Journal of Small Business Management

Increasingly, small business owners are being encouraged to develop business plans for their firms. Many small firms report,...

A small but growing body of research is addressing the important issue of small business strategic planning. Planning...

Despite the widely held view that long-range planning can improve a firm's performance, several studies have found no...

The "key idea" behind any successful business is a strategy which is the product of the entrepreneurial mind....

Strategic planning has often been thought of as a management function most appropriate to large organizations, but many...

Developing a business plan is widely recognized as an important part of starting and managing business. Although sometimes...

For new business ventures, the virtues of moving through the strategic problem-solving process of goal formulation, environmental and...

Establishing and operating a small business is not easy, but professional help is available to small business operators....

Hungry has since 1968 been in the vanguard of economic reform movements unfolding in the east-bloc countries. With...

The authors use a case approach to provide the reader with an informative guide to owning and operating...