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Gilman, Mark W. and Edwards, Paul K. (2008) Testing a framework of the organization of small firms - Fast-growth, high-tech SMEs. International Small Business Journal, Vol.26 (No.5). pp. 531-558. doi:10.1177/0266242608094028 ISSN 0266-2426.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242608094028
Abstract
Studies of small firms tend to assume either that models derived from large firms can be applied directly or that small firms are uniformly distinct from large ones. A recent framework, based mainly on low-wage family-owned firms, has identified an analytical space to identify different types of small firm. This article tests out that framework in a different context: four high-tech and non-family-owned firms. The framework identified market conditions and strategic choice as key measures, and was useful in capturing practice, though it also needed further refinement. Key substantive implications were: apparently similar firms in fact behaved differently, for reasons to do with their market situations and the choices they made; and the firms displayed tensions between 'modern' business strategies and 'traditional' and informal employment practices, tensions that the framework helps to capture.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Small Business Journal | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0266-2426 | ||||
Official Date: | October 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.26 | ||||
Number: | No.5 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 28 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 531-558 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0266242608094028 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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