[PDF][PDF] Psychological approaches to entrepreneurial success: A general model and an overview of findings

A Rauch, M Frese - International review of industrial and organizational …, 2000 - Citeseer
Small and medium sized enterprises are important for toady's economy. Small and medium
sized enterprises are the major agents of economic growth and employment (ECSB …

Effective strategic planning in small and medium sized firms

N O'Regan, A Ghobadian - Management decision, 2002 - emerald.com
Little attention has been paid to the strategy‐making processes of small and medium‐sized
firms (SMEs), or to the effectiveness of strategic planning in the SME sector. Planning often …

Small business performance: business, strategy and owner‐manager characteristics

RA Blackburn, M Hart, T Wainwright - Journal of small business and …, 2013 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that influence
small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) performance and particularly, growth …

The ambitious entrepreneur: High growth strategies of women-owned enterprises

LK Gundry, HP Welsch - Journal of business venturing, 2001 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, researchers have sought to develop categories of
entrepreneurs and their businesses along a variety of dimensions to better comprehend and …

Business performance and dimensions of strategic orientation

RE Morgan, CA Strong - Journal of Business research, 2003 - Elsevier
Despite the conceptual, empirical, and theoretical advances in strategy–performance
research, there is little consensus regarding the nature and form of this association. As a …

A resource-based approach to strategy analysis in small-medium sized enterprises

A Rangone - Small business economics, 1999 - Springer
Few articles have been published that specifically deal with how to support strategic
analysis and management in small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In the last decade …

International activities in small firms: examining factors influencing the internationalization and export growth of small firms

S Andersson, J Gabrielsson… - Canadian Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we explore internationalization and export growth over time in a sample of 135
small manufacturing firms. By using concepts and arguments from literature on international …

The relationship between planning sophistication and performance in small businesses.

LW Rue, NA Ibrahim - Journal of small business …, 1998 - search.ebscohost.com
Numerous articles in academic publications as well as practitioner-oriented journals have
recognized the importance of planning for small businesses. Yet there is surprisingly little …

Strategic planning in smaller enterprises–new empirical findings

S Kraus, R Harms, EJ Schwarz - Management Research News, 2006 - emerald.com
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[PDF][PDF] Of mission and vision statements and their potential impact on employee behaviour and attitudes: The case of a public but profit-oriented tertiary institution

WPK Darbi - International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2012 - researchgate.net
Research on mission and vision statements as strategic management tools has often been
limited to private forprofit organisations and more so to the experience of senior executives …