. Contemporary research on startup ecosystems generally focuses on urban areas and hubs such as Silicon Valley, Berlin, or Tel Aviv. keywords: 2019; activities; areas; development; ecosystems; entrepreneurship; figure; germany; google; google scholar; innovation; research; scholar; startups cache: jsbs-2138.htm plain text: jsbs-2138.txt item: #203 of 612 id: jsbs-214 author: Wan, Chun-Cheong; Justis, Robert T.; Busch, Paul title: Management Policy in Franchising Operations: A Preliminary Study date: 1990-01-02 words: 2611 flesch: 47 summary: From the previous discussion on climate, if multiple store climates exist, we hypothesize: There is a significant relationship between store climates and performance. There was no evidence to reject the first hypothesis that there is a significant relationship between store climates and performance. keywords: climate; factors; management; performance; store; work cache: jsbs-214.pdf plain text: jsbs-214.txt item: #204 of 612 id: jsbs-215 author: Ward, Edward title: A Measurement Model of the Economic Impact of Small Business Institutes date: 1990-01-02 words: 5238 flesch: 46 summary: Although the evaluation of SBDCs is tangential to this paper, it is enlightening to review several of the evaluations of small business assistance programs involving SBDCs, primarily at the state level. As Bettis concluded, such financial performance measures as are being advocated as out- puts of an SBI program are usually highly correlated, therefore data collection can be done in an economical and relatively unobtrusive manner (1). keywords: business; data; impact; journal; management; measures; model; program; sbi; small cache: jsbs-215.pdf plain text: jsbs-215.txt item: #205 of 612 id: jsbs-216 author: Hartman, Sandra J.; Lundberg, Olof; White, Michael title: Planning in Small vs. Large Businesses: Do Managers Prefer Different Tools? date: 1990-01-02 words: 5800 flesch: 64 summary: Small business planning may no simply be large business planning on a reduced scale. Hartman Olof Lundberg University of New Orleans Michael White University of Tulsa ABSTRACT Evidence that large and small businesses approach problems differently has raised ques- tions concerning the validity of applying large business prescriptions to small businesses. keywords: aids; business; hartman; information; level; management; planners; planning; processing; situations; use; volatility cache: jsbs-216.pdf plain text: jsbs-216.txt item: #206 of 612 id: jsbs-217 author: Holden, Alfred C. title: The Eximbank State/City Pilot Initiative for Small Business Exporters: Goals, Achievements and the Path Ahead for Export-Finance Support at the Local Level date: 1990-01-02 words: 5598 flesch: 43 summary: ng of Eximbank programs and services with the needs of states and municipalities. In advancing toward those objectives, the Louisville coordinator spent several weeks in Washington undergoing training in Eximbank programs and procedures. keywords: agencies; business; credit; effort; eximbank; export; exporters; fcia; finance; marketing; pilot; program; small; state; support; washington cache: jsbs-217.pdf plain text: jsbs-217.txt item: #207 of 612 id: jsbs-218 author: Hanks, Steven H. title: The Organization Life Cycle: Integrating Content and Process date: 1990-01-02 words: 5232 flesch: 49 summary: It has been developed by the author based on a review of literature associated with organization stages, and organiza- tion change. This model was synthesized through a careful review of ten recent models of organization life cycle stages (3). keywords: cycle; firm; growth; life; management; market; organization; product; stages; structure; systems cache: jsbs-218.pdf plain text: jsbs-218.txt item: #208 of 612 id: jsbs-219 author: Broida, Michael; Flora, Dainese title: The Status of Computerized Accounting Software in Small American Businesses date: 1990-01-02 words: 5505 flesch: 52 summary: From the previous discussion on climate, if multiple store climates exist, we hypothesize: There is a significant relationship between store climates and performance. There was no evidence to reject the first hypothesis that there is a significant relationship between store climates and performance. keywords: accounting; business; climate; companies; employees; factors; performance; software; store; system; work cache: jsbs-219.pdf plain text: jsbs-219.txt item: #209 of 612 id: jsbs-220 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-03 words: 1042 flesch: 30 summary: STRATEGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Gwen F. Fontenot Editorial Assistant Michelle Haarhues Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Dr. V. V. Bellur California State University-Bakersfield Dr. James Carland, Jr. Western Carolina University Dr. Jo Ann C. Carland Western Carolina University Dr. Donald Clause University of West Rorida Dr. Richard Dailey University of Montana Dr. Saul Diamond University of Northern Iowa Dr. Wilke English The University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Fred Fry Bradley University Dr. Robert Kemp Drake University Dr. Robert Kerber Illinois State University Mr. Chris Kobler Small Business Administration Dr. Joe Latona University of Akron Dr. Binshan Lin Louisiana State University-Shreveport Dr. James Paradiso National Louis University Dr. John N. Pearson Arizona State University Dr. George Rimler Virginia Commonwealth University Dr. Robert Rose Central Missouri State University Dr. Howard Rudd College of Charleston Dr. Homer Saunders University of Central Arkansas Dr. Leo Simpson Eastern Washington University Dr. Joe Singer University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Matthew Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. George Solomon Small Business Administration Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Mark Weaver University of Alabama A publication of the Small Business Administration and the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation. John N. Pears on is Associate Professor of Purchasing and Logistics Management at Arizona State University. keywords: business; management; professor; small; state; university cache: jsbs-220.pdf plain text: jsbs-220.txt item: #210 of 612 id: jsbs-221 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-03 words: 265 flesch: 61 summary: Several papers are in the revision phase and many new manuscripts continue to be submitted. STRATEGY EDITOR'S NOTE Serving as editorof the Journal of Small Business Strategy has proven to be more of a challenge than I had ever expected. keywords: journal cache: jsbs-221.pdf plain text: jsbs-221.txt item: #211 of 612 id: jsbs-222 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-03 words: 100 flesch: 19 summary: Factors Influencing Success Val Miskin Jerman Rose 10 Requirements and Benefits of Implementing Just-In-Time Manufacturing for Small-Firm Manufacturers Stanley E. Fawcett John N. Pearson 27 The Effect of Operational and Strategic Planning on Small Firm Perfonnance Larry R. Watts Joseph G. Ormsby 36 A Proposed Capital Budgeting Technique for Liquidity Constrained Small Businesses John B.White Morgan P. Miles 47 Self-Employment Training Programs for the Poor Steven Balkin 58 Total Quality Management, Just-In-Time, and Their Effect on Small Manufacturers Feraidoon (Fred) Raafat Milton Chen STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author 1 New Venture Initiation: keywords: time cache: jsbs-222.pdf plain text: jsbs-222.txt item: #212 of 612 id: jsbs-223 author: White, John B.; Miles, Morgan P. title: A Proposed Capital Budgeting Technique For Liquidity Constrained Small Businesses date: 1990-06-03 words: 4635 flesch: 57 summary: The case for using discounted cash flow capital budgeting techniques by firms has been extensively studied in the past by business researchers (14, 8, 20, 1, 17, 13, 11,12, 6) and provides a common core in any number of financial management textbooks. A final explanation for the slow adoption of discounted cash flow models is that small firms have a shorter planning horizon. keywords: budgeting; capital; cash; debt; flows; payback; project cache: jsbs-223.pdf plain text: jsbs-223.txt item: #213 of 612 id: jsbs-224 author: Miskin, Val; Rose, Jerman title: New Venture Initiation: Factors Influencing Success date: 1990-06-03 words: 3852 flesch: 45 summary: It is the intent of this survey to identify and confirm the impact these variables have on the initiation and eventual success of new business ventures. Started new business venture since initial 42% 58% SBDC contact 2. keywords: business; entrepreneur; new; study; variables; venture cache: jsbs-224.pdf plain text: jsbs-224.txt item: #214 of 612 id: jsbs-225 author: Fawcett, Stanley E.; Pearson, John N. title: Requirements and Benefits of Implementing Just-In-Time Manufacturing for Small-Firm Manufacturers date: 1990-06-03 words: 8223 flesch: 44 summary: Fortunately, many of the elements of JIT production can successfully be applied to a small- firm manufacturing environment if the application is selective (5). The paper also discusses the findings of a survey of small electronic manufacturers and draws some conclusions about the underlying requirements of JIT production along with the numerous benefits that small manufacturers can achieve through JIT implementation. keywords: benefits; elements; firm; implementation; jit; maintenance; manufacturers; manufacturing; process; production; products; quality; system; time; total cache: jsbs-225.pdf plain text: jsbs-225.txt item: #215 of 612 id: jsbs-226 author: Balkin, Steven title: Self-Employment Training Programs for the Poor date: 1990-06-03 words: 5059 flesch: 55 summary: In 1982 CETA was discontinued and replaced by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), under which self- employment training programs continue to be funded. It may be true that the poor can be effectively encouraged to enter setfemptoyment through initiatives such as the above without the necessity of training programs. keywords: business; clients; development; employment; employment training; entrepreneurial; income; people; plan; programs; self; start; training cache: jsbs-226.pdf plain text: jsbs-226.txt item: #216 of 612 id: jsbs-227 author: Watts, Larry R.; Ormsby, Josheph G. title: The Effect of Operational and Strategic Planning on Small Firm Performance date: 1990-06-03 words: 3575 flesch: 38 summary: The clusters of strategic planning activities were drawn from the work of Hofer and Schendel (6). This does not, however, suggest that emphasis be placed solely on strategic planning activities. keywords: activities; interest; margin; performance; planning; relationship; strategic cache: jsbs-227.pdf plain text: jsbs-227.txt item: #217 of 612 id: jsbs-228 author: Raafat, Feraidoon (Fred); Chen, Milton title: Total Quality Management, Just-In-Time, and Their Effect on Small Manufacturers date: 1990-06-03 words: 3882 flesch: 46 summary: JIT manufacturing is a philosophy and a practice with a solid history of success in Japan and growing success in the U.S.. JIT is a manufacturing control system that impacts all sectors of a manufacturing enterprise. Common difficulties encountered in small businesses in their effort to implement TQM)JIT are examined. keywords: businesses; jit; management; manufacturers; manufacturing; production; quality; suppliers; system; time; tqm cache: jsbs-228.pdf plain text: jsbs-228.txt item: #218 of 612 id: jsbs-229 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-04 words: 525 flesch: 24 summary: Kc Jf Publication Staff Editor Dr. Gwen F. Fontenot Ernst & Young Editorial Assistant Michelle Haarhues University of North Texas Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Dr. V. V. Bellur California State University-Bakersfield Ms. Janet Bradshaw Troy State University Dr. James Carland, Jr. Western Carolina University Dr. Jo Ann C. Carland Western Carolina University Dr. Donald Clause University of West Florida Dr. Richard Dailey University of Montana Dr. Saul Diamond University of Northern Iowa Dr. Wilke English The University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Fred Fry Bradley University Dr. Robert Kemp Drake University Dr. Robert Kerber Illinois State University Mr. Chris Kobler Small Business Administration Dr. Joe Latona University of Akron Dr. Binshan Lin Louisiana State University-Shreveport Dr. James Paradiso National Louis University Dr. John N. Pearson Arizona State University Dr. George Rimler Virginia Commonwealth University Dr. Robert Rose Central Missouri State University Dr. Howard Rudd College of Charleston Dr. Homer Saunders University of Central Arkansas Dr. Leo Simpson Eastern Washington University Dr. Joe Singer University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Matthew Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. George Solomon Small Business Administration Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Mark Weaver University of Alabama A publication of the Small Business Administration and the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation. Dr. Robert Kemp SBIDA National Center Vice President-Programs College oi Business Administration Drake University University o( Central Arkansas, UCA Department oi Management P. O. Box 4983, Conway, AR, 72032 Des Moines, lA 50311 Phone (501) 450-5300 FAX (501) 450-5360 Phone (515) 271-2807 FAX (515) 271-2001 keywords: business; small; university cache: jsbs-229.pdf plain text: jsbs-229.txt item: #219 of 612 id: jsbs-23 author: Editor, JSMS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-20 words: 32 flesch: 58 summary: Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Table of contents Anonymous Journal of Small Business Strategy; Fall 2004/ keywords: permission cache: jsbs-23.pdf plain text: jsbs-23.txt item: #220 of 612 id: jsbs-230 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-04 words: 1272 flesch: 41 summary: Dr. Peng S. Chang (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) is Associate Professor of Manage- ment in the Department of Management, School of Business Administration and Economics, at California State University at Fullerton. Sometimes called the father of franchising, Dr. Justis has published over fifty articles in journals such as Academy of Man- agement Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of Small Business Strategy. keywords: business; management; marketing; small; university cache: jsbs-230.pdf plain text: jsbs-230.txt item: #221 of 612 id: jsbs-231 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-04 words: 136 flesch: 4 summary: STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author 1 Service Characteristics and Yellow Pages Advertising Effectiveness Kenny K. Chan Shekhar Misra 15 Don't Mistake Business Plans for Planning (It May Be Dangerous To Your Financial Health) Bill Parks Philip D. Olson Donald W. Bokor 25 Pricing Strategies and Fee Structures in Franchising Organizations Robert T. Justis Peng S. Chang Ben L. Kedia 35 Marketing Strategies for Small Service Businesses: Application of Expectations/Performance Gaps Timothy L. Wilson James M. Hainault 45 Assessing the Value of Professional Practices John Wallace George Stollings 56 The Benefits of the SBI Program: Perceptions of Former Students Gwen Fontenot Michelle Haarhues Lynn Hoffman 72 Strategic Planning and the Family Firm: An SBI Consulting Perspective Charles H. Matthews 81 Getting Started Overseas: Eximbank Working Capital Financing for Small Business Exporters Toni Lester keywords: business; sbi cache: jsbs-231.pdf plain text: jsbs-231.txt item: #222 of 612 id: jsbs-232 author: Wallace, John; Stollings, George title: Assessing the Value of Professional Practices date: 1991-01-04 words: 5485 flesch: 58 summary: The range of values is almost 200 percent for six rules of thumb commonly used to appraise professional practices. While market methods are potentially the easiest to apply, they are seldom used for professional practices because the market is too thin. keywords: assets; buyer; earnings; income; methods; percent; practice; professional; rate; valuation; value cache: jsbs-232.pdf plain text: jsbs-232.txt item: #223 of 612 id: jsbs-233 author: Parks, Bill; Olson, Philip D.; Bokor, Donald W. title: Don't Mistake Business Plans for Planning (It May Be Dangerous to Your Financial Health) date: 1991-01-04 words: 4319 flesch: 63 summary: STRATEGY Don't Mistake Business Plans For Planning (It May Be Dangerous to Your Financial Health) Bill Parks Philip D. Olson Donald W. Bokor University of Idaho ABSTRACT Most academic research concerning business plans suggests that business plans improve the performance of new firms, and virtually all textbooks related to small business advise entrepreneurs to prepare plans before starling a business. Furthermore, firms which prepared business plans were less profitable when entering the rapid growth phase than those which did not. keywords: business; complete; firms; percent; plan; planning cache: jsbs-233.pdf plain text: jsbs-233.txt item: #224 of 612 id: jsbs-234 author: Lester, Toni title: Getting Started Overseas: Eximank Working Capital Financing for Small Business Exporters date: 1991-01-04 words: 2047 flesch: 46 summary: Although Eximbank programs were primarily directed in the past towards helping large U.S exporters with proven international track records, the prospects for small business access to Eximbank financing has changed drastically over the past few years. STRATEGY Getting Started Overseas: Eximbank Working Capital Financing For Small Business Exporters Toni Lester Babson College ABSTRACT This article focuses on preexport financing options offered to small business exporters by the US. Export-Import Bank. keywords: business; eximbank; export; exporters; financing; program cache: jsbs-234.pdf plain text: jsbs-234.txt item: #225 of 612 id: jsbs-235 author: Wilson, Timothy L.; Hainault, James M. title: Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses: Applications of Expectations/Performance Gaps date: 1991-01-04 words: 3998 flesch: 47 summary: Implications conceivably could be dramatic; Sonfield indicated that 72 percent of the firms studied could identify a specific strategic decision as being importantin theirsuccess,and of this portion,61percent said thataspecificchangein marketing focus, operations, services, or product was the specific strategic move that was important (16). BACKGROUND Researchers and practitioners agree that service quality involves a comparison of percep- tions of performance and expectations prior to consuming the service (12). First, non-users appeared to have consistently lower perceptions of service quality than users had. keywords: business; clinic; customer; marketing; non; perceptions; quality; service; strategy; users cache: jsbs-235.pdf plain text: jsbs-235.txt item: #226 of 612 id: jsbs-236 author: Justis, Robert T.; Chan, Peng S.; Kedia, Ben L. title: Pricing Strategies and Fee Structures in Franchising Organizations date: 1991-01-04 words: 3190 flesch: 51 summary: This particular paper focuses on pricing strategies (retail prices charged to consumers) and the determination of franchise fees (payments made to 25 franchisors by franchisees) in retail franchising organizations- a group of businesses which has been ignored in small business research. As a result, most franc hi sors now avoid dictating consumer price structures to franch i sees. keywords: business; fees; franchising; percent; price; pricing; retail; table cache: jsbs-236.pdf plain text: jsbs-236.txt item: #227 of 612 id: jsbs-237 author: Chan, Kenny K.; Misra, Shekhar title: Service Characteristics and Yellow Pages Advertising Effectiveness date: 1991-01-04 words: 4443 flesch: 52 summary: Practical implications on how to make the most out of Yellow Pages advertising are discussed. The type and extent of Yellow Pages advertising, however, differs substantially across product classifications, and within product classes from one business to the next. keywords: advertising; business; directories; essential; information; media; medium; pages; service; source; study cache: jsbs-237.pdf plain text: jsbs-237.txt item: #228 of 612 id: jsbs-238 author: Matthews, Charles H. title: Strategic Planning and the Family Firm: An SBI Consulting Perspective date: 1991-01-04 words: 3885 flesch: 49 summary: In addition, considerable attention has recently been focused on the role women play in the management succession of family owned firms. Hopefully, research in these and other areas of family owned firms will enhance our understanding of the ability of these firms to survive through successive genera- tionsns, as well as provide insight into some of the sources of tension between the family and business systems of family owned firms. keywords: business; family; firm; interest; management; planning; succession; systems cache: jsbs-238.pdf plain text: jsbs-238.txt item: #229 of 612 id: jsbs-239 author: Fontenot, Gwen; Haarhues, Michelle; Hoffman, Lynn title: The Benefits of the SBI Program: Perceptions of Former Students date: 1991-01-04 words: 5280 flesch: 64 summary: Although SBI courses and consultations are sometimes approached differently among the participating schools, students who have participated in the program agree that they have benefitted from the experience. The types of cases analyzed in both Policy and SBI courses could have also impacted responses as to the usefulness of the SBIprogram. keywords: business; course; project; sbi; sbi course; sbi project; skills; students cache: jsbs-239.pdf plain text: jsbs-239.txt item: #230 of 612 id: jsbs-24 author: Editor, JSBS title: The Venture date: 2015-05-20 words: 495 flesch: 65 summary: 105 Book Review The Venture By Jeff Cox 1997 ISBN: 0694518581 Reviewed by Fred Fry, Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy Jeff Cox manages to put virtually every entrepreneurial concept in the novel and even includes some drama and occasional sex to keep you interested. keywords: book; business cache: jsbs-24.pdf plain text: jsbs-24.txt item: #231 of 612 id: jsbs-240 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-04 words: 716 flesch: 41 summary: Reward Stnttegies For Ftanchising Organizations Dr. Robert T. Justis (D.B.A., Indiana University) is Professor of Management and Director of the International Franchise Center at Louisiana State University. Dr. Jim Werbel (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is Associate Professor of Management at Louisiana State University. keywords: business; management; ph.d; university cache: jsbs-240.pdf plain text: jsbs-240.txt item: #232 of 612 id: jsbs-241 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-04 words: 313 flesch: 58 summary: Finally, we would like to acknowledge the support of Dwayne and Inez Andreas; their name is a part of our School of Business. We are particularly appreciative ol'he leadership given to Barry University by Inez Andreas, the Chair of our Board of Trustees. keywords: business cache: jsbs-241.pdf plain text: jsbs-241.txt item: #233 of 612 id: jsbs-242 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-04 words: 120 flesch: -44 summary: STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author i A Practical Approach to Determining When to Expand and When to Stabilize Sales Paul Dunn Leo R. Cheatham Carole Cheatham 16 Reward Strategies For hnchising Organizations Robert T. Justis Peng S. Chan James D. Werbel 24 Factors that Restrict Exports of Small and Medium-Sized Hrms: The Role of Export Hnancing Charlie E. Mahone, Jr. 35 A Longitudinal Study of the Utilization of Prsnluction Management Techniques by Small Electronics Brms Stanley E. Fawcett John N. Pearson 50 Are Small Businesses Phging Through the GAAPT Janet L. Dye James W. Carland Jo Ann C. Carland 56 Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Wholesale Sector: A Predictive Model David A. Baucus John C. Palmer Donald Gudmundson keywords: cheatham cache: jsbs-242.pdf plain text: jsbs-242.txt item: #234 of 612 id: jsbs-243 author: Fawcett, Stanley E.; Pearson, John N. title: A Longitudinal Study of the Utilization of Production Management Techniques by Small Electronics Firms date: 1991-06-04 words: 6154 flesch: 41 summary: Therefore, in addition to collecting longitudinal data for the original 40 production tools, the second survey also collected data on new production techniques that had come into popular use during the 1980s. The issues of primary interest during much of the competitiveness debate focused on how management was responding to the intensifying competitive challenge through the selection and use of management techniques designed to improve manufacturing efficiency. keywords: control; firms; inventory; management; manufacturing; production; quality; study; systems; techniques; tools; utilization cache: jsbs-243.pdf plain text: jsbs-243.txt item: #235 of 612 id: jsbs-244 author: Dunn, Paul; Cheatham, Leo; Cheatham, Carole title: A Practical Approach to Determining When to expand and When to Stabilize date: 1991-06-04 words: 5692 flesch: 53 summary: Tyebjee and others trace the stages of marketing strategies in growth firms and provide evidence of another reason that prices may be voluntarily reduced to achieve higher sales levels ( IO). 6 Achieving higher sales levels eventually requires a plant expansion. keywords: breakeven; business; costs; expansion; level; point; price; sales; total; variable cache: jsbs-244.pdf plain text: jsbs-244.txt item: #236 of 612 id: jsbs-245 author: Dye, Janet L.; Carland, James W.; Carland, Jo Ann C. title: Are Small Businesses Falling through the GAAP? date: 1991-06-04 words: 2432 flesch: 50 summary: STRATEGY ARE SMALL BUSINESSES FALLING THROUGH THE GAAP? Janet L. Dye James W. Carland Jo Ann C. Carland Western Carolina University ABSTRACT Professional accountants have tong recognized ihe need for a change in ihe reporring require- ments for small businesses because standard sening agencies focus on large firms and promulgate GAAPs which ignore special problems of small firms. There are additional problems in responding to small business needs. keywords: accounting; business; fasb; firms; needs; small cache: jsbs-245.pdf plain text: jsbs-245.txt item: #237 of 612 id: jsbs-247 author: Palmer, John C.; Baucus, David A.; Gudmundson, Donald title: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Wholesale Sector: A Predictive Model date: 1991-06-04 words: 4930 flesch: 46 summary: All three cities experienced popu- lation growth rates in excess of 70% and a more than five-fold increase in wholesale trade volume. It appears likely that wholesale trade firms will continue to favor suburban to central city locations. keywords: business; changes; firms; manufacturing; population; sales; trade; volume; wholesale; wholesaling cache: jsbs-247.pdf plain text: jsbs-247.txt item: #238 of 612 id: jsbs-248 author: Mahone, Jr., Charlie E. title: Factors that Restrict Exports of Small and Medium-sized Firms: The role of Export Financing date: 1991-06-04 words: 4283 flesch: 53 summary: Small firms also ranked their top five factors as important to very important, while the two larger sized firms did not view the factors as quite as important. Purpose aud Method Most studies have cited the lack of export financing as one of the major obstacles to exporting by small and medium-sized firms. keywords: business; companies; export; factors; financing; firms; loans; medium; types cache: jsbs-248.pdf plain text: jsbs-248.txt item: #239 of 612 id: jsbs-249 author: Justis, Robert T.; Chan, Peng S.; Werbel, James D. title: Reward Strategies for Franchising Organizations date: 1991-06-04 words: 3075 flesch: 52 summary: STRATEGY REWARD STRATEGIES FOR FRANCHISING ORGANIZATIONS Robert T. Justls Louisiana State University Peng S. Chan California State University, Fullerton James D. Werbel Louisiana State University ABSTRACT Franchising organizations have peculiar characteristics that distinguish them from other organizations. In view of this, incentive systems that are effective in some organizations may not be appropriate to franchising organizations. keywords: bonus; franchising; growth; level; market; organization; sales; stock cache: jsbs-249.pdf plain text: jsbs-249.txt item: #240 of 612 id: jsbs-250 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-04 words: 643 flesch: 27 summary: STRATEGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Lloyd D. Elgart Barry University Associate Editor Dr. Lillian Schanfield Barry University Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Mr. John Bebris Small Business Administration Dr. Don B. Bradley HI University of Central Arkansas Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Stephen Brown Eastern Kentucky University Dr. Sam Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. James Carland, Jr. Western Carolina University Dr. JoAnn C. Carland Western Carolina University Dr. Peng S. Chan California State University- Fullerton Dr. Donald Clause University of West Florida Dr. Richard Dailey University of Montana Dr. Paul Dunn Northeast Louisiana University Dr. Fred Fry Bradley University Dr. Steven Hanks Utah State University Dr. Rudy Kagerer University of Georgia Dr. Robert Kemp Drake University Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlanta University Dr. Joseph C. Latona University of Akron Dr. BinshanLin Louisiana State University- Shreveport Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. John Pearson Arizona State University Dr. Louis G. Pol University of Nebraska at Omaha Dr. Howard Rudd College of Charleston Dr. Homer Saunders University of Central Arkansas Dr. Pamela S. Schindler Wittenberg University Dr. Herbert Sherman Marist College Dr. Joseph F. Singer University of Missouri Dr. George Solomon Small Business Administration Dr. Matthew C. SonBteld Hofstra University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Howard Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. John Wallace Marshall State University A publication of Barry University and the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation. Copyright 1992 Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation. keywords: business; small; state; university cache: jsbs-250.pdf plain text: jsbs-250.txt item: #241 of 612 id: jsbs-251 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-04 words: 116 flesch: 49 summary: We are extremely grateful to Administrator Saiki for her contributions, and we look forward to the participation of other entrepreneurial leaders in future issues. Lloyd D. Elgart, D.B.A.,J.D.,Dipl. keywords: business cache: jsbs-251.pdf plain text: jsbs-251.txt item: #242 of 612 id: jsbs-252 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-04 words: 134 flesch: 13 summary: STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author I The Impact of Training and Development Activities on Small Technology Oriented Entrepreneurial Firm Performance Jeffrey S. Bracker Debra J. Cohen 15 SBI Intervention: An Old Problem —A New Perspective William T. Jackson George S. Vozikis Emin Babakus 31 The Small Business Screen: A Way to Evaluate Small Business Opportunities Jerry Kopf Henry H. Beam 39 The Formal and Informal Venture Capital Industry W. Keith Schilit 51 Developing Expert Systems for Small Business: An Application for Selecting A Legal Form of Organization Ronald S. Rubin James M. Ragusa SPECIAL SECTION 63 Opportunities for Small Business in the Global Marketplace Patricia F. Saiki. keywords: business cache: jsbs-252.pdf plain text: jsbs-252.txt item: #243 of 612 id: jsbs-253 author: Rubin, Ronald S.; Ragusa, James M. title: Developing Expert Systems for Small Business: An Application for Selecting a Legal Form of Organization date: 1992-06-04 words: 4450 flesch: 52 summary: Conclusions show that tire use of expert systems for sinai) business consulting offers an erpanded potential for relieving already overworked consult- ing staff tnembers, for offering clients quaiiry advice, and for providing a merhod of trainitig less e.rperienced consultants. The rapid acceptance of a branch of artificial intelligence (Al) known as expert systems has recently emerged from the realm of basic research into real-world business applications (Feigenbaum. keywords: application; business; client; decision; expert; knowledge; need; rules; sbdc; system; thc; user cache: jsbs-253.pdf plain text: jsbs-253.txt item: #244 of 612 id: jsbs-254 author: Latona, Joseph C. title: Flextime and the Compressed Work Week: Possible Strategies for Smaller Firms to Increase Employmee Performance and Satisfaction date: 1992-06-04 words: 2191 flesch: 58 summary: 'Compressed workweeks are work schedules in which the usual number of full-time hours are worked in fewer than five days. As a result the incidence of alternative work schedules has increased from a total in 1976 of 1,270,000 workers or 2.1% of all full-time non-farm wage and salary workers and in 1977 between 2.5 and 3.5 million employees on flexitime to double these amounts in 1987 (Nollen &. keywords: employees; firms; flexitime; level; retail; satisfaction; work cache: jsbs-254.pdf plain text: jsbs-254.txt item: #245 of 612 id: jsbs-255 author: Jackson, William T.; Vozikis, George S.; Babakus, Emin title: SBI Intervention: An Old Problem- A New Perspective date: 1992-06-04 words: 5970 flesch: 58 summary: Small business problems and stages of development. Sample The focus of this study was on all SBI clients (small business firms) and those student teams performing the counseling intervention from a southwestern university during one academic term. keywords: business; firms; intervention; journal; management; problems; program; research; sbi; small; stage cache: jsbs-255.pdf plain text: jsbs-255.txt item: #246 of 612 id: jsbs-257 author: Saiki, Patricia F. title: Special Section: Opportunities for Small Business in the Global Marketplace date: 1992-06-04 words: 977 flesch: 59 summary: OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL BUSINESS IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE Patricia F. Saikl, Administrator U.S. Small Business Administration As ihe chief execu&i&'e officer i&f ihe Small Business Administration, Patricia F. Saiki direns a compreliensive array of pri&grams and services designed ii& promote and expand U.S, small businesses. At the Small Business Administration we are working to promote greater participation by small business in the world market, working to overcome many of the principal obstacles that prevent small firms from doing business overseas. keywords: business; small; trade cache: jsbs-257.pdf plain text: jsbs-257.txt item: #247 of 612 id: jsbs-258 author: Schilit, W. Keith title: The Formal and Informal Venture Capital Industry date: 1992-06-04 words: 6089 flesch: 55 summary: 45 As indicated earlier, established venture capital companies have been devoting a larger portion of their portfolios to later stage investments at the expense of start-ups. Clearly, the investor-fund manager-investee situ- ation for venture capital investments is far different than it is for mutual fund investments in publicly-held companies, in which the research demands by the mutual fund manager are far less and the managerial assistance demands are virtually non-existent. keywords: business; capital; companies; firms; funding; funds; industry; investments; investors; management; new; stage; venture; venture capital cache: jsbs-258.pdf plain text: jsbs-258.txt item: #248 of 612 id: jsbs-259 author: Bracker, Jeffery S.; Cohen, Debra J. title: The Impact of Training and Development Activities on Small Technology Oriented Entrepreneurial Firm Performance date: 1992-06-04 words: 6478 flesch: 50 summary: He also found size a critical factor in strategic planning performance. The Role of Training and Development It seems clear that entrepreneurs who participate in strategic planning training programs 2 may overcome some of the problems inherent in planning. keywords: activities; development; entrepreneurs; firms; growth; industry; management; performance; planning; process; training cache: jsbs-259.pdf plain text: jsbs-259.txt item: #249 of 612 id: jsbs-260 author: Kopf, Jerry; Beam, Henry H. title: The Small Business Screen: A Way to Evaluate Small Business Opportunities date: 1992-06-04 words: 3346 flesch: 62 summary: Many people become small business owners by buying an existing business rather than starting a new one. Studies show that small businesses which use strategic planning perform significantly better than ones that do not (Ackelsberg & Arlow, 1985; Bracker & Pearson, 1986; Bracker, Keats & Pearson, 1988). keywords: ability; attractiveness; business; factors; market; restaurant; screen cache: jsbs-260.pdf plain text: jsbs-260.txt item: #250 of 612 id: jsbs-261 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-09 words: 478 flesch: 10 summary: I ake Dr. James Carland, Jr. Western Carolina University Dr. JoAnn C. Carland Western Carolina University Dr. Peng S. Chan California State University-Fullerton Dr. Donald Clause University of West Florida Dr. Richard Dailey University of Montana Dr. Paul Dunn Northeast Louisiana University Dr. Fred Fry Bradley University Dr. Steven Hanks Utah State University Dr. Rudy Kagerer University of Georgia Dr. Robert Kemp Drake University Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Joseph C. Latona University of Akron Dr. Binshan Lin Louisiana State University-Shreveport Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. John Pearson Arizona State University Dr. Louis G. Pol University of Nebraska at Omaha Dr. Howard Rudd College of Charleston Dr. Homer Saunders University of Central Arkansas Dr. Pamela S. Schindler Wittenberg University Dr. Herbert Sherman Mari st College Dr. Joseph F. Singer University of Missouri Dr. George Solomon Small Business Administration Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Howard Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. John Wallace Marshall State University 'A publication of Barry University and the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation. SX%aVX PK Publication Staff Editor Dr. Lloyd D. Elgart Barry University Associate Editor Dr. Lil1 inn Schanfield Barry University Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Mr. John Bebris Small Business Administration Dr. Don B. Bradley III University of Central Arkansas Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Stephen Brown Eastern Kentucky University Dr. Sam Bruno University of keywords: business; fax; state; university cache: jsbs-261.pdf plain text: jsbs-261.txt item: #251 of 612 id: jsbs-262 author: Editor, JSBS title: Letters to the Editor date: 2015-06-09 words: 352 flesch: 65 summary: I I, 1992 Dr. Thomas B. Box Pittsburg State University Department of Business Administration Pittsburg, KS 66762 Dear Dr. Botp 1 have your letter dated November 19, 1992 containing the idea we discussed recently. I wonder if anyone in the SBIDA would like to work with me in setting up some sort of central clearinghouse for shipping destinations and areas of need that could be publicized in the newsletters. keywords: editor cache: jsbs-262.pdf plain text: jsbs-262.txt item: #252 of 612 id: jsbs-263 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-09 words: 123 flesch: -78 summary: STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author 1 Beyond Survival: Reshaping Entrepreneurial Vision in Successful Growing Ventures Steven H. Hanks Leon R. McCarrey 13 Strategy Types and Small Firms'erformance: An Empirical Investigation A. Bakr lbrshim 23 Ventures Launched After Entrepreneurial Education Employment and Income Effects William C. Wedley Robert G. Wyckham 41 Ethical Compatibility of Small Business Owners/Entrepreneurs and Student Consultants Hamet Stephenson Sharon Galbraith 59 Empirical Implications for Small Business Drug Policies Dillard B.Tinsley Donald R. Curtis Geralyn McClure Franklin SPECIAL SECTION 71 Minority Entrepreneurs and the Future of the American Economy Dayton J. Watkins, Acting Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration 73 Basic Skills Deficiencies at Work: Perceptions of Small and Large Employers Geralyn McClure Franklin 89 Letters to the Editor keywords: business; small cache: jsbs-263.pdf plain text: jsbs-263.txt item: #253 of 612 id: jsbs-264 author: Hanks, Steven H.; McCarrey, L. R. title: Beyond Survival: Reshaping Entrepreneurial Vision In Successful Growing Ventures date: 1993-01-09 words: 5142 flesch: 50 summary: Effective management of organization growth requires new vision on the part of the Eirm's leadership. An excellent activity for translating growth vision into reality is updating the business plan, creating a chart to guide the firm's transition to the next stage of development. keywords: business; change; experience; firm; growth; new; organization; process; venture; vision cache: jsbs-264.pdf plain text: jsbs-264.txt item: #254 of 612 id: jsbs-265 author: Franklin, Geralyn McClure title: Basic Skills Deficiencies at Work: Perceptions of Small and Large Employers* date: 1993-06-09 words: 4177 flesch: 59 summary: Small businesses are the primary job generators in the United States economy, having created two-thirds of the new jobs between 1980 and 1986 (Szabo, 1990). Small businesses also hire the majority of young, older, minority, and female employees, groups that will continue to expand in the 74 future. keywords: .05; businesses; chi; employers; number; skills; square; training; workplace cache: jsbs-265.pdf plain text: jsbs-265.txt item: #255 of 612 id: jsbs-266 author: Curtis, Donald R.; Tinsley, Dillard B.; Franklin, Geralyn McClure title: Empirical Implications for Small Business Drug Policies date: 1993-01-09 words: 4459 flesch: 56 summary: EMPE.ECATEONS POIR SMIAE.E. BILJSENKSS DRIUG POILECEKS Donald R. Curtis Dillard B. Tinsley Geralyn McClure Franklin Stephen F. Austin State University ABSTRACT The results of empirical smdies of small and large businesses parallel each other regarding the characieristics of drug policies. Drug policies affect organizational performance, including improved productivity and reduced accidents. keywords: businesses; drug; employee; organizations; policies; policy; study; testing cache: jsbs-266.pdf plain text: jsbs-266.txt item: #256 of 612 id: jsbs-267 author: Stephenson, Harriet Buckman; Galbraith, Sharon title: Ethical Compatibility of Small Business Owners/Entrepreneurs and Student Consultants date: 1993-01-09 words: 5129 flesch: 60 summary: Prior studies that compared the ethical standards of business students versus business practitioners measured the ethical values of corporate executives and not those of small business owners (Arlow & Ulrich, 1980; Budner, 1988; Kassarjan & Kahn, 1989; Stevens, 1984; Sturdivant & Cocanougher, 1973). The majority of student consultants (65%) felt the company would keep the shutdown a secret, whereas the majority of small business owners (71%) thought the company would notify employees ahead of time. keywords: business; clients; company; consultants; ethical; sbi; small; student cache: jsbs-267.pdf plain text: jsbs-267.txt item: #257 of 612 id: jsbs-268 author: Ibrahim, A. Bakr title: Strategy Types and Small Firms' Performance An Empirical Investigation date: 1993-01-09 words: 2791 flesch: 58 summary: Small business strategies in different industry growth environments. The study of strategy types in the context of small business is an area of research that deserves greater attention. keywords: business; cost; firm; product; strategy; type cache: jsbs-268.pdf plain text: jsbs-268.txt item: #258 of 612 id: jsbs-269 author: Wedley, William C.; Wyckham, Robert G. title: Ventures Launched After Entrepreneurial Education Employment and Income Effects date: 1993-01-09 words: 5827 flesch: 55 summary: Of 73 graduates, 58 launched new ventures. Although Dimick (1986) did not find an association between entrepreneurship course participation and the eventual launching of new ventures, a number of other researchers have identified this relationship (Clark et al., 1984; Conner, 1985: keywords: business; employees; employment; number; participants; program; project; value; ventures; year cache: jsbs-269.pdf plain text: jsbs-269.txt item: #259 of 612 id: jsbs-271 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-09 words: 261 flesch: -26 summary: STR4TEGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions, Harahan, Louisiana Associate Editor Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Henry Beam Western Michigan University Dr. Don B. Bradley III University of Central Arkansas Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Stephen Brown Eastern Kentucky University Dr. Sam Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. Aaron Buchko Bradley University Mr. Donald Clause University of West Florida Dr. Richard Dailey University of Montana Dr. Mark Dollinger Indiana University-Bloomington Dr. Paul Dunn Northeast Louisiana University Dr. Fred Fry Bradley University Dr. Steven Hanks Utah State University Dr. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Rudy Kagerer University of Georgia (retired) Dr. Lawrence Klau Florida Atlantic University Dr. Joseph Latona University of Akron Dr. Binshan Lin Louisiana State University-Shreveport Dr. David Newton Westmont CoBege Dr. Mary Nicasuo Capital University Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. John Pearson Arizona State University Dr. Louis Pol University of Nebraska at Omaha Dr. Howard Rudd College of Charleston Ms. Pamela Schindler Wiuenberg University Dr. Herbert Sherman Marist College Dr. Joseph Singer University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Mauhew Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Howard Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. John Wallace Marshall State University A publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation Send subscription requests to G eral yn McC lure Franklin, Ph.D., SBID A Secretary- Treasurer, Stephen F. Austin State University, Dcpartmcnt of Managcmcnt and Marketing, Nacgodoches, TX, 75962- 9070. Annual subscriptions and back issues may be ordered at $ 15 each. keywords: state; university cache: jsbs-271.pdf plain text: jsbs-271.txt item: #260 of 612 id: jsbs-272 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-09 words: 178 flesch: 53 summary: Lloyd Elgart and Lillian Schanfield, former editors of the JSBS. The officers and members of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociauon (SBIDA) dedicate this issue of the Journal of Small Business Strotegy (JSBS) to Drs. keywords: journal cache: jsbs-272.pdf plain text: jsbs-272.txt item: #261 of 612 id: jsbs-273 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-09 words: 131 flesch: 23 summary: ST& 4'K TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author 1 Services Marketing for the Smaller Firm Edward W. Wheatley Ernest B.Uhr 11 Barter: A Small Business Strategic Option in a Weak Economy Mauhew Sonfield 17 Trade Show Planning: A Model and Tools for Maximizing Effectiveness Mary S. Sperm Leah Johnson Mel Adams Dawn Bendall 31 Flexible Benefits as a Strategic Tool: Supporting the Use of Human Resources as a Distinctive Competency Jeffrey S. Hornsby Donald F. Kuratko Douglas W. Naffziger SPECIAL SECTION 41 The Role of the Small Business Administration in Economic Resurgence Erskine B. Bowles 43 keywords: business cache: jsbs-273.pdf plain text: jsbs-273.txt item: #262 of 612 id: jsbs-274 author: Bowles, Erskine B. title: The Role of the Small Business Administration in Economic Resurgence* date: 1993-06-09 words: 871 flesch: 58 summary: , President Clinton has indicated that he expects this nation's economic resurgence to begin with small business. Second, we are leading the charge against unnecessary paperwork and reguhtions that inhibit growth and productivity in small businesses. keywords: business; sba; small cache: jsbs-274.pdf plain text: jsbs-274.txt item: #263 of 612 id: jsbs-275 author: Singer, Joe title: An Empirical Examination of Managerial Competencies Among Black Women Entrepreneurs and Black Women Corporate Executives* date: 1993-06-09 words: 6878 flesch: 27 summary: 'Ibe possibility for building effective soci~omic coalitions supportive of the training, positioning and development needs of black women, rests with a clearer understanding of the managerial competencies, styles and motive profiles of black women entrepreneurs and black corponue businesswomen. OBJECTIVES lite purpose of this paper is (1)to examine the managerial orientations and competencies of black women entrepreneurs compared to black businesswomen holding executive and managerial positions in large corporations, as well as (2) to explore the developmental needs of both groups in order to enhance the survival and growth of minority firms and inform management assistance consultants and educators regarding developmental factors among the largest potential pool of future black women entrepreneurs. keywords: ability; awareness; business; businesswomen; competencies; development; entrepreneurs; management; managerial; managers; managing; needs; skills; study; table; women; women entrepreneurs cache: jsbs-275.pdf plain text: jsbs-275.txt item: #264 of 612 id: jsbs-276 author: Potts, Andrew J. title: Cash Flow - The Oil That Keeps the Small and Family Business Organization Running Smoothly* date: 1993-06-09 words: 4157 flesch: 60 summary: SFiXi™i&aY CASH FLOW —THE OIL THAT KEEPS THE SMAI L AND FAMIE.V BUSINESS ORGANIZATION RUNNING SMOOTHLY~ Andrew J.Polls University of Southern Maine ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the imponance of cash flow and the purposes of uses of the Statement of Cash Flows. Two dt'forest methods of calculating cash flows from operations are presented along wi th a discussion ofways to i nterpret cash flows and how to plan for fiaure activity. keywords: balances; business; cash; company; flow; forecast; month; planning cache: jsbs-276.pdf plain text: jsbs-276.txt item: #265 of 612 id: jsbs-277 author: Wheatley, Edward W.; Uhr, Ernest B. title: Service Marketing for the Smaller Firm date: 1993-06-09 words: 4275 flesch: 52 summary: These regular meetings featured an equal dose of praise and analysis of ways of improving repair quality and customer service. All employees attended customer service seminars offered at a local community college and a program offered by a vendor of automotive replacement parts. keywords: business; customer; demand; dramatization; firm; management; marketing; owner; process; provider; repair; service; small; snd; strategies; time; work cache: jsbs-277.pdf plain text: jsbs-277.txt item: #266 of 612 id: jsbs-278 author: Sonfield, Matthew C. title: Barter: A Small Business Strategic Option In A Weak Economy date: 1993-06-09 words: 2642 flesch: 68 summary: How can l fully benefit from barter exchange membership? INTRODUCTION Humans have always engaged in baner, and the first prehistoric small businesses certairdy existed before the invention of money. TIte primary benefit of barter exchange membership to the member firm is the potential to increase sales volume. keywords: barter; business; cash; exchange; membership; sales cache: jsbs-278.pdf plain text: jsbs-278.txt item: #267 of 612 id: jsbs-279 author: Spann, Mary S.; Johnson, Leah; Adams, Mel; Bendall, Dawn title: Trade Show Planning: A Model and Tools for Maximizing Effectiveness date: 1993-06-09 words: 5459 flesch: 57 summary: Trade shows offer very tutracti ve invesnnent-payoff ratios for scarce markenng dollars. To reap these atnactive, cost-effective beneftts, however, requues that the small business manager plans egecnvely for trade shows. keywords: booth; business; firm; goals; leads; managers; number; sales; selling; shows; total; trade cache: jsbs-279.pdf plain text: jsbs-279.txt item: #268 of 612 id: jsbs-280 author: Hornsby, Jeffery S.; Kuratko, Donald F.; Naffizger, Douglas W. title: Flexible Benefits as a Strategic Tool: Supporting the Use of Human Resources as a Distinctive Competency date: 1993-06-09 words: 3656 flesch: 47 summary: Tlus paper focuses on a specific human resource management tool, flexible benefit plans (FBPS), which may help smafler firms auract and especially retain qualiTied workers. Figure I presents a model, based on Stoner and Fry's (1987)model, designed to illustrate the important considerations in using flexible benefit plans as a disunctive competency. keywords: benefit; business; competency; employees; fbps; firms; management; plan; planning; resources; use cache: jsbs-280.pdf plain text: jsbs-280.txt item: #269 of 612 id: jsbs-281 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-09 words: 507 flesch: 14 summary: STRATXGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Harahan, Louisiana Editorial Assistant Donna Gallagher St. Francis Xavier School Metairie, Louisiana Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Henry Beam Western Michigan University Dr. Don B. Bradley III University of Central Arkansas Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Stephen Brown Eastern Kentucky University Dr. Sam Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. Aaron Buchko Bradley University Mr. Donald Clause University of West Rorida Dr. Richard Dailey University of Montana Dr. Mark Dollinger Indiana University-Bloomington Dr. Paul Dunn Northeast Louisiana University Dr. Fred Fry Bradley University Dr. Steven Hanks Utah State University Dr. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Rudy Kagerer University of Georgia (retired) Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Joseph Latona University of Akron Dr. Binshan Lin Louisiana State University-Shreveport Dr. David Newton Westmont College Dr. Mary Nicastro Capital University Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. John Pearson Arizona State University Dr. Louis Pol University of Nebraska at Omaha Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Dr. Howard Rudd College of Charleston Ms. Pamela Schindler Whiuenberg University Dr. Herbert Sherman Marist College Dr. Joseph Singer University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Matthew Sonfield Hofsua University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Howard Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. John Wallace Marshall State University A publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation Send subscription requests to Randi Ellis, C.P.A.,SBIDA Secretary-Treasurer, Black Hills State University, 1200 University, Spcarfish, SD 57799-9006. Stephen F. Austin State University Drake University Dept. of Management and Marketing Department of Management Nacogdoches, TX 75962-9070 Des Moines, IA 50311-4505 Office: (409) 5684103 Office: (515) 271-2807 Home; (409) 569-7267 Home: (515) 223-6504 FAX: (409) 568-1600 FAX: (515) 2714518 Vice President-Publications BENTON (BUD) E. MILES, Ph.D. University of North Carolina —Greensboro AS S Esf Btyan School of Business and Economics 0od Department of Management and Marketing Greensbom, NC 27412-5001 Q3 Office: (910) 334-5691 B Home: (910) 288-1954 S t FAX: (910) 334-5580 keywords: fax; office; state; university cache: jsbs-281.pdf plain text: jsbs-281.txt item: #270 of 612 id: jsbs-282 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-09 words: 229 flesch: 42 summary: We appreciate the dedication ol'll mcmbcrs of thc Editorial Advisory Board and extend special thanks to those who are retiring from the Board. In addition, we welcome the ncw members o( the Board. keywords: board cache: jsbs-282.pdf plain text: jsbs-282.txt item: #271 of 612 id: jsbs-283 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-09 words: 149 flesch: 33 summary: STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author I Small Business Entry Strategies: An Integration of Technological Discontinuity and Industry Growth Potential Laurence G. Weinzimmer Robert K. Robinson Ross L. Fink 11 Management Buyouts and Small Business Performance: An Exploratory Examination and Research Agenda Garry D. Bruton J. Kay Keels Elton Scifres 21 Assessing the Impact of Operational Planning on Small Business Retail Performance LuAnn Rickeus Gaskill Howard E. Van Auken Hye-Shin Kim 37 Establishing the Value of a Business: How the Practitioners Do lt Fess Green Joel Worley A. Edward Corley 45 Strategic Implications of Current Small Business Waste Reduction Programs Masoud Hemmasi Lee Graf Kelly C. Strong Michael W. Winchell 57 Corporate Governance in the Small Firm: Prescriptions for CEOs and Directors Catherine M. Daily Dan R. Dalton SPECIAL SECTION Bridging the Gap Between Plan and Plan Fxecution Michael D. Ames keywords: business; plan cache: jsbs-283.pdf plain text: jsbs-283.txt item: #272 of 612 id: jsbs-284 author: Ames, Michael D. title: Rethinking the Business Plan Paradigm: Bridging the Gap Between Plan and Plan Execution* date: 2015-06-09 words: 3132 flesch: 61 summary: STRENGTHS OF THE NEW PARADIGM The New-Paradigm for business planning offers ways to cope with the three shortcomings of traditional business planning models. They are: a functional approach to business planning, a limited view of the processes that speed investment turnover, and physical asset myopia. keywords: approach; business; flow; new; paradigm; planning; step; work cache: jsbs-284.pdf plain text: jsbs-284.txt item: #273 of 612 id: jsbs-285 author: Weinzimmer, Laurence G.; Robinson, Robert K.; Fink, Ross L. title: Small Business Entry Strategies: An Integration of Technological Discontinuity and Industry Growth Potential date: 1994-01-09 words: 4525 flesch: 42 summary: Planning and financial performance in small business firms. With their accumulated resources, such firms may be in a position to exploit a technological discontinuity much more efficiently than smaller new ventures. keywords: business; competence; entry; firms; growth; industry; market; model; new; strategy; technology cache: jsbs-285.pdf plain text: jsbs-285.txt item: #274 of 612 id: jsbs-286 author: Bruton, Garry D.; Keels, J. Kay; Scifres, Elton title: Management Buyouts and Small Business Performance: An Exploratory Examination and Research Agenda date: 1994-01-09 words: 4168 flesch: 55 summary: A change in ownership of this magnitude suggests that agency may have an effect on small buyout performance. The use of market-based measures is not an option since buyout firms, as noted previously, are privately held. keywords: agency; business; buyouts; data; firm; industry; management; performance; research; sample; small cache: jsbs-286.pdf plain text: jsbs-286.txt item: #275 of 612 id: jsbs-287 author: Gaskill, LuAnn Ricketts; Van Auken, Howard E.; Kim, Hye-Shin title: Impact of Operational Planning on Small Business Retail Performance date: 1994-01-09 words: 6798 flesch: 51 summary: The sample segment of nonexistent basinesses warranted thc collection of subj ecti ve measures of business planning activities. Researchers, however, have found a lack of systematic planning in small business. keywords: activities; business; financial; firms; inventory; operational; owners; performance; planning; retailers; robinson; small; study cache: jsbs-287.pdf plain text: jsbs-287.txt item: #276 of 612 id: jsbs-288 author: Green, Fess; Worley, Joel K.; Corley, A. Edward title: Establishing the Value of a Business: How the Practitioners Do It date: 1994-01-09 words: 2924 flesch: 54 summary: Block (1985) conducted a survey of 39 small business owners and managers of which 10 used outside consultants to determine business value. This experience may lead them to prefer physical assets as a major indicator of business value. keywords: business; consultants; earnings; future; practitioners; valuation; value cache: jsbs-288.pdf plain text: jsbs-288.txt item: #277 of 612 id: jsbs-289 author: Hemmasi, Masoud; Graf, Lee A.; Strong, Kelly C.; Winchell, Michael W. title: Strategic Implications of Current Small Business Waste Reduction Programs date: 1994-01-09 words: 4349 flesch: 43 summary: Although convenience is frequently related to operating cost in small businesses, issues regarding the expense of waste reduction programs are of secondary concern to small business executi ves. In fack less than ten percent of small businesses include environmental management issues in their business planning (Nafziger /k Kuratko, 1991). keywords: businesses; management; managers; paper; percent; programs; recyclers; recycling; reduction; waste cache: jsbs-289.pdf plain text: jsbs-289.txt item: #278 of 612 id: jsbs-290 author: Daily, Catherine M.; Dalton, Dan R. title: Corporate Governance in the Small Firm: Prescriptions for CEOS and Directors date: 1994-01-09 words: 4664 flesch: 51 summary: 'Ihese include increasing the proportion of outside directors on the board, separating the positions of CEO and board chairperson, and increasing the level of stock holdings for officers and directors. Filling the boardroom with a preponderance of outside directors is believed to ensure more active discussion and debate, a greater pool of organizational resources, and more critical assessment of management's performance (Dan co & Jono vie, 1981;Math i le, 1988;Nash, 1988). keywords: board; ceo; corporate; corporations; directors; firms; governance; holdings; management; performance; stock; variables cache: jsbs-290.pdf plain text: jsbs-290.txt item: #279 of 612 id: jsbs-291 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-10 words: 274 flesch: -6 summary: STX6XGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Mabank, Texas Editorial Assistant Rebecca Gilmore Smith Eustace High School Eustace, Texas Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Dr. Henry Beam Western Michigan University Dr. Don B. Bradley III University of Central Arkansas Dr. Jeffrey S. Bracker University of Louisville Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Sam Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. Aaron Buchko Bradley University Dr. James Carroll Georgian Court College Mr. Donald Clause University of West Florida Dr. Richard Dailey University of Montana Dr. Mark Dollinger Indiana University-Bloomington Dr. Fred Fry Bradley University Dr. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Joseph Latona Ashland University Dr. Binshan Lin Louisiana State University-Shreveport Dr. Benton Miles University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. David Newton Westmont College Dr. Mary Nicastro Capital University Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. John Pearson Arizona State University Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Dr. Howard Rudd College of Charleston Ms. Pamela Schindler Whittenberg University Dr. Herbert Sherman Marist College Dr. Joseph Singer University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Richard Stapleton Georgia Southern University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seaule University Dr. Howard Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. John Wallace Marshall State University A publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation Send subscription requests to Randi Ellis, CPA., SBIDA Secretary-Treasurer, Black Hills State University, 1200 University, Spearftsh, SD 57799-9006. Annual subscriptions may be ordered at $20 each (U.S. dollars only). keywords: college; state; university cache: jsbs-291.pdf plain text: jsbs-291.txt item: #280 of 612 id: jsbs-292 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-10 words: 391 flesch: 50 summary: The authors published in this issue encourage small business owners to take a different approach —plan ahead. The lead article stresses the importance of developing a crisis management plan while the second article helps small business owners develop a plan to avoid or eliminate sexual harassment within the workplace. keywords: business; owners cache: jsbs-292.pdf plain text: jsbs-292.txt item: #281 of 612 id: jsbs-293 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-10 words: 108 flesch: 14 summary: SravxcF TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author I Is Your Smag Business Prepared for a Crisis? Frederic J. Hebert Neil Humphreys 15 Using Data from Court Cases and Employee Surveys to Design Sexual Harassment Policies Toni P. Lester 31 Financing Patterns of Minority-Owned Small Business Howard E. Van Auken Hayward D. Horton 45 Testing Prison Inmates for Entrepreneurial Aptitude Matthew C. Sonfield Robert J. Barbato SPECIAL SECTION 53 An Analysis of Sub-contracting Relationships Based on the Sub-contractor/Customer Technology Exchange Portfolio: Some Empirical Findings Corrado lo Storto 65 Mexico Beckons Mid-American Small Business: Prospect for University-Centered Export Trade Assistance Joe Singer Ray Siehndel keywords: business cache: jsbs-293.pdf plain text: jsbs-293.txt item: #282 of 612 id: jsbs-294 author: Lo Storto, Corrado title: An Analysis of Sub-Contracting Relationships Based on the Sub-Contractor/Customer Technology Exchange Portfolio: Some Empirical Findings* date: 1994-06-10 words: 4421 flesch: 49 summary: Nevertheless, the study provides the basis for more refined research that can enable researchers to provide useful guidelines for subcontracting and customer firm's technicians and managers to better model their collaborative relationships. 56 RESEARCH FINDINGS Table 2 shows the correlation matrix among the values of technology components for the main two customers. keywords: cluster; components; customer; firms; flow; procedures; process; product; sales; subcontractor; technology cache: jsbs-294.pdf plain text: jsbs-294.txt item: #283 of 612 id: jsbs-295 author: Singer, Joe; Siehndel, Ray title: Mexico Beckons Mid-American Small Business: Prospect for University Centered Export Trade Assistance* date: 1994-06-10 words: 4356 flesch: 62 summary: Mexico Business Monthly. Mexico Business Monthly. keywords: assistance; business; center; export; firms; goods; mexico; sales; states; trade; united; university cache: jsbs-295.pdf plain text: jsbs-295.txt item: #284 of 612 id: jsbs-296 author: Herbert, Frederic J.; Humphreys, Neil J. title: Is Your Small Business Prepared for a Crisis? date: 1994-06-10 words: 6047 flesch: 56 summary: One reason for the lack of attention to small business crisis management might be that the size of loss is thought to be smaller for small firms than for large companies. Guidelines are proposed for small business owners to use to anticipate crises that might +ect their firms and to effecnvely prepare for these events. keywords: business; business owners; crisis; crisis management; customers; employees; family; insurance; management; owners; plan; potential; problems; situations cache: jsbs-296.pdf plain text: jsbs-296.txt item: #285 of 612 id: jsbs-297 author: Lester, Toni P. title: Using Data From Court Cases and Employee Surveys to Design Sexual Harassment Policies date: 1994-06-10 words: 7394 flesch: 48 summary: This research was undertaken to discover (I) what types of harassment prompted the courts of appeal to decide to review sexual harassment cases on appeal, and (2) if there was any relationship between the type of harassment reviewed on appeal and the employer's chances of winning or losing a sexual harassment lawsuit. STRATXGY USING DATA FROM COURT CASES AND EMPLOYEE SURVEYS TO DESIGN SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICIES Toni P. Lestero Babson College ABSTRACT Study afier study shows that sexual harassment is a problem that threatens to undermine many of thei nroads made by working womenin the last three decades. keywords: cases; conduct; court; employee; harassment; merit; percent; study; supervisor; women; worker cache: jsbs-297.pdf plain text: jsbs-297.txt item: #286 of 612 id: jsbs-298 author: Van Auken, Howard E.; Horton, Hayward title: Financing Patterns of Minority-Owned Small Business date: 1994-06-10 words: 5478 flesch: 50 summary: 31 Van Auken, Gaskill, and Kao (forthcoming) examine the financing patterns among women- owned small firms. The resultsindictue that minority firms that experienced digicultyin obtaining iniu'al capital conti nue to experience financial problems relating to operations. keywords: business; capital; debt; equity; firms; minority; owners; percent cache: jsbs-298.pdf plain text: jsbs-298.txt item: #287 of 612 id: jsbs-299 author: Sonfield, Matthew C.; Barbato, Robert J. title: Testing Prison Inmates for Entrepreneurial Aptitude date: 1994-06-10 words: 2971 flesch: 51 summary: Sffz*;iiXcY TESTING PRISON INMATES FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL APTITUDE Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Robert J. Barbato Rochester Institute of Technology ABSTRACT A pilot study of prison inmates was conducted to measure their entrepreneurial apti tude, wi th the obj ecti ve ofdetermining whether self employment training for such inmates would be of value. Recent experiences of small business specialists have indicated that prison inmates may possess high levels of entrepreneurial aptitude (Sonfield, 1992). keywords: employment; entrepreneurs; growth; inmates; prison; sample; score; self cache: jsbs-299.pdf plain text: jsbs-299.txt item: #288 of 612 id: jsbs-300 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-10 words: 290 flesch: 5 summary: ST~T'Z'aY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Joe Singer University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Editorial Assistant Chad M. Nelson Lazard Brothers tk Co., Ltrk London, England Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David M. Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Dr. Chi Anyansi-Archibong Noah Carolina AdtT State University Dr. Henry Beam Western Michigan University Dr. Jeffrey Bracker University of Louisville Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Sam J. Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. Aaron Buchko Bradley University Dr. James J. Carroll Ceorgian Court College Dr. Ann Dickson Community College of Rhode Island Dr. Mare Dollinger Indiana University-Bloomington Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Dr. Fred L. Fry Bradley University Dr. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Charles Kuehl University of Missouri-St. Louis Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. David Newton Westmont College Dr. Mary Nicastro Capital University Dr. Inge Nickerson Bany University Dr. John Pearson Arizona State University Dr. Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Ms. Pamela Schindler Wiuenberg University Dr. Herbert Sherman Marist College Dr. Rodney Sherman Central Missouri State University Dr. Richard J. Stapleton Georgia Southern University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Howard E. Van Auken iowa State University Dr. George Vozikis The Citadel Dr. John Wallace Marshall University A publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation Send subscription requests to Randalei Ellis, C.P.A., SBIDA Secretary-Treasurer, Black Hills State University, 1200 University, USB 9006, Spearftsh, SD 57799-9006. Annual subscriptions may be ordered at $20 each (U.S. dollars only). keywords: college; state; university cache: jsbs-300.pdf plain text: jsbs-300.txt item: #289 of 612 id: jsbs-301 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-10 words: 227 flesch: 49 summary: of Smail Business S&raregy, wc would welcome letters to thc Editor, notes and comments on issues facing small business, review of ncw books in the field and insightl'ul casework or counseling notes. We arc mindful of the outstanding contributions of previous editors and sponsoring organizations and expect to carry on the practical nature, as well as sound methodological research procedures comprising thc Journal's contcne Wc have leamcd that in publishing a journal, like success in small business, there arc no shon-cuts. keywords: business cache: jsbs-301.pdf plain text: jsbs-301.txt item: #290 of 612 id: jsbs-302 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-10 words: 130 flesch: 37 summary: A Pilot Study Thomas D. Clark Anhur J. Shriberg Stephen R. Wester 21 There Are Few Differences Between Successful and Failed Small Businesses Robert N. Lussicr Joel Corman 35 The Relationship Between Planning and Information Source/Media Used by Small Firms John R. Pearson Larry R. Smeltzer Gait Farm Thomas 53 Self-Actualization: The Zenith of Entrepreneurship James W. Carland, Jr. JoAnn C. Carland James W. Carland, ill 67 Uganda Entrepreneurs: Why are They in Business? Edward D. Bewayo 79 The Americans With Disabilities Act: What it Means to Small Business Owners Kathleen C. Brannen Terrence M. Begley 93 The SBI Program and Student Outcomes: A Study of Business Policy Classes William T. Jackson Larry Watts 1 Preparing Small Business for Workforce 2000: keywords: business; carland cache: jsbs-302.pdf plain text: jsbs-302.txt item: #291 of 612 id: jsbs-303 author: Clark, Thomas; Shriberg, Arthur; Wester, Stephen R. title: Preparing Small Business for Workforce 2000: A Pilot Study date: 1995-01-10 words: 8082 flesch: 58 summary: Given the tentauve steps small business owners have taken in response to the growing diversity of the workforce, small business educators need to take the lead in I) inl'orming small business managers of the realities of the new workforce, and 2) explaining ihe rauonale for promoting workforce diversity and the steps to take in implementing a diversity program. The labor force's projected growth of female, mature, non-white, Hispanic, and Asian populations suggest that small business managers will need to educate themselves on how to adjust their business practices to manage and motivate culturally distinct employees. keywords: business; cincinnati; diversity; employees; face; jamieson; johnston; managers; new; number; owners; packer; percent; small; women; workers; workforce cache: jsbs-303.pdf plain text: jsbs-303.txt item: #292 of 612 id: jsbs-304 author: Lussier, Robert N.; Corman, Joel title: There Are Few Differences Between Successful and Failed Small Businesses date: 1995-01-10 words: 4982 flesch: 62 summary: er 90 F - N N F F N — F F F F — F Coo er 91 F - F N - F F - N N N N F F Crauford F F F N N DE 8 st F F F F F Vlahuin F F F V - F - F Daskrll 93 N F F F F F N - - N — - — — F loan V N N F F Kenned F F F F La u z o n F F F F F Nc uorn F F F F 8 no 1 de 8'1 F F F N F N Business failures are firms involved in court proceedings or voluntary actions involving losses to creditors. keywords: business; chance; f f; f n; failure; firms; literature; owners; sample; study; success; variables cache: jsbs-304.pdf plain text: jsbs-304.txt item: #293 of 612 id: jsbs-305 author: Pearson, John N.; Smeltzer, Larry R.; Thomas, Gail Fann title: The Relationship Between Planning and Information Source/Media Used by Small Firms date: 1995-01-10 words: 6324 flesch: 49 summary: Implications for future research and small business managers are presented. Do small business managers who are more sophisticated planners use different information sourceshnedia than less sophisticated planners? keywords: business; ement; firms; information; information sources; internal; managers; media; performance; personal; planning; research; sources; study; use cache: jsbs-305.pdf plain text: jsbs-305.txt item: #294 of 612 id: jsbs-306 author: Carland, Jr., James W.; Carland, Jo Ann C.; Carland, III, James W. (Trey) title: Self-Actualization: The Zenith of Entrepreneurship date: 1995-01-10 words: 4762 flesch: 58 summary: Entrepreneurs are more than nonconformists: They are mildly sociopathic, Journal of Creative Behavior, 21(3), 202-213. Winslow, E.K. & G.T. Solomon (1989) Further development of a descriptive profile of entrepreneurs, Journal of Creative Behavior, 23, 149-161. Other entrepreneurs, those with strong drive, will exhibit different behavior. keywords: business; carland; drive; entrepreneurs; esteem; needs; questions; self; venture cache: jsbs-306.pdf plain text: jsbs-306.txt item: #295 of 612 id: jsbs-307 author: Bewayo, Edward D. title: Uganda Entrepreneurs: Why Are They In Business date: 1995-01-10 words: 4360 flesch: 64 summary: Probably the vast majority of Uganda small business owners are not in business to become millionaires (very wealthy), but just to make a living. Accordingly, Uganda's model of entrepreneurship and its development may contain unique features, not selling family businesses being one of them. keywords: business; entrepreneurs; family; respondents; table; total; uganda cache: jsbs-307.pdf plain text: jsbs-307.txt item: #296 of 612 id: jsbs-309 author: Brannen, Kathleen C.; Begley, Terrence M. title: The Americans with Disabilities Act: What it Means to Small Business Owners date: 1995-01-10 words: 4692 flesch: 54 summary: Thc business owner should consider two categories of changes for complying with thc ADA: (I) hiring disabled employees, and (2) serving disabled customers. PROVIDING PUBLIC ACCESS DeCini ion-Public Accommodauon Public Accommodations and Services Operated by Private Entities is covered by Title III of thc ADA. keywords: access; accommodation; act; ada; americans; business; disabilities; disability; disabled; employees; job; owner; task; thc cache: jsbs-309.pdf plain text: jsbs-309.txt item: #297 of 612 id: jsbs-31 author: Walters, Bruce A.; Priem, Richard L.; Shook, Christopher L. title: Small Business Manager Scanning Emphases and the Dominant Logic of the Business-level Strategy date: 2004-05-20 words: 7320 flesch: 48 summary: Nonetheless, some of our findings demonstrated hypothesized links between strategy and small business manager scanning, but some of these linkages were not apparent. Other early research on environmental scanning demonstrated that small business managers tend to scan a wide variety of information sources (Junh & Lacho, 1975), but have lower levels of resources available for information gathering (Golde, 1964 ). keywords: attention; business; cost; environment; firm; information; level; management; managers; permission; porter; research; scanning; sectors; strategy cache: jsbs-31.pdf plain text: jsbs-31.txt item: #298 of 612 id: jsbs-310 author: Watts, Larry R.; Jackson, William T. title: The SBI Program and Student Outcomes: A Study of Business Policy Classes date: 1995-01-10 words: 3448 flesch: 56 summary: Their study comparing the effectiveness of Small Business Institute (SBI) courses and Business Policy courses in developing desired student skills indicated that policy courses were more effective in developing analytical skills and that SBI courses were more effective in developing interpersonal and operauonal skills. A modified version of this instrument was later used by Fontenot, Haarhues and HolTman 94 (1991) to compare the skills and knowledge acquired in SBI courses and Business Policy courses. keywords: business; classes; course; job; policy; sbi; skills; small; students; work cache: jsbs-310.pdf plain text: jsbs-310.txt item: #299 of 612 id: jsbs-312 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-10 words: 285 flesch: 38 summary: Missouri Fditorial Advisory Board Dr. David M. Ambrose University ol Nebraska-Omaha Dr. Chi Anyansi-Archibong North Carolina AkT State University Dr. Henry Beam Western Michigan University Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Sam J. Bruno University ol'ouston-Clear Lake Dr. Aaron Buchko Bradley University Dr. James J. Carroll Georgian Court College Dr. Ann Dickson Community College of Rhode Island Dr. Mark Dollinger Indiana University-Bloomington Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Dr. Fred L. Fry Bradley Umversity Dr. Lynn Ho(l'man University ol'orthern Colorado Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Charles Kuehl University of Missouri-St. Louis Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. David Newton Westmont College Dr. Mary Nicastro Capital Umversiiy Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. John Pearson Arizona State University Dr. Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Ms. Pamela Schindler Winenberg University Dr. Herbert Sherman Marist College Dr. Richard J. Stapleton Georgia Southern University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seanle University Dr. Howard E. Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. George Vozikis The Citadel Dr. John Wallace Marshall University STRATEGY Publication Staff Fditor Dr. Joe Singer Umversity of Missoun Kansas City, Missouri Editorial Assistant David K. Hensley University ol Missouri Kansas City. keywords: college; state; university cache: jsbs-312.pdf plain text: jsbs-312.txt item: #300 of 612 id: jsbs-313 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-10 words: 369 flesch: 42 summary: Professor Scherr shows how small businesses can adopt and modil'y traditional credit management strategies while outsourcing others to costly to be cffcctivcly supported. Addressing thc ridiculous burdens placed on small businesses hy litigation cxpcnscs, Mare Lampc and Scth Ellis show how small I'irms can avoid costly litigation by resolving disputes through mediation and arbitration. keywords: article; business cache: jsbs-313.pdf plain text: jsbs-313.txt item: #301 of 612 id: jsbs-314 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-10 words: 138 flesch: 28 summary: I A Scorecard for Small Business Performance Roy A. Cook Janet Bear Wolverton 19 How Accounting Firms Can Help The Small Business Owner Carel M. Wolk Charles W Wootton 33 Credit Management Strategies for Small Firms Frederick C. Scherr 47 Strategy as a Determinant of the Perceived Value of Outsider Assistance to New Ventures: An Exploratory Study James J. Chnsman George W. Danforth 69 Small Business Transformation: The MEDS Approach Ravi S. Behara David E. Gunderscn 85 Resolving Small Business Disputes Through Mediation Merc Lampe Scth R. Ellis 97 Lessons for Small Business: Incentive Health Care and Risk Rating Practices Suzanne Milburn Ray D. Siehndel Joe Singer 109 A Comparison of Small and Large Business Managers'ttitudes Towards Innovation and The Rule of Government in Promoting Technology Kelly C. Strong Michael Winchell keywords: business; strategy cache: jsbs-314.pdf plain text: jsbs-314.txt item: #302 of 612 id: jsbs-315 author: Cook, Roy A.; Wolverton, Janet Bear title: A Scorecard for Small Business Performance date: 1995-06-10 words: 6632 flesch: 55 summary: They also emphasize the important, but often overlooked, task of continuously gathering information critical to the I'uture success of thc business. I. Has the external environment in which thc business operates changed? keywords: analysis; budget; business; customers; employees; evaluation; marketing; measures; performance; plans; ratio; review; scorecard; thc; turnover; year cache: jsbs-315.pdf plain text: jsbs-315.txt item: #303 of 612 id: jsbs-316 author: Wolk, Carel M.; Wootton, Charles W. title: How Accounting Firms Can Help the Small Business Owner date: 1995-06-10 words: 5693 flesch: 56 summary: 19 achieve thcsc goals and ensure that thc small business remains compeiitivc. it is very important that thc small business owner usc an accounting firm that is knowledgeable in his or her industry. keywords: accounting; accounting firms; arc; area; audit; business; client; consulting; firms; help; owner; personnel; planning; public; services; statements; tax; thc cache: jsbs-316.pdf plain text: jsbs-316.txt item: #304 of 612 id: jsbs-317 author: Scherr, Fredrick C. title: Credit Management Strategies for Small Firms date: 1995-06-10 words: 4969 flesch: 60 summary: II' debtor places an order which results in its balance exceeding ihs crfxlit limit, cvcn though the debtor's account is not past duc, enforcement of thc credit limit requires that thc debtor make a payment to reduce the balance. thc credit I'unction particularly distasteful and avoid it (Grahowsky, 1976). keywords: accounts; arc; assessment; business; cash; collection; costs; credit; decisions; firm; granting; information; manager; risk; small; smith; strategies; thc cache: jsbs-317.pdf plain text: jsbs-317.txt item: #305 of 612 id: jsbs-318 author: Chrisman, James J.; Danforth, George W. title: Strategy as a Determinant of the Perceived value of Outsider Assistance to New Ventures: An Exploratory Study date: 1995-06-10 words: 8318 flesch: 57 summary: Since there was a lag of one year between when thc assistance was provided and when thc survey was conducted, such serious strategic errors would have undouhtahly affected perfonnance and been rc(1ected in client evaluations. Such rcsponscs suggcstcd that thc venture sought to dilfercniiatc its products or services based on some attribute other than prices or costs. keywords: administrative; arc; areas; assistance; benefit; business; clients; consultants; cost; journal; ncw; new; operating; outsider; outsider assistance; problems; sbdc; shortage; skills; strategic; strategy; study; thc; types; utility; value; ventures cache: jsbs-318.pdf plain text: jsbs-318.txt item: #306 of 612 id: jsbs-319 author: Behara, Ravi S.; Gunderson, David E. title: Small Business Transformation: The MEDS Approach date: 1995-06-10 words: 7133 flesch: 48 summary: Thc small business discussed next faces an increasingly turhulcm healthcarc, software, an&I technological environment. It helps idcntif'y opportunities that promote growth and promote long- term stability, thereby developing a sustained relationship between thc organization and its environment Two major aspects of strategy, strategy content and strategy making, need to be considered. keywords: approach; arc; business; change; claims; company; customers; dissipative; environment; equilibrium; formulation; future; healthware; management; market; model; ncw; new; organization; point; process; products; strategic; strategy; structures; systems; thc cache: jsbs-319.pdf plain text: jsbs-319.txt item: #307 of 612 id: jsbs-320 author: Lampe, Marc; Ellis, Seth R. title: Resolving Small Business Disputes Through Mediation date: 1995-06-10 words: 5372 flesch: 57 summary: In mediation thc parti«s must vi&luntarily and coopcrativcly resolve thc case with thc assistance ol' neutral thi&&l-party. Compensation f'rom an agrccmcm mcdiatcd carly in thc dispute may compme I'avorahly to thc nct amount rcccivcd I'rom a coun award, even with a large vc&d&ct. keywords: arbitration; business; cases; cost; court; disputes; journal; judicial; law; litigation; mediation; mediator; method; parties; party; process; research; resolution; respondents; thc cache: jsbs-320.pdf plain text: jsbs-320.txt item: #308 of 612 id: jsbs-321 author: Milburn, Suzanne; Siehndel, Ray D.; Singer, Joe title: Lessons for Small Business: Incentive Health Care and Risk Rating Practices date: 1995-06-10 words: 4684 flesch: 55 summary: Many argue that thcrc arc not measures ol'besity that are practical and rcliahlc enough to predict health risks. This paper examines the health cttre incentive measures and risk rett'ng practices perceived to be effective cost control meclumisms for small business firms, Conclusirms concerning a well-tlesigned incentive program are offered tvithin the contert r&f the Americans With Dtsabiliries Act. INTRODUCTION Large double-digit annual increases in health care costs have taken place over the last tcn to fifteen years resulting in proportional, profit-draining expenditures by nearly all American businesses (Hurri ingcr, 1985; Vickery, 1994). keywords: arc; behaviors; business; care; control; costs; employees; group; health; individual; insurance; medical; onc; plan; programs; rating; risk; standards; thc cache: jsbs-321.pdf plain text: jsbs-321.txt item: #309 of 612 id: jsbs-322 author: Strong, Kelly C.; Winchell, Michael title: A Comparison of Small and Large Business Managers' Attitudes Toward Innovation and the Role of Government in Promoting Technology date: 1995-06-10 words: 4064 flesch: 57 summary: These lactors arc thc uuributcs of thc innovation itself', industry characteristics, organization capabilities, the attitudes ol'hc society in which thc innovation is being devclopcd, and the def'inition ol an innovation's success. Many computer industry executives have voiced concern over thc government subsidized venture capitalism, arguing that the government should not put tax dollars toward potentially had invcstmcnts nor should it insulate stan-up companies I'rom market I'orces. keywords: business; government; h.r; industry; innovation; items; programs; research; responses; section; small; success; survey; technology; thc; total; u.s; werc cache: jsbs-322.pdf plain text: jsbs-322.txt item: #310 of 612 id: jsbs-325 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-11 words: 132 flesch: 47 summary: Seeing What's Not There: The Enigma of Entrepreneurship JoAnn C. Carland James W. Carland Wayne H. Stewart 21 A Business Success Versus Failure Prediction Model for Entrepreneurs with 0-10 Employees Robert N. Lussier Joel Corman 37 Diversity Managementin Small Businesses: An Exploratory Investigation of Attitudes and Actions Charles R. Stoner Richard I. Hartman Raj Arora 49 Influencing Government: What Do Small Firms Do? Karen R. France Paula F. Bone James W. F ranee 99 Assessing the Independence of the Board Chairperson: Fact or Fallacy? keywords: carland cache: jsbs-325.pdf plain text: jsbs-325.txt item: #311 of 612 id: jsbs-326 author: Carland, JoAnn C.; Carland, James W.; Stewart, Wayne H. title: Seeing What's Not THere: The Enigma of Entrepreneurship date: 1996-01-11 words: 7178 flesch: 55 summary: ·~-' • \ Schumpeter's view of entrepreneurial innovation was rooted in the classic theories of economists such as Say and Marshall (Hornaday, 1992). Others have discovered a higher propensity for risk taking among entrepreneurs (Sexton & Bowman, 1986; Carland, Carland, Carland & Pearce, 1995), particularly when confronted with business risk (Ray, 1986), but moderated by business experience, age, education, and type of business (Schwer & Yucelt, 1984). keywords: achievement; business; carland; entrepreneurship; innovation; need; personality; preference; propensity; risk; scale; scores; taking cache: jsbs-326.pdf plain text: jsbs-326.txt item: #312 of 612 id: jsbs-327 author: Lussier, Robert N.; Corman, Joel; Corman, Joel title: A Business Success Versus Failure Prediction Model for Entrepreneurs with 0-10 Employees date: 1996-01-11 words: 5230 flesch: 58 summary: The generic young nonfinancial business success versus failure prediction model for businesses with 0-10 employees developed in this study will reliably outperform random classification of a group of businesses as successful or 32 failed over 99% of the time (model p=.0006). Business failures are firms involved in court proceedings or voluntary actions involving losses to creditors. keywords: business; cooper; failure; firms; management; model; reynolds; sample; success; variables cache: jsbs-327.pdf plain text: jsbs-327.txt item: #313 of 612 id: jsbs-328 author: Stoner, Charles R.; Hartman, Richard I. title: Diversity Management in Small Businesses: An Exploratory Investigation of Attitudes and Actions date: 1996-01-11 words: 4747 flesch: 50 summary: Given the previous research and the paucity of small business diversity data, this study will focus on the following six research questions: I. In a follow-up study of200 companies that had participated in the 1990 survey, Towers Perrin found that over halfofthese companies had or were planning to implement programs to address workforce diversity (Towers Perrin, 1992). keywords: actions; businesses; diversity; efforts; employees; growth; management; respondents; study; workforce cache: jsbs-328.pdf plain text: jsbs-328.txt item: #314 of 612 id: jsbs-329 author: Cook, Ronald G. title: Influencing Government: What do Small Firms Do? date: 1996-01-11 words: 7465 flesch: 57 summary: Small firm CEOs also participated in press conferences that were held by the chamber, both as active speakers and as members of the audience. Therefore, consistent with these resource limitations, small firms generally believed it necessary to join with other small firms in order to influence government, as increased size was equated with increased political clout. keywords: business; ceos; chamber; data; firms; government; involvement; issue; policy; public; research; small; strategies; strategy cache: jsbs-329.pdf plain text: jsbs-329.txt item: #315 of 612 id: jsbs-33 author: Wright, Robert E.; Palmer, John C.; Perkins, Debra title: Types of Product Innovations and Small Business Performance in Hostile and Benign Environments date: 2004-05-20 words: 6189 flesch: 50 summary: However, little work has been done to evaluate how specific types of product innovation strategies affect financial performance in small businesses. