Small Business Enterprise / An Economic Analysis
- 1st
- Rouledge, 1993
- 334
The book confronts one of the major issues of contemporary industrial organization - the role of small business enterprise in a mature market economy. Preface, Introduction, Analyzing the Small Business Enterprise, The Small Firms Relational Database, Statistical Analysis, The Typical Small Business Enterprise, Cost Curves and Scale Economies, Rankings Data on Financial Inception, Enterprise Profiles, Competitive and Defensive Strategies, The Forces of Competition, Econometrics, Pricing Asymmetries, Growth and Its Determinants, Political Economy, Small Firms and Fair Trade, Perceptions of the Enterprise Culture, Conclusion, Appendix: Instrumentation, Notes, References, Index.