The Influence of Small Business Owners’ Management Education on Entrepreneurship and Management Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
So－Youn Park ◽  
Byung－Hwan Hyun
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Management Performance

Perceived Causes of Small Business Failures: A Research Note

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Peterson ◽  
George Kozmetsky ◽  
Nancy M. Ridgway
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
Business Failures ◽  
Small Business Failure

A nationwide survey of approximately 1,000 small business owners and managers was conducted to investigate the perceived causes of small business failure. In addition, survey participants were asked for suggestions for reducing the number of small business failures. The major cause of small business failures—according to the individuals surveyed—is a lack of management expertise. Consequently, the survey participants’ primary suggestion for decreasing small business failures was to improve management education. 1 1 This research was supported in part by a grant from Safeguard Business Systems, Inc.

Suggestions on Tax Support for Small Business Owners

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107
Author(s):  
Sung Ho Jang ◽  
Sung Ook Park ◽  
Hyung Jong Na
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Owners

Retirement, Recessions and Older Small Business Owners

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tami Gurley-Calvez ◽  
Kandice Kapinos ◽  
Donald James Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Owners

Measuring Success in Family Businesses: The Concept of Configurational Fit

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Hienerth ◽  
Alexander Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Comparable Data ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Success Measurement ◽  
Success Evaluation ◽  
As Effects

The problems associated with measuring success in small businesses are primarily caused by a lack of comparable data due to the ambiguity of “success” and by subjective biases. Success evaluation is dominated by the estimates of business owners, who tend to overestimate overall success and internal strengths. However, reliable success measurement instruments would be useful for small business owners/managers as well as small business policymakers. The main purposes of this article are to compare various measures of success, to explore the differences in their outcomes, and to analyze whether a model of success measurement using configurational fit can be used to overcome subjective biases. The study is based on a recent survey of 103 small family-owned businesses in the eastern Austrian border region. Our analysis of the data confirmed the existence of the measurement problems mentioned above. Although some individual indicators show significant biases as well as effects due to company age, size, and industry, the aggregated indicator based on the concept of configurational fit seems to be an appropriate means of overcoming most of these drawbacks.

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