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. TYPES OF PRODUCT INNOVATIONS AND SMALL BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IN HOSTILE AND BENIGN ENVIRONMENTS Wright, Robert E;Palmer, John C;Perkins, Debra Journal of Small Business Strategy; Fall 2004/Winter 2005; 15, 2; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. keywords: business; environment; firms; innovation; journal; lines; management; new; performance; product; strategy cache: jsbs-33.pdf plain text: jsbs-33.txt item: #316 of 612 id: jsbs-330 author: Wright, Robert E.; Palmer, John C. title: Estimating the Long-term Contributions of Small Buisness Marketing Expenditures date: 1996-01-11 words: 4781 flesch: 44 summary: ·~ ESTIMATING THE LONG-TERM CONTRIBUTIONS OF SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING EXPENDITURES Robert E. Wright John C. Palmer University of Illinois at Springfield ABSTRACT While small business owners and managers typically recognize the long-term benefits of many types of capital expenditures. This paper introduces and examines three relatively low-cost approaches that small business owners may use as aids in estimating the aggregate value of marketing expenditures. keywords: business; customer; expenditures; marketing; owners; periods; technique; term; use cache: jsbs-330.pdf plain text: jsbs-330.txt item: #317 of 612 id: jsbs-331 author: France, Karen Russo; Bone, Paula Fitzgerald; France, James W. title: Small Businesses and Comparison Advertising Strategies: Is it Worth the Risk? date: 1996-01-11 words: 8141 flesch: 56 summary: The Third Circuit concluded that the actual malice standard does not apply to false commercial speech such as that contained in comparative advertisementsof competing companies. The question of whether the New York Times actual malice standard of proofapplies to disparagirg statements made in product advertisements or whether such commercial speech is entitled to less First Amendment protection was finally addressed by the Third Circuit in U.S. Healthcare. 88 Inc. v. Blue Cross of Greater Philadelphia(l 990). keywords: ads; advertisement; advertising; amendment; blue; business; commercial; comparison; court; inc; law; new; plaintiff; public; speech; u.s cache: jsbs-331.pdf plain text: jsbs-331.txt item: #318 of 612 id: jsbs-332 author: Daily, Catherine M.; Dalton, Dan R. title: Assessing the Independence of the Board Chairperson: Fact or Fallacy? date: 1996-01-11 words: 6115 flesch: 56 summary: The primary rationale driving this action is that board chairpersons who do not also serve as CEO are believed to be more independentfromjirm managementthan are those board chairpersons who also serve as CEO. The popular press has recently documented an increased attention to CE Os who concurrently serve as board chairperson (joint board leadership structure) in their firms. keywords: board; business; ceo; chairperson; equity; firm; independence; joint; leadership; management; structure; tenure cache: jsbs-332.pdf plain text: jsbs-332.txt item: #319 of 612 id: jsbs-333 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-11 words: 304 flesch: 20 summary: STRATEGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Joe Singer University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Associate Editor Gary R. Hazeltine Professional Support Services Olathe, Kansas Editorial Assistant David K. Hensley University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David M. Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Dr. Chi Anyansi-Archibong North Carolina AlkT State University Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Sam J. Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. James J. Carroll Georgian Court College Ms. Sally A. Charles Purchasers Representative Dr. Ron Cook Rider University Dr. Richard T. Dail ey University of Montana Dr. Dale Dickson Mesa State College Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Dr. Fred L. Fry Bradley University Dr. Joseph J. Geiger University of Idaho Dr. Frederick D. Greene Manhattan College Dr. Lynn HolTman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Bill Jackson Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Kenneth J. Lacho University of New Orleans Dr. Thomas J. Liesz Western State College Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Richard J. Stapleton Georgia Southern University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Howard E. Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. George Vozikis The Citadel Dr. John Wallace Marshall University A joint publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation and the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. keywords: state; university cache: jsbs-333.pdf plain text: jsbs-333.txt item: #320 of 612 id: jsbs-334 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-11 words: 405 flesch: 41 summary: Their willingness to allow the use of the case by small business educators and provide an instructional (I '/~ hour) video is a very encouraging precedent in sharing educational materials in small business management education. Publishingthree issues per year will permit the inclusion of a variety of manuscripts, as well as, case studies for the Small Business Management Educator. keywords: business; case cache: jsbs-334.pdf plain text: jsbs-334.txt item: #321 of 612 id: jsbs-335 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-11 words: 123 flesch: 31 summary: An Exploratory Study Ronald G. Cook 29 Addressingthe Work-life interface: Strategic lmplicationsfor Small Business Sarah W. Jacobson Harriette S. McCaul 45 An Approach to Reducing Accounting Costs for Small Businesses J. Gregory Bushong David W. Cornell 59 How Forbes 200 Companies Create and Use Mission Statements H. Lon Addams William H. Baker Brian Davis SPECIAL SECTION 77 Skyline Chili: A Case for Small Business Growth and Management Daewoo Park Hema A. Krishnan 91 Teaching Note: The Skyline Chili Case Daewoo Park Hema A. Krishnan keywords: krishnan cache: jsbs-335.pdf plain text: jsbs-335.txt item: #322 of 612 id: jsbs-336 author: Krishnan, Hema A. title: Skyline Chili: A Case for Small Business Growth and Management date: 1996-06-11 words: 3489 flesch: 58 summary: Recognizing the preponderance and relative impact of small businesses as major contributors to job creation and economic growth, academic research on small business management practice has grown dramatically over the past decade. Presenting the past and present of Skyline Chili, therefore, this study examines the topic of small business growth and management. keywords: business; chili; cincinnati; company; growth; income; management; net; skyline cache: jsbs-336.pdf plain text: jsbs-336.txt item: #323 of 612 id: jsbs-337 author: Park, Daewoo; Krishnan, Hema A. title: Teaching Note: Suggestions for Using the Skyline Chili Case date: 1996-06-11 words: 997 flesch: 57 summary: Can Skyline Chili executives stand the tests of time and growth? Skyline Chili's financial management is very conservative. Because Skyline Chili is competing in a fragmented industry, the case also fits into a discussion of formulating and implementing sustained, profitable growth strategy in fragmented industries. keywords: chili; skyline; strategy cache: jsbs-337.pdf plain text: jsbs-337.txt item: #324 of 612 id: jsbs-338 author: Ogson, Philip D.; Gough, Newell; Bokor, Donald W. title: Pre-Export Planning and Start-up Export Performance for Small Electronics Manufacturers date: 1996-06-11 words: 6620 flesch: 52 summary: HI: Level of formal export planning is positively related to export performance for small Iirms that operate in a dynamic environment and that have growth as a goal. Information used to measure each firm's level of export formal planning was obtained by asking each survey participant to respond to two questions. keywords: business; export; exporting; firms; intensity; journal; level; management; performance; planning; research; strategic; strategy; study cache: jsbs-338.pdf plain text: jsbs-338.txt item: #325 of 612 id: jsbs-339 author: Cook, Ronald G. title: Small and Medium-sized Firms' First Interaction with Government: An Exploratory Study date: 1996-06-11 words: 5235 flesch: 54 summary: Further, these studies do not examine what triggers the firm's initial interest in public policy issues. Public policy issues for management. keywords: business; firms; government; involvement; issues; level; percent; policy; process; public; research; respondents cache: jsbs-339.pdf plain text: jsbs-339.txt item: #326 of 612 id: jsbs-34 author: Sonfield, Matthew C.; Lussier, Robert N.; Pfeifer, Sanj; Manikutty, S.; Maherault, Loic; Verdier, Louis title: A Cross-National Investigation of First-Generation, Second-Generation, and Third-Generation Family Businesses: A Four Country Anova Comparison date: 2005-01-20 words: 9643 flesch: 49 summary: An estimated 80 percent of the total 15 million businesses within the American economy are family businesses (Carsrud, 1994; Kets de Vries, 1993). This article reports on an analysis of generational issues in family businesses in four significantly different countries: the United States, Croatia. keywords: businesses; countries; differences; entrepreneurship; family; family business; family firms; generation; generation family; journal; management; owner; permission; research; review; small; study cache: jsbs-34.pdf plain text: jsbs-34.txt item: #327 of 612 id: jsbs-340 author: McCaul, Harriette S.; McCaul, Harriette S. title: Addressing the Work-Life Interface: Strategic Implications for Small Business date: 1996-06-11 words: 5044 flesch: 46 summary: Finally, we hypothesized that subsidiaries of larger organizations would be more supportive of work life issues than would independent companies because subsidiaries would likely imitate their larger parent organizations in terms of benefits, including work-life initiatives. Therefore, a formal process of gathering information about employee work and private life needs should serve as the firm's starting point in determining overall policy in this area. keywords: business; companies; employees; family; firms; issues; life; policies; programs; research; support; work cache: jsbs-340.pdf plain text: jsbs-340.txt item: #328 of 612 id: jsbs-341 author: Bushong, J. Gregory; Cornell, David W. title: An Approach to Reducing Accounting Costs for Small Businesses date: 1996-06-11 words: 4047 flesch: 51 summary: CPA Re ort for Financial Statements Based on an Other Com rehensive Basis of Accountin Table 6 presents a report for financial statements prepared on a comprehensive basis of accounting other than GAAP. ~Tax Basi Similar to regulatory basis financial statements, tax basis financial statements reduce accountingcosts by preparing the financial statements only once. keywords: accounting; audit; basis; cpa; standards; statements cache: jsbs-341.pdf plain text: jsbs-341.txt item: #329 of 612 id: jsbs-342 author: Addams, H. Lon; Baker, William H.; Davis, Brian title: How Forbes 200 Companies Create and use Mission Statements date: 1996-06-11 words: 5839 flesch: 55 summary: In spite of numerous opinion publications on mission statements, very little empirical evidence has been written concerning mission statement procedures or impact. STRATEGY HOW FORBES 200 COMPANIES CREATE AND USE MISSION STATEMENTS H. Lon Addams Weber State University William H. Baker Brigham Young University Brian Davis Weber State University ABSTRACT Small publicly-held firms included on the Forbes 200 list were surveyed to determine their usage of mission statements. keywords: business; companies; company; employees; firms; forbes; management; mission; mission statement; percent; statement cache: jsbs-342.pdf plain text: jsbs-342.txt item: #330 of 612 id: jsbs-343 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-11 words: 311 flesch: 12 summary: STRATEGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Joe Singer University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Associate Editor Gary R. Hazeltine Professional Support Services Olathe, Kansas Editorial Assistant David K. Hensley University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Editorial Advisory Board Dr. David M. Ambrose University of Nebraska-Omaha Dr. Chi Anyansi-Archibong North Carolina AJIT State University Dr. Robert Brockhaus St. Louis University Dr. Sam J. Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. James J. Carroll Georgian Court College Ms. Sally A. Charles Purchasers Representative Dr. Ron Cook Rider University Dr. Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dr. Dale Dickson Mesa State College Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Dr. Fred L. Fry Bradley University Dr. Joseph J. Geiger University of Idaho Dr. Frederick D. Greene Manhattan College Dr. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Dr. BillJackson Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Lawrence Klan Florida Atlantic University Dr. Kenneth J. Lacho University of New Orleans Dr. Thomas J. Liesz Western State College Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Richard J. Stapleton Georgia Southern University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Di liard Tinsley Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Howard E. Van Auken Iowa State University Dr. George Vozikis The Citadel Dr. John Wallace Marshall University A joint publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation and the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. Send subscription requests to Randalei Ellis, C.P.A., SBIDA Secretary-Treasurer, Black Hills State Univetsity, 1200 University, USB 9006, Spearfish, SD 57799-9006. keywords: state; university cache: jsbs-343.pdf plain text: jsbs-343.txt item: #331 of 612 id: jsbs-344 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-11 words: 379 flesch: 37 summary: In a well researched and very patiently revised research study, Candida Brush examines the competitive effects of early and late export entry by small business firms. From both an internal organizational cultural point-of-view and the fast-second threat of major competition, the growth management challenges are afl to familiar to entrepreneurs and small business owners. keywords: business; study cache: jsbs-344.pdf plain text: jsbs-344.txt item: #332 of 612 id: jsbs-346 author: Weinzimmer, Laurence G.; Nystrom, Paul C. title: The Search for Opportunities by Small Business Owners date: 1996-08-11 words: 5630 flesch: 40 summary: The second reason to study opportunity search is that small business owners are relatively less risk averse and more receptive to ambiguity than are managers of large firms (Schere, 1982). Additionally, Schere (1982) has shown that small business owners have significantly greater capacity to tolerate ambiguity than do managers in large organizations. keywords: business; environment; factors; firms; growth; industry; new; opportunities; opportunity; owner; planning; search cache: jsbs-346.pdf plain text: jsbs-346.txt item: #333 of 612 id: jsbs-347 author: McGee, Jeffrey E.; Festervand, Troy A. title: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: A Look at David's Response to the Arrival of Retailing's Goliath date: 1996-08-11 words: 5053 flesch: 55 summary: Using census data, Stone concluded that per capita sales increased faster in towns with Wal-Mart stores than in comparable towns across the state. Most recently, McGee (1995) examined the retail sales and tax data from small towns to determine the effects of Wal-Mart stores on communities in tive Midwestern states. keywords: arrival; business; employees; impact; mart; merchants; percent; sales; towns; wal cache: jsbs-347.pdf plain text: jsbs-347.txt item: #334 of 612 id: jsbs-348 author: Kosters, Patricia M.; Damhorst, Mary Lynn; Kunz, Grace I. title: Organizational Culture of Small Retail Firms date: 1996-08-11 words: 9981 flesch: 52 summary: Robinson and Pearce (1984) reported that small business firms dominate the United States'ervice, construction, and retailing sectors; approximately 82% of all retailing outlets are sole proprietorships. PURPOSE As no research has focusedonorganizationalcultureofsmall businesses in general and on apparel retailing businesses specifically the present research was exploratory: I ) to identify common cultural dimensions across small apparel retail firms, 2) to develop hypotheses that can be tested further for understanding of small business culture profiles, and 3) to assess the eITectiveness of applying existing corporate culture theory to small apparel retail flrms. keywords: apparel; business; culture; customers; data; dimensions; employees; family; firm; management; managers; new; organization; owner; research; retail; sales; small; store; study; work cache: jsbs-348.pdf plain text: jsbs-348.txt item: #335 of 612 id: jsbs-349 author: Brush, Candida G. title: Export Entry in Small Companies: Effecs of Timing on Strategy and Performance date: 1996-08-11 words: 5589 flesch: 46 summary: Questionscovered firm demographics, reasons for internationalization types of international business strategies, and performance measures. Major influences on performance vary from study to study, but generally firm characteristics, competencies, market strategy (product, price, distribution, promotion) are deemed important(Dominguez & Sequiera, 1993). keywords: age; business; companies; entry; export; growth; international; market; new; performance; sales; strategies; strategy cache: jsbs-349.pdf plain text: jsbs-349.txt item: #336 of 612 id: jsbs-35 author: Peterson, Robin T. title: An Examination of the Accuracy of Small Manufacturer Cheif Executive Officers in Assessing the Legality of Selected Actions date: 2005-01-20 words: 5543 flesch: 49 summary: Industrial goods companies deal with a smaller number of customers, suppliers, intermediaries, and other parties than do consumer goods firms (Gummesson, 1999). It is logical to expect that industrial goods firms will show greater responsiveness to long- term orientations of existing and potential constituencies by adopting a long term perspective in handling and dealing with them. keywords: activities; business; consumer; federal; goods; illegal; industrial; journal; law; managers; marketing; permission cache: jsbs-35.pdf plain text: jsbs-35.txt item: #337 of 612 id: jsbs-350 author: Gray, Kenneth R.; Cooley, William title: Entrepreneurship in Manufacturing in Kenya: Characteristics, Problems and Sources of Finance date: 1996-08-11 words: 6582 flesch: 57 summary: Small scale enterprises contribute to the expansion of urban employment and are a provider of inexpensive consumer goods with little or no import content, serving an important pressure-releasingand welfare-augmentingfunction. Much literatureon small business developmentin developing world countries assume informal sector activities as homogeneous in their characteristics (Morris and Pitt, l995; Bewayo, l995; Ekpenyong and Nyong, )992). keywords: business; capital; development; enterprises; firms; government; industries; industry; kenya; nairobi; percent; scale; sector; small; study cache: jsbs-350.pdf plain text: jsbs-350.txt item: #338 of 612 id: jsbs-351 author: Cook, Ronald G.; Fox, Dale R. "Zy" title: Small and Medium-Sized Firms' First Interaction with Government: An Exploratory Study date: 1996-08-11 words: 5291 flesch: 53 summary: Further, these studies do not examine what triggers the firm's initial interest in public policy issues. Public policy issues for management. keywords: business; firms; government; involvement; issues; level; percent; policy; process; public; research; respondents cache: jsbs-351.pdf plain text: jsbs-351.txt item: #339 of 612 id: jsbs-352 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-11 words: 837 flesch: 28 summary: STRATEGY Publication Staff Editor Dr. Joe Singer University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Associate Editor Gary R. Hazeltine Professional Support Services Olathe, Kansas Editoria I Assistant Tom Barlow University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Chi Anyansi-Archibong North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Sam J. Bruno University of Houston-Clear Lake Dr. James J. Carroll Georgian Court College Ms. Sally A. Charles Charles Consulting Dr. Ron Cook Rider University Dr. Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dr. Dale Dickson Mesa State College Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Dr. Fred L. Fry Bradley University Dr. Joseph J. Geiger University of Idaho Dr. Frederick D. Greene Manhattan College Dr. Masoud Hemmasi illinois State University Dr. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Billlackson Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Kenneth J. Lacho University of New Orleans Dr. Thomas J. Liesz Western State College Dr. Stephen Lucas University of Nonh Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Peter Rainsford Cornell University Dr. Herbert Sherman SouthamptonCollegeof Long Island Univ. Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Richard J. Stapleton Georgia Southern University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Dil lard Tinsley Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Howard E. Van Auken lowe State University Dr. George Vozikis The University of Tulsa keywords: business; edu; fax; mail; small; state; university cache: jsbs-352.pdf plain text: jsbs-352.txt item: #340 of 612 id: jsbs-353 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-11 words: 366 flesch: 28 summary: lf small business firms truly are the Keepers of Capitalistic Virtue, then Professors Schultz, Bennett and Ketchen's examination of the nature and extent of the relationship between competitivestrategy and human resource management practices in small businesses offers a key to building future competitive advantage. Lisa Spiller and Rich Hamilton provide timely information showing how small firms can maximize the power of their marketing expenditures by building and utilizing customer databases. keywords: business; firms cache: jsbs-353.pdf plain text: jsbs-353.txt item: #341 of 612 id: jsbs-354 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-11 words: 135 flesch: 39 summary: Designing an Infrastructure to Support Today's Knowledge Worker Robert L. Cross Frederick L. Funk 35 An Examination of the Relationship Between Strategy and Human Resource Management Practices among Small Businesses Elyssa Blanton Schultz Nathan Bennett David J. Ketchen, Jr. 49 Applicability of the Gaps Model to Service Quality in Small Firms Cengiz Haksever Ronald G. Cook Radha Chaganti 67 Customer Databases for Small Firms: Maximizing the Power of Your Marketing Lisa D. Spiller Richard A. Hamilton 83 Does the Size of the Organization Affect Compensation Strategies? keywords: carland cache: jsbs-354.pdf plain text: jsbs-354.txt item: #342 of 612 id: jsbs-355 author: Carland, James W.; Carland, JoAnn C. title: A Model of Potential Entrepreneurship: Profiles and Educational Implications date: 1997-01-11 words: 4635 flesch: 49 summary: Entrepreneurship students must develop an intrinsic achievement motivation in order to do well. Budding entrepreneurs: Business student and dislocated workers, Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, l(l), March, 49-57. keywords: achievement; business; carland; drive; entrepreneurship; innovation; model; potential; risk; students; taking cache: jsbs-355.pdf plain text: jsbs-355.txt item: #343 of 612 id: jsbs-356 author: Cross, Robert L. title: Leveraging Intellect in a Small Business: Designing an Infrastructure to Support Today's Knowledge Worker date: 1997-01-11 words: 6939 flesch: 34 summary: Leveraging employee knowledge as a source of competitive advantage is a strategic decision that must be made at the highest levels of an organization and then consistently worked into its architecture (Pfeffer, 1994; Collins and Porras, 1994). Often, leaders of small organizations clearly recognize the importance of meeting the objectives of financial stakeholders —an emphasis that is then driven home to the rest of the organization through budgeting and planning processes. keywords: business; communication; company; development; employees; firm; knowledge; management; organization; performance; personal; process; recruit; recruiting; skills; technical; time; work cache: jsbs-356.pdf plain text: jsbs-356.txt item: #344 of 612 id: jsbs-357 author: Schultz, Elyssa Blanton; Bennett, Nathan; Ketchen, Jr., David J. title: An Examination of the Relationship Between Strategy and Human Resource Management Practices among Small Businesses date: 1997-01-11 words: 5506 flesch: 55 summary: INTRODUCTION Over a decade ago, articles encouraging managers to tailor human resource practices to match business strategies began to appear (e.g., Fombrun, Tichy & Devanna, 1984; Schuler & MacMillan, 1984).This approach to human resource management(HRM), labeled Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM), details the mechanisms by which human resource managers can positively influence the fit between a firm's strategy and the environment (Jennings, 1994). Of particular value would be carefully grounded case studies that explore the experiences of small businesses in integrating human resource practices and strategy. keywords: businesses; defenders; employees; firms; hrm; management; organizations; practices; resource; selection; strategy; type; use; variables cache: jsbs-357.pdf plain text: jsbs-357.txt item: #345 of 612 id: jsbs-358 author: Haksever, Cengiz; Cook, Ronald G.; Chaganti, Radha title: Applicability of the GAPS Model to Service Quality in Small Firms date: 1997-01-11 words: 7556 flesch: 52 summary: Smaller firms are then often divided into medium-sizedbusinesses, which employ 100-499 people and small firms, which employ less than 100 (Megginson, Byrd, Scott, & Megginson, 1994; Longenecker, Moore, & Petty, 1994). Our analysis revealed that the resources and structure of smaller firms significantly affect the types of service quality gaps that occur and the closure measures. keywords: customers; employees; firms; gap; gaps; lack; management; model; owner; quality; resources; service; stage; vs&sfs cache: jsbs-358.pdf plain text: jsbs-358.txt item: #346 of 612 id: jsbs-359 author: Spiller, Lisa D.; Hamilton, Richard A. title: Customer Databases for Small Firms: Maximizing the Power of Your Marketing date: 1997-01-11 words: 5305 flesch: 58 summary: 67 'foday, however, much of the focus of information technology is centered around the creation and use of customer level databases for business and marketing purposes. Listed in Table 2 are some of the types of data collected, inputed, stored, and used by many customer database managers. keywords: business; customer; database; firms; information; list; marketing; new; number; products; research; software; sorware; system; use cache: jsbs-359.pdf plain text: jsbs-359.txt item: #347 of 612 id: jsbs-36 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-20 words: 29 flesch: 50 summary: Credits Anonymous Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2005; 16, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-36.pdf plain text: jsbs-36.txt item: #348 of 612 id: jsbs-360 author: Day, Nancy E. title: Does the Size of the Organization Affect Compensation Strategies? An Empirical Analysis date: 1997-01-11 words: 5104 flesch: 48 summary: Since small firm pay strategies are quite similar to large firm pay strategies, competitive pressures may demand looking beyond the small firm labor market. Sincegrowingorganizationstendto have fewer resources and need to respond more quickly to competitors and the environment to succeed, they use pay strategies that lower the fixed costs of base pay and increase variable pay leveraged by long-term, strategic goal accomplishment. keywords: balkin; businesses; compensation; gomez; market; mejia; organizations; pay; sales; strategies cache: jsbs-360.pdf plain text: jsbs-360.txt item: #349 of 612 id: jsbs-361 author: Alizadeh, Youness; Meredith, Geoffrey G. title: Financial Management for Self-Employed Owners date: 1997-01-11 words: 7132 flesch: 42 summary: Daia was collected througlr questioirnaires adr&rinistered irr personal interviews with self employed owners. D'tscussion offindings provided a number ofi mplicationsfor the accounting profession, government departments, educational institutions and self employed owners. keywords: accounting; analysis; business; cash; employment; enterprises; financial; information; management; owners; percent; self; table; total; use cache: jsbs-361.pdf plain text: jsbs-361.txt item: #350 of 612 id: jsbs-362 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-16 words: 780 flesch: 27 summary: Agt T State University Dr. David Brennan University of St. Thomas Dr. Radha Chaganti Rider University Ms. Sally A. Charles Charles Consulting Dr. Ron Cook Rider University Dr. Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dr. Dale Dickson Mesa State College Dr. Gwen Fontenot Marketing Solutions Dr. Joseph J. Geiger University of Idaho Dr. Frederick D. Greene Manhattan College Dr. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Bill Jackson Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Kenneth J. Lacho University of New Orleans Dr. Thomas J. Liesz Western State College Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas Dr. Thaddeus McEwen University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. Neal R, Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. George Vozikis The University of Tulsa Dr. John Wallace Marshall University For Membership Information contact: Pamela S. Schindler SBIDA VP-Marketing & Membership Voice; (937) 327-7904; Fax: (937) 327-6143 Email: PSCHIlq@wittenberg.edu 1997 Dues: US, $ 100.00; International, $ 125.00 I'mall Business Institute 1997 Membership Directors'ssociation 1997-1998SBIDA Officers Small Business institute Directors'ssociation President Vtce Presidenr-Case Comperirron Charles H. Itlatthens, Ph.D. ltiichael D. Ames, Ph.D. UniversityofCincinnati Cal tfornia State University, Fuflenon Conegeof BusinessAdmtntstration Depanment of Management Department of Management Fuflerton,CA 92634 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0165 OAice: (714)644-4541 OAice: (513) 556-7123 FAX: (714) 644-1259 FAX: (513)556-4891 E-mail'btamesQat'uflerton edu E-mall:charles.matthewstauc.edu Vice President-Development Presi dent- keywords: business; fax; institute; ph.d; small; university cache: jsbs-362.pdf plain text: jsbs-362.txt item: #351 of 612 id: jsbs-363 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-16 words: 380 flesch: 31 summary: In this issue, we examine the impact of in formation technology, small business tax legislation and modern valuation while exploring the ethical orientation of small business owners and their resource allocation decision-making. As the new vocabulary of competition, with its emphasis on agility, holistically, and synergisticallyresponsive operations begins to shape the way we think about small business, we are increasingly challenged to find new systems for adapting to change and working along with employees, customers, suppliers, and competitors. keywords: article; business cache: jsbs-363.pdf plain text: jsbs-363.txt item: #352 of 612 id: jsbs-364 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-16 words: 126 flesch: 12 summary: I A World Wide Web Primer for Small Business Albert L. Lederer Donna J. Maupin 13 State of Information Technology in Small Retail and Service Businesses: An Exploratory Study Alev M. Efendioglu 25 Resources in Small Firms: An Exploratory Study Patricia G. Greene Candida G. Brush Terrence E. Brown 41 The Ethical Orientation of U.S. Small Business Decision Makers: A Preliminary Study Dianne H. B. Welsh Nancy J. Birch 53 A Cross-Sectional Study of Business Service Profitability Some Implications for Strategy Timothy L. Wilson 67 Economic Value Added and Small Businesses Charles P. Baril S. Brooks Marshall Robert F. Sartelle 79 Impact of Recent Tax Legislatioa on Small Businesses Howard R. Toole James E. Williamson Gerald E. Whittenburg STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title/Author(s) keywords: study cache: jsbs-364.pdf plain text: jsbs-364.txt item: #353 of 612 id: jsbs-365 author: Lederer, Albert L.; Maupin, Donna J. title: A World Wide Web Primer for Small Business date: 1997-06-16 words: 4288 flesch: 59 summary: Although less expensive, this approach will reduce the visibility of the business and its name recognition on the Web. CONCLUSION The Web's skyrocketing use and the growing frequency of references to Web sites with their specific locations in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines suggest it is moving from a passive marketing and distribution tool to one that is becoming increasingly proactive. Another way a business can attract visitors is to have other Web sites that attract similar customers link to its own site. keywords: business; data; information; internet; products; services; site; use; visitors; web; world cache: jsbs-365.pdf plain text: jsbs-365.txt item: #354 of 612 id: jsbs-366 author: Efendioglu, Alev M. title: State of Information Technology in Small Retail and Service Businesses: An Exploratory Study date: 1997-06-16 words: 4993 flesch: 50 summary: 0 ortunities to Access Public and Private Information Finally, the lack of acquisition and use of IT by small business establishments prohibits them from using numerous valuableresources available for small business. The benefits oflT for small businesses have also been recognized and demonstrated, both through studies and examples in the popular press. keywords: benefits; businesses; customer; establishments; information; number; retail; sample; service; study; table; technology; use cache: jsbs-366.pdf plain text: jsbs-366.txt item: #355 of 612 id: jsbs-367 author: Greene, Patricia G.; Brush, Candida G.; Brown, Terrence E. title: Resources in Small Firms: An Exploratory Study date: 1997-06-16 words: 6190 flesch: 47 summary: These discussions fail to recognize how these strategies should vary depending on resource type. Taken together, this work suggests the need for a more systematic and comprehensive framework of resources which can be used as a basis for investigating resource types, and exploring how these relate to different characteristics of the owner/founder(s) and firm. keywords: analysis; business; capital; categories; characteristics; experience; factor; firm; founder; human; new; owner; resources; types; years cache: jsbs-367.pdf plain text: jsbs-367.txt item: #356 of 612 id: jsbs-368 author: Welsh, Dianne H. B.; Birch, Nancy J. title: The Ethical Orientation of U.S. Small Business Decision Makers: A Preliminary Study date: 1997-06-16 words: 4186 flesch: 52 summary: There have been a comparatively few number of studies that have examined the ethics of small business owners and decision makers. Other studies have compared the ethics of small business owners and decision makers to the ethics oftheircustomers. keywords: business; business owners; climate; ethics; journal; mach; management; owners cache: jsbs-368.pdf plain text: jsbs-368.txt item: #357 of 612 id: jsbs-369 author: Wilson, Timothy L. title: A Cross-Sectional Study of Business Service Profitability Some Implications for Strategy date: 1997-06-16 words: 5155 flesch: 52 summary: As a consequence of this study, however, some observations are made that relate to strategies for small business service businesses. The fact that the coeflicient of the share growth term was positive and significant suggests that share growth can positively affect profitability of business service firms. keywords: business; firms; growth; investment; management; market; marketing; profitability; sales; sector; service; share; study cache: jsbs-369.pdf plain text: jsbs-369.txt item: #358 of 612 id: jsbs-37 author: Carraher, Shawn M.; Carraher, Sarah C. title: Felt Fair Pay of Small to Medium-sized Enterprise Owners in Finland and Lavia: An Examination of Jaques' Equality Construct* date: 2005-01-20 words: 4160 flesch: 59 summary: Third, among the set of independent variables, the felt-fair-pay measure advanced by Jaques exhibits the largest correlations with the dependent variable of pay satisfaction (PSQ) in both of the samples - explaining 53 to 58 percent of the variance in pay level satisfaction as opposed to 17 to 19 percent for actual salary level based upon the coefficient of determination. Thus, pay satisfaction has emerged as a popular variable for use in organizational research (for reviews, see Carraher, Buckley, & Carraher, 2002; Heneman, 1985; Heneman & Schwab, 1979; Lawler, 1971, 1981; Miceli & Lane, 1991; Rynes & Gerhart, 2003). keywords: business; carraher; jaques; journal; owners; pay; salary; samples; satisfaction; work cache: jsbs-37.pdf plain text: jsbs-37.txt item: #359 of 612 id: jsbs-370 author: Baril, Charles P.; Marshall, S. Brooks; Sartelle, Robert F. title: Economic Value Added and Small Businesses date: 1997-06-16 words: 4765 flesch: 49 summary: we discuss some of the limitations experienced by firms implementing EVA systems, consider how these limitations apply to small businesses, and suggest some remedies small business managers may find effective. EVA LIMITATIONS AND REMEDIES EVA's popularity is based in large part on its alleged (Boston Consulting Group, Inc., 1996) relationship with market valuation. Consequently, managers who focus on accounting earnings frequently understate or ignore the cost of equity capital in their decisions, Since the early 1980's, this key to creating wealth, earning more than capital costs, has resurfaced as a driver of management decisions, particularly among large, publicly-traded companies. keywords: add; business; capital; cost; debt; equity; eva; operating; owners; system; value cache: jsbs-370.pdf plain text: jsbs-370.txt item: #360 of 612 id: jsbs-371 author: Tool, Howard R.; Williamson, James E.; Whittenburg, Gerald E. title: Impact of Recent Tax Legislation on Small Business date: 1997-06-16 words: 5337 flesch: 54 summary: STRATEGY IMPACT OF RECENT TAX LEGISLATION ON SMALL BUSINESSES Howard R. Toole James E. Williamson Gerald E. Whittenburg San Diego State University ABSTRACT This paper discusses selectedchangesin the tax laws, made in the Summer of I 996, which are expected to have significani impact on small businesses. qualified small business trust is a trust that has only beneficiaries that are individuals, estates, or charitableorganizationsholdingcontingentremainder interest(s). keywords: business; corporation; employee; percent; plan; qualified; small; tax; year cache: jsbs-371.pdf plain text: jsbs-371.txt item: #361 of 612 id: jsbs-372 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-16 words: 943 flesch: 35 summary: STRA TEGF Publication Staff Editor Dr. Stephen W. Osborne Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, Pennsylvania Associate Editors Dr. Prashanth B. Nagendra Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr. Joette M. Wisnieski Indiana University of Pennsylvania Editorial Assistaat Julie Dobish Indiana University of Pennsylvania Editorial Review Board Dr. Ramachandra Asundi University of Peurto Rico Dr. David Brennan University of St. Thomas (St. Paul) Dr. Radha Chaganti Rider University Ms. Sally A. Charles CSI CAD Systems, Inc. Dr. Ronald G. Cook Rider University Dr. Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dr. Dale Dickson Mesa State College Dr. Terry Gaston Southern Oregon University Dr. Frederick D. Greene Manhattan College Dr. Masoud Hemmasi Illinois State University Dr. Lynn HotTman University of Northern Colorado Dr. William T. Jackson Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Kenneth J. Lacho University of New Orleans Dr. Thomas J. Liesz Eastern Oregon University Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) keywords: business; college; fax; indiana; pennsylvania; small; university cache: jsbs-372.pdf plain text: jsbs-372.txt item: #362 of 612 id: jsbs-373 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-16 words: 781 flesch: 45 summary: Based on the JSBS mission (back cover), we believe that articles published in JSBS should be of value to small business & entrepreneurship educators, small business consultants or individuals involved in economic development in terms of ar least one of the following: ~ Assist in the formulation or implementation of small business strategy ~ Be directly applicable to consulting projects ~ We are very excited to be editing and publishing the journal and are very interested in receiving manuscripts in a wide range of topics related to small business, entre preneurship and economic development. keywords: business; journal; small cache: jsbs-373.pdf plain text: jsbs-373.txt item: #363 of 612 id: jsbs-374 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-16 words: 105 flesch: 31 summary: An Analysis of Smoll Business Hiring ofSeniors Robin T. Peterson & Andreas W. Stratemeyer 47 Partners in Profitsi Small Businesses Move Slowly Into Cause-Related Marketing Nora Ganim Bames 54 Using a Prenuptial Agreement to Protect the Small Business Sandra J. Perry 64 Noteworthy News 1 Transforming Consultants 'ecommendations into Business Improvements A Model and Action Agenda Michael D. Ames 17 The Classificatio of Service Providers as Contract 8'orkers v Rather Than Employees :Implications and Guidelines for Small Businesses Matthew C. Songield 26 Entrepreneurship Awareness Education: An Example in an Elementary School Rebecca W. Ball & Fred Beasley 39 keywords: business cache: jsbs-374.pdf plain text: jsbs-374.txt item: #364 of 612 id: jsbs-375 author: Editor, JSBS title: About the Authors date: 2015-06-16 words: 584 flesch: 40 summary: Andreas W. Stratemeyer is a doctoral student at New Mexico State University. She received her PhD. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. keywords: business; journal; small; university cache: jsbs-375.pdf plain text: jsbs-375.txt item: #365 of 612 id: jsbs-376 author: Ames, Michael D. title: Transforming Consultants' Recommendations into Business Improvement: A Model and Action Agenda date: 1998-01-16 words: 7189 flesch: 63 summary: It covers four main topics: why business owners do not follow-up; why consultants do not follow-up; an eight-part model for organized improvement; and an action agenda for improved follow-up. WHY BUSINESS OWNERS DO NOT FOLLOW-UP We propose that learning is a decision. keywords: action; associate; business; client; consultant; follow; improvement; model; new; owner; recommendations; small cache: jsbs-376.pdf plain text: jsbs-376.txt item: #366 of 612 id: jsbs-377 author: Sonfield, Matthew C. title: The Classification of Service Providers as "Contract Workers" rather than "Employees": Implications and Guildlines for Small Businesses date: 1998-01-16 words: 4464 flesch: 55 summary: While small business owner/managers should not rule out the utilization of contract workers, they should fully understand the requirements for contract worker classification, and should engage in management practices to support such classification if used. These workers are contract workers, also known as independent contractors. keywords: benefits; business; classification; contract; contract workers; employees; employer; irs; workers cache: jsbs-377.pdf plain text: jsbs-377.txt item: #367 of 612 id: jsbs-378 author: Ball, Rebecca W.; Beasley, Fred M. title: Entrepreneurship Awareness Education: An Example in an Elementry School date: 1998-01-16 words: 4607 flesch: 58 summary: Sure Strongly Agree Disagree I can make choices 2 13 85 I am a worker 6 33 61 I am not part 45 27 28 of the economy Education improves I 4 95 my skills gs knowledge I am important 4 8 88 I do not have 63 21 17 control over my life Success in life 67 26 8 usually comes from being lucky I can make plans 5 9 87 and set goals I can be productive 5 25 71 Cooperation 10 15 76 Increases productivity I am not creative 84 4 12 I can contribute 9 31 60 to the economy I cannot work 85 7 9 with other people Education can help 6 4 91 me reach my goals 31 Journal ofSmall Business Strategy Volume 9, No. l Spring 1998 differences between the responses of these children and the answers of other students on the survey of selected constructs. Furthermore, on all positively worded items (e.g., I am important), students with parents that owned a business were more likely than other students to agree with the statements (see Table 3). keywords: awareness; business; education; entrepreneurship; journal; percent; students cache: jsbs-378.pdf plain text: jsbs-378.txt item: #368 of 612 id: jsbs-379 author: Peterson, Robin T.; Stratemeyer, Andreas W. title: An Analysis of Small Business Hiring of Seniors date: 1998-01-16 words: 3127 flesch: 61 summary: One of the purposes of this study was to uncover views of small business managers regarding these and other possible shortcomings of older individuals as employees. IMPLICATIONS Certain implications for small business managers emerge from this study. keywords: advantages; business; disadvantages; seniors; small; work cache: jsbs-379.pdf plain text: jsbs-379.txt item: #369 of 612 id: jsbs-38 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-20 words: 33 flesch: 60 summary: From the Editor Fry, Fred L Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2005; 16, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-38.pdf plain text: jsbs-38.txt item: #370 of 612 id: jsbs-380 author: Barnes, Nora Ganim title: Partners in Profits: Small Businesses Move Slowly Into Cause-Related Marketing date: 1998-01-16 words: 2749 flesch: 60 summary: The siudy presented here confirms the lack of use of CRM among small businesses. CRM has gainedin popularity and can be a viable strategy for small businesses looking to diferent t'ate themselves. keywords: businesses; campaigns; cause; crm; marketing; new; profit; sales; strategy cache: jsbs-380.pdf plain text: jsbs-380.txt item: #371 of 612 id: jsbs-381 author: Perry, Sandra J. title: Using A Prenuptial Agreement to Protect the Small Business date: 1998-01-16 words: 4885 flesch: 64 summary: 54 Journal ofSmall Business Strategy Volume 9, No. l Spring l998 ROLE OF THE SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTANT Small business consultants such as attorneys, accountants, and financial planners are in a unique position to suggest the use of premarital agreements to small business owners and perhaps a policy regarding their use. Premarital agreements serve two purposes; to provide for the division of property upon divorce, and to provide for the distribution of property upon death. keywords: agreement; assets; business; marriage; parties; party; premarital; spouse; time cache: jsbs-381.pdf plain text: jsbs-381.txt item: #372 of 612 id: jsbs-382 author: Prashanth, Nagenda; Osborne, Stephen; Winieski, Joette title: Noteworthy News date: 1998-06-16 words: 1147 flesch: 56 summary: While business school students consulting for real businesses may have been newsworthy to Forbes and its readership, this is pretty common stulT for most Small Business Institute Directors. And how do business students measure up to professional consultants? keywords: business; consultants; small; students; university cache: jsbs-382.pdf plain text: jsbs-382.txt item: #373 of 612 id: jsbs-383 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-16 words: 700 flesch: 37 summary: Dr. Radha Chaganti Rider University Ms. Sally A. Charles CSI CAD Systems, Inc. Dr. Ronald G. Cook Rider University Dr. Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dr. Dale Dickson Mesa State College Dr. Teny Gaston Southern Oregon University Dr. Frederick D. Greene Manhattan College Dr. Masoud Hemmasi Illinois State University Dr. Lynn Hotfman University of Northern Colorado Dr. William T. Jackson Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Kenneth J. Lacho University of New Orleans Mr. James Leda PricewaterhouseCoopers Dr. Thomas J. Liesz Eastern Oregon University Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) Dr. Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T University Dr. Abbas Nadim University of New Haven Dr. Inge Nickerson Barry University Dr. Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State University Dr. Herbert Sherman South Hampton College of Long Island Dr. Leo Simpson Eastern Washington University Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Pamela H. Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Dillard Tinsley Stephen F. Austin State University Dr. Jude Valdez University of Texas, San Antonio Dr. John B. Wallace Marshall Umverst ty The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation (SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. STRA TEGY Editor Dr. Stephen W. Osborne Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Indiana, Pennsylvania Associate Editors Dr. Prashanth B. Nagendra Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) keywords: business; college; fax; indiana; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-383.pdf plain text: jsbs-383.txt item: #374 of 612 id: jsbs-384 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-16 words: 1443 flesch: 47 summary: Relevant reviews may include monographs on topics related to small business or entrepreneurship including management and other disciplines, consulting related books as well education- oriented publications and textbooks, etc. ~ Maintain and increase the quality of the journal in terms of both its scholarship while focusing on application to entrepreneurship, small business, family business, education, and economic development. keywords: business; city; journal; small; university cache: jsbs-384.pdf plain text: jsbs-384.txt item: #375 of 612 id: jsbs-385 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-16 words: 173 flesch: -17 summary: The Sntall Business Institute Program: High Impact Entrepreneurship Education Charles H. Matthews 23 Exploiting the Interne(: Strategies and Frameworks for a Small Business Vivek Choudhury Dennis Galletta 44 Improving Profitability of Very Small and Small Firms: The Impact of Quality Practices in tire Human Resource Area Ronald Cook Radha Chaganti Cengiz Haksever 57 Small Business Solutions: Building and Leveraging a Competitive Intelligence Capability lVitltout Going Broke John E. Prescott Cynthia E. Miree 77 An Erploration of Diversity Practices In Small Successful Companies Sandra Powell H. Lon Adams Brian Davis 91 SMALL BUSINESS BRIEF—How Small Businesses in the United States are Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities of Workforce 2000 Arthur Shriberg Thomas D. Clark Sherrie E. Human 97 ROOKRFVIFIV ~LTV kI byJ P.W k RO I IT.J Reviewed by Robert A. Kemp SiiiAVEZY TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Developments Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Michael E. Porter 5 Initiative For A Competitive Inner City: The National Business Scltool Network Monica Rivera Dean Marilyn L. Taylor 14 keywords: business cache: jsbs-385.pdf plain text: jsbs-385.txt item: #376 of 612 id: jsbs-386 author: Porter, Michael E. title: New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City date: 1998-06-16 words: 1820 flesch: 39 summary: The lack of businesses and jobs in inner cities fuels not only poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime. With the knowledge that there is genuine economic potential in inner cities that has been largely unrecognized and untapped, we continue to pursue our mission of fostering healthy economies in America's inner cities through our research and programmatic efforts. keywords: business; cities; city; companies; strategy cache: jsbs-386.pdf plain text: jsbs-386.txt item: #377 of 612 id: jsbs-387 author: Matthews, Charles H. title: The Small Business Institute Program" High Impact Entrepreneurship Education date: 1998-06-16 words: 3611 flesch: 46 summary: A prominent part of Professor Porter's vision of revitalizing the economic vitality of America's inner cities includes the formation of a National Business School Network (NBSN) that includes an opportunity for business students under faculty supervision to serve as consultants to inner city ventures. Over the years, SBI programs have conducted individual case studies, industry studies, economic development studies, and participated in rural and urban initiatives, to name a few. keywords: business; case; faculty; field; program; sbi; sbida; small; students cache: jsbs-387.pdf plain text: jsbs-387.txt item: #378 of 612 id: jsbs-388 author: Choudhury, Vivek; Galletta, Dennis title: Exploiting the Internet: Strategies and Frameworks for a Small Business date: 1998-06-16 words: 10929 flesch: 55 summary: And www.shopper.corn(referenced earlier) allows computer product customers to compare the prices of dozens of on-line retailers easily and quickly. Such web sites have recently added directories, search engines, news, and other services to position themselves as Web portals. keywords: business; costs; customers; example; firm; information; internet; journal; line; market; new; prices; product; services; site; small; strategy; suppliers; time; use; volume; web cache: jsbs-388.pdf plain text: jsbs-388.txt item: #379 of 612 id: jsbs-389 author: Cook, Ronald G.; Chaganti, Radha title: Improving Profitability of Very Small and Small Firms: The Impact of Qualiity Practices in the Human Resources Area date: 1998-06-16 words: 5921 flesch: 60 summary: Smaller firms are then often divided into medium-sized businesses, which employ 100-499 people and small firms, which employ less than 100 (Megginson, Byrd, Scott, & Megginson, 1994; Longenecker, Moore, & Petty, 1997). Indeed, small firms should only suffer a disadvantage, when compared to larger firms, when it comes to resource-intensive quality practices, e.g., training programs (Haksever, Cook, & Chaganti, 1997; Newman, 1988). keywords: business; employee; empowerment; firms; journal; practices; profitability; quality; teams; training; use; vs&sfs cache: jsbs-389.pdf plain text: jsbs-389.txt item: #380 of 612 id: jsbs-39 author: Hufft, Jr., Edward M.; Swartz, Brenda title: SBIR Programs and Product Commercialization: Kinetic Art & Technology - An Example date: 2005-01-20 words: 4260 flesch: 55 summary: The goal of the SBIR program is commercialization of new technologies, which can be used by both the public and private sectors. Money came from meeting customers' needs for new technology, selling them on KAT's ability to accomplish the task, and winning grants to fund the development of motors (Berry, Hill, and Klompmaker, 1999). keywords: business; company; entrepreneur; funding; permission; phase; program; research; sbir; small; success; technology cache: jsbs-39.pdf plain text: jsbs-39.txt item: #381 of 612 id: jsbs-390 author: Prescott, John E.; Miree, Cynthia E. title: Small Business Solutions: Building and Leveraging a Competitive Intelligence Capability Without Going Broke date: 1998-06-16 words: 8579 flesch: 49 summary: , CI programs must produce products and services of value to managers. In this article, we address this issue by presenting a framework for the growing field of competitive intelligence. keywords: business; com; decision; firm; focus; information; intelligence; journal; needs; new; prescott; process; products; program; project; small; strategy; volume cache: jsbs-390.pdf plain text: jsbs-390.txt item: #382 of 612 id: jsbs-391 author: Powell, Sandra; Addams, H. Lon; Davis, Brian title: An Exploration of Diversity Practices in Small Successful Companies date: 1998-06-16 words: 6204 flesch: 54 summary: The questionnaire first asked general questions about (I) the CEO's perception of the importance of diversity practices, (2) the adequacy of time spent on diversity, (3) the groups who benefitted, (4) and whether the company had formal diversity practices. Formal diversity practices werefoundin about one-quarter of the respondingcompam'es. keywords: business; ceos; companies; company; diversity; employees; journal; practices; programs; recruitment; support; training cache: jsbs-391.pdf plain text: jsbs-391.txt item: #383 of 612 id: jsbs-392 author: Shriberg, Arthur; Clark, Thomas D.; Human, Sherrie E. title: Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities of Workforce 2000 date: 1998-06-16 words: 2093 flesch: 59 summary: The current study investigates these expectations, drawing on a national random sample of U.S. small business owners, to ask two primary research questions; 1) Do small business owners perceive that demographic changes are occurring in the workforce? 2) Are small business owners implementing employment practices implied by demographic projections? METHODOLOGY 204 small businesses were randomly selected from Ward's Business Directo of US Private and P~bl c i iw d' keywords: business; owners; practices; small; workers; workforce cache: jsbs-392.pdf plain text: jsbs-392.txt item: #384 of 612 id: jsbs-393 author: Kemp, Robert A. title: Lean Thinking date: 1998-06-16 words: 2392 flesch: 59 summary: Womack and Jones brilliantly answer this important question in their book, Lean Thinking. This book, Lean Thinking extends those ideas and provides new opportunities for the business leaders of today. keywords: book; business; customer; thinking; value; womack cache: jsbs-393.pdf plain text: jsbs-393.txt item: #385 of 612 id: jsbs-394 author: Dean, Monica Rivera; Taylor, Marilyn L. title: Initative for a Competitive Inner City: The National Business School Network date: 1998-06-16 words: 3999 flesch: 43 summary: NATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL NETWORK (NBSN) The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) formed the National Business School Network (NBSN) as a network of America's urban business schools which links schools to share leamings and best practices about inner-city businesses and associated business school programs (Dean, 1997).NBSN believes business school students, faculty, and alumni can be important resources in assisting and starting companies that contribute to healthy inner-city economies. Such a leadership role by business schools would not only benefit their neighbors and their neighborhoods, but could also create important new relationships with the local government and the corporate community. keywords: business; city; development; field; icic; nbsn; programs; school; students; study; university; urban cache: jsbs-394.pdf plain text: jsbs-394.txt item: #386 of 612 id: jsbs-395 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-17 words: 667 flesch: 47 summary: University of St. Thomas (St. Paul) Dr. Radha Chaganti Rider University Dr. Vivek Choudhury Flonda State Untverstty Dr. Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dr. Dale Dickson Mesa State College Dr. Terry Gaston, Southern Oregon University Dr. Masoud Hemmasi illinois State University Dr. Lynn Holfman University of Northern Colorado Dr. Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Dr. Krish Krishnan Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Mr. James Leda PricewaterhouseCoopers 'r. Thomas J. Liesz Mesa State College Dr. Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Dr. Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) Dr. Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T University Dr. Abbas Nadim University of New Haven 'r. Inge Nickerson Bany University Dr. John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Dr. Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College Dr. C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State University Dr. Herbert Sherman South Hampton College of Long Island Dr. Leo Simpson Eastern Washington University Dr. Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Dr. Pamela H. Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha Dr. Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Dr. Jude Valdez University of Texas, San Antonio Dr. John B. Wallace Marshall University The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation (SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Send subscription request to Stephen W. Osborne, Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 304 Eberly College of Business, 664 Pratt Drive, Indiana, PA 15705-1071. Dr. Joette M. Wisnieski Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Editorial Assistant Julie Dobish ' Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Book Review Editor Dr. Radha Chaganti Rider University Editorial Review Board Dr. Ramachandra Asundi University of Puerto Rico Dr. David Brennan . keywords: business; fax; indiana; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-395.pdf plain text: jsbs-395.txt item: #387 of 612 id: jsbs-396 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-17 words: 954 flesch: 49 summary: In addition, we feature invited articles, research notes (Small Business Briefs ), and book reviews while we continue to publish the two best papers from the annual SBIDA Conference. Included in the issue are a number of Small Business Briefs, something that we will continue to do in the future. keywords: business; conference; small cache: jsbs-396.pdf plain text: jsbs-396.txt item: #388 of 612 id: jsbs-397 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-17 words: 275 flesch: 12 summary: Based Jrtew Lori C. Maruso Bradley University Laurence G. Weinzimmer Bradley University IS Top Management International Orientation and Small Business Exporting Performances The Moderating Roles of Export Market R Industry Factors Franz T. Lohrke University of South Florida Geralyn McClure Franklin University of Texas of The Permian Basin Vinay B. Kothari Stephen F. Austin State University 2S Conventional Strategy Frameworks and Their Applicability to SMEsr Lessons from a Case Study Khai Sheang Lee National University of Singapore Guan Hua Lim National University of Singapore Soo Jiuan Tan National University of Singapore ei Business Service Firms and Market Share Timothy L. Wilson Clwion University Barb ro An el I Umek University, Sweden S4 The Lmge Former Store vs. Mom And Pop r Providing Assistance for inner-City Small Businesses Michael C. Elkin SBA Program Manager, Oakland One Stop Capital Shop 78 Strruegic Planning In Small Arms: Activity and Process Realities Carolyn B. Mueller Ball State University Douglas W. Naffziger Ball State University 86 Petceptions ofAnd Responses to Environments/Economic Incentive Prograrmr An Industry Compmison for Small and Media~ized Companies Margaret M. Tanner Westminster College 9S Book Review: Strategic Planning for iuew R Emerging Businesses; A Consulting Approach by Fred L. Fry, Charles R. Stoner, dt Laurence G. Weinzimmer Reviewed By: Justin G. Longcnecker keywords: business; university cache: jsbs-397.pdf plain text: jsbs-397.txt item: #389 of 612 id: jsbs-398 author: Maruso, Lori C.; Weinzimmer, Laurence G. title: Developing a Normative Framework to Access Small-Firm Entry Strategies: A Resource-Based View date: 1999-01-17 words: 5483 flesch: 44 summary: Small business entry strategies: An integration of technological discontinuity and industry growth potential. In one study, Lyles, Baird, Orris and Kuratko (1993) specifically found that small firms using formalized decision-making models were exposed to numerous levels of strategies, resulting in higher growth, For those firms inclined to pursue growth opportunities, pursuit of distinctive competence and competitive advantage may become critical. keywords: advantage; business; competence; entry; firm; journal; new; resources; strategies; strategy; sustainability cache: jsbs-398.pdf plain text: jsbs-398.txt item: #390 of 612 id: jsbs-399 author: Lohrke, Franz T.; Franklin, Geralyn McClure; Kothari, Vinay B. title: Top Management International Orientation and Small Business Exporting Performance: The Moderating Roles of Export Market & Industry Factors date: 1999-01-17 words: 4931 flesch: 40 summary: Specifically, by employing moderated regression, the study can examine whether the relationship between the dependent variable, export performance, and the independent variable, TMT international orientation, changes across different environments. In the context of the present study, a significant increase in the amount of variance explained, measured as change in R'n Equation (2) relative to Equation (I), would indicate that the relationship between TMT international orientation and export performance varies in different environments. keywords: business; countries; export; export performance; firm; international; journal; orientation; performance; relationship; tmt cache: jsbs-399.pdf plain text: jsbs-399.txt item: #391 of 612 id: jsbs-4 author: Klotz, Kenneth R. title: BUSINESS PLANS MADE EASY, SECOND EDITION date: 2004-05-20 words: 842 flesch: 56 summary: BUSINESS PLANS MADE EASY, SECOND EDITION Klotz, Kenneth R Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2004; 15, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Books on writing business plans, on the whole, present the same basic information. keywords: authors; business; plan cache: jsbs-4.pdf plain text: jsbs-4.txt item: #392 of 612 id: jsbs-40 author: Payne, G. Tyge; Kennedy, Kevin H.; Blair, John D.; Fottler, Myron D. title: Strategic Cognitive Maps of Small Business Leaders date: 2005-01-20 words: 7485 flesch: 48 summary: The primary issue of interest is, therefore, concerned with the conceptual maps or frameworks that exist among small business leaders and how they relate to their overall perceptions of organizational strategic behavior. Therefore, our first two hypotheses reflect this identity and its specific relationship to organizational strategic behavior. keywords: behavior; business; environment; identity; journal; leaders; management; maps; organization; perceptions; permission; stakeholders; variables cache: jsbs-40.pdf plain text: jsbs-40.txt item: #393 of 612 id: jsbs-400 author: Lee, Khai Sheang; Lim, Guan Hua; Tan, Soo Jiuan title: Conventional Strategy Frameworks and Their Applicability to SMEs: Lessons From a Case Study date: 1999-01-17 words: 9037 flesch: 53 summary: Ability of SMEs to gain industry wide differential advantages over Strategy bigger rivals? Given this lack of literature on competitive strategy for SMEs, and in the face of competition from bigger firms, most SMEs have turned to popular strategy approaches for directions, without realising the hidden dangers in doing so. keywords: approach; business; choy; chun; chun king; entry; firms; king; market; portfolio; smes; strategies; strategy; yeo cache: jsbs-400.pdf plain text: jsbs-400.txt item: #394 of 612 id: jsbs-401 author: Wilson, Timothy L.; Anell, Barbro I. title: Business Service Firms and Market Share date: 1999-01-17 words: 6408 flesch: 55 summary: The results clearly suggested that initially there is a profitability decrease with market share for business service firms at low market share. That is, a V-shaped variation best described the profitability v, market share relationship of business service firms at market shares under 10X average market share. keywords: average; business; data; firms; management; market; market share; organizations; profitability; service; share; size; strategy; study; wilson cache: jsbs-401.pdf plain text: jsbs-401.txt item: #395 of 612 id: jsbs-402 author: Lavin, Marilyn title: The Large Format Store vs. "Mom and Pop": Is Suburbia a Model for the Inner City? date: 1999-01-17 words: 8247 flesch: 52 summary: Critics of large stores cite numerous examples of corporate-owned chains that have drawn trade from Main Street businesses and that have eventually brought about the closing of small, independently-owned competitors. Stone found that large stores in small towns draw customers from surrounding rural locations as well as from the town itself; similarly, a report issued by the Department of City Planning of the City of New York indicates that the suburban big boxes that surround that city attract urban customers. keywords: area; business; city; east; food; format; grocery; new; pathmark; residents; retailers; shopping; size; stores; supermarket; york cache: jsbs-402.pdf plain text: jsbs-402.txt item: #396 of 612 id: jsbs-403 author: Cook, Ronald G. title: Why You Should Join the Small Business Institute Directors' Association (SBIDA) date: 1999-06-17 words: 848 flesch: 50 summary: The SBI Program offers students a chance to gain hands-on experience with small business. This year, we began a program that will certify our members as small business counselors. keywords: business; sbi; small cache: jsbs-403.pdf plain text: jsbs-403.txt item: #397 of 612 id: jsbs-404 author: Elkin, Michael C. title: One Stop Capital Shop: Providing Assistance for Inner-City Small Businesses date: 1999-06-17 words: 2130 flesch: 53 summary: PROVIDING ASSISTANCE FOR INNER-CITY SMALL BUSINESSES Michael C. Elkin SBA Program Manager Oakland One Stop Capital Shop It's the economy, stupid! and that now famous campaign slogan did not manifest itself more forcefully than the Los Angeles Riots in 1992. Michael Elkln ii the manager ofthe Oakland One Stop Capital Shop. keywords: business; capital; oakland; shop; small; stop cache: jsbs-404.pdf plain text: jsbs-404.txt item: #398 of 612 id: jsbs-405 author: Mueller, Carolyn B.; Naffziger, Douglas W. title: Strategic Planning in Small Firms: Activity and Process Realities date: 2015-06-17 words: 3949 flesch: 58 summary: Research thrusts in small firm strategic planning. In response, Robinson and Pearce (1984) suggested four research thrusts for future investigation on the subject: (1)to empirically confirm the presence or absence of strategic planning practices; (2) to provide empirical evidence of the value of strategic planning; (3) to examine the appropriateness of specific features of the planning process; and (4) to empirically examine the content of the strategies of small firms. keywords: business; employees; firms; journal; owners; planning; process; research; variables cache: jsbs-405.pdf plain text: jsbs-405.txt item: #399 of 612 id: jsbs-406 author: Tanner, Margret M. title: Perceptions of and Responses to Environmental Economic Incentive Programs: An Industry Comparison for Small and Medium-Sized Companies date: 1999-06-17 words: 3960 flesch: 45 summary: 810.4 1691.7 26 .047 Wire: 111.2 209.1 22 uTest for the significance of the difference in means for the two groups Company Motivating Factors Given the numerous alternatives for regulatory approaches, it is important to know how much influence each method has on shaping company environmental policy. These laws are still in place; however, states have been augmenting the traditional regulations with economic incentive programs to achieve greater reductions in pollution levels. keywords: companies; emissions; environmental; incentive; pollution; programs; state; tax; use cache: jsbs-406.pdf plain text: jsbs-406.txt item: #400 of 612 id: jsbs-407 author: Longenecker, Justin G. title: Strategic Planning for New & Emerging Businesses: A Consulting Approach date: 1999-06-17 words: 738 flesch: 53 summary: They are members of the faculty of Bradley University and are known for their work in small business and entrepreneurship. The authors write from their areas of academic specialization in management and strategy and from backgrounds of consulting with business firms. keywords: business; chapters cache: jsbs-407.pdf plain text: jsbs-407.txt item: #401 of 612 id: jsbs-408 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-17 words: 635 flesch: 52 summary: Thomas J. Liesz Mesa State College Stephen Lucas University of Nonh Carolina-Greensboro Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina AtkT University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven Inge Nickerson Barry University John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State University Herbert Sherman South Hampton College of Long Island Leo Simpson Eastern Washington University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra Umverstty Pamela H. Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas, San Antonio John B. Wallace Marshall University The Journal of Small Business Siraiegv is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation (SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Editorial Assistant Julie Dobish Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Book Review Editor Radha Chaganti Rider University Editorial Review Board Ramachandra Asundi University of Pueno Rico David Brennan University of St. Thomas (St. Paul) Radha Chaganti Rider University Vivek Choudhury Florida State University Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dale Dickson Mesa State College Terry Gaston Southern Oregon University Masoud Hemmasi Illinois State University Lynn Hoffman University of Nonhem Colorado Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Krish Krishnan Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) keywords: business; college; indiana; iup; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-408.pdf plain text: jsbs-408.txt item: #402 of 612 id: jsbs-409 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-17 words: 572 flesch: 43 summary: As we enter the year 2000, I would like to remind the readership that the editorial staff and the editorial review board of JSBS continue to attempt to move the journal forward in terms of the quality and quantity of articles related to the ever growing field of small business and entrepreneurship. Based on U.S. Small Business Administration criteria, the following parameters define small business: Maximum Annual Sales or T e of Business Number of Em lo ees Wholesale Trade $ 9.5 - 22 Million (Varies Across Industries) General Construction $ 17 Million Services $ 2.5 - 14.5 Million (Varies Across Industries) Retail Trade $ 3.5 - 13.5 Million (Varies Across Industries) Agricultural Production $ .I - 3.5 Million (Varies Across Type) Restaurants Up To $ 10 Million Manufacturing Maximum of Either 500, 750,1000, Or 1500 Employees (Depends On Industry) keywords: business; small cache: jsbs-409.pdf plain text: jsbs-409.txt item: #403 of 612 id: jsbs-41 author: Editor, jsbs title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-20 words: 31 flesch: 54 summary: Table of contents Anonymous Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2005; 16, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-41.pdf plain text: jsbs-41.txt item: #404 of 612 id: jsbs-410 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-17 words: 237 flesch: 4 summary: The Benefits of Employment Contracts and Arbitration James J. Coffey Plattsburgh, State University Of New York Richard A. Bemardi Roger Williams University 43 The Business Launch Decision: An Empirical Investigation Of Reasons for ivot Starting a New Business Howard E. Van Auken iowa State University 56 Are Small Business Owners Using Performance Appraisals to Their Full Potentialy An Esploratory Study Anne M. Fiedler Barry University Eddie Daghestani Barry University 68 Employee Slock Ownership Plans: The Role of Employee Perceptions as Motivation Greg Filbeck University of Toledo Raymond Gorman Miami University SMALL BUSINESS BRIEFS: 18 Pro-EnvironmentalStrategiesfor Small Businessese Factors Affecting Consumer Trust and Responsibility Linda I. Nowak Sonoma State University Kelly Fucciolo Sonoma County Water Agency Brenda S. Ponsford Sonoma State University S6 Go International Gradually: Advice to Small Businesses from Companies with Overseas Esperience Sheri Bridges Wake Forest University J. Kline Harrison Wake Forest University 9$ A lVote on the Use of Marketing Research by Small Businesses Mark C. Hall Minnesota State University, Mankato 99 BOOK REVIEW: STRA TXGY TABLE OF CONTENTS I Putting Your Business on the Maps Geographic Information Systems for Small Business Ronald Rubin University of Central Florida 20 Small Business Drug-Testing Strategyr Implications of Pre-Employment Testing John M. Gleason Creighton University Darold T. Barnum University Of illinois, keywords: business; state; university cache: jsbs-410.pdf plain text: jsbs-410.txt item: #405 of 612 id: jsbs-411 author: Rubin, Ronald title: Putting Your Business on the Map: Geographic Information Systems for Small Business date: 1999-06-17 words: 8463 flesch: 55 summary: Geocoding Recall that GIS data consists of both spatial locations (expressed in some coordinate system) and attribute data. Fortunately, firms and government agencies have been producing GIS data for public resale or use for several decades. keywords: addresses; analysis; business; capabilities; customer; data; decision; gis; information; journal; locations; map; products; small; software; street; support; system; theme; use; user cache: jsbs-411.pdf plain text: jsbs-411.txt item: #406 of 612 id: jsbs-412 author: Gleason, John M.; Barnum, Darold T. title: Small Business Drug-Testing Strategy: Implications of Pre-Employment Testing date: 1999-06-17 words: 6602 flesch: 58 summary: The focus is on the proportion of positive drug tests that are false and how this proportion can be reduced. edu ABSTRACT This paper identifies problems in drug testing accuracy that may arise in small business environments in whichj ob applicants are subjected to drug tests, and suggests a method for dealing with the problems. keywords: accusation; business; case; confirmation; drugs; negative; percent; rate; small; test; testing cache: jsbs-412.pdf plain text: jsbs-412.txt item: #407 of 612 id: jsbs-413 author: Coffey, James J.; Bernardi, Richard A. title: Avoiding Litigation: The Benefits of Employment Contracts and Arbitration date: 1999-06-17 words: 5671 flesch: 51 summary: In contrast, one business strategy that is growing in popularity includes the use of employment contracts specifying arbitration in dispute resolution. The first section deals with the problems that can occur without employment contracts. keywords: arbitration; business; contract; disputes; employee; employers; employment; litigation; parties; party; process cache: jsbs-413.pdf plain text: jsbs-413.txt item: #408 of 612 id: jsbs-414 author: Van Auken, Howard E. title: The Business Launch Decision: An Empirical Investigation of Reasons for Not Starting a New Business date: 1999-06-17 words: 5792 flesch: 49 summary: Effective screening is especially important due to the well-documented and discussed high failure rate of new businesses. The specific objectives are of the study are to: (I) evaluate reasons why individuals who screened business opportunities decided against launch; (2) compare the characteristics of individuals who launched a new business relative to individuals who decided against launch; and (3) compare reasons why the business was not launched relative to respondent characteristics. keywords: business; individuals; journal; launch; obstacles; opportunity; results; time; venture; workshop cache: jsbs-414.pdf plain text: jsbs-414.txt item: #409 of 612 id: jsbs-415 author: Fiedler, Anne M.; Daghestani, Eddie title: Are Small Business Owners Using Performance Appraisals to Their Full Potential? An Exploratory Study date: 1999-06-17 words: 5509 flesch: 53 summary: Today, organizations are embracing alternative information inputs for employee evaluations. Table 2 shows that for the owners that did employee evaluations, the majority of the evaluations were done once a year, but 36% were done more frequently. keywords: appraisal; business; dimensions; employee; evaluation; feedback; information; manager; owner; performance; process; study cache: jsbs-415.pdf plain text: jsbs-415.txt item: #410 of 612 id: jsbs-416 author: Filbeck, Greg; Gorman, Raymond; Fink, Sandra title: Employee Stock Ownership Plans: The Role of Employee Perceptions as Motivation date: 1999-06-17 words: 4876 flesch: 53 summary: Job generating performance of employee owned companies, Monthl Labor Review 106 (8), 15-19. Rosen, C. &. Through surveys of company managers, Rosen (1989) finds that increased employee motivation tends to be among the primary management objectives when implementing and maintaining employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). keywords: company; employees; esop; firms; ownership; performance; prospect; responses; size; stock; survey; theory cache: jsbs-416.pdf plain text: jsbs-416.txt item: #411 of 612 id: jsbs-417 author: Nowak, Linda I.; Fucciolo, Kelly; Ponsford, Brenda S. title: Pro-Environmental Strategies for Small Businesses: Factors Affecting Consumer Trust and Responsibility date: 1999-06-17 words: 3503 flesch: 48 summary: Previous literature suggests large retailers are more likely to be accused of cause-exploitative marketing when they adopt pro-environmental policies (Garrett, 1987). However, respondents predicted that the larger retailers would have a greater impact on environmental protection by adopting pro-environmental policies. keywords: business; consumers; journal; marketing; policies; protection; responsibility; retailers; trust cache: jsbs-417.pdf plain text: jsbs-417.txt item: #412 of 