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EDITOR'S NOTE

SBIDA celebrated its twenty-filth anniversary at the USASBE/SBIDA Joint National

Conference February 7-10, 2001 in Orlando, Florida. The featured speaker at the

luncheon that recognized this milestone was Dr. Larry Penley, Dean of the College of
Business of Arizona State University. He also was Chair of AACSB —International and

spoke at length about issues from the perspectives of both positions. We are leading off

this issue ofJSBSwith his remarks. I am sure the readership will find his comments to be
both interesting and useful for communicating the perspectivesof AACSB with respect to

small business, entrepreneurship and education, including SBIDA and the Small Business

Institute™Program.

The second article is very timely with respect to the comments in Dean Penley's remarks.

The Role of Field-Based Business Consulting Experiences in AACSB Business
Education: An Exploratory Survey and Study by Martha Doran, Don Sciglimpaglia and

Howard Toole examines field-based consulting programs such as the SBI Program and
coincidently relies on the input of a number of Deans of schools of business.

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.

There are a number of other interesting articles contained in this issue including a book
review of Creating Value ThroughSkill-BasedStrategyand EntrepreneurialLeadership

by William C. Schulz III and Charles W. Hofer. James J. Chrisman reviewed the book.

The JSBSwebsite is up and running and features a searchable database ofJSBSabstracts.

The abstracts are searchable by keyword, author, issue or title. In addition, information

regarding submission guidelines and subscription information is available on-line.

We hope you enjoy this issue and hope to hear from you in the future.

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Stephen W. Osborne, Editor
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