612 id: jsbs-418 author: Bridges, Sheri; Harrison, J. Kline title: Go International Gradually: Advice to Small Businesses from Companies with Overseas Experience date: 1999-06-17 words: 3838 flesch: 47 summary: This complexity can be challenging for a firm of any size to handle, but the risks are especially high for smaller firms: In their review of recent empirical research on how small firms increase their involvement in international operations, Coviello and McAuley (1999) examine 16 studies. keywords: business; firms; international; internationalization; journal; management; market; small; survey cache: jsbs-418.pdf plain text: jsbs-418.txt item: #413 of 612 id: jsbs-419 author: Hall, Mark C. title: A Note on the Use of Marketing Research by Small Businesses date: 1999-06-17 words: 1170 flesch: 34 summary: Andreason (1983) for example, has proposed that small businesses oRen avoid marketing research due to misconceptions concerning its nature. One approach to classifying marketing research involves looking at it from an applications (subject area) perspective. keywords: business; data; marketing; research; sales; small cache: jsbs-419.pdf plain text: jsbs-419.txt item: #414 of 612 id: jsbs-42 author: Kickul, Jill; Vasquez, Maureen title: The Old Girls' Network date: 2005-05-20 words: 2414 flesch: 59 summary: 79 Having been around the block a number of times, the authors seek not only to provide role models for women entrepreneurs but to provide a counter attack to the Old Boys' Network. I Spring/Summer 2005 of venture capital and higher net worth for women entrepreneurs. keywords: authors; book; business; entrepreneurs; women cache: jsbs-42.pdf plain text: jsbs-42.txt item: #415 of 612 id: jsbs-420 author: Quay, John title: Management Consulting: A Complete Guide tot he Industry date: 1999-06-17 words: 728 flesch: 52 summary: The contributors-a plurality from Harvard- are with big firms. Fortunately, there are many small firms and sole proprietorships which still offer some flavor of the early days where individual consultants developed creative and collaborative relationships with client CEOs. keywords: consultants; consulting; firms cache: jsbs-420.pdf plain text: jsbs-420.txt item: #416 of 612 id: jsbs-421 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-17 words: 512 flesch: 28 summary: Publication Staff Editor Dr. Lloyd D. Elgart Associate Editor Dr. Lillian Schanfield Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Joseph Singer Dr. JoAnn Carland Dr. James Carland Dr. Peng S. Chan Dr. John Pearson Dr. James Paradiso Dr. David Ambrose Dr. Pamela Schindler Dr. Herbert Sherman Dr. Matthew Sonfield Dr. Saul Diamond Dr. Stephen Brown Dr. Homer Saunders Dr. Fred Fry Dr. Robert Brockhaus Dr. Steven Hanks Dr. John Wallace Dr. Rudy Kagerer Dr. Paul Dunn Dr. S~mBruno Dr. Joseph Latona Dr. Lawrence Klatt Dr. LouisG. Pol Dr. Howard Van Auken Dr. Donald Clause Dr. Binshan Lin Dr. Harriet Stephenson Dr. Howard Rudd Dr. Richard Daily Dr. Inge Nickerson Dr. Don Bradley Barry University Barry University University of Missouri Western Carolina University Western Carolina University California State University- Fullerton Arizona State University National-Louis University University of Nebraska-Omaha Wittenberg University Hofstra University University of Northern Iowa University of Central Arkansas Bradley University St. Louis University Utah State University Marshall University University of Georgia Northeast Louisiana University University of Houston-Clear Lake University of Akron Florida Atlantic University University of Nebraska at Omaha Iowa State University University of West Florida Louisiana State University- Shreveport Seattle University College of Charleston University of Montana Barry University University of Central Arkansas A publication of Barry University and the Small Business Institute Directors' Association. Send subscription requests to the National SBIDA Center, College of Business Administration, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR 72032. keywords: business; small; university cache: jsbs-421.pdf plain text: jsbs-421.txt item: #417 of 612 id: jsbs-422 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-17 words: 374 flesch: 41 summary: (, ,,,_,, Lillian Schanfield Associate Editor THE SMALL BUSINESS INSTITUTE DIRECTORS' ASSOCIATION SBIDA 1992-93 Officers President LYNN HOFFMAN Department of Management University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO 80639 (303) 351-1224 Office (303) 455-7814 Home FAX (303) 351-2500 President-Elect ROBERT A. KEMP Department of Management Drake University Des Moines, IA 50311 (515) 271-2807 Office (5I5) 223-6504 Home FAX (515) 271-2001 Vice-President Programs JOSEPH C. LATONA College of Business Administration University of Akron Akron, OH 44325 (216) 972-7337 Office (216) 666-4419 Home FAX (216) 972-6588 Vice-President Publications PAMELA S. SCHINDLER Business Administration Wittenberg University Springfield, OH 45501 (513) 327-7904 Office (513) 864-7693 Home FAX (513) 327-6340 Secretary-Treasurer GERALYN MCCLURE FRANKLIN Department of Management and · Marketing· StephenF. Austin State University Nacogdoches, TX 75962 (409) 563-1730 Office ( 409) 569-7267 Home FAX (409) 568-1117 Past President GWEN F. FONTENOT Texas Women's University I 0030 Glenrio Lane Dallas, TX 75229 (817) 898-2113 Office (214) 358-2234 Home FAX (817) For this issue, Don Bradley III, SBIDA National Center Director, was invited to submit his article dealing with the activities and services of the National Center. keywords: fax; office cache: jsbs-422.pdf plain text: jsbs-422.txt item: #418 of 612 id: jsbs-423 author: Editor, JSBS title: About the Authors date: 2015-06-17 words: 298 flesch: 46 summary: Small Business Consulting: A JO-Region Analysis of Sm11// Business Institute Progroms, 1990 Marilyn Young is Professor of Business Administration and director of the Small Business Institute at the University of Texas at Tyler. Small Businesses as Captive Companies: Business Strotegy and Firm Performance Among U.S. Auto Suppliers Aaron A. Buchko is Assistant Professor of Management at Bradley University. keywords: business; university cache: jsbs-423.pdf plain text: jsbs-423.txt item: #419 of 612 id: jsbs-424 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-17 words: 139 flesch: 40 summary: De Castro Thomas J. Dean Karen Vaught-Alexander Small Business Consulting: A 10-Region Analysis of Small Business Institute Programs, 1990 Marilyn Young George Joyce Small Businesses as Captive Companies: Business Strategy and Firm Performance Among U.S. Auto Suppliers Aaron A. Buchko Effect of Professional Background on Venture Capital Proposal Evaluation Richard B. Carter Howard E. Van Auken SPECIAL SECTION: Letters to the Editor Preparing Decision Useful Financial Reports: A Challenge for Small Businesses Larry G. Singleton Bruce Swindle The New Kid on the Block for Small Business Success: Ethics? Harriet Buckman Stephenson Deborah Kahle Research and Development of Small Business and Entrepreneurship: keywords: business cache: jsbs-424.pdf plain text: jsbs-424.txt item: #420 of 612 id: jsbs-425 author: Feldman, Howard D.; Castro, Julio de; Dean, Thomas; Vaught-Alexander, Karen title: Becoming a Small Business Owner: The Hispanic Experience date: 1992-01-17 words: 7146 flesch: 55 summary: The results indicate 85.7o/o of Hispanic business owners started their o~nfirm, as opposed to 63.6% in the Cooper, et al. study. A check of the state's minority business population versus national statistics indicated an overrepresentation of Hispanic business owners among the HSBO sample, but it was in line with comparable state population statistics. keywords: business; hispanic; hsbo; minority; nfib; nia; owners; ownership; sample; small; study cache: jsbs-425.pdf plain text: jsbs-425.txt item: #421 of 612 id: jsbs-426 author: Young, Marilyn; Joyce, George title: Small Business Consulting: A 10-Region Analysis of Small Business Institute Programs, 1990* date: 1992-01-17 words: 3662 flesch: 59 summary: What was the normal teaching assignment of directors, and what percentage of SBI directors received reduced assignments? Percentage of SBI directors who utilized SCORE by region. keywords: business; difference; directors; percentage; programs; regions; sbi; small cache: jsbs-426.pdf plain text: jsbs-426.txt item: #422 of 612 id: jsbs-427 author: Buchko, Aaron A. title: Small Businesses as Captive Companies: Business Strategy and Firm Performance Among U.S. Auto Suppliers date: 1992-01-17 words: 6205 flesch: 59 summary: This study indicates that there is opponunity for captive supplier firms through the proper use of strategy and planning to affect firm performance in a positive manner. When examining issues of scale and scope, it is readily apparent that small supplier firms often lack the resources of larger organizations and are frequently dependent on larger firms to provide a substantial portion of the firm's sales (Clark, 1989). keywords: auto; business; differences; firms; high; industry; performance; relative; sales; strategies; strategy; supplier cache: jsbs-427.pdf plain text: jsbs-427.txt item: #423 of 612 id: jsbs-428 author: Carter, Richard B.; Van Auken, Howard E. title: Effect of Professional Background on Venture Capital Proposal Evaluation date: 1992-01-17 words: 4469 flesch: 46 summary: The second pattern is that, for most of the criteria that are statistically different, venture capitalists having a business background ranked financial criteria as more impor- tant than non-business background venture capitalists. The non-business background venture capitalists place greater importance on the uniqueness of the product, the cost structure of the project and the entrepreneur's health and less importance on exit procedures than business background venture capitalists. keywords: background; business; capitalists; criteria; entrepreneur; non; venture; venture capitalists cache: jsbs-428.pdf plain text: jsbs-428.txt item: #424 of 612 id: jsbs-429 author: Editor, JSBS title: Letters to the Editor date: 2015-06-17 words: 763 flesch: 59 summary: In response to yours of December 9, 1991, I would be happy to forward two copies of the Journal of Small Business Strategy lo Dr. Smimov beginning with the November 1991 issue. As an alternative, you may send the letter to me and I will include it in my next correspondence with Dr. Smimov or deliver it directly as I am returning to Russia for another visit on January 11. keywords: business; small cache: jsbs-429.pdf plain text: jsbs-429.txt item: #425 of 612 id: jsbs-430 author: Singleton, Larry G.; Swindle, Bruce title: Preparing Decision Useful Financial Reports: A Challenge for Small Businesses* date: 1992-06-17 words: 2662 flesch: 47 summary: The FASB did not provide a quantitative method for choosing between accounting methods when it issued SFAC No. 2. Conceptual framework for financial accounting and reporting. keywords: accounting; alternative; characteristics; decision; information cache: jsbs-430.pdf plain text: jsbs-430.txt item: #426 of 612 id: jsbs-431 author: Stephenson, Harriet Buckman; Kahle, Deborah title: The New Kid on the Block for Small Business Success: Ethics?* date: 1992-06-17 words: 2637 flesch: 60 summary: While small business owners will be seeking opportunilies abroad (Edmunds 68 & Khoury. 1986; Morrow. The ethics issue was not significantly more important to small business owners than bigger businesses: however. keywords: business; ethics; journal; management; new; owners; small; success cache: jsbs-431.pdf plain text: jsbs-431.txt item: #427 of 612 id: jsbs-432 author: Bradley III*, Don B. title: Research and Development of Small Business and Entrepreneurship is the Small Business Advancement National Center date: 1992-06-17 words: 1400 flesch: 52 summary: *Dr. Bradley is 1hc dircc1or of lhe Small Business Advancement National Center. There is also a brief summary of some of the data collected on a national Small Business Institute survey. keywords: business; center; national; small cache: jsbs-432.pdf plain text: jsbs-432.txt item: #428 of 612 id: jsbs-433 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-17 words: 622 flesch: 15 summary: University ol'Idaho Miami University of Ohio Ollicc: (208) 885-7154 Phone: (513) 529-4841 Fax: (208) 885-8939 Fax: (513) 529-9689 ft-maih joegQauidaho.cdu Email: broidamsQamuohio.edu President-Elect I'ice Prestdeni —Deveiopmeni Roosevelt D. Butler, Ph.D. The College ol'New )cracy University of Louisville Oflice: (609) 771-2868 OtTtce: (502) 852-4788 Fax: (609) 637-5129 Fax: (502) 852-7557 E-maik rbutlerQatcnj.edu E-maih bhkemeo IQalouisville.cdu Vice-Prestdeni-Programs Vree President.. '(915) 552-2170 Phone: (609) 895-5529 Fax: (915) 552-2174 Fax. (609) 896-5304 Email; franklin~Qautpb.edu Email: chagantiQarider.edu Hce President-P«bltcaiions immedtate Pasr Prestdent Stephsnie Huneycutt, J.D., L.L.M. J. Douglas Frszer, Ph.D., CPA Christopher Ncwpon University Millersvillc University Phone: (757) 594-7139 OITtce: (717) 871-5555 Fax: (757) 594-7808 Fax: (717) 871-2464 Email: huncycutQacnu.edu E-main dfrnzerQamarauder.millersv.edu Vice President-Program Quality Assurance Ediiori Journal of Small Business Strategy Gary L. Aitchison, Ph.D. Stephen W. Osborne, Ph.D. lowe State Univcmity Indiana University of Pennsylvania Office: (515) 294-8107 Phone: (724) 357-5760 Fnx: (515) 294-2534 Fnx: (724) 357-5743 E-mail; gaitchisQaisstatc.edu Email: osbomeQaiup.edu Vice Prestdeni-Case Competition James Bradley, Ph.D. Central Washington University Phone: (206) 439-1282 Fax (206) 439-3809 Email: brndleycwu edu keywords: business; fax; indiana; iup; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-433.pdf plain text: jsbs-433.txt item: #429 of 612 id: jsbs-434 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-17 words: 640 flesch: 64 summary: Topic Topic as % of T~oic ~rii ! Afler ten years of publication, JSBShas expanded in several ways and has published articles on a broad range of topics related to small business and entrepreneurism for the practitioner, the consultant and the educator. keywords: business; small cache: jsbs-434.pdf plain text: jsbs-434.txt item: #430 of 612 id: jsbs-435 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-17 words: 213 flesch: 34 summary: The Impact of Empowerment in Small Manufacturing Firms Bruce H. Kemelgor University of Louisville 50 HI V/AIDS Employees, The Americans witl& Disabilities Act, and Their Impact on Small Business D. Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Sharon Clinebell University of Northern Colorado 64 Critical Business Problems and Advisors James R. Lowry Ball State University Joseph D. Chapman Ball State University 74 Tapping the Benefrts of the Living Case Melhodologyr A Case Study Janet Bear Wolverton Southern Oregon University Roy A. Cook Fort Lewis College SS Smoll Business Brief: Field Case Consultingr Ten Keys For Success Michael D. Ames California State University, Fullerton Paul Hugstad California State University, Fullerton 90 Book Review: Field Casework: Metis ods for Consulting to Small and Startup Businesses Lisa K. Gundry & Aaron A. Buchko Reviewer: Reginald Litz University of Manitoba keywords: case; state; university cache: jsbs-435.pdf plain text: jsbs-435.txt item: #431 of 612 id: jsbs-436 author: Litz, Reginald A.; Stewart, Alice C. title: Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Extraorganizational Clan-Building as Small Firm Strategy for Home Field Advantage date: 2000-01-17 words: 5820 flesch: 42 summary: In addition, given the beyond the call of normal duty nature of extraorganizational clan building, operationalization also considered extra-transactional behaviors, that is, behaviors occurring outside normal business hours (a full listing of all 14 items is found in Table I). However, one area where small firms may have a digerential advantage is in building and nurturing highly personalized cusiomer relationships. keywords: behaviors; building; business; clan; community; customers; factor; firm; journal; performance; relational; score; social; strategy; transactional cache: jsbs-436.pdf plain text: jsbs-436.txt item: #432 of 612 id: jsbs-437 author: Solymossy, Emeric title: Knowledge Networks: Differences and Performance Effects date: 2000-01-17 words: 5381 flesch: 47 summary: STRATEGY USASBE/SBIDA 2000 Conference Coleman Best Empirical Research Paper Awarded by The Coleman Foundation KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS: DIFFERENCES AND PERFORMANCE EFFECTS E meric Solymossy Western Illinois University - Quad Cities Emeric SolymossyQaccmail.wiu.edu ABSTRACT A survey of l4l small & medium sized enterprise (SME) principals reveals rwo distinctly different types of knowledge networks based upon the principal k perception of whether or noi networks provide a significant benefit to their firm. This suggests purposeful pursuit within a relatively structured set of knowledge networks. keywords: benefit; business; contacts; differences; firm; group; information; journal; knowledge; networking; networks; research; resources cache: jsbs-437.pdf plain text: jsbs-437.txt item: #433 of 612 id: jsbs-438 author: Becherer, Richard C.; Halstead, Diane; Maurer, John title: Antecedents of Job Burnout Among Small Company Presidents date: 2000-01-17 words: 6620 flesch: 52 summary: Managerial Implications An important implication of job burnout among small business presidents concerns firm performance. The results of this study suggest that effective coping straiegies for job burnout among small company presidents may be both individual- and situation-specific. keywords: burnout; business; characteristics; company; conflict; job; journal; presidents; research; role; small; stress; variables; work cache: jsbs-438.pdf plain text: jsbs-438.txt item: #434 of 612 id: jsbs-439 author: Kemelgor, Bruce H. title: The Impact of Empowerment in Small Manufacturing Firms date: 2000-01-17 words: 5479 flesch: 55 summary: Employee empowerment opportunities will, therefore, be defined as situations or forums designed by managers to encourage employees to join in negotiation and decision-making processes and experience actions and policy changes based on their deliberations. The criteria used in determining employee empowerment opportunities were: (I) participants are engaged in negotiation and decision-making processes; (2) decisions from the aforementioned engagement are implemented; and (3) employees perceive themselves as having been empowered from the perspective of their own self-efficacy and from fulfillment of outcome expectations. keywords: business; company; employees; empowerment; firms; individual; journal; management; process; small; training; work cache: jsbs-439.pdf plain text: jsbs-439.txt item: #435 of 612 id: jsbs-440 author: Hoffman, D. Lynn; Clinebell, Sharon title: HIV/AIDS Employees, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Their Impact on Small Business date: 2000-01-17 words: 7410 flesch: 58 summary: Information presented in Table II shows AIDS cases by exposure category. In 1997, there were 1,291,810 new cases of AIDS in both adults and children from 193 countries amounting to an increase of 26% from one year earlier (Miller, Backer 8c Rogers, 1997). keywords: ada; aids; business; cdc; costs; disability; eeoc; employees; employer; functions; health; hiv; job; policy; work cache: jsbs-440.pdf plain text: jsbs-440.txt item: #436 of 612 id: jsbs-441 author: Lowry, James R.; Chapman, Joseph D. title: Critical Business Problems and Advisors date: 2000-01-17 words: 3546 flesch: 52 summary: An interesting study ranked the usefulness of business advisors based on their accessibility, informality, and richness of information (Smeltzer, Hook, &. 65 Journal ofSmall Busmess Strategy Vo/. //, Na. / Spring/Summer 2000 RESULTS Without a stalT of competent internal specialists to assist in solving business problems small and mid-size businesses frequently must rely on outside advisors. keywords: accountants; advisors; business; consultants; marketing; mid; problems; respondents; sales cache: jsbs-441.pdf plain text: jsbs-441.txt item: #437 of 612 id: jsbs-442 author: Wolverton, Janet Bear; Cook, Roy A. title: Tapping the Benefits of the Living Case Methodology: A Case Study date: 2000-01-17 words: 5692 flesch: 54 summary: As this pedagogical process is approached in future classes, instructors should Inform company principles that the opportunity to share their stories and key decisions points with others through the publication of a case would be appreciated; Create an ongoing relationship that would allow students in subsequent classes to build upon the knowledge created by their peers; Secure permission to allow instructors to speak to other organizations about the successes and failures resulting from student recommendations; Inform company principles that they may strongly disagree or even, at times, be offended by student questions and/or recommendations - egos need to be checked at the door when you engage in this process; Fully prepare undergraduate students through textbook materials, readings, and lectures to effectively participate in this process; and 81 Journal ofSmall Business Sir a/egy Vo/./1. Second, he would have the consulting services of both the professor and senior business administration students provided at no charge. keywords: business; case; class; company; decision; living; living case; method; methodology; process; questions; small; students cache: jsbs-442.pdf plain text: jsbs-442.txt item: #438 of 612 id: jsbs-443 author: Ames, Michael D.; Hugstad, Paul title: Field Case Consulting: Ten Keys for Success date: 2015-06-17 words: 2512 flesch: 52 summary: The authors note that they have also applied the ten keys successfully to undergraduate student consulting. The college saw utilizing student consulting (live field casework) in the capstone course as a better fit to the above mentioned benchmarks. keywords: business; client; consulting; course; experience; professor; student cache: jsbs-443.pdf plain text: jsbs-443.txt item: #439 of 612 id: jsbs-444 author: Litz, Reginald title: Field Casework: Methods for Consulting to Small and Startup Businesses date: 2000-06-17 words: 1879 flesch: 53 summary: In short, the book left me only more convinced of the value of fieldwork projects as this mode of learning facilitates a hands-on experience that may be otherwise inaccessible. Students have learned a great deal. keywords: business; experience; fieldwork; project; students cache: jsbs-444.pdf plain text: jsbs-444.txt item: #440 of 612 id: jsbs-445 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-18 words: 586 flesch: 33 summary: Aitchisun, Ph.D. Stephen W. Osborne, Ph.D. lowe State University Indiana University of Pennsylvania OAice: (515) 294-8107 Phone: (724) 357-5760 STATE'GY Editor Stephen W. Osborne Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) Associate Editors Prashanth B. Nagendra Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Joette M. Wisnieski Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Editorial Assistant Julie Dobish Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) Book Review Editor Radha Chaganti Rider University Editorial Review Board Ramachandra Asundi University of Puerto Rico James Bradley Central Washington University David Brennan University of St. Thomas (St. Paul) keywords: business; college; indiana; pennsylvania; state; university cache: jsbs-445.pdf plain text: jsbs-445.txt item: #441 of 612 id: jsbs-446 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-18 words: 711 flesch: 47 summary: Other articles in this issue cover a wide range of topics including enrrepreneurshlp (Classification as a Factor in the Scientific Evoluil on of Enirepreneurship); financing (The Familiarity ofSmall Technology-Based Business Owners with Sources of Capital: Impact of Location and Capiralisarion); competitive strategy (Responding ro Indusiry Consolidation in Fragmented Indusirlesi The Role of Capabilities in Small Busmess Snrvival and Expecrarions for Fine Dining: Lessons for Small Business Resrauraieurs); consulting (Small Business Enrerprise and Development: Consultation Modes and Start- Up Success Facrois Perceived as Important by USA and Korean Consulianis); collaboration and srrareglc alliances (Collaboration Between Technology Enirepreneurs and Large Corporations: Key Design and Management Issues and Inrernaiiona/Strategic Alliances: A Tale of Two Firms); and the emerging role of nor forprofir organizations as a small business competitor (New Comperirors for Small Business: Stephen W. Osborne, Editor STRATEGF MISSION STATEMENT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Jrnirnal of Small Business Strategy is a priicricagy-orienteiljournal tliai publishes high-ttuality, applied resenrcli on topics related to entrepreneursliip nnd .small business operations. keywords: author; business; journal cache: jsbs-446.pdf plain text: jsbs-446.txt item: #442 of 612 id: jsbs-447 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-18 words: 255 flesch: -25 summary: Kuratko Ball State University 21 Responding to Industry Consolidation in Fragmented Indus(ries: Tlie Role of Cupabili ties in Small Basi ness Survival Jeffrey E. McGee University of Texas at Arlington Chnstopher L. Shook University of Texas at Arlington 33 Tlie Familiarity of Small Technology-Based Business Owners wiih Sources of Capitalr Impact of Location and Capitalization kloward Van Auken Iowa State University 48 Small Business Enterprise and Development: Consultation Modes John Ellis Bournemouth University Julia Kiely Bournemouth University 60 Collaboralion Between Technology Entrepreneurs and Large Corporations: Key Design and Management Issues Michedl J. Kelly University of Ottawa Jean-Louis Schaan Umversity of Ottawa 77 Internutional Strategic Alliances: A Tale of Two Firms John Hadjimarcou University of Texas at El Paso John W. Bames Loyola University -New Orleans Somnath Bhattacharya Florida Atlantic University Patrick Traichal Epicentric, Inc. Frank Hoy University of Texas at El Paso 92 New Competitors for Small Business: SiJ4TEi'Y TABLE OF CONTENTS I Classification as a Factorin the Scientific Evolution of Entrepreneursltip Minet Schindehutte Miami University Michael H. Morris Miami Umversity Donald I'. keywords: business; texas; university cache: jsbs-447.pdf plain text: jsbs-447.txt item: #443 of 612 id: jsbs-448 author: Schindehutte, Minet; Morris, Michael H.; Kuratko, Donald F. title: Classification as a Factor in the Scientific Evolution of Entrepreneurship date: 2000-06-18 words: 10444 flesch: 43 summary: Approaches to developing classification schemes, and criteria for assessing them, are discussed. A number of classification schemes exist within entrepreneurship. keywords: approaches; business; categories; characteristics; classification; development; discipline; entrepreneurship; field; growth; journal; new; number; phenomena; research; schemes; small; strategy; theory; types; venture cache: jsbs-448.pdf plain text: jsbs-448.txt item: #444 of 612 id: jsbs-449 author: McGee, Jeffery E.; Shook, Christopher L. title: Repsponding to Industry Consolidation in Fragmented Industries: The Role of Capabilities in Small Business Survival date: 2000-06-18 words: 5565 flesch: 46 summary: Our results suggest that developing capabilities is important to responding effectively to industry consolidation. Businesses with a limited range of capabilities outperform firms that do not emphasize any capabilities. keywords: advantage; analysis; business; capabilities; cluster; consolidation; cost; factor; industries; industry; journal; performance; research; retailers; study cache: jsbs-449.pdf plain text: jsbs-449.txt item: #445 of 612 id: jsbs-450 author: Van Auken, Howard title: The Familiarity of Small Technology-Based Business Owners with Sources of Capital: Impact of Location and Capitalization date: 2000-06-18 words: 6901 flesch: 43 summary: Formal venture capital firms prefer to invest in firms that are in later stages of development than informal venture capital investors (Busenitz & Piet, 1996; Freear, Sohl, & Wetzel, 1995). While these assumptions may be valid for large public companies, the application of these assumptions to small firms has often been questioned in the literature. keywords: business; capital; communities; familiarity; financing; firms; journal; owners; results; size; sources; technology cache: jsbs-450.pdf plain text: jsbs-450.txt item: #446 of 612 id: jsbs-451 author: Ellis, John H. M.; Kiely, Julia A. title: Small Business Enterprise and Development: Consultation Modes date: 2000-06-18 words: 6699 flesch: 50 summary: Figure 2 explores these tensions and captures the different consultation modes and conditions for success with small business interventions. The case studies have demonstrated that with small business interventions, modes of working fluctuate rapidly between difTerent recognizable consultation models of 'expert', 'doctor- 56 Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. keywords: business; case; change; client; consultants; consultation; expert; intervention; issues; journal; practice; process; process consultation cache: jsbs-451.pdf plain text: jsbs-451.txt item: #447 of 612 id: jsbs-452 author: Kelly, Micheal J.; Schaan, Jean-Louis; Joncas, Helene title: Collaboration Between Technology Entrepreneurs and Large Corporations: Key Design and Management Issue date: 2000-06-18 words: 8719 flesch: 47 summary: Strategic alliances need acceptance from the entire organization, buy-in that usually starts at the top. Hamel (1991) has described strategic alliances as a race to learn. keywords: alliance; business; companies; company; executives; face; firms; kelly; key; management; need; partners; partnership; resources; schaan; strategy; technology; time; venture cache: jsbs-452.pdf plain text: jsbs-452.txt item: #448 of 612 id: jsbs-453 author: Hadjimarcou, John; Barnes, John W.; Bhattacharya, Somnath; Traichal, Patrick; Hoy, Frank title: International Strategic Alliances: A Tale of Two Firms date: 2000-06-18 words: 8184 flesch: 45 summary: This phenomenon is partly due to the high financing and communication costs for Mexican firms vis-6-vis their American counterparts. A by-product of this situation is that Mexican firms are becoming ever more aware of the advantages of developed markets through partnerships with U.S. and other global firms, rather than going it alone. keywords: alliances; business; charlie; chihuahua; firm; gutierrez; international; journal; management; market; mexican; mexico; partner; research; restaurant; silver; silver streak; streak; u.s; venture cache: jsbs-453.pdf plain text: jsbs-453.txt item: #449 of 612 id: jsbs-454 author: Froelich, Karen A. title: New Competitors for Small Business: The For-Profit Mentality of Nonprofit Organizations date: 2000-06-18 words: 6260 flesch: 42 summary: Essentially, evolving trends in the environment of nonprofit organizations have encouraged widespread adoption of commercial revenue strategies. Thus, it is expected that commercial revenue strategies will be associated with both a greater number and enhanced authority of staff with skills in the functional areas of business administration. keywords: authority; business; commercial; competition; control; firms; government; hodgkinson; income; journal; new; nonprofit; organizations; revenue; sector; service; strategies cache: jsbs-454.pdf plain text: jsbs-454.txt item: #450 of 612 id: jsbs-455 author: Cook, Ronald G. title: Quality Field Case Consulting: New Program Possibilities date: 2000-06-18 words: 1132 flesch: 65 summary: CONCLUSION I agree with the Ames and Hugstad Ten Keys to Success points, as noted in the last issue, with some modifications for smaller programs. PROGRAM GUIDELINES For new (or existing) programs that want to provide a high quality field case consulting experience and will remain small, I offer a few suggestions for undergraduate programs: I. Be student selective. keywords: program; sbi; small cache: jsbs-455.pdf plain text: jsbs-455.txt item: #451 of 612 id: jsbs-456 author: Singer, Joe; Arora, Raj title: Great Expectations for Fine Dining: Lessons for Small Business Resturateurs date: 2000-06-18 words: 4287 flesch: 56 summary: Consumption emotion refers to the set of emotional responses elicited specifically during product usage. Cohen and Areni (1991), in their review of affective processing mechanisms, indicate that consumption emotions leave strong affective traces or markers in human memory. keywords: arousal; attitude; business; consumption; dining; emotions; experience; journal; new; research; restaurant; satisfaction cache: jsbs-456.pdf plain text: jsbs-456.txt item: #452 of 612 id: jsbs-457 author: Lee, Sang-Suk; Osteryoung, Jerome S. title: Start-Up Success Factors Perceived as Important by USA and Korean Consultants date: 2000-06-18 words: 3443 flesch: 52 summary: The other variables (major at college, education level) do not differentiate Korean consultants from USA consultants at a significant level. The specific objectives of the study were to determine whether Korean consultants dilTer from their USA counterparts with respect to: (I) personal background and (2) consultants who work on consulting for start-up businesses. keywords: availability; business; consultants; factors; korean; start; success; usa; years cache: jsbs-457.pdf plain text: jsbs-457.txt item: #453 of 612 id: jsbs-458 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-18 words: 612 flesch: 24 summary: Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha I-larriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas, San Antonio Howard Van Auken Iowa State University John B. Wallace Marshall University Momca Zimmerman Temple University The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation (SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business and Informauon Technology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Associate Editors Prashanth B. Nagendra Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Joette M. Wisnieski Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) Editorial Assistant Julia Dobish Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) Book Review Editor Radha Chaganti Rider University Editorial Review Board Ramachandra Asundi University of Puerto Rico James Bradley Central Washington University David Brennan University of St. Thomas (St. Paul) Shawn M. Carraher Texas A & M University - Commerce Radha Chaganu Rider University Vivek Choudhury Florida State University Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dale Dickson Mesa State College Terry Gaston Southern Oregon University Masoud Hemmasi Illinois State University Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Lawrence Klan Florida Atlantic University Krish Krishnan Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Thomas J. Liesz Mesa State College Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College James A. Rodger Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State University Herbert Sherman Southhampton College of Long Island Leo Simpson Eastern Washington University Joseph Singer University of Missouri —Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Pamela kl. keywords: business; college; fax; indiana; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-458.pdf plain text: jsbs-458.txt item: #454 of 612 id: jsbs-459 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-18 words: 324 flesch: 51 summary: Strategic implications of Data Gathering Activities in Small Firms: A Comparison Between Family and /iionfamily Firms by Donald Gudmundson, C. Burk Tower and E. Alan Hartman was the recipient of the Journal of Small Business Strategy Best Applied Research Paper Award presented at the USASBE/SBIDA Conference. The featured speaker at the luncheon that recognized this milestone was Dr. Larry Penley, Dean of the College of Business of Arizona State University. keywords: business; sbida cache: jsbs-459.pdf plain text: jsbs-459.txt item: #455 of 612 id: jsbs-46 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-20 words: 332 flesch: 23 summary: 0_4 Editor Fred L. Fry Associate Editors Aaron A. Buchko Laurence G. Weinzimmer Editorial Assistants Dexter Gruber Shannon M. Pettit Editorial Review Board Sernra Ascigil Joe Bell David Brennan Shawn Carraher Susan Coleman Cathleen Folker Eugene Fregetto Armand Gilinsky Joe Geiger Masoud Hemmasi Kirk Heriot Jeffrey Hornsby Bruce Kemelgor Larry Klatt Brian McKenzie Thaddeus McEwen John E. Prescott Neal Pruchansky James A. Rodger C. Louise Sellaro Matthew C. Sonfield Harriet Stephenson Joe Singer Leo Simpson Jeff Shields Paul Stephens Monica Treichel Jude Valdez Howard Van Auken Dianne Welsh Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Middle East Technical University University of Arkansas at Little Rock University of St. Thomas Cameron University University of Hartford University of Wisconsin - Parkside University of Illinois at Chicago Sonoma State University University of Idaho Illinois State University Mercer University Ball State University University of Louisville Florida Atlantic University California State University, East Bay North Carolina A&T State University University of Pittsburgh Keene State University Indiana University of Pennsylvania Yougstown State University Hofstra University University of Seattle University of Missouri - Kansas City Western Kentucky University University of Southern Maine Bradley University Temple University University of Texas at San Antonio-Downtown Iowa State University University of Tampa The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute® and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. Send subscription requests to Fred Fry, Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University, 150 I W. Bradley Ave., Peoria, IL, 61625 or e-mail to jsbs@bradley.edu. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-46.pdf plain text: jsbs-46.txt item: #456 of 612 id: jsbs-460 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-18 words: 285 flesch: 13 summary: The Role of Field-Based Business Consulting Experiences in AACSB Business Frlucationr An Exploratory Survey and Study Martha Doran San Diego State University Don Sciglimpaglia San Diego State University I-loward Toole San Diego State University 19 Strategic Implications of Data Gathering Activitiesin Small Firmsr A Comparison Between Family and Nonfumily Firms Donald Gudmundson University of Wisconsin Oshkosh C. Burk Tower University of Wisconsin Oshkosh E. Alan Hartman University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 30 Innovation and Competitive Advantage in Small Businesses: Effects of Environments and Business Strategy John C. Palmer University Of Illinois At Springfield Roben E. Wright University Of Illinois At Springfield Joshua B. Powers Indiana State University 42 Sexual Harassment of Females by Males in the Workplace: Small Businesses Contrasted witlt STRA TEG Y TABLE OF CONTENTS I Ctiallenges Alreadfor Small Business Education Larry Edward Penley Immediate Past Chair of AACSB International Arizona State University keywords: small; state; university cache: jsbs-460.pdf plain text: jsbs-460.txt item: #457 of 612 id: jsbs-461 author: Penley, Larry Edward title: Challenges Ahead For Small Business Education date: 2001-01-18 words: 4215 flesch: 61 summary: What does it mean for those of us who teach about small business or for those of us who provide consulting services to small businesses through our field-based student consulting teams? In my comments, I want to talk basically about two issues today; both are challenges for AACSB and business schools and both are challenges for those of us who are concerned with small business. keywords: aacsb; business; classes; dean; education; faculty; small; students; technology; women cache: jsbs-461.pdf plain text: jsbs-461.txt item: #458 of 612 id: jsbs-462 author: Doran, Martha; Sciglimpaglia, Don; Toole, Howard title: The Role of Field-Based Business Consulting Experiences in AACSB Business Education: An Exploratory Survey and Study date: 2001-01-18 words: 5091 flesch: 56 summary: By exposing countless students to small, entrepreneurial ventures, the SBI has undoubtedly been a leading force in developing entrepreneurial spirit in business school students and integrating much of their disjointed traditional classroom experiences, but the SBI program has, in our opinion, oAen been undervalued and misunderstood by faculty and administrators. Value to Clients Several researchers have examined the use of business students as consultants from the client's point of view. keywords: business; consulting; experience; faculty; fbc; field; journal; learning; level; programs; projects; students; success; university cache: jsbs-462.pdf plain text: jsbs-462.txt item: #459 of 612 id: jsbs-463 author: Gudmundson, Donald; Tower, C. Burk; Hartman, E. Alan title: Strategic Implications of Data Gathering Activities in Small Firms: A Comparison Between Family and Nonfamily Firms date: 2001-01-18 words: 5266 flesch: 47 summary: Data Acquisition in Family Business Several theorists have identified the importance of the role played by family business in the U. S, economy (Gersick, Davis, McCollom, Hampton & Lansberg, 1997; Ward, 1987). Yet, little empirical research has examined the data gathering and processing activities of family businesses. keywords: activities; businesses; data; family; firms; gathering; information; knowledge; management; nonfamily; research; use cache: jsbs-463.pdf plain text: jsbs-463.txt item: #460 of 612 id: jsbs-464 author: Palmer, John C.; Wright, Robert E.; Powers, Joshua B. title: Innovation and Competitive Advantage in Small Businesses: Effects of Environments and Business Strategy date: 2001-01-18 words: 5838 flesch: 45 summary: CONCLUSION To date, small business firms have had little to aid them in evaluating innovation as a source of competitive advantage. Product innovations may not generate an increase in market share large enough to cover costs. keywords: advantage; business; business strategy; cost; ement; environments; firms; innovation; journal; mana; performance; process; product; strategy cache: jsbs-464.pdf plain text: jsbs-464.txt item: #461 of 612 id: jsbs-465 author: Gatlin-Watts, Rebecca; Cangelosi, Joe; Markham, Scott title: Sexual Harassment of Females by Males in the Workplace: Small Business Contrasted with Large Businesses date: 2001-01-18 words: 4645 flesch: 52 summary: iy %nsignificonce The combined results from Tables I and 2 reveal that I) there is a greater sexualization of the workplace in larger firms, and hence significantly more sexual harassment complaints in the last 12 months; 2) even though there are more opportunities and greater pressure to interact and attract the opposite sex in the large firm, large firms were less likely to have hourly employees, first line supervisors or lower and middle managers attend sexual harassment training sessions; 3) larger firms were likely to have sexual harassment policies written and implemented than their smaller counterparts, but had signiflcantly more sexual harassment complaints over the past 12 months; 4) even though employees in large firms (versus smaller firms) were more likely to benefit from sexual harassment training and have a better understanding of their firm's attitude toward sexual harassment, larger firms had more sexual harassment complaints in the past 12 months. No i Spring/Sunimer 200/ and lower level managers attend sexual harassment training sessions; 1) employees in larger firms are more likely to understand the organization's attitude toward sexual harassment; g) employees in large firms are more likely to benefit from sexual harassment training; and h) larger firms had significantly more sexual harassment complaints in the last 12 months than did smaller firms. keywords: business; companies; employees; firms; harassment; journal; percent; policies; training; women; workplace cache: jsbs-465.pdf plain text: jsbs-465.txt item: #462 of 612 id: jsbs-466 author: Mills, Robert J.; Paper, David; Rodger, James title: Modeling a Successful E-Business Using Essential Principles from Netscape date: 2001-06-18 words: 4629 flesch: 49 summary: Revenues from the web-mall provided the means for Anthill.corn to expand from a simple online mall to a robust E-business site bringing small businesses and millions of customers to ether on one site (Figure 2). The method involves traveling the country and providing training seminars for small businesses to help them develop a variety of commerce sites. keywords: anthill.corn; business; communication; company; customers; internet; journal; matsko; netscape; resources; site; small; technology; vision cache: jsbs-466.pdf plain text: jsbs-466.txt item: #463 of 612 id: jsbs-467 author: McGrath, Leanne C.; Heiens, Richard A. title: The Integration of Computer Technology in Small Businesses date: 2001-06-18 words: 3457 flesch: 54 summary: It is not surprising then that numerous surveys on small business all point to the same conclusion, small firms have to keep pace with technological changes if they want to keep a competitive edge (Bridge E; Peel, 1999). Moreover, small business has a reputation for moving quickly and taking risks (Hise, 1996). keywords: business; computer; information; owners; percent; small; table; technology; use cache: jsbs-467.pdf plain text: jsbs-467.txt item: #464 of 612 id: jsbs-468 author: Dawson, Stuart; Breen, John title: Ethical Perspectives in Home-Based Business date: 2001-06-18 words: 4819 flesch: 54 summary: An extensive literature search idcntilied only a small number of studies that addressed ethical issues in small business, and no investigations into ethical considerations in home-based business. Overall, small business produces approximately one third of gross domestic product and accounts for just over half of total private sector non-agricultural employment in Australia (Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business, 1999). keywords: beliefs; business; ethics; home; journal; operators; personal; statistics; study cache: jsbs-468.pdf plain text: jsbs-468.txt item: #465 of 612 id: jsbs-469 author: Ibrahim, Bakr; Dumas, Colette; McGuire, Jean title: Strategic Decision Making in Small Family Firms: An Empirical Investigation date: 2001-06-18 words: 5587 flesch: 51 summary: The present research offers researchers and family business practitioners a realistic explanation of strategic decision making in family firms. This Jinding unilerscores the tmittue characierisiics of family firms. keywords: business; considerations; decision; factors; family; family firms; firms; influence; journal; making; management; process; research; strategy cache: jsbs-469.pdf plain text: jsbs-469.txt item: #466 of 612 id: jsbs-47 author: David, Jannifer; Rubenfeld, Stephen title: Employee Accommodations in Small Business Organizations date: 2005-05-20 words: 7382 flesch: 38 summary: 55 EMPLOYEE ACCOMMODATIONS IN SMALL BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS Jannifer David University of Minnesota Duluth jdavid@d.umn.edu Stephen Rubenfeld University of Minnesota Duluth srubenfe@d.umn.edu ABSTRACT Because of limited financial and human resources, small entrepreneurial organizations o_fien struggle to meet work accommodation needs o.l their employees. When making work accommodations for employees, organizations must consider all the factors that affect the design and implementation of the work changes. keywords: accommodation; employees; factors; job; management; organizations; permission; time; work; workers cache: jsbs-47.pdf plain text: jsbs-47.txt item: #467 of 612 id: jsbs-470 author: Chrisman, James J. title: Creating Value Through Skill-Based Strategy and Entrepreneurial Leadership date: 2001-06-18 words: 1995 flesch: 50 summary: The first is whether sustainable competitive advantage should be, because the question is in what way the field should develop its language and theories to better frame business problems, a fimciion of valuable, rare, inimitable, unsubstitutable resources or whether sustainable competitive advantage should be defined by such resources? The authors suggest that their objective is to provide an improved understanding of skill-based strategy and entrepreneurial leadership through a detailed review of the literature on resources and strategy and in-depth field research of four firms that used skill- based strategies to improve their performance and create sustainable competitive advantages. keywords: advantage; book; hofer; schulz; strategy cache: jsbs-470.pdf plain text: jsbs-470.txt item: #468 of 612 id: jsbs-471 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-23 words: 612 flesch: 24 summary: Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha I-larriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas, San Antonio Howard Van Auken Iowa State University John B. Wallace Marshall University Momca Zimmerman Temple University The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute Directors'ssociation (SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business and Informauon Technology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Associate Editors Prashanth B. Nagendra Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Joette M. Wisnieski Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) Editorial Assistant Julia Dobish Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) Book Review Editor Radha Chaganti Rider University Editorial Review Board Ramachandra Asundi University of Puerto Rico James Bradley Central Washington University David Brennan University of St. Thomas (St. Paul) Shawn M. Carraher Texas A & M University - Commerce Radha Chaganu Rider University Vivek Choudhury Florida State University Richard T. Dailey University of Montana Dale Dickson Mesa State College Terry Gaston Southern Oregon University Masoud Hemmasi Illinois State University Lynn Hoffman University of Northern Colorado Lawrence Klan Florida Atlantic University Krish Krishnan Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Thomas J. Liesz Mesa State College Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College James A. Rodger Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State University Herbert Sherman Southhampton College of Long Island Leo Simpson Eastern Washington University Joseph Singer University of Missouri —Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Pamela kl. keywords: business; college; fax; indiana; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-471.pdf plain text: jsbs-471.txt item: #469 of 612 id: jsbs-472 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-23 words: 416 flesch: 50 summary: As you are aware, Allan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates throughout 200 I. However, many small businesses and entrepreneurshave had difficulty accessing what would appear to be low cost capital due to fears on the part of lenders regarding the risks associated with an economic slowdown. The events of September I In coupled with the slowdown in the U.S. economy have taken atoll on many corporations, small businesses and individuals. keywords: businesses; editor cache: jsbs-472.pdf plain text: jsbs-472.txt item: #470 of 612 id: jsbs-473 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-23 words: 292 flesch: 32 summary: An Empiricul investigation into the Competitive Strategies of tire Small Firm Armand Gilinsky, Jr. Sonoma State University Elizabeth Stanny Sonoma State University Richard L. McCline San Francisco State University Robert Eyler Sonoma State University 14 /Vew The Competitive Behaviors of Small Retailers: Examining the Strategies of Local Merchantsin Rural America Michael J. Rubach University of Central Arkansas Jeffrey E. McGec University of Texas at Arlington 82 Puymll Tax Incidence on Small Businesses: An Empirical Investigation of Sltifting tire Payroll Tax Burden Ted D. Fnglebrecht Louisiana Tech University Lauric J. I icnry Old Dominion University Govind S. Iyer Arizona State University 99 U.S. Trade Association Internationalization Activities as Collective Strategy Stefan Wally Chapman University Vinod K. Jain Bowling Cireen State University SMALL BUSINESS BRIEF/ 112 Component Depreciation: A Tax Planning Strategy for Small Businesses Nathan Oestreich San Diego State University lloward R. Toolc San Diego State University James E. Williamson San Diego State University BOOK REVIEWS: 119 Low Risk, High Reward: keywords: state; university cache: jsbs-473.pdf plain text: jsbs-473.txt item: #471 of 612 id: jsbs-475 author: Gilinsky, Jr., Armand; Stanny, Elizabeth; McCline, Richard L.; Eyler, Robert title: Does Size Matter? An Empirical Investigation into the Competitive Strategies of the Small Firm date: 2001-06-23 words: 5719 flesch: 55 summary: Wine industry has been stunted by its lack of common strategy. Wine industry directoryandalmanac —1996. keywords: business; factor; firms; growth; industry; journal; market; new; product; sample; size; strategies; strategy; wine; wineries cache: jsbs-475.pdf plain text: jsbs-475.txt item: #472 of 612 id: jsbs-476 author: Van Auken, Howard E.; Sonneborn, Marcene S. title: New Technology-Based Firms' Persuit of SBIR Funds date: 2001-05-23 words: 5591 flesch: 49 summary: The SBIR program is highly competitive research and development (RktD) source that encourages small firms to explore and commercialize potential new technologies. Lang, Calantone and Gudmundson (1997) believed that small firms must rely on external expertise to be successfuL Firms located in small communities may not have access to the same level of expertise, especially as related to the acquisition of capital, as firms located in large communities. keywords: business; capital; firms; funding; new; program; results; sbir; small; technology cache: jsbs-476.pdf plain text: jsbs-476.txt item: #473 of 612 id: jsbs-477 author: Flanagan, David J. title: Characteristics of Mergers and Aquisitions by Small Manufacturing Firms date: 2001-06-23 words: 7685 flesch: 57 summary: edu ABSTRACT While acqiiisitions by large firms receive a great deal of media and researcher auention, acquisitions by small firms tend to be overlooked. Small firms are rarely mentioned in the M&A press with the exception of being labeled as targets for large firms. keywords: acquirer; acquiring; acquisitions; activity; business; company; firms; journal; m&a; m&as; manufacturing; small; stock; target; transactions cache: jsbs-477.pdf plain text: jsbs-477.txt item: #474 of 612 id: jsbs-478 author: Baxendale, Sidney J.; Bowen, Leigh title: Economic Value Added for New Ventures and Small Business date: 2001-06-23 words: 5968 flesch: 51 summary: Though there are critics who believe EVA should be reserved for mature and established firms with significant assets and few intangibles, we think that the financial measure is also highly applicable to new businesses ventures. Research by Bishop (2000) suggests that entrepreneurs and small business owners depend heavily upon intuition in managing new business ventures and small businesses. keywords: business; capital; cost; entrepreneur; eva; measure; new; success; tax; venture cache: jsbs-478.pdf plain text: jsbs-478.txt item: #475 of 612 id: jsbs-479 author: Postma, Theo J. B. M.; Zwart, Peter S. title: Strategic Research and Performance of SMEs' date: 2001-06-23 words: 6110 flesch: 46 summary: RELEVANCE OF APPROACH The relevance and need of performing strategic research in SMEs by taking into account a wide range of relevant factors has been described. Compared to strategic research at large enterprises, this kind of research in SMEs has more relevance and can be better executed, because of the sheer size of SMEs and the specific role of entrepreneurs/managers. keywords: business; characteristics; entrepreneur; environment; factors; firm; journal; management; manager; model; performance; relationships; research; smes; strategy; success cache: jsbs-479.pdf plain text: jsbs-479.txt item: #476 of 612 id: jsbs-48 author: Palmer, Todd Starr; Andaleeb, Syed Saad; Joyner, Brenda E. title: Evaluating Lawyer Service Quality in Chapter 7 Bankruptcies: The Case of Small Professional Businesses date: 2005-05-20 words: 5199 flesch: 55 summary: Utilizing a procedural justice framework, it is hypothesized that the greater the degree of trust, interpersonal respect, and competence exhibited by the lfMyer, the greater will be the level of client satisfaction. Thibault and Walker found that process control is the key to client satisfaction with legal procedures (Thibault & Walker, 1975). keywords: bankruptcy; business; client; journal; justice; lawyer; marketing; permission; quality; research; satisfaction; service; tyler cache: jsbs-48.pdf plain text: jsbs-48.txt item: #477 of 612 id: jsbs-480 author: Rubach, Michael J.; McGee, Jeffery E. title: The Competitive Behaviors of Small Retailers: Examining the Strategies of Local Merchants in Rural America date: 2001-06-23 words: 7995 flesch: 49 summary: Competitive strategies and business performance within the retail industry. New venture strategies: An empirical identification of eight Marchetypes of competitive strategies for entry. keywords: behaviors; business; cluster; cost; differentiation; factor; firms; generic; journal; merchants; performance; products; retailers; strategies; strategy; study; value cache: jsbs-480.pdf plain text: jsbs-480.txt item: #478 of 612 id: jsbs-481 author: Englebrecht, Ted D.; Henry, Laurie J.; Iyer, Govind S. title: Payroll Tax Incidence on Small Businesses: An Empirical Investigation of Shifting the Payroll Tax Burden date: 2001-06-23 words: 6827 flesch: 57 summary: This inquiry found that, in general, small busmesses are not likely to shifl the employer's share of the tax burden to employees, Specifically, the most popular alternative in dealing with payroll tax increases was to increase prices for their product/service. In general, small businesses tend to deal with payroll tax increases by increasing the price of their product or service, or to accept lower profits. keywords: business; employees; increase; payroll; payroll tax; percent; respondents; social; tax; taxes cache: jsbs-481.pdf plain text: jsbs-481.txt item: #479 of 612 id: jsbs-483 author: Wally, Stefan; Jain, Vinod K. title: U.S. Trade Association Internationalization Activites as Collective Strategy date: 2001-06-23 words: 5138 flesch: 34 summary: More broadly, further research on trade association activities can offer insight into the returns that firms can receive by engaging in collective strategies. Relative market internationalization, membership demand for international services, and membership industry sector all had an influence on the degree of trade association internationalization activities. keywords: activities; advantage; association; business; factor; firms; foreign; information; internationalization; markets; membership; trade cache: jsbs-483.pdf plain text: jsbs-483.txt item: #480 of 612 id: jsbs-484 author: Oestreich, Nathan; Toole, Howard R.; Williamson, James E. title: Component Depreciation: A Tax Planning Strategy for Small Businesses date: 2001-06-23 words: 3314 flesch: 51 summary: It substantially affects the after tax costs of buildings, making them less expensive and possibly affecting the decision as to whether to own or lease corporate properties. By altering the engineering of a building and making certain that the design conforms to the above discussion, it is possible to qualify certain building components for rapid depreciation by making them something other than building for tax depreciation purposes. keywords: building; component; cost; depreciation; property; tax cache: jsbs-484.pdf plain text: jsbs-484.txt item: #481 of 612 id: jsbs-485 author: Taylor, II, Thomas R. title: Low Risk, High Reward: Starting and Growing Your Business with Minimal Risk date: 2001-06-23 words: 1982 flesch: 45 summary: Risk is to improve the success rate of small businesses by passing on real world wisdom gained through many years of operating successful small businesses. Unfortunately, many small business owners lose sight of the importance of selling —through in their excitement to get the product out there. keywords: author; book; business; entrepreneurs; risk cache: jsbs-485.pdf plain text: jsbs-485.txt item: #482 of 612 id: jsbs-486 author: Wisnieski, Joette title: Fast Growth: How to Attain It, How to Sustain It date: 2001-06-23 words: 951 flesch: 52 summary: In this chapter he reviews a number of problems common to fast growth companies and signs to warn the entrepreneur of potential problems. Business Strategy Vol. I2, No. 2 Fall%'inter 200/ itself and while Weinzimmer points out fast growth markets are easier to grow in, mature markets offer different types of opportunities. keywords: growth; weinzimmer cache: jsbs-486.pdf plain text: jsbs-486.txt item: #483 of 612 id: jsbs-487 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-23 words: 603 flesch: 17 summary: Radha Chaganti Rider University Vivek Choudhury Florida State University Richard T. Dailey Universtty of Montana J. Douglas Frazer Millersville University Terry Gaston Southern Oregon University Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Masoud Hemmasi llltnois State University Kirk Heriot Francis Marion University Lynn Hoffman Umversity of Northern Colorado Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Krish Krishnan Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Thomas J. Liesz Mesa State College Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T University Abbas Nadim Vniversity of New Haven John E. Prescott Universtty of Pittsburgh Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College James A. Rodger Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State Vniversity Herbert Sherman Southhampton College of Long Island Leo Simpson Western Kentucky University Joseph Singer University of Missouri —Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Pamela H. Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez Universtty of Texas, San Antonio Howard Van Auken Iowa State University John B. Wallace Marshall Vniversity Monica Zimmerman Temple University at The Journal of Small Busrness Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute (formerly SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. SiTAN'G Y Editor Stephen W. Osborne Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Associate Editors Prashanth B. Nagendra Indiana Universtty of Pennsylvania (IUP) keywords: business; fax; indiana; iup; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-487.pdf plain text: jsbs-487.txt item: #484 of 612 id: jsbs-488 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-23 words: 366 flesch: 40 summary: The annual Small Business Institutee Conferences (formerly SBIDA). l Spring/Summer 2000), there has been a broad-based and increasing emphasis on publishing and other scholarly activities at the traditional teaching colleges and universities. keywords: jsbs cache: jsbs-488.pdf plain text: jsbs-488.txt item: #485 of 612 id: jsbs-489 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-23 words: 257 flesch: 17 summary: I The Impact of Resoarces on Smog Firm Internationalization Candida G. Brush Boston University Linda F. Edelman Bentley College Tatiana Mano lova Boston University l8 Imlustry Effects and Strategic Convergence: A Study of the Strategies of Independent Pharmacists Michael J. Rubach University of Central Arkansas Joseph D. Cangelosi University of Central Arkansas Don B. Bradley, ill University of Central Arkansas Jeffrey E. McGee University of Texas at Arlington 32 Brand Loyally Measurement Made Easy: A Pr%rence-Behavior Model Carl Obermiller Seattle University 4S An Empirical Analysis of Benefits of Electronic Data Interchange (EDII Implementationr lmpli ca lions for New IT Implementation Deepak Khazanchi University of Nebraska at Omaha 62 keywords: arkansas; central; university cache: jsbs-489.pdf plain text: jsbs-489.txt item: #486 of 612 id: jsbs-49 author: Editor, jsbs title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-20 words: 502 flesch: 56 summary: Their results are somewhat surprising and provide interesting suggestions for small business owners. Of particular interest is that the issues facing art gallery owners are similar to those facing small business owners in general but with some unique twists. keywords: business; strategy cache: jsbs-49.pdf plain text: jsbs-49.txt item: #487 of 612 id: jsbs-490 author: Brush, Candida G.; Edelman, Linda F.; Manolova, Tatiana title: The Impact of Resources on Small Firm Internationalization date: 2002-01-23 words: 7267 flesch: 42 summary: Results show that resource profiles drjfer between internationalized and non internationalized firms, and that social and financial resources are more important than human resources for small firms pursuing an internationalization strategy. The telecommunication revolution of the past twenty years has improved the access of small firms to their customers, suppliers and overseas distribution channels. keywords: business; entrepreneurship; experience; firms; human; internationalization; journal; model; non; research; resources; scale; sector; small; strategy; table cache: jsbs-490.pdf plain text: jsbs-490.txt item: #488 of 612 id: jsbs-491 author: Rubach, Michael J.; Cangelosi, Joseph D.; Bradley, III, Don B.; McGee, Jeffery E. title: Industry Effects and Strategic Convergence: A Study of the Strategies of Independent Pharmacists date: 2002-01-23 words: 6154 flesch: 45 summary: However, none of the strategies were found to contribute to the explanation of pharmacy performance. As expected, in explaining pharmacy performance, third party reimbursement programs were the only significant predictor. keywords: business; differentiation; industry; journal; management; marketing; measure; party; performance; pharmacies; pharmacy; research; services; strategies; strategy cache: jsbs-491.pdf plain text: jsbs-491.txt item: #489 of 612 id: jsbs-492 author: Obermiller, Carl title: Brand Loyalty Measurement Made Easy: A Preference-Behavior Model date: 2002-01-23 words: 7245 flesch: 58 summary: This paper presents a simple operationalization of brand loyalty, based on measures of brand preference and previous purchase. it matrix of the two measures can be analyzed in terms of each brand's gravity, or power to convert brand preference into sales, and focus, which relates to its ability to auract sales Pom preferences for other brands. keywords: behavior; brand; consumers; data; focus; loyalty; marketing; measures; model; preference; purchase; sales cache: jsbs-492.pdf plain text: jsbs-492.txt item: #490 of 612 id: jsbs-493 author: Khazanchi, Deepak title: An Empirical Analysis of Benefits of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Implementation: Implications for New It Implementation date: 2002-01-23 words: 7853 flesch: 43 summary: To address the latter question, the influence of variables such as extent of trading partner support, stage of EDI integration, volume of EDI documents (messages), nature of cost/benefit analysis, perceived benefits of EDI, etc. on EDI benefits is evaluated. EDI Benefits Realized by Responding Firms keywords: benefits; business; costs; data; edi; firms; impact; implementation; information; integration; journal; level; partners; research; small; support; table; trading cache: jsbs-493.pdf plain text: jsbs-493.txt item: #491 of 612 id: jsbs-494 author: Vaidyanathan, Rajiv; Aggarwal, Praveen title: The Impact of Shopping Agents on Small Business E-Commerce Strategy date: 2002-01-23 words: 9782 flesch: 58 summary: So how can a small business level the playing field by appearing on the list of recommended products at shopping agent sites? Shopping agents sites range in their revenue models from listing only those sites that have made a payment (e.g., PriceWatch and AOL) to treating every site equally without any payment (e.g., BestBookBuys). keywords: agents; businesses; consumers; customers; data; decision; help; http; information; isas; journal; need; online; price; product; shopping; shopping agents; site cache: jsbs-494.pdf plain text: jsbs-494.txt item: #492 of 612 id: jsbs-495 author: Achua, Christopher F.; Lussier, Robert N. title: Small-Town Merchants are Not Using the Recommended Strategies to Compete Against Nationial Discount Chains: A Prescriptive Vs. Descriptive Study date: 2002-06-23 words: 4101 flesch: 58 summary: Respondents were asked: Did your promotionai activities change after the maj or chain entered your market? Results on how small town retailers accomplish their promotion tasks include: No change 50% Increased promotion activities 50% There is an equal split between those who promote aggressively - using multiple media sources and promotion elements - and those who did not promote at all - preferring to rely on word-of-mouth from satisfied customers. In the middle of this price war among national chains are smaller independent retailers. keywords: business; chains; discount; mcgee; merchants; retailers; strategies; strategy; wal cache: jsbs-495.pdf plain text: jsbs-495.txt item: #493 of 612 id: jsbs-496 author: Sonfield, Matthew C. title: Strengthening Federal Bankruptcy Laws: Implications for Small Businesses date: 2002-06-23 words: 2967 flesch: 51 summary: Although the number of business bankruptcies each year (about 35,000 in 2000) is far less than the number of personal bankruptcies, the option of bankruptcy is something a small business owner or manager should understand, and these proposed changes in the bankruptcy law should be of particular interest to small business owners and managers, and to those who assist them. With regard to business bankruptcies, proponents of the changes say they will preserve the rights of creditors, by speeding up the payment of debts. keywords: bankruptcy; business; changes; chapter; creditors; law cache: jsbs-496.pdf plain text: jsbs-496.txt item: #494 of 612 id: jsbs-497 author: Dunn, Paul; Liang, Chyi-lyi (Kathleen) title: Fallacies Versus Realities in Financial Planning and Management Among Entrepreneurs: Lessons from the Trenches date: 2002-06-23 words: 4615 flesch: 61 summary: My inventory will turn, and l can replace it as l sell it! Cash flow problems result when new venture entrepreneurs underestimate the time it takes for sales and cash flow to develop. INTRODUCTION Entrepreneurs often make mistakes in financial planning as they start and manage new ventures that result in cash flow problems ranging from minor to fatal. keywords: assets; business; cash; entrepreneurs; flow; funds; reality; term cache: jsbs-497.pdf plain text: jsbs-497.txt item: #495 of 612 id: jsbs-498 author: Frazer, Lorelle; Terry, Andrew title: Factors Affecting Franchise Agreement Terminations: Lessons for the Franchising Sector date: 2002-06-23 words: 5553 flesch: 46 summary: It is hypothesized that: H2: Franchise systems that have greater levels of conflict are more likely to experience franchise agreement terminations. In the next section of this paper, survey data about franchise agreement terminations in Australia from 1995 to 1998 are reported. keywords: agreement; australia; business; franchise; franchising; journal; law; outlets; support; system; terminations cache: jsbs-498.pdf plain text: jsbs-498.txt item: #496 of 612 id: jsbs-499 author: Cook, Ron title: The Origin and Evolution of Nerw Businesses date: 2002-06-23 words: 1328 flesch: 58 summary: One value of this work is in understanding the process in which promising startups can become growth ventures and then ultimately, large mature companies. In summary, promising startups tend to: 1. keywords: business; firms; research; startups cache: jsbs-499.pdf plain text: jsbs-499.txt item: #497 of 612 id: jsbs-500 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-23 words: 591 flesch: 26 summary: Thomas J. Liesz Mesa State College Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Steven J. Maranville University of St. Thomas (Houston) Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott Umversity of Pittsburgh Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College James A. Rodger Indiana Umversity of Pennsylvania (IUP) C. Louise Sell aro Youngstown State University Herbert Sherman Southhampton College of Long Island Leo Simpson Western Kentucky University Joseph Singer University of Missouri —Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Pamela H. Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas, San Antonio Howard Van Auken lowe State University John B. Wallace Marshall Umversity Monica Zimmerman Temple University 4 The Journal of Small Business Siraregy is a joint publication of the Small Business Insntute (formerly SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. STRA TEGF Editor Stephen W. Osborne Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) keywords: business; fax; indiana; iup; pennsylvania; university cache: jsbs-500.pdf plain text: jsbs-500.txt item: #498 of 612 id: jsbs-501 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-06-23 words: 421 flesch: 68 summary: One of those special people was Dr. John Wallace, Marshall University. In Memory John Wallace Marshall University keywords: john; wallace cache: jsbs-501.pdf plain text: jsbs-501.txt item: #499 of 612 id: jsbs-502 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-23 words: 234 flesch: 20 summary: An EconomicDevelopment Perspective Michael D. Ames California State University Fullerton John K. Romano Virtual Capital Croup Vi T. Pham California State University Fullerton 56 David Versus Goliatli Strategic Behavior of Small Firmsin Consolidated Industries Monica Zimmcrman Temple Umversity Denise Dunlap Temple University Robert D. Hamilton, IH Tcmplc University T. L. Hill Temple University Elisabeth A. Chapman Temple University ? Starting New Small Business Institute Programs: A Survey of New Programs Begun Since 1996 Kirk C. Heriot Francis Marion University Noel D. Campbell North Georgia College ssk State University BOOK REVIEIV 97 Jack: keywords: business; small; university cache: jsbs-502.pdf plain text: jsbs-502.txt item: #500 of 612 id: jsbs-503 author: Chaganti, Radha; Brush, Candida G.; Haksever, Cengiz; Cook, Ronald G. title: Stakeholder Influence Strategies and Value Creation by New Ventures date: 2002-06-23 words: 8030 flesch: 51 summary: Similarly, there is substantial literature exploring product/market and competitive strategies of new ventures (McDougall & Robinson, 1988; Carter, Steams, Reynolds & Miller, 1994), but there is less examining broader objectives and consequences of new venture strategies. New venture strategies: Theory development with an empirical base. keywords: business; dependence; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; etc; firm; goals; influence; journal; low; management; new; outcomes; run; stakeholder; strategies; strategy; term; value; venture cache: jsbs-503.pdf plain text: jsbs-503.txt item: #501 of 612 id: jsbs-504 author: Rubin, Ronald title: Desktop Mapping: A Tool for Improving Small Business Marketing Anaysis and Customer Prospective date: 2002-06-23 words: 3976 flesch: 57 summary: Some companies, such as Geographic Data Technology and Claritas, specialize in developing highly accurate and refined geographic databases such as, ZIP Code boundaries, current and comprehensive nationwide street and address coverage for spatial analysis of business data, and highway connectivity for improved routing performance. Most business data contains a geographic component, such as an address or a ZIP code, and a geocoder simply codifies that component to allow spatial analysis or visual display of the information on a map. keywords: analysis; business; code; customer; data; gis; information; map; mapping; marketing; small; studio; zip cache: jsbs-504.pdf plain text: jsbs-504.txt item: #502 of 612 id: jsbs-505 author: DeMartino, Richard; Barbato, Robert title: An Analysis of the Motivational Factors of Intending Entrepreneurs date: 2002-06-23 words: 4841 flesch: 47 summary: Disenfranchisement with Work The dissatisfaction that women entrepreneurs experience in working for others may be another explanation for differing goals between men who become business owners and women who become business owners. Existing literature also suggests that women and men possess roughly similar motivators pushing or pulling them to entrepreneurship and that women entrepreneurs differ from other non emrepreneurial ivomen m the same manner that men entrepreneurs differ from their male peers. keywords: business; career; dependents; entrepreneurs; family; female; intending; married; non; study; women cache: jsbs-505.pdf plain text: jsbs-505.txt item: #503 of 612 id: jsbs-506 author: none title: The Small Business Equity Capital Situation: An Economic Development Perspective date: 2002-06-23 words: 10204 flesch: 57 summary: Finally, we expect financial markets for small business equities will evolve with the Internet. Small business equity markets do not. keywords: availability; business; business equity; capital; cash; companies; equity; equity capital; financial; firms; gap; industry; internet; investment; investors; journal; law; markets; need; new; offerings; policy; quality; securities; small cache: jsbs-506.pdf plain text: jsbs-506.txt item: #504 of 612 id: jsbs-507 author: Zimmerman, Monica; Dunlap, Denise; Hamilton, III, Robert D.; Hill, T. L.; Chapman, Elisabeth A. title: David Versus Goliath: Strategic Behavior of Small Firms In Consolidated Industries date: 2002-06-23 words: 9012 flesch: 58 summary: The study found that small firms adapt by addressing community needs and forming cooperative agreements with otlier small firms but not larger Jirms. Hirschman (1958) argued that small firms will fail or will be consumed by large firms. keywords: business; community; cost; differentiation; firms; focus; industry; middle; need; performance; product; service; small; stores; strategies; strategy; study; tenure cache: jsbs-507.pdf plain text: jsbs-507.txt item: #505 of 612 id: jsbs-509 author: Bradley III, Don B. title: Utilization of the Small Business Advancement National Center in Creating a More Viable Classroom Setting and Vibrant up to Date Research date: 2002-06-23 words: 2358 flesch: 45 summary: His articles have appeared injournals such as: Journal of Small Business Strategy, Journal of Business and Enirepreneurshlp, Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management, Journal for Small Business and Enterprise Development (UK), American Business Perspectives, Industrial Management, Arkansas Business Small Business Journal, The Journal for Quality and Participation, Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, Nebraska Business Development Center Report, Journal of Applied Business Research, and The Business Advisor Journal (UK). In addition, a large number of academic institutions, foundations, small businesses and governmental agencies use its web site and newsletter. keywords: business; center; classroom; information; institute; internet; research; small cache: jsbs-509.pdf plain text: jsbs-509.txt item: #506 of 612 id: jsbs-510 author: Heriot, Kirk C.; Campbell, Noel D. title: Starting New Small Business Institute Programs: A Survey of New Programs Begun Since 1996 date: 2015-06-23 words: 3212 flesch: 49 summary: SUMMARY This research provides early evidence of the viability of starting new SBI programs or revitalizing SBI programs that were eliminated after the loss of federal funding. A poll of Small Business Institute Directors Association members identified five schools that had started new SBI programs since l996, ilespite the Inck offederal fumling. keywords: business; federal; funding; institute; new; program; sbi; sbida; schools; small cache: jsbs-510.pdf plain text: jsbs-510.txt item: #507 of 612 id: jsbs-511 author: Bharawaj, Prashanth Nagendra title: Jack: Straight from the Gut date: 2002-06-23 words: 1633 flesch: 60 summary: This is an autobiography of Dr. Jack Welch, one of the most celebrated CEOs and business leaders of the 20'entury. Although he spent forty years in one of the world' biggest corporations, his management style offers interesting and useful insights for entrepreneurs and small business managers. keywords: book; business; jack; people cache: jsbs-511.pdf plain text: jsbs-511.txt item: #508 of 612 id: jsbs-512 author: Weber, Paula S. title: Competitive Strategies of Independent Grocers: A Ten-Year Review date: 2002-06-23 words: 4732 flesch: 56 summary: This is in contrast to the beginning of the decade when marketing strategies were being pursued equivalently with service strategies. After reviewing a variety of potential data sources, Progressive Grocer: The Publication for Strategic lvfanagemenr was selected for content analysis. keywords: data; differentiation; grocer; independent; marketing; quality; service; strategies; strategy; study cache: jsbs-512.pdf plain text: jsbs-512.txt item: #509 of 612 id: jsbs-513 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-23 words: 541 flesch: 19 summary: Editorial Review Board Ramachandra Asundi University of Puerto Rico James Bradley Central Washington University David Brennan University of St Thomas (St. Paul) Shawn M. Carraher Texas A & M University - Commerce Radha Chaganti Rider University Vwek Choudhury Floods State University J. Douglas Frazer Millersville University 'erryGaston Southern Oregon University Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Masoud Hemmasi Illinois State University Kirk Heriot Francis Marion Umversity Lynn HolTman University of Northern Colorado Lawrence Klatt Florida Atlantic University Krish Knshnan Indiana Umversity of Pennsylvania (IUP) Thomas J. Liesz Mesa State College Stephen Lucas University of North Carolina-Greensboro Steven J. Maranvillc University of St. Thomas (Houston) Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College James A. Rodger Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State Umversity Herbert Sherman Southhampton College of Long Island Leo Simpson Western Kentucky University Joseph Singer University of Missouri —Kansas City Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Pamela H. Spccht University of Nebraska at Omaha Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez Umversity of Texas, San Antonio Howard Van Auken Iowa State Umversity Monica Ztmmerman Temple University The Journal of Saiall Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute (formerly 'BIDA)and the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, Indiana University of, Pennsylvania. - Indiana University of Pennsylvama (IUP) Editorial Assistant Julia Dobish Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) keywords: business; fax; indiana; pennsylvania; president; university cache: jsbs-513.pdf plain text: jsbs-513.txt item: #510 of 612 id: jsbs-514 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-23 words: 208 flesch: 44 summary: Mark Simon Oakland University Cynthia Miree Oakland University Kristina Setzekom Oakland University Amanda Figon Doner Advertising 53 Network Catalysts to Small Businesses: A Strategy for Fragmented Industries Suzanne Loker Cornell Umversity L. Susan Stark San Francisco State University Judy Sasser-Watkins Regional Training Institute 71 ERP System Solutions for Small Companies: Readiness & Selection Muhammad A. Razi Western Michigan Umversity J. Michael Tam Western Michigan University g6 Top Munagemcnt Team Heterogeneity and SME Expon Performance: Investigating the Role of Environmental Uncertainty Franz T. Lohrke University of Alabama Geralyn Mcclure Franklin The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Vinay B. Kothari Stephen F. Austin State University 1ii3 BOOK REVIEW: keywords: permian; texas; university cache: jsbs-514.pdf plain text: jsbs-514.txt item: #511 of 612 id: jsbs-515 author: Robinson, Robert K.; Franklin, Geralyn McClure; Nunley, III, A. M. title: Growing Pains: An Employment Compliance Primer for Small Employers date: 2003-01-23 words: 10070 flesch: 47 summary: For most firms, a test of not less than $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business applies Family and Medical Leave Act & 50 full'-time employees within 75 miles of facility (FMLA) of 1993 Immigration Reform and Control All employers regardless of size Act (IRCA) of 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Employers & 4 employees Act (IRCA) of 1986 Nondiscrimination Provision Worker Adjustment and & 100 full-time employees who have worked at least 6 Retraining Notification Act months in the previous 12 months (WARN) of 198$ FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT The lirst body of employment law of importance to small employers is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). There is encouragement for small employers trying to give their own children an early start in the family business. keywords: act; business; discrimination; employees; employer; employment; flsa; hours; individual; job; journal; labor; leave; small; time; title; u.s; work cache: jsbs-515.pdf plain text: jsbs-515.txt item: #512 of 612 id: jsbs-516 author: Spillan, John E. title: The Difference Between Survival and Disaster: Crisis Planning in Small Businesses date: 2003-01-23 words: 5246 flesch: 58 summary: Factors influencing media coverage of business crisis. Managers of small operations tend to believe that the issue of crisis management is irrelevant and has limited importance. keywords: breakdown; business; case; computer; concern; crisis; events; management; organizations; planning; small cache: jsbs-516.pdf plain text: jsbs-516.txt item: #513 of 612 id: jsbs-517 author: Simon, Mark; Miree, Cynthia; Setzekorn, Kristina; Figon, Amanda title: Errors Small Business Managers Make in Product Introduction Decisions: What Were They Thinking? date: 2003-01-23 words: 9144 flesch: 56 summary: Product introductions, however, take place within a climate of uncertainty, and the information needed to make high quality decisions is often ambiguous and hard to obtain (Simon, 1993). Pricing Prior to product introduction, 18% of the managers were concerned whether the market would accept the price they wanted to charge for the product. keywords: ability; business; confidence; demand; factor; introduction; journal; management; managers; performance; problems; product; quality; strategy; success; success factor cache: jsbs-517.pdf plain text: jsbs-517.txt item: #514 of 612 id: jsbs-518 author: Loker, Suzanne; Stark, L. Susan; Sasser-Watkins, Judy title: Network Catalysts to Small Businesses: A Strategy for Fragmented Industries date: 2003-01-23 words: 8809 flesch: 40 summary: Location was used to build trust in apparel industry networks through GIDC and GARMENT 2000. These participations produced positive results for GIDC and GARMENT 2000 networks and network members while serving as models for other business networks. keywords: apparel; business; catalyst; city; contractors; development; francisco; funding; garment; gidc; industry; manufacturers; members; network; new; organizations; production; programs; san; training; workers; york cache: jsbs-518.pdf plain text: jsbs-518.txt item: #515 of 612 id: jsbs-519 author: Razi, Muhammad A.; Tarn, J. Michael title: ERP System Solutions for Small Companies: Readiness & Selection date: 2003-01-23 words: 7350 flesch: 47 summary: Up until a few years ago, the focus of ERP vendors was on the large companies and ERP systems were unaffordable by the smaller companies. This study starts with a review of existing literature on the concept and evolution of ERP systems, and then provides ERP implementation experience of several small companies. keywords: business; companies; company; cost; data; erp; erp implementation; erp system; implementation; information; management; process; resources; selection; software; system; time cache: jsbs-519.pdf plain text: jsbs-519.txt item: #516 of 612 id: jsbs-52 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-20 words: 221 flesch: 43 summary: The University of New Mexico 43 Revenue Management: A Strategy For Increasing Sales Revenue in Small Businesses Jeff Shields University of Southern Maine 55 Employee Accommodations in Small Busines.<1 Organizations Jannifer David University of Minnesota Duluth Stephen Rubenfeld University of Minnesota Duluth 69 Evaluating Lawyer Service Quality in Chapter 7 Bankruptcies: The Case of Small Profes. The Ten Faces of Innovation By Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman Reviewed by: Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago keywords: new; university cache: jsbs-52.pdf plain text: jsbs-52.txt item: #517 of 612 id: jsbs-520 author: Lohrke, Franz T.; Franklin, Geralyn Mcclure; Kothari, Vinay B. title: Top Management Team Heterogeneity and SME Export Performance: Investigating the Role of Environmental Uncertainty date: 2003-01-23 words: 6880 flesch: 46 summary: edu ABSTRACT Researcli has generally ftiuml that firms cotnpeting in high uncertainty environments gain advantages from liuving tli verse (heterogeneous) management teams (TMTsj Employing a national survey of 70 small- and medi'um-st'zed enterprises (SMEs), the present study exatnined whether TMT heterogeneity m functional background, international work experience, and foreign language proficiency had a stronger relationship with export perfonnance for firms competing in high than those competing in low uncertainty environments. Given the increased environmental uncertainty faced by SMEs as they internationalize their operations (Johanson &: Vahlne, 1977; Hart & Tzokas, 1999), we expect TMT heterogeneity should be related to SME export performance. keywords: business; export; firm; global; heterogeneity; industry; journal; management; performance; relationship; research; sme; studies; tmt; tmt heterogeneity; uncertainty cache: jsbs-520.pdf plain text: jsbs-520.txt item: #518 of 612 id: jsbs-522 author: Butler, Roosevelt D. title: So You Need to Write a Business Plan! date: 2003-06-23 words: 797 flesch: 60 summary: Chapter 10 gives explicit infomiation on financial statements and documents that must be included in thc business plan. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 are ideally grouped and cover essential information that will assist in meeting the financial requirements and actions of Chapter 10. keywords: business; chapter; plan cache: jsbs-522.pdf plain text: jsbs-522.txt item: #519 of 612 id: jsbs-525 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-06-24 words: 800 flesch: 7 summary: SFiKV TX'GY Editor Stephen W. Osborne Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I UP) Associate Editors Prashanth Nagendra Bharadwaj Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Joette M. Wisnieski Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Editorial Assistant Julie Kocher Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Editorial Review Board Ramachandra Asundt University of Puerto Rico James Bradley Central Washington University David Brennan University of St. Thomas (St. Paul) John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal R. Pruchansky Keene State College James A. Rodger Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) C. Louise Sellaro Youngstown State University Herbert Sherman Southhampton College of Long Island Leo Simpson Western Kentucky University Joseph Singer University of Missouri —Kansas City Manhew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Pamela H. Specht University of Nebraska at Omaha Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas, San Antonio Howard Van Auken lowe State Umverstty Monica Zimmerman Temple University The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute (formerly SBIDA) and the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. keywords: email; fax; phone; president; university; vice cache: jsbs-525.pdf plain text: jsbs-525.txt item: #520 of 612 id: jsbs-526 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-06-24 words: 293 flesch: 19 summary: An Empirical Investigation of Bootstrap Financing Among Small Firms Howard Van Auken iowa State University 37 Connectivity & Communication: A Study of How Small Wine Businesses Use the Internet Armand Gilinsky, Jr. Sonoma State University Elizabeth C. Thach Sonoma State University Karen J, Thompson Sonoma State University 58 Differences Between Women-Owned Home-Based & Oflice-Based Businesses: An Exploratory Study Stephanie Huneycutt Christopher Newport University Lisa D. Spiller Christopher Newport University John E. Anderson Christopher Newport University 73 Digital Divide: Impact on Hispanic-Owned Small Businesses Cecilia Temponi Texas State University-San Marcos Jaime Chahin Texas State University-San Marcos 92 Opportunity Recognition: Perceptions of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs Rodney C. Shrader University of illinois at Chicago Gerald E. Hills University of Illinois at Chicago 109 Small Business Development Centers: STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS I An Investigation of the Planning-Performance Conundrum in a Dynamic Macroentrepreneurial Environment Michael D. Ensley Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute James W. Carland Western Carolina University JoAnn C. Carland Western Carolina University 22 keywords: businesses; state; university cache: jsbs-526.pdf plain text: jsbs-526.txt item: #521 of 612 id: jsbs-527 author: Collins, Jamie D.; Worthington, William J.; Schoen, John E. title: Family Business CEO Succession: Examining Personal Retirement Expectations date: 2016-05-19 words: 8280 flesch: 51 summary: Thus, attention to the process of family business succession is warranted. Negative press regarding the nature and attitude of family business succession abounds and our sample displays evidence supporting that uncertainty. keywords: business; ceos; expectation; family; family business; firm; incumbent; journal; leadership; management; performance; relationships; retirement; succession cache: jsbs-527.pdf plain text: jsbs-527.txt item: #522 of 612 id: jsbs-528 author: Ensley, Michael D.; Carland, James W.; Carland, JoAnn C. title: An Investigation of the Planning-Performance Conundrum in a Dynamic Macroentrepreneurial Environment date: 2003-06-24 words: 9578 flesch: 49 summary: edu ABSTRACT tt'hite it is intuitively appealing from a theoretical perspective to confirm the relationship between strategic planning and performance as measured by growth and profitability, ninny unknowns tend to confound tlie perfect model. The results of this study clearly show that for the present sample of inacroentrepreneurs, strategic planning had a deleterious effect on performance. keywords: business; carland; dynamism; environment; firms; growth; intensity; journal; management; new; performance; planning; sales; sample; strategy; study cache: jsbs-528.pdf plain text: jsbs-528.txt item: #523 of 612 id: jsbs-529 author: Van Auken, Howard title: An Empirical Investigation of Bootstrap Financing Among Small Firms date: 2003-06-24 words: 5970 flesch: 42 summary: The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that examined small firm's use of bootstrap financing methods. Small firms that are more risky (including risks arising from organizational structure), for example, may have greater difficulty in acquiring traditional sources of finance and, thus, rely more heavily on bootstrap financing methods than firms that are less risky. keywords: bootstrap; bootstrap financing; business; capital; financing; firms; importance; methods; owners cache: jsbs-529.pdf plain text: jsbs-529.txt item: #524 of 612 id: jsbs-530 author: Gilinsky, Jr., Armand; Thach, Elizabeth C.; Thompson, Karen J. title: Connectivity & Communication: A Study of How Small Wine Businesses Use the Internet date: 2003-06-24 words: 9760 flesch: 49 summary: One recent survey notes increasing small business Internet use (DiBernardo, 2000). /4, No. 2 Fall/IV(nrer 2003 SMALL BUSINESS INTERNET UTILIZATION FRAMEWORK To structure our analysis of small business Internet use, a Small Business Internet Utilization Framework is developed to categorize issues considered critical to small business Internet utilization into a four-step process. keywords: awareness; business; business internet; commerce; content; coordination; implementation; industry; information; internet; journal; research; respondents; size; stage; strategy; use; wine cache: jsbs-530.pdf plain text: jsbs-530.txt item: #525 of 612 id: jsbs-531 author: Bardwell, Stephanie; Spiller, Lisa D.; Anderson, John E. title: Differences Between Women-Owned Home-Based & Office-Based Businesses: An Exploratory Study date: 2003-06-24 words: 6848 flesch: 50 summary: Finally, since home-based businesses have just recently started to be measured by U.S, statistical business reporting avenues, additional research on their economic impact would be helpful to have in order for more governmental resources to be targeted toward home based business support. The decision for the female entrepreneur, whether or not to locate the business inside the home or to seek and establish an office-based location, is a crucial managerial decision and may affect business success. keywords: business; entrepreneurs; home; journal; location; office; planning; research; small; study; success; women cache: jsbs-531.pdf plain text: jsbs-531.txt item: #526 of 612 id: jsbs-532 author: Temponi, Cecilia; Chahin, Jaime title: Digital Divide: Impact on Hispanic-Owned Small Businesses date: 2003-06-24 words: 8932 flesch: 49 summary: Results indicate that small businesses haveissues ofconcern regarding ihe process to access the Internet. It can be argued that any business must address these core problems when it comes to the digital divide; however, entrepreneurs who own small businesses and are minorities face even more problems when it comes to the digital divide. keywords: access; accessibility; businesses; capital; commerce; digital; divide; government; hispanic; hsbs; information; internet; level; minority; opportunities; procurement; small cache: jsbs-532.pdf plain text: jsbs-532.txt item: #527 of 612 id: jsbs-533 author: Shrader, Rodney C.; Hills, Gerald E. title: Opportunity Recognition: Perceptions of Highly Successful Entrpreneurs date: 2003-06-24 words: 6804 flesch: 50 summary: Gaglio and Taub (1992, pp. 136-147)examined whether the concept of entrepreneurial alertness to new business opportunities can be operationalized as a set of unique cognitive skills and strategies. A small sample of business owners and corporate managers was presented with an ambiguous business situation and asked to search for new business opportunities or ideas. keywords: alertness; business; entrepreneurs; idea; journal; market; opportunities; opportunity; percent; venture cache: jsbs-533.pdf plain text: jsbs-533.txt item: #528 of 612 id: jsbs-534 author: Gray, Samuel R.; Black, Janice title: Small Business Development Centers: Challanges and Opportunities date: 2003-06-24 words: 6233 flesch: 50 summary: Table 4 - SBDC Funding Sources Funding Source Mean (%) SD SBA 39.4 19.3 Educational Institutions 26.6 23.4 State Government 20.9 19.9 Chambers of Commerce 3.3 I 1.5 Business Funding 1.6 4.9 Client Fees 1.5 4.9 Other Funding Sources 6.9 16.0 Slightly less than 40% of SBDC funding is provided by the SBA, with educational institutions and state governments accounting for about 47%. Client fees currently provide only 1.5% of SBDC funding. keywords: business; centers; clients; development; economic; funding; impact; issues; sba; sbdc; services; small cache: jsbs-534.pdf plain text: jsbs-534.txt item: #529 of 612 id: jsbs-535 author: Lash, Lewis W. title: Unionization and the White-Collar Worker in Small Businesses date: 2003-06-24 words: 3086 flesch: 61 summary: Jaworski LLP states, It usually takes more than a single issue for employees to want to change the terms of relationship with their employers by bringing in a third party (ht://www.biz'oumals.cont/austin/storeis/1999/08/09.sto 3.html If the efforts of labor unions continues within the small firms'hite-collar workers, management will need to remain vigilant in assessing the concerns of their employees and taking appropriate action prior to having the wolf at the door. While the number of elections has declined over the 16-year period, it still suggests that small unit elections dominate when compared with those with 100 or more voters. keywords: collar; elections; employees; labor; organizing; percent; union; workers cache: jsbs-535.pdf plain text: jsbs-535.txt item: #530 of 612 id: jsbs-536 author: Bambocci, Anthony title: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don't date: 2003-06-24 words: 6896 flesch: 64 summary: Great companies respond with thoughtfulness and creativity, driven by a compulsion to turn unrealized potential into results; mediocre companies react and lurch about, motivated by fear ofbeing left behind. At our company, we are making a concerted effort to adhere to the seven principles of great companies (Please see APPENDIX for overview of Digital Solutions, Incorporated): Level 5 Leadership: keywords: business; change; companies; company; comparison; discipline; good; leaders; people; strategy; technology; time cache: jsbs-536.pdf plain text: jsbs-536.txt item: #531 of 612 id: jsbs-542 author: Srivastava, Saurabh; BarNir, Anat title: Customer-Firm Interaction and the Small Firm: Exploring Individual, Firm, and Environmental Level Antecedents date: 2016-05-19 words: 11999 flesch: 52 summary: For example, to the extent that a firm wants to promote CFI, it may want to boost its human resources with customer service experience. The effects of customer contact on organizational structure and performance in service firms. keywords: antecedents; business; cfi; costs; customer; entrepreneurs; experience; firm; individual; interaction; journal; model; new; performance; product; research; service; user cache: jsbs-542.pdf plain text: jsbs-542.txt item: #532 of 612 id: jsbs-55 author: Fregetto, Eugene title: The Ten Faces of Innovation date: 2015-05-20 words: 815 flesch: 47 summary: Consequently, Kelley organizes the ten roles into three sets of learning roles essential to innovation. Many owners have fewer than ten employees or may have little extra staff time to devote to only innovation. keywords: innovation; kelley cache: jsbs-55.pdf plain text: jsbs-55.txt item: #533 of 612 id: jsbs-555 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-10-27 words: 388 flesch: -85 summary: Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 25 ● No. 2 ● 2015 Editor-in-Chief William C. McDowell Middle Tennessee State University Senior Editor Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina — Greensboro Associate Editors Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University Raj Mahto University of New Mexico Special Section Editor John Batchelor University of West Florida Editorial Assistant Stacy Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Phillip E. Davis East Carolina University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University Michael Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Jerry Kudlats Middle Tennessee State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Ashville Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio ISSN 2380-1751 2015 SBI Officers SBI Small Business Institute ® President: William C. McDowell Middle Tennessee State University william.mcdowell@mtsu.edu President-Elect: Patrick Walker Lindenwood University pwalker@lindenwood.edu Vice President of Programs: John H. Batchelor University of West Florida Jbatchelor1@uwf.edu Vice President of Programs-Elect: Deborah Cours California State University-Northridge Deborah.cours@csun.edu Secretary/Treasurer: Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Joshua.aaron@mtsu.edu Vice President of Marketing and Communications: Whitney Peake Western Kentucky University Whitney.peake@wku.edu Vice President of Membership: Michael Harris East Carolina University harrismi@ecu.ed Vice President of Research and Publications: Blake Escudier University of Fredericton blake@escudier.us Vice President of Development: Joy Griffin California State University – Northridge joy.griffin@csun.edu Immediate Past President: John Hendon University of Arkansas – Little Rock jrhendon@ualr.edu Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy: William C. McDowell Middle Tennessee State University william.mcdowell@mtsu.edu Editor, Small Business Institute® Journal: Michael Harris East Carolina University harrismi@ecu.edu mailto:harrismi@ecu.ed mailto:harrismi@ecu.ed mailto:blake@escudier.us mailto:blake@escudier.us mailto:harrismi@ecu.edu mailto:harrismi@ecu.edu keywords: middle; state; tennessee; university cache: jsbs-555.pdf plain text: jsbs-555.txt item: #534 of 612 id: jsbs-556 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-10-27 words: 203 flesch: 7 summary: Exposing the Role of Gender in the Performance of Founding Entrepreneurs John H. Batchelor, University of West Florida 41 Why Small Firms are Different: Addressing Varying Needs from Boards of Directors Josh Bendickson, East Carolina University Phillip E. Davis, East Carolina University Briton J. Cowden, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Eric W. Liguori, University of Tampa 59 Integrating Sustainability into SME Strategy Jeff Shields, University of North Carolina, Ashville Joyce M. Shelleman, University of Maryland, University College 77 Get What You Give? An Examination of Enlightened Self-Interest, Philanthropic intent, and Engagement in Philanthropy for Small Firm Owners Whitney O. Peake, Western Kentucky University Michael L. Harris, East Carolina University William C. McDowell, Middle Tennessee State University Phillip E. Davis, East Carolina University 97 keywords: carolina; university cache: jsbs-556.pdf plain text: jsbs-556.txt item: #535 of 612 id: jsbs-557 author: Editor, JSBS title: Letter from Editor date: 2015-10-27 words: 432 flesch: 49 summary: The previous editors include: • Gwen Fontenot • Lloyd Elgart • Joe Singer • Stephen Osborne • Fred Fry • Paul Stephens • Ross Fink • Gerald Hills This issue marks the first issue of the Journal of Small Business Strategy to be published by Middle Tennessee State University in conjunction with the Small Business Institute® after being housed for more than 10 years at Bradley University. Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 25 ● No. 2 ● 2015 From the Editor It is with great pleasure and a profound sense of duty that I assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Small Business Strategy. keywords: business; small cache: jsbs-557.pdf plain text: jsbs-557.txt item: #536 of 612 id: jsbs-558 author: Schenkel, Mark T.; D'Souza, Rodney R.; Cornwall, Jeffery R.; Matthews, Charles H. title: Early Influences and Entrepreneurial Intent: Examining the Roles of Education, Experience, and Advice Networks date: 2015-10-27 words: 8832 flesch: 42 summary: Analysis of the correlations in Table 1 also shows that while none were significantly related to entrepreneurial intent at T1, managerial experience (r = .112, p > .05), prior start-up experience (r = .346, p > .01), and entrepreneurial advice networks (r = .212, p > .01) Keywords: entrepreneurial intent, formal education, professional experience, start-up experience, advice networks Acknowledgement: An earlier version of the manuscript was presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference held in Lyon, France, 2013. 1 mailto:Mark.schenkel@belmont.edu mailto:dsouzar@nku.edu mailto:Jeff.cornwall@belmont.edu Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 25 ● No. 2 ● 2015 INTRODUCTION keywords: advice; business; capital; course; education; entrepreneurship; experience; intent; journal; knowledge; networks; new; research; start; strategy cache: jsbs-558.pdf plain text: jsbs-558.txt item: #537 of 612 id: jsbs-559 author: Batchelor, John H. title: Exposing the Role of Gender in the Performance of Founding Entrepreneurs date: 2015-10-27 words: 8457 flesch: 52 summary: Hypothesis 4 proposed that entrepreneur gender moderates the relationship between founding status and performance. That is, are female entrepreneurs more or less likely to found their business, as opposed to some other way of obtaining a business such as purchasing or inheriting, than males. keywords: business; differences; entrepreneurs; female; founding; gender; journal; males; non; performance; perspective; study; venture; women cache: jsbs-559.pdf plain text: jsbs-559.txt item: #538 of 612 id: jsbs-56 author: Allred, Anthony T.; Addams, H. Lon title: After Receiving Financing, Do INC. 500 Companies Continue to Utilize Their Business Plan? date: 2006-01-20 words: 5019 flesch: 54 summary: According to these authors, no matter the size or stage of development, companies use business plans to improve internal operations and to market the business to potential outside investors. Schneider ( 1998) regarded business plans as the difference between success and failure. keywords: business; ceos; companies; company; funding; importance; management; plan; section cache: jsbs-56.pdf plain text: jsbs-56.txt item: #539 of 612 id: jsbs-560 author: Bendickson, Josh; Davis, Phillip E.; Cowden, Birton J.; Liguori, Eric W. title: Why Small Firms Are Different: Addressing Varying Needs From Boards of Directors date: 2015-10-27 words: 8115 flesch: 53 summary: Furthermore, small firm board members familiar with general small business practices and principles will also provide greater monitoring capabilities to these sized firms due to their exposure and valuable experiences in similar capacities. They are likely chosen more for their provision of resources and less for the monitoring capabilities and thus we present the following proposition: Proposition 4: Small firm boards will have less autonomy over monitoring because directors will be more likely owner appointed. keywords: board; business; composition; directors; firms; journal; management; members; monitoring; performance; research; resources; size; small; strategy cache: jsbs-560.pdf plain text: jsbs-560.txt item: #540 of 612 id: jsbs-561 author: Shields, Jeff; Shelleman, Joyce M. title: Integrating Sustainability into SME Strategy date: 2015-10-27 words: 7520 flesch: 27 summary: Finally, a limitation of this paper is that we have focused only on issues related to environmental sustainability. However, no method to do this that has a clear focus on sustainability issues has previously been articulated in the small business management literature. keywords: business; business strategy; companies; company; environment; issues; journal; management; performance; reporting; small; smes; strategy; sustainability cache: jsbs-561.pdf plain text: jsbs-561.txt item: #541 of 612 id: jsbs-562 author: Peake, Whitney O.; Harris, Michael L.; McDowell, William C.; Davis, Phillip E. title: Get What You Give? An Examination of Enlightened Self-Interest, Philanthropic Intent, and Engagement in Philanthropy for Small Firm Owners date: 2015-10-27 words: 8026 flesch: 44 summary: Corporate philanthropy research has begun to explore the TPB (Ajzen, 1991) as an important tool in modeling firm behavior in this realm (e.g., Dennis et al., 2009; van der Linden, 2011). Investigating the impact of firm size on small business social responsibility: A critical review. keywords: behavior; business; engagement; esi; giving; intentions; journal; philanthropy; research; responsibility; small; strategy; theory; vol cache: jsbs-562.pdf plain text: jsbs-562.txt item: #542 of 612 id: jsbs-563 author: Canziani, Bonnie; Welsh, Dianne H. B.; Hsieh, Yuchin (Jerrie); Tullar, William title: What Pedagogical Methods Impact Students' Entrepreneurial Propensity? date: 2015-10-27 words: 7039 flesch: 48 summary: This may be due to the fact that all our participants are entrepreneurship students. In addition, it appears that Feedback needs are considerably higher in experiential learning courses. keywords: achievement; business; courses; education; entrepreneurship; experiential; feedback; goal; journal; learning; motivation; propensity; risk; small; students cache: jsbs-563.pdf plain text: jsbs-563.txt item: #543 of 612 id: jsbs-57 author: Arora, Ph.D., Raj; Singer, Ph.D., Joe title: Cognitive and Affective Service Marketing Strategies for Fine Dining Resturant Managers date: 2006-01-20 words: 5328 flesch: 48 summary: Customer satisfaction is considered to be the core of marketing strategy. Customer satisfaction refers to the ability of a business to serve its customers according to their expectations and to maintain a Jong term relationship with each customer. keywords: consumption; dining; emotions; experience; journal; marketing; model; performance; permission; restaurant; satisfaction cache: jsbs-57.pdf plain text: jsbs-57.txt item: #544 of 612 id: jsbs-572 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2016-01-27 words: 188 flesch: -144 summary: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Entrepreneurial and Market-Oriented Activities, Financial Capital, Environment Turbulence, and Export Performance in an Emerging Economy Nathaniel Boso, University of Leeds Pejvak Oghazi, Linnaeus University John W. Cadogan, Loughborough University & Lappeenranta University Vicky M. Story, Loughborough University 25 Topic Evolution of Innovation Academic Researches Yu-Shan Lin, National Taitung University 37 Linking Market Orientation, Innovation and Performance: An Empirical Study on Small Industrial Enterprises in Spain Antonio L. Leal-Rodríguez, Universidad Loyola Andalucía Gema Albort-Morant, Universitat de València 51 Investigating the Path from Firm Innovativeness to Financial Performance: The Roles of New Product Success, Market Responsiveness, and Environment Turbulence Stella Zulu-Chisanga, University of Leeds & Copperbelt University Nathaniel Boso, University of Leeds Ogechi Adeola, Pan-Atlantic University Pejvak Oghazi, Linnaeus University 69 From the Business Strategy Result to a Source of Economic Development: The Dual Role of CSR Inmaculada Carrasco, University of Castilla-La Mancha Inmaculada Buendía-Martínez, University of Castilla-La Mancha 87 Corporate Governance and the Performance of Commercial Banks: A Fuzzy-Set QCA Approach J. Augusto Felício, University of Lisbon Ricardo Rodrigues, University of Lisbon António Samagaio, University of Lisbon keywords: la mancha; university cache: jsbs-572.pdf plain text: jsbs-572.txt item: #545 of 612 id: jsbs-573 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2016-01-27 words: 368 flesch: -49 summary: Editor-in-Chief William C. McDowell Middle Tennessee State University Senior Editor Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina — Greensboro Associate Editors Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University Raj Mahto University of New Mexico Editorial Assistant Stacy Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Phillip E. Davis East Carolina University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University Michael Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Jerry Kudlats Middle Tennessee State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Ashville Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio © ISSN 2380-1751 2015-2016 SBI Officers SBI Small Business Institute ® President: William C. McDowell Middle Tennessee State University william.mcdowell@mtsu.edu President-Elect: Patrick Walker Lindenwood University pwalker@lindenwood.edu Vice President of Programs: John H. Batchelor University of West Florida Jbatchelor1@uwf.edu Vice President of Programs-Elect: Deborah Cours California State University-Northridge Deborah.cours@csun.edu Secretary/Treasurer: Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Joshua.aaron@mtsu.edu Vice President of Marketing and Communications: keywords: middle; state; tennessee; university cache: jsbs-573.pdf plain text: jsbs-573.txt item: #546 of 612 id: jsbs-574 author: Editor, JSBS title: Letter from Editor date: 2016-01-27 words: 847 flesch: 33 summary: Zulu-Chisanga, Boso, Adeola, and Oghazi present “Investigating the path from firm innovativeness to financial performance: The roles of new product success, market responsiveness, and environment turbulence.” The authors use data from a questionnaire to small- and medium-sized exporting firms in the United Kingdom and find that new product success is a partial mediator of the path from firm innovativeness to financial performance. keywords: conference; gika; issue cache: jsbs-574.pdf plain text: jsbs-574.txt item: #547 of 612 id: jsbs-575 author: Boso, Nathaniel; Oghazi, Pejvak; Cadogan, John W.; Story, Vicky M. title: ENTREPRENEURIAL AND MARKET-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES, FINANCIAL CAPITAL, ENVIRONMENT TURBULENCE, AND EXPORT PERFORMANCE IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY date: 2016-01-27 words: 11153 flesch: 44 summary: While export EO activity refers to a firm’s propensity to innovate, take risks, act proactively and aggressively, and encourage autonomous decision-making in export markets (Balabanis & Katsikea 2003), export MO relates to the processes that firms use to generate, disseminate and respond to market intelligence in foreign markets (Cadogan et al. 2009). However, despite the potential insights that this multifaceted export strategy offers for small business theory development and practice, the effects that high levels of both export EO and MO activities have on SME performance in export markets remains under-researched. keywords: activities; business; capital; environment; export; export market; export performance; firms; journal; levels; market; mo activities; operations; orientation; performance; product; strategy cache: jsbs-575.pdf plain text: jsbs-575.txt item: #548 of 612 id: jsbs-576 author: Lin, Yu-Shan title: TOPIC EVOLUTION OF INNOVATION ACADEMIC RESEARCHES date: 2016-01-27 words: 4774 flesch: 43 summary: Moreover, the text is divided into two groups (1973-1995 and 1996-2015) to analyze the evolution of innovation research topics using WordSmith Tools with three main functions — Concord, WordList, and KeyWords. Product innovation is the third. keywords: analysis; business; innovation; journal; management; product; research; review; study; words cache: jsbs-576.pdf plain text: jsbs-576.txt item: #549 of 612 id: jsbs-577 author: Leal-Rodríguez, Antonio L.; Albort-Morant, Gema title: LINKING MARKET ORIENTATION, INNOVATION AND PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON SMALL INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES IN SPAIN date: 2016-01-27 words: 5115 flesch: 47 summary: Gema Albort-Morant Universitat de València gema.albort@uv.es ABSTRACT Many studies uphold market orientation as a key factor in creating and sustaining a firm’s competitive advantage. In particular, the model empirically tests the mediating role of innovation outcomes in the relationship between market orientation and business performance. keywords: business; innovation; journal; management; market; market orientation; model; orientation; performance; research; strategy cache: jsbs-577.pdf plain text: jsbs-577.txt item: #550 of 612 id: jsbs-578 author: Zulu-Chisanga, Stella; Boso, Nathaniel; Adeola, Ogechi; Oghazi, Pejvak title: INVESTIGATING THE PATH FROM FIRM INNOVATIVENESS TO FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: THE ROLES OF NEW PRODUCT SUCCESS, MARKET RESPONSIVENESS, AND ENVIRONMENT TURBULENCE date: 2016-01-27 words: 7736 flesch: 44 summary: Hence, managers should remain cognizant of the importance of new product success to the overall financial performance of their firms and make appropriate investments to assure the success of new products. ● No. 1 ● 2016 finding is supported in part by Story et al’s (2015) study of the effect of firm innovativeness on new product performance in both the developed and emerging market settings. keywords: environment; firm; innovativeness; journal; market; model; performance; product; product success; relationship; success; turbulence cache: jsbs-578.pdf plain text: jsbs-578.txt item: #551 of 612 id: jsbs-579 author: Carrasco, Inmaculada; Buendía-Martínez, Inmaculada title: FROM THE BUSINESS STRATEGY RESULT TO A SOURCE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE DUAL ROLE OF CSR date: 2016-01-27 words: 7002 flesch: 46 summary: How important are CSR companies for nations' growth. This change in society’s value system impacts on the design of business strategies, which, in the space of a few years, have included CSR issues as a consequence of two driving forces. keywords: business; change; companies; csr; development; european; innovation; journal; model; new; responsibility; social; society; strategy; values cache: jsbs-579.pdf plain text: jsbs-579.txt item: #552 of 612 id: jsbs-580 author: Felício, Augusto; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Samagaio, António title: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS: A FUZZY-SET QCA APPROACH date: 2016-01-27 words: 6083 flesch: 49 summary: The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to examine the relationships among governance mechanisms, financial performance, and loan quality; (2) to verify if strong financial performance may be associated with several alternative governance mechanisms; (3) to understand if the quality of loans issued by commercial banks may be associated with several alternative governance mechanisms. We thus formulate the following proposition: Proposition 1b / Proposition 2b: A large board at a commercial bank leads to strong financial performance and high loan quality. keywords: banks; board; directors; financial; governance; journal; loan; performance; quality; solution cache: jsbs-580.pdf plain text: jsbs-580.txt item: #553 of 612 id: jsbs-582 author: Habermann, Harald; Schulte, Reinhard title: Analyzing non-linear dynamics of organic growth: Evidence from small German new ventures date: 2017-06-19 words: 11836 flesch: 57 summary: Data-related tendencies Our literature review shows that the field of new venture growth is still fragmented. Future research on new venture growth should focus on a more flexible approach, such as the dynamic states approach, to understand the dynamics of hyper-growth companies (Cassia & Minola, 2012). keywords: business; data; development; employment; firms; growth; journal; models; new; period; sales; stages; strategy; time; ventures; vol cache: jsbs-582.pdf plain text: jsbs-582.txt item: #554 of 612 id: jsbs-59 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-20 words: 323 flesch: 22 summary: 0_4 Editor Fred L. Fry Associate Editors Aaron A. Buchko Laurence G. Weinzimmer Editorial Assistants Dexter Gruber Douglas Luman Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Joe Bell David Brennan Shawn Carraher Susan Coleman Cathleen Folker Eugene Fregetto Armand Gilinsky Joe Geiger Masoud Hemmasi Kirk Heriot Jeffrey Hornsby Bruce Kemelgor Larry Klatt Brian McKenzie Thaddeus McEwen Todd Mick John E. Prescott Neal Pruchansky C. Louise Sellaro Matthew C. Sonfield Harriet Stephenson Joe Singer Leo Simpson Jeff Shields Paul Stephens Jude Valdez Howard Van Auken Dianne Welsh Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Middle East Technical University University of Arkansas at Little Rock University of St. Thomas Cameron University University of Hartford University of Wisconsin - Parkside University of Illinois at Chicago Sonoma State University University of Idaho Illinois State University Mercer University Ball State University University of Louisville Florida Atlantic University California State University, East Bay North Carolina A&T State University Missouri Western State University University of Pittsburgh Keene State University Youngstown State University Hofstra University University of Seattle University of Missouri - Kansas City Western Kentucky University University of Southern Maine Bradley University University of Texas at San Antonio-Downtown Iowa State University University of Tampa The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute® and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. Send subscription requests to Fred Fry, Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University, 1501 W. Bradley Ave., Peoria, IL, 61625 or e-mail to jsbs@bradley.edu. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-59.pdf plain text: jsbs-59.txt item: #555 of 612 id: jsbs-593 author: Voelker, Troy A.; Steel, Doug; Shervin, Elsa title: Internet presence as a small business capability: the case of mobile optimization date: 2017-06-19 words: 6557 flesch: 55 summary: In this study, we examine the mobile optimization patterns of business websites for small and mid-sized enterprises (SME’s) in a major southwestern metropolitan marketplace. One might think that this would naturally extend over to business websites, but our evidence as well as prior studies, suggests that this would be an overly optimistic expectation. keywords: business; design; elements; engine; firms; industry; internet; journal; mobile; optimization; presence; search; website cache: jsbs-593.pdf plain text: jsbs-593.txt item: #556 of 612 id: jsbs-6 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-20 words: 29 flesch: 50 summary: Credits Anonymous Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2004; 15, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-6.pdf plain text: jsbs-6.txt item: #557 of 612 id: jsbs-60 author: Wu, Lifang; Kloppenborg, Timothy J.; Walsh, James P. title: Developing a Supply Chain Strategy for a Midsize Resturant Chain date: 2006-01-20 words: 6653 flesch: 53 summary: As the success of supply chain management has increasingly become part of the competitive advantage of many firms, our work provides managerial insights to practitioners and researchers in the area of chain restaurant management where supply chain is often overlooked as a standard 'back-office function. These decisions fall into three categories (supply chain strategy, planning, and operation), depending on the time frame over which a decision category has an impact. keywords: business; chain; cost; distribution; hbh; journal; management; permission; restaurant; store; strategy; supply; supply chain; system cache: jsbs-60.pdf plain text: jsbs-60.txt item: #558 of 612 id: jsbs-608 author: JSBS, MTSU title: From the Editor date: 2016-05-19 words: 354 flesch: 32 summary: Their paper, drawing from a sample of manufacturing SMEs, supports the idea that small and medium sized firms with high levels of entrepreneurial orientation are able to capitalize on opportunities that yield higher levels of performance for the firm. The first contribution by Kilenthong, Hultman and Hills, “Entrepreneurial orientation as the determinant of entrepreneurial marketing behaviors,” examines how the entrepreneurial orientation of a firm drives the entrepreneurial marketing behaviors of the firm. keywords: firm cache: jsbs-608.pdf plain text: jsbs-608.txt item: #559 of 612 id: jsbs-61 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-20 words: 543 flesch: 62 summary: Their conclusions certainly should be applicable to other restaurants and restaurant chains as well as outside the restaurant industry. Arora and Singer looked at fine dining restaurants. keywords: business; strategy cache: jsbs-61.pdf plain text: jsbs-61.txt item: #560 of 612 id: jsbs-611 author: Bendickson, Joshua S.; Muldoon, Jeffrey; Liguori, Eric W.; Midgett, Chelsea title: High Performance Work Systems: A Necessity for Startups date: 2017-06-19 words: 5510 flesch: 48 summary: Research suggests that high performance work systems (i.e., a bundle of human resource practices) enhance organizational performance. Despite our limitations such as a lack of empirical evidence, we believe our review of common human resource practices that make up HPWS helps to answer our questions and demonstrates the following: human capital is essential to startups; startups need HPWS to enhance and develop excellent human capital; and rather than focusing on human resources practices on an as needed bases, systems of high performance work can enhance organizational level outcomes. keywords: capital; firm; hpws; journal; management; performance; practices; resource; small; startups; work cache: jsbs-611.pdf plain text: jsbs-611.txt item: #561 of 612 id: jsbs-612 author: JSBS, MTSU title: Table of Contents date: 2016-05-19 words: 123 flesch: 1 summary: Exploring Individual, Firm and Environmental Level Antecedents Saurabh Srivastava, University of North Texas Anat BarNir, University of North Texas 51 Family Business CEO Succession: Examining Personal Retirement Expectations Jamie D. Collins, Sam Houston State University William J. Worthington, Baylor University John E. Schoen, Schoen Family Foundation 71 Entrepreneurial Orientation and Learning in High and Low- Performing SMEs Timothy Pett, Rollins College Jim A.Wolff, Wichita State University 87 Critical Success Factors of SME Internationalization Tarun Bose, Khulna University keywords: university cache: jsbs-612.pdf plain text: jsbs-612.txt item: #562 of 612 id: jsbs-613 author: JSBS, MTSU title: Credits date: 2016-05-19 words: 363 flesch: -46 summary: Editor-in-Chief William C. McDowell Middle Tennessee State University Senior Editor Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina — Greensboro Associate Editors Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University Raj Mahto University of New Mexico Editorial Assistant Stacy Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock David Brennan University of St. Thomas Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Phillip E. Davis East Carolina University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University Michael Harris East Carolina University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby Kansas State University Jerry Kudlats Middle Tennessee State University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Thaddeus McEwen North Carolina A&T State University Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Ashville Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio © ISSN 2380-1751 2016-2017 SBI Officers SBI Small Business Institute ® President: Patrick Walker Lindenwood University Pwalker@lindenwood.edu President-Elect: John H. Batchelor University of West Florida Jbatchelor1@uwf.edu Vice President of Programs: Deborah Cours California State University-Northridge Deborah.cours@csun.edu Vice President of Programs-Elect: Timothy Dunne Middle Tennessee State University Timothy.Dunne@mtsu.edu Secretary/Treasurer: Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Joshua.aaron@mtsu.edu Vice President of Marketing and Communications: keywords: middle; state; tennessee; university cache: jsbs-613.pdf plain text: jsbs-613.txt item: #563 of 612 id: jsbs-614 author: Bose, Tarun K. title: Critical Success Factors of SME Internationalization date: 2016-05-19 words: 10158 flesch: 32 summary: This study contributed toward developing a model for successful internationalization framework by covering important literature in the field of SME internationalization. This scenario has opened diversified fields of research areas for exploring and thus presents numerous scopes to develop theories for the best possible method of SME internationalization. keywords: business; development; export; factors; firms; internationalization; journal; management; marketing; model; performance; process; research; review; smes; strategy; success cache: jsbs-614.pdf plain text: jsbs-614.txt item: #564 of 612 id: jsbs-615 author: Pett, Timothy; Wolff, Jim A. title: Entrepreneurial Orientation and Learning in High and Low Performing SMEs date: 2016-05-19 words: 7095 flesch: 45 summary: The fundamental proposition that underpins entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as a significant theoretical construct is that entrepreneurial firms behave in ways different from other types of firms. Within the field of entrepreneurship and, to a somewhat lesser extent, strategic management research, EO has come to be an important construct in the study of entrepreneurial firms or corporate entrepreneurship and performance (Wang, 2008). keywords: business; construct; firm; information; journal; knowledge; learning; management; orientation; performance; technology cache: jsbs-615.pdf plain text: jsbs-615.txt item: #565 of 612 id: jsbs-616 author: Kilenthong, Pitsamorn; Hultman, Claes M.; Hills, Gerald E. title: Entrepreneurial Orientation as the Determinant of Entrepreneurial Marketing Behaviors date: 2016-05-19 words: 8674 flesch: 45 summary: Prior studies had reported that environmental changes can have a major impact on firms marketing activities (Deleersnyder, 2003), and that different levels of environmental hostility can have different impact on firms’ use of marketing research (Khandwalla, 1977). Hypothesis 2: Proactiveness, innovativeness, and risk-taking can independently affect entrepreneurial marketing behavior. keywords: behaviors; business; dimensions; em behaviors; entrepreneurship; firms; journal; level; marketing; model; orientation cache: jsbs-616.pdf plain text: jsbs-616.txt item: #566 of 612 id: jsbs-63 author: Shields, Jeff title: Resturant Revenue Management: An Investigation into Changing Standard Operating Proceduresto Maximize Revenue date: 2006-01-20 words: 4376 flesch: 54 summary: In the following section, the literature on restaurant revenue management is reviewed, followed by the hypothesis that guided the study. Future research should investigate other aspects of restaurant revenue management in small business restaurants. keywords: demand; duration; kimes; management; periods; restaurant; revenue cache: jsbs-63.pdf plain text: jsbs-63.txt item: #567 of 612 id: jsbs-65 author: Fields, W. Calvin title: Strategy-Specific Decision Making: A Guide for Excuting Competitive Strategy date: 2006-05-20 words: 2183 flesch: 54 summary: Weights help to clarify the mission statement to improve organizational focus and manage priorities, thus, better enabling the design and implementation of specific strategic decisions. Spring/Summer 2006 Chapter 3 begins by discussing the importance of strategic decision making per se. keywords: case; chapter; decision; forgang; strategy cache: jsbs-65.pdf plain text: jsbs-65.txt item: #568 of 612 id: jsbs-66 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-20 words: 209 flesch: 23 summary: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Insights Michael Morris Syracuse University Minet Schindehutte Syracuse University James Richardson University of Hawaii Jeffery Allen University of Central Florida 51 Cognitive and Affective Service Marketing Strategies for Fine Dining and Restaurant Managers Raj Arora University of Missouri - Kansas City Joe Singer University of Missouri - Kansas City 63 Developing a Supply Chain Strategy for a Midsize Restaurant Chain Lifang Wu Xavier University Timothy J. Kloppenborg Xavier University James P. Walsh Anthony T. Allred Weber State University H. Lon Addams Weber State University 27 Is the Business Model a Useful Strategic Concept? keywords: strategy; university cache: jsbs-66.pdf plain text: jsbs-66.txt item: #569 of 612 id: jsbs-676 author: Ryu, Jay Sang; Fortenberry, Sally title: Understanding young consumers' personal-level cultural orientation and shopping intentions: Implications for small-town retailers date: 2017-10-29 words: 5522 flesch: 52 summary: These findings are consistent 6 J. S. Ryu & S. Fortenberry Journal of Small Business Strategy / Vol. 27, No. 3 (2017) / 1-8 Table 3 Mean comparisons between idiocentric (n = 243) and allocentric consumers (n = 250) Variable Group Mean SD t Assortment-seeking Idiocentric consumers 4.22 0.63 4.57*** Allocentric consumers 3.94 0.70 Uniqueness-seeking Idiocentric consumers 3.96 0.70 4.91*** Allocentric consumers 3.64 0.73 Convenience-seeking Idiocentric consumers 3.83 0.91 3.25** Allocentric consumers 3.58 0.79 Price comparison Idiocentric consumers 4.18 0.73 4.10*** Allocentric consumers 3.90 0.82 Social interaction Idiocentric consumers 3.06 1.02 4.03*** Allocentric consumers 2.72 0.84 Browsing Idiocentric consumers 3.63 0.89 3.29** Allocentric consumers 3.37 0.87 Shopping intention Idiocentric consumers 4.24 0.72 2.97** Allocentric consumers 4.04 0.77 Mobile shopping intention Idiocentric consumers 3.72 0.95 2.74** Allocentric consumers 3.49 0.99 Identifying and an- alyzing consumer shopping strategies. keywords: allocentric; consumers; idiocentric; journal; motivations; retailers; seeking; shopping; town cache: jsbs-676.pdf plain text: jsbs-676.txt item: #570 of 612 id: jsbs-677 author: Coder, LeAnne; Peake, Whitney O.; Spiller, M. Shane title: Do High Performance Work Systems Pay for Small Firms? An Intellectual Capital Building Perspective date: 2017-06-19 words: 9253 flesch: 47 summary: Because the impact of human resources is more salient in smaller firms (Bendickson, Ligion, Muldoon, Newport, & Weaver, 2013), small firms that have highly integrated human resource management systems may find ways to leverage people and processes to create sources of sustained competitive advantage (Barney & Wright, 1998; McClean & Collins, 2011) by using HPWS to reduce the costs associated with turnover (Sels, De Winne, Maes, Delmotte, Faems, & Forrier, 2006). Results suggest that HPWS implementation enhances small firm performance via intellectual capital building. keywords: business; capital; employees; firm; growth; hpws; human; journal; management; performance; relationship; resource; results; strategy; work; youndt cache: jsbs-677.pdf plain text: jsbs-677.txt item: #571 of 612 id: jsbs-678 author: Digan, Shaun Paul; Kerrick, Sharon A; Cumberland, Denise M; Garrett, Robert P title: The Roles of Knowledge and Organizational Form on Opportunity Evaluation date: 2017-06-19 words: 10204 flesch: 43 summary: An empirical study of opportunity evaluation decisions by technologists, managers, and entrepreneurs. Key Words: opportunity evaluation, knowledge, organizational form, franchising mailto:Shaun.digan@mail.com mailto:skerrick@bellarmine.edu mailto:Denise.cumberland@louisville.edu mailto:Robert.garrett@louisville.edu Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. keywords: business; decision; entrepreneurs; evaluation; fit; form; franchise; human; independent; journal; knowledge; opportunities; opportunity; research; strategy; venture cache: jsbs-678.pdf plain text: jsbs-678.txt item: #572 of 612 id: jsbs-69 author: Grubb III, W. Lee; Harris, Michael L.; MacKenzie, Jr., William I. title: Business Students' Perceptions of Employment in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Versus Multinational Corporations: Investing the Moderating Effects of Accademic Major, Gender, and Personality date: 2006-05-20 words: 4468 flesch: 49 summary: Next, it would be of interest to incorporate samples of students from other academic disciplines, as well as students at the graduate level, to compare their preferences with that of undergraduate business students. The results showed that 56.6 31 Vol. 17, No. 2 Fall/Winter 200612007 percent of female students preferred employment in MNCs while 54.9 percent of male students preferred employment in SMEs. keywords: business; employment; factors; job; mncs; personality; smes; students cache: jsbs-69.pdf plain text: jsbs-69.txt item: #573 of 612 id: jsbs-691 author: Goldsby, Michael G.; Kuratko, Donald F.; Bishop, James W.; Kreiser, Patrick M.; Hornsby, Jeffrey S. title: Social proactiveness and innovation: The impact of stakeholder salience on corporate entrepreneurship date: 2018-06-18 words: 10198 flesch: 46 summary: Personal values as a catalyst for corporate social entrepreneurship. This is consistent with many business ethicists’ views on the relationship between stock- holder salience and corporate social performance. keywords: business; employees; entrepreneurship; ethics; innovation; issues; journal; kuratko; management; proactiveness; salience; stakeholder cache: jsbs-691.pdf plain text: jsbs-691.txt item: #574 of 612 id: jsbs-7 author: Aurand, Timothy W.; DeMoranville, Carol W.; Fredericks, Elisa; Smith, Thomas J. title: From Mass Customization to Customization: An Opportunity for Entrepreneurial Defferentiation date: 2004-01-20 words: 5924 flesch: 54 summary: The most successful product of multiple product firms is more likely to have a price premium of 36 percent or more (p<.05). l 0) and least successful (p<.05) products for multiple product firms. keywords: business; customer; customization; firms; goals; journal; mass; permission; products; single; small; technology cache: jsbs-7.pdf plain text: jsbs-7.txt item: #575 of 612 id: jsbs-70 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-20 words: 331 flesch: 22 summary: 0_4 Editor Fred L. Fry Associate Editors Aaron A. Buchko Laurence G. Weinzimmer Editorial Assistants Dexter Gruber Douglas Luman Book Review Editor Michael Goldsby Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Joe Bell David Brennan Shawn Carraher Susan Coleman Cathleen Folker Eugene Fregetto Armand Gilinsky Joe Geiger Masoud Hemmasi Kirk Heriot Jeffrey Hornsby Bruce Kemelgor Larry Klatt Brian McKenzie Thaddeus McEwen Todd Mick John E. Prescott Neal Pruchansky C. Louise Sellaro Matthew C. Sonfield Harriet Stephenson Joe Singer Leo Simpson Jeff Shields Paul Stephens Jude Valdez Howard Van Auken Dianne Welsh Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Ball State University Middle East Technical University University of Arkansas at Little Rock University of St. Thomas Cameron University University of Hartford University of Wisconsin - Parkside University of Illinois at Chicago Sonoma State University University ofldaho Illinois State University Mercer University Ball State University University of Louisville Florida Atlantic University California State University, East Bay North Carolina A&T State University Missouri Western State University University of Pittsburgh Keene State University Youngstown State University Hofstra University University of Seattle University of Missouri - Kansas City Western Kentucky University University of Southern Maine Bradley University University of Texas at San Antonio-Downtown Iowa State University University of Tampa The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute® and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. Send subscription requests to Fred Fry, Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University, 1501 W. Bradley Ave., Peoria, IL, 61625 or e-mail to jsbs@bradley.edu. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-70.pdf plain text: jsbs-70.txt item: #576 of 612 id: jsbs-702 author: Simon, Mark; Kim, John title: Two sources of overconfidence: Incorporating disconfirming feedback in an entrepreneurial context date: 2017-10-29 words: 11147 flesch: 54 summary: Since overconfidence level may depend upon the specific question asked, we did not combine the sub- jects’ overconfidence on each question but instead allowed the distinct effect of each to influence our results. In other words, the overconfi- dence level before the disconfirming expert opinion had less of an influence on the change in overconfidence level for POC individuals than for NOC individuals. keywords: answer; business; expert; individuals; information; journal; level; new; noc; opinion; overconfidence; poc; simon cache: jsbs-702.pdf plain text: jsbs-702.txt item: #577 of 612 id: jsbs-72 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-20 words: 439 flesch: 58 summary: It is a touch longer than most JSBS articles, but it is well worth the time to read it. Their methodology differed somewhat from traditional studies of the benefit of planning. keywords: business; editor cache: jsbs-72.pdf plain text: jsbs-72.txt item: #578 of 612 id: jsbs-728 author: Murphy, Greg; Tocher, Neil title: Diversification in small firms: Does parental influence matter? date: 2017-10-29 words: 10113 flesch: 50 summary: Such findings are noteworthy because they (1) provide strong evidence that the presence of a corporate parent provides small firms the access to re- sources needed to engage in diversification, (2) advance scholarly understanding of the small firm diversification puzzle, and (3) are somewhat counter intuitive to schol- arly research that suggests independent firms likely want to diversify and parent firms would likely often discourage subsidiary diversification (e.g. Nippa et al., 2012). http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz Diversification in small firms: Does parental influence matter? keywords: business; codes; diversification; efforts; firms; journal; management; number; parent; sic; subsidiary; subsidiary firms; ventures cache: jsbs-728.pdf plain text: jsbs-728.txt item: #579 of 612 id: jsbs-74 author: Nelson, Thomas title: Startups That Work date: 2006-05-20 words: 2207 flesch: 60 summary: When this works well you get market defining companies like Microsoft or Nike. Kurtzman and Rifkin also found that companies that had angel investors on their boards had more-developed strategies than those that did not, or those that had venture capitalists on their boards. keywords: business; companies; company; market; product cache: jsbs-74.pdf plain text: jsbs-74.txt item: #580 of 612 id: jsbs-75 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-20 words: 225 flesch: 29 summary: 0_3 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Internalization of SMEs in Emerging Economies: Institutional Embeddedness and Absorptive Capacities Hong Zhu Texas A&M University Michael A. Hitt Texas A&M University Laszlo Tihanyi Texas A&M University 27 Business Students' Perceptions of Employment in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Versus Multinational Corporations: Investigating the Moderating Effects of Academic Major, Gender, and Personality W. Lee Grubb III East Carolina University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University William I. MacKenzie, Jr. University of South Carolina 37 An Exploration of Firm Performance Factors in Family Businesses: Do Families Value Only the Bottom Line? By Joel Kurzman and Glen Rifkin Reviewed by: Thomas Nelson University of Louisville keywords: business; university cache: jsbs-75.pdf plain text: jsbs-75.txt item: #581 of 612 id: jsbs-754 author: Editor, MTSU title: Table of Contents date: 2017-03-02 words: 118 flesch: -77 summary: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Green Practice Motivators and Performance in SMEs: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Lilia Rekik, Universite du Quebec Francois Bergeron, Universite du Quebec 21 International Opportunity Recognition: An Overview Moritz Angelsberger, University of Liechtenstein Sascha Kraus, Univerity of Liechtenstein Alicia Mas-Tur, University of Valencia Norat Roig-Tierno, ESIC Business and Marketing School 41 Knowledge Management and Organizational Culture in a Software Development Enterprise Vicente Prado-Gascó, University of Valencia Ismael Quintanilla Pardo, University of Valencia Carlos Pérez-Campos, Catholic University of Valencia 55 Leadership and Governance Decisions in Family Business Performance: An Application of Fuzzy Sets Logic Ana Cristina Gonzalez, L., Universidad Icesi, Colombia Yeny E. Rodriguez, Universidad Icesi, Colombia Anibal Sossa, Universidad Icesi, Colombia keywords: colombia cache: jsbs-754.pdf plain text: jsbs-754.txt item: #582 of 612 id: jsbs-755 author: Editor, MTSU title: Credits date: 2017-03-02 words: 359 flesch: -28 summary: Editors-in-Chief William C. McDowell Middle Tennessee State University Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Senior Editor Dianne H. B. Welsh University of North Carolina — Greensboro Associate Editors Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Whitney O. Peake Western Kentucky University Raj Mahto University of New Mexico Editorial Assistant Stacy Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Editorial Review Board Semra Ascigil Middle East Technical University Joe R. Bell University of Arkansas at Little Rock Shawn Carraher University of Texas at Dallas Phillip E. Davis Texas State University Eugene Fregetto University of Illinois at Chicago Joseph Geiger University of Idaho Armand Gilinsky Sonoma State University Michael Goldsby Ball State University David Lyn Hoffman Metropolitan State College of Denver Jeffrey Hornsby University of Missouri Kansas City Jerry Kudlats Jacksonville University Cathleen (Folker) Leitch Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Lussier Springfield College Matthew R. Marvel Ball State University Brian McKenzie California State University, East Bay Abbas Nadim University of New Haven John E. Prescott University of Pittsburgh Neal Pruchansky Keene State College Jeff Shields University of North Carolina at Ashville Leo Simpson Seattle University Matthew C. Sonfield Hofstra University Harriet Stephenson Seattle University Jude Valdez University of Texas at San Antonio © Whitney Peake Western Kentucky University Whitney.peake@wku.edu Secretary/Treasurer: Joshua Aaron Middle Tennessee State University Joshua.aaron@mtsu.edu Vice President of Marketing and Communications: Blake Escudier Entrepanalysis, LLC Blake@escudier.us Vice President of Membership: keywords: middle; president; state; university cache: jsbs-755.pdf plain text: jsbs-755.txt item: #583 of 612 id: jsbs-756 author: Editor, MTSU title: From the Editor date: 2017-03-02 words: 1199 flesch: 44 summary: Table 1 Country of origin of published articles on small business and strategy in the WoS. Countries n Percentage United States of America 141 Evolution of the number of articles published on small business strategy in the last 5 years. keywords: articles; business; strategy; university cache: jsbs-756.pdf plain text: jsbs-756.txt item: #584 of 612 id: jsbs-757 author: Rekik, Lilia; Bergeron, Francois title: Green Practice Motivators and Performance in SMEs: A Qualitative Comparative Anaysis date: 2017-03-02 words: 6878 flesch: 44 summary: Green practices There are various approaches to studying green practices but the supply chain approach is undoubtedly very popular. This potential link between the implementation of green practices and performance leads us to the second and third propositions: Proposition #2: Green practices are linked to financial performance. keywords: business; chain; conditions; environmental; green; journal; management; performance; practices; research; smes; solution; supply; waste cache: jsbs-757.pdf plain text: jsbs-757.txt item: #585 of 612 id: jsbs-758 author: Angelsberger, Morits; Kraus, Sascha; Mas-Tur, Alicia; Roig-Tierno, Norat title: International Opportunity Recognition: An Overview date: 2017-03-02 words: 7628 flesch: 29 summary: International opportunity recognition and international opportunity Definitions of international opportunity recognition and international opportunity can vary as scholars examine it from different theoretical approaches. keywords: business; entrepreneurship; international; journal; knowledge; new; opportunities; opportunity; opportunity recognition; recognition; research cache: jsbs-758.pdf plain text: jsbs-758.txt item: #586 of 612 id: jsbs-759 author: Prado-Gascó, Vicente; Quintanilla Pardo, Ismael; Pérez-Campos, Carlos title: Knowledge Management and Organizational Culture in a Software Development Enterprise date: 2017-03-02 words: 5251 flesch: 44 summary: For this purpose, two different tasks were performed: first, analysis of knowledge management levels and organizational culture; and second, analysis of the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management. The aim of this study was to analysis knowledge management and organizational culture at a Spanish software development enterprise. keywords: 2003; business; culture; information; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; management; performance; strategy cache: jsbs-759.pdf plain text: jsbs-759.txt item: #587 of 612 id: jsbs-76 author: Zhu, Hong; Hitt, Michael A.; Tihanyi, Laszlo title: The Internationalization of SMES in Emerging Economies: Institional Embeddedness and Absorptive Capacities date: 2006-05-20 words: 12957 flesch: 39 summary: Emerging market firms can learn from foreign firms, especially when they partner with them in strategic alliances (Hitt et al., 2005). Thus, emerging market firms can overcome the liability of foreignness using their networks to learn from their partners' experiences (Guillen, 2002; keywords: business; capabilities; economies; firms; groups; hitt; institutional; journal; knowledge; management; markets; new; opportunities; peng; permission; resources; smes; start; transition cache: jsbs-76.pdf plain text: jsbs-76.txt item: #588 of 612 id: jsbs-760 author: Gonzalez, Ana Cristina; Rodriguez, Yeny; Sossa, Anibal title: Leadership and Governance Decisions in Family Business Performance: An Application of Fuzzy Sets Logic date: 2017-03-02 words: 6452 flesch: 50 summary: Goel, Jussila, and Ikaheimonen (2014) point out the need to understand family businesses governance from an evolutionary focus, meaning that family business governance and the business itself evolve across generations Journal of Small Business Strategy Vol. 27 27 ● No. 1 ● 2017 51 LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE DECISIONS IN FAMILY BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: AN APPLICATION OF FUZZY SETS LOGIC Ana Cristina Gonzalez acgonzalez@icesi.edu.co Universidad Icesi, Colombia Yeny E. Rodriguez yerodriguez@icesi.edu.co Universidad Icesi, Colombia Anibal Sossa uasosa@icesi.edu.co Universidad Icesi, Colombia ABSTRACT Leadership, governance and performance in family businesses are broadly studied, but results are contradictory. keywords: board; business; case; ceo; family; governance; medium; ownership; performance; sets cache: jsbs-760.pdf plain text: jsbs-760.txt item: #589 of 612 id: jsbs-763 author: Nagy, Brian G.; Rutherford, Matthew W.; Truong, Yann; Pollack, Jeffrey M. title: Development of the legitimacy threshold scale date: 2017-10-29 words: 6195 flesch: 50 summary: The influence of entrepreneurs’ credentials and impression management behaviors on percep- tions of new venture legitimacy. In accordance with this early work in the area to define and quantify activities related to the LT, recent research examines legitimacy thresholds, distinct entre- preneur behaviors, and firm identities, further lending support that firms and new venture leaders are uniquely different pre- keywords: activities; attainment; business; items; journal; legitimacy; new; organization; post; rutherford; threshold; venture cache: jsbs-763.pdf plain text: jsbs-763.txt item: #590 of 612 id: jsbs-78 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-20 words: 340 flesch: 25 summary: Jill Kickul Larry Klatt Matthew Marvel Brian McKenzie Thaddeus McEwen Todd Mick John E. Prescott Neal Pruchansky George Puia Matthew C. Sonfield Jeff Shields Joe Singer Paul Stephens Harriet Stephenson Jude Valdez Howard Van Auken Dianne Welsh Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Middle East Technical University University of Arkansas at Little Rock University of St. Thomas Cameron University University of Hartford University of Wisconsin - Parkside University of Illinois at Chicago Sonoma State University University of Idaho East Carolina University Mesa State College Illinois State University Columbus State University Ball State University University of Louisville Miami University of Ohio Florida Atlantic University Western Kentucky University California State University, East Bay North Carolina A&T State University Missouri Western State University University of Pittsburgh Keene State University Saginaw Valley State University Hofstra University University of Southern Maine University of Missouri - Kansas City Bradley University University of Seattle University of Texas at San Antonio-Downtown Iowa State University University of Tampa The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute® and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. Send subscription requests to Fred Fry, Editor, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University, 1501 W. Bradley Ave., Peoria, IL, 61625 or e-mail to jsbs@bradley.edu. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-78.pdf plain text: jsbs-78.txt item: #591 of 612 id: jsbs-79 author: Tower, C. Burk; Gudmundson, Donald; Schierstedt, Susan; Hartman, E. Alan title: Do Family Meetings Really Matter? Their Relationship to Planning and Performance Outcomes in Small Family Businesses date: 2007-01-20 words: 4197 flesch: 50 summary: Significant relationships between family meetings and both planning processes and performance measures were found when comparing family businesses based on who participated in the family meetings - just holding meetings does not matter, but inclusiveness of those meetings does matter. Educational programs on how to build family businesses virtually always mention family meetings as a key to success. keywords: business; family; group; meetings; mission; performance; planning cache: jsbs-79.pdf plain text: jsbs-79.txt item: #592 of 612 id: jsbs-8 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-20 words: 33 flesch: 60 summary: From the Editor Fry, Fred L Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2004; 15, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. keywords: permission cache: jsbs-8.pdf plain text: jsbs-8.txt item: #593 of 612 id: jsbs-81 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-20 words: 577 flesch: 55 summary: From the Editor Journal of Small Business Strategy; Spring/Summer 2007; 18, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. 0_6 From the Editor In this issue, we continue moving toward our goal of gently nudging up the quality of the papers published in the Journal of Small Business Strategy while keeping the overall thrust of the papers applied. keywords: business; papers cache: jsbs-81.pdf plain text: jsbs-81.txt item: #594 of 612 id: jsbs-810 author: Ahluwalia, Saurabh; Mahto, Raj V.; Walsh, Steven T title: Innovation in small firms: Does family vs. non-family matter? date: 2017-10-29 words: 8516 flesch: 52 summary: Even though innovation research on family firms is slightly more ad- vanced than innovation research on non-technology-based small firms (De Massis et al., 2013), research on innova- tion in small family firms is almost non-existent. Multiple definitions of family firm exist in the literature (Mazzi, 2011) with the broader defini- tion of the construct suggesting a majority of private firms being family firms (Shanker & Astrachan, 1996). keywords: business; commitment; employee; family; family firms; firm; innovation; journal; knowledge; non; small; study; training cache: jsbs-810.pdf plain text: jsbs-810.txt item: #595 of 612 id: jsbs-817 author: Garrido-Lopez, Mariano; Hillon, Yue Cai; Cagle, Wendy; Wright, Edward title: Project-based strategic management education: A client perspective on key challenges date: 2018-06-18 words: 7393 flesch: 48 summary: A brief guide to student projects with industry. Finally, explore whether clients implemented students’ recommendations to understand the authentic impact of project-based learning on client business success. keywords: business; challenges; client; education; hillon; journal; learning; management; pedagogy; project; research; small; strategy; students cache: jsbs-817.pdf plain text: jsbs-817.txt item: #596 of 612 id: jsbs-82 author: Allred, Anthony; Addams, H. Lon; Chakraborty, Goutam title: Is Informal Planning the Key to the Success of the Inc. 500? date: 2007-01-20 words: 4977 flesch: 52 summary: Business planning boosts your chances. Anthony Allred Weber State University aallred@weber.edu H. Lon Addams Weber State University laddams@weber.edu Goutam Chakraborty Oklahoma State University goutam.chakraborty@okstate.edu ABSTRACT A review of the research on planning indicated that formal planning might be unnecessary for small, fast-growing companies. keywords: business; ceos; management; permission; planning; practices; study; time cache: jsbs-82.pdf plain text: jsbs-82.txt item: #597 of 612 id: jsbs-821 author: Williams Jr., Ralph I.; Manley, Scott C.; Aaron, Joshua R.; Daniel, Francis title: The relationship between a comprehensive strategic approach and small business performance date: 2018-06-18 words: 10454 flesch: 53 summary: Rather, it is ‘under what conditions is per- formance enhanced by small firm strategic planning’” (p. 61)? The importance of “outsiders” in small firm strategic planning. keywords: analysis; business; business performance; firm; goal; journal; management; performance; planning; ratio; relationship; research; setting; strategy cache: jsbs-821.pdf plain text: jsbs-821.txt item: #598 of 612 id: jsbs-823 author: Joshi, Mahendra; Anand, Vikas title: Small business owners’ external information-seeking behaviors: The role of perceived uncertainty and organizational identity complexity date: 2018-11-01 words: 11383 flesch: 54 summary: While this may be partially true, in- creasingly external sources of business information are found to be invaluable for small business owners in deter- mining appropriate courses of action and plan for the fu- ture (Angelsberger, Kraus, Mas-Tur, & Roig-Tierno, 2017; Lang, Calantone, & Gudmundson, 1997; McGee & Saw- yerr, 2003; Interactive Effects of Perceived Uncertainty and OI Complexity on Information Seeking Under low identity complexity small business owners are likely to compartmentalize different identities (Pratt & Foreman, 2000). keywords: business; complexity; identity; industry; information; journal; management; motel; non; owners; routine; seeking; sources; uncertainty cache: jsbs-823.pdf plain text: jsbs-823.txt item: #599 of 612 id: jsbs-83 author: Murphy, Gregory B.; Celuch, Kevin; Callaway, Stephen K. title: Small Business Internet Use and Strategic Flexibility date: 2007-01-20 words: 5732 flesch: 42 summary: gbmurphy@usi.edu Kevin Celuch University of Southern Indiana kceluch@usi.edu Stephen K. Callaway University of Tampa ABSTRACT Research on SME Internet use has focused almost exclusively on factors leading to the adoption of Internet technologies. Research on SME Internet use in the entrepreneurship literature has focused almost exclusively on factors leading to the adoption of Internet technologies (c.f. BarNir, Gallaugher, & Auger, 2003; Dandridge & Levenburg, 2000; Dholakia & Ksetri, 2004; Lohrke, Franklin, & Frownfelter-Lohrke, 2006; keywords: business; communications; dynamism; firms; flexibility; internet; journal; management; market; permission; strategy; use cache: jsbs-83.pdf plain text: jsbs-83.txt item: #600 of 612 id: jsbs-834 author: Adam, Marcus; Strähle, Jochen; Freise, Matthias title: Dynamic capabilities of early-stage firms: Exploring the business of renting fashion date: 2018-06-18 words: 13344 flesch: 50 summary: There- fore, some companies have commenced to augment their traditional product offerings with complementary services or develop new business models based on the logic of per- mitting consumers temporary access to underutilized goods (Botsman & Rogers, 2011; Stephany, 2015). Use-oriented PSS pro- vide one opportunity for fashion firms to cope with these challenges since they present a way to differentiate, dimin- ish dependence on material and allow building vigorous customer relationships (Gebauer et al., 2011; Vezzoli et al., 2014). keywords: business; capabilities; case; companies; customers; development; fashion; firms; journal; knowledge; management; network; new; product; pss; renting; research; service cache: jsbs-834.pdf plain text: jsbs-834.txt item: #601 of 612 id: jsbs-84 author: Pett, Timothy L.; Wolff, James A. title: SME Performance: A Case for Internal Consistency date: 2007-01-20 words: 7123 flesch: 43 summary: Hence attention to organizational process improvements to affect operating efficiencies may be relatively universal among SME firms. Measurement Performance Performance is a multidimensional construct, and managers/owners of SME firms are often reluctant to provide objective information regarding the dimensions of sales, asset utilization profitability, or changes along any of these dimensions. keywords: business; capability; firm; innovation; internal; international; journal; management; performance; permission; sme; strategic; strategy cache: jsbs-84.pdf plain text: jsbs-84.txt item: #602 of 612 id: jsbs-85 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-20 words: 215 flesch: 23 summary: 0_3 17 35 57 69 85 95 TABLE OF CONTENTS SME Performance: A Case for Internal Consistency Timothy L. Pett Wichita State University James A. Wolff Wichita State University The Development and Statistical Testing of a Nascent Organization Structure Sequence Model Robert A. Fiore Robert N. Lussier Springfield College Springfield College Coopetition as a Small Business Strategy: Implications for Performance Michael H. Morris Syracuse University Akin K~ak Ankara University Alper Ozer Ankara University Small Business Internet Use and Strategic Flexibility Gregory B. Murphy University of Southern Indiana Kevin Celuch University of Southern Indiana Stephen K. Callaway University of Tampa Entrepreneurial Strategies in a Declining Industry William Burpitt Elon University Sally Fowler American University Do Family Meetings Really Matter? Anthony Allred Weber State University H. Lon Addams Weber State University Goutam Chakraborty Oklahoma State University keywords: state; university cache: jsbs-85.pdf plain text: jsbs-85.txt item: #603 of 612 id: jsbs-87 author: Fry, Fred title: 100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them date: 2007-05-21 words: 594 flesch: 78 summary: You are bound to be the hit of the coffee shop discussions as you become an expert on little known facts about a lot of businesses. Naperville, IL: 2006 Reviewed by Fred Fry Bradley University keywords: book; businesses cache: jsbs-87.pdf plain text: jsbs-87.txt item: #604 of 612 id: jsbs-89 author: Editor, JSBS title: Credits date: 2015-05-21 words: 346 flesch: 24 summary: Jill Kickul Brian McKenzie Thaddeus McEwen Matthew Marvel Todd Mick John E. Prescott Neal Pruchansky George Puia Matthew C. Sonfield Harriet Stephenson Joe Singer Leo Simpson Jeff Shields Jude Valdez Howard Van Auken Dianne Welsh Book Review Editor Michael Goldsby Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Bradley University Middle East Technical University University of Arkansas at Little Rock University of St. Thomas Bradley University Cameron University University of Hartford University of Wisconsin - Parkside University of Illinois at Chicago Sonoma State University University of Idaho East Carolina University Mesa State College Illinois State University Columbus State University Ball State University University of Louisville Miami University of Ohio California State University, East Bay North Carolina A&T State University Western Kentucky University Metropolitan Community College University of Pittsburgh Keene State University Saginaw Valley State University Hofstra University Seattle University University of Missouri - Kansas City Seattle University University of Southern Maine University of Texas at San Antonio-Downtown Iowa State University University of Tampa Ball State University The Journal of Small Business Strategy is a joint publication of the Small Business Institute® and the Foster College of Business Administration, Bradley University. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. keywords: bradley; business; state; university cache: jsbs-89.pdf plain text: jsbs-89.txt item: #605 of 612 id: jsbs-9 author: Human, Sherrie E.; Clark, Thomas; Baucus, Melissa S.; Eustis, Andrew C. (Sandy) title: Idea or Prime Opportunity? A Framework for Evaluating Business Ideas for New and Small Ventures date: 2004-01-20 words: 9849 flesch: 49 summary: We then explain our model for evaluating business opportunities, how it fits key criteria for such a framework, and following the format of Weinzimmer et al. (1996 ), we describe applications of the model. The Timmons Model of the Entrepreneurial Process (Timmons & Spinelli, 2004) continues to be a leading framework for evaluating business opportunities. keywords: analysis; business; concept; entrepreneurship; evaluation; framework; idea; journal; management; market; new; opportunity; permission; plan; prime; start; venture cache: jsbs-9.pdf plain text: jsbs-9.txt item: #606 of 612 id: jsbs-90 author: Editor, JSBS title: Errata date: 2015-05-21 words: 2265 flesch: 51 summary: I v. R) - Firms exist: Because they are isomorphic with institutions and are therefore legitimate organizations (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) To produce and distribute resources (Hannan & Freeman, 1989: 5) Scale & Scope(=> B v. N)-Scale & Scope are determined by: The extent of coercive, memetic, and/ or normative isomorphism (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) Inertial nature of firms, and the nature of the resource space, including the level of resource scarcity and the tightness of niche packing (Carroll &Hannan, 1989:411) I II Transaction Generalize and extend transaction cost economic theory Because they are bundles of transactions which aggregate The size of the cumulated value networks Cognition to demonstrate how entrepreneurial cognitions because together they minimize transaction costs (2001: that must be assembled to serve (Mitchell, (planning, promise, and competition) create new 83) stakeholders at minimum transaction cost 2001) value at multiple levels of analysis, through the (2001: 88) reduction of cross-level transaction costs (Mitchell, 2001) keywords: theory cache: jsbs-90.pdf plain text: jsbs-90.txt item: #607 of 612 id: jsbs-92 author: Editor, JSBS title: From the Editor date: 2015-05-21 words: 503 flesch: 58 summary: From the Editor Fry, Fred L, Editor Journal of Small Business Strategy; Fall 2007/Winter 2008; 18, 2; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. 0_6 From the Editor Thanks for your continued interest in the Journal of Small Business Strategy. keywords: business; small cache: jsbs-92.pdf plain text: jsbs-92.txt item: #608 of 612 id: jsbs-94 author: Editor, JSBS title: Table of Contents date: 2015-05-21 words: 205 flesch: 39 summary: Eva Cools Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Herman Van den Broeck Ghent University 43 ARanldng of StaLe Governments' Efficient Use of Expenditures to Encourage Smol.l Firm Births Whitney 0. Atdtudes Michael L. Harris East Carolina University Shanan G. Gibson East Carolina University Sherrie Taylor Texas Woman's University 77 The Effects of the Small Business Founder's Needfor Cognition on Early Stage Performance John Leaptrott Georgia Southern University 89 Small Business Operations Strategy: keywords: business; university cache: jsbs-94.pdf plain text: jsbs-94.txt item: #609 of 612 id: jsbs-95 author: Leaptrott, John title: The Effects of the Small Business Founder's Need for Cognition on Early Stage Performance date: 2007-05-21 words: 6104 flesch: 46 summary: This study assesses the relationship between the need for cognition and early stage organizational performance for a sample of small business owners who started new childcare ventures. This study suggests that the cognitive characteristics of small business owners can influence the performance of their businesses. keywords: business; cognition; cognitive; information; journal; making; need; owner; performance; permission; reasoning; study cache: jsbs-95.pdf plain text: jsbs-95.txt item: #610 of 612 id: jsbs-98 author: Kemelgor, Bruce H.; Meek, William R. title: Employee Retention in Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurial Firms: An Exploratory Study date: 2008-01-21 words: 7489 flesch: 58 summary: The results of this study suggest that the companies with the highest level of employee retention use certain employee retention practices to a greater extent than firms with the lowest levels of employee retention. The purpose of this study was to better understand employee retention practices in high-growth entrepreneurial firms. keywords: companies; e n; employee; firms; growth; n t; retention cache: jsbs-98.pdf plain text: jsbs-98.txt item: #611 of 612 id: jsbs-99 author: Liao, Jianwen; Welsch, Harold; Stoica, Michael title: Environmental Turbulence and Scanning Behavior: The Moderating Effects of Organizational Maturity date: 2008-01-21 words: 9490 flesch: 60 summary: To date, most studies on environmental scanning and information search activities have centered on large organizations. The individual standardized regression coefficients suggest that technological turbulence increases the frequency of information search activities significantly (β = .155; p < 0.05), however, competitive changes were found to be negatively associated with information search frequency (β = -.164; p < 0.05). keywords: e n; e s; e t; information; m e; n d; n s; n t; o n; r e; search; smes; turbulence cache: jsbs-99.pdf plain text: jsbs-99.txt item: #612 of 612 id: jsbs-994 author: Heileman, Mark D.; Pett, Timothy L. title: Should family firms internationalize? Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners date: 2018-02-09 words: 8716 flesch: 53 summary: Family firm internationalization: A configurational approach. http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz Should family firms internationalize? keywords: business; family; family firms; firms; internationalization; journal; owner; performance; sales; sbo; study cache: jsbs-994.pdf plain text: jsbs-994.